The Voice Actor Show with Joe Bev

The Voice Actor Show with Joe Bev


Guest: David Ossman

February 02, 2015
Firesign Theater's David Ossman Joins Joe Bev on The Voice Actor Show, Plays George Tirebiter on The Comedy-O-Rama Hour

43 years of Joe Bev's radio theater available via online podcasts, MP3 downloads and CD box sets, from Waterlogg Productions and Blackstone Audio.

Veteran award-winning radio theater producer Joe Bevilacqua (Joe Bev) talks with David Ossman on the latest edition of The Voice Actor Show, just one of fifteen unique "Joe Bev" radio programs, heard on public radio stations nationwide and streamed and podcast worldwide at http://www.joebev.com and http://www.bearmanorradio.com.

David was one of the four founders of The Firesign Theatre in 1966 and has edited all their published works, including "Anythynge You Want To," "Exorcism In Your Daily Life" and "Profiles in Barbeque Sauce" for BearManor Media http://www.BearManorMedia.com

Also from BearManor, Ossman's "The Ronald Reagan Murder Case," featuring George Tirebiter, 1940s radio star and part-time detective, and "Dr. Firesign's Follies," a sort-of memoir.  He is presently engaged in writing a new, much expanded edition of "The Sullen Art," based on his 1960s radio interviews with new American poets and has a new book of political poems, "Marshmallows and Despair," coming this Fall.

"Firesign Theater is the reason I got into radio theater," admits Joe Bev, and adds, "I am humbled to have had such a great conversation with such a great talent. David and I had a meeting of the minds."

Also heard on The Voice Actor Show is a Blast from the Past: An excerpt of "How Time Flys", the comedy album written by David Ossman and featuring the voice talents of all four members of The Firesign Theatre, originally released by Columbia Records in 1973.

David and his wife Judith Walcutt were given a Lifetime Achievement "Angie" Award from the International Mystery Writers Festival, for which they produced more than a dozen new plays, including works by Mary Higgins Clark, Ray Bradbury, Rupert Holmes and Agatha Christie's "The BBC Murders," an adaptation of four of Christie's radio mysteries.  David and Judith are best known for "The War of the World's 50th Anniversary Production," the first all-digital radio drama (1988), Norman Corwin's "We Hold These Truths" (1991), "The Empire of the Air - The Men Who Made Radio" (1992) and the all-star Centennial Production of "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" (2000).

Later this week, David Ossman will appear as George Tirebiter on Joe Bev's The Comedy-O-Rama Hour, which carries on the tradition of Firesign Theatre, with a new hour of improvisational radio theater comedy every week.

Coming up on the BearManor Radio Network:


  • Lorie's Book Nook with Sandra Grabman, author of Plain Beautiful the Peggy Ann Garner Story
  • The J-OTR Show: The Lone Ranger Meets the Long Ranger
  • Fred Frees Favorites: An excerpts from Plain Beautiful: The Life of Peggy Ann Garner by Sandra Grabman and Son of Harpo Speaks by Bill Marx.
  • Aroma Thyme Radio: Foods that Beat the Winter Blues
  • The  Lost OTR Show: the conclusion of "The Big Show" with Tallulah Bankhead, from February 24, 1952.
  • Audio Classics Archive:  Screen Directors' Playhouse 10/10/49 #38 Criss Cross w/Burt Lancaster, Betty Lou Gerson, and Crime Classics 07/06/53 # 4 The Shrapnelled Body Of Charles Drew, Senior
  • The Comedy-O-Rama Hour with special guest David Ossman as George Leroy ("Peorgie") Tirebiter
  • A Jazz-O-Rama Valentine
  • Cartoon Carnival Valentine Special
  • Cartoon Carnival President's Day Special
  • The Mid-Atlantic Nostalgia Convention Celebrity Interviews: The Making of Time Tunnel by Martin Grams
Other upcoming Joe Bev Waterlogg Radio Network Shows: The Joe Bev Valentine Treat on The Joe Bev Experience and Cupid Comes to Camp Waterlogg on The Joe Bev Audio Theater and Willoughby and the Professor #10: “Knock-a-knock-a-knuckles… or… More Dogs for Me?†on The Joe Bev Hour Sunday Edition.

For more information, go to http://www.waterlogg.com.

Through Blackstone Audio, Joe Bev has released more than 90 audio titles, on MP3 and CD, including hundreds of hours of audio documentaries, comedies, dramas, autobiographies. Available at http://joebev.com/buy.html

BUY BEAR MANOR BOOKS HERE: http://bearmanormedia.com/


BEAR MANOR RADIO NETWORK: http://www.bearmanormedia.com/radio/bearmanorradio.html


OTHER BEAR MANOR PODCASTS:
Fred Frees Favorites
https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/fred-frees-favorites-audio/id851202019
J-OTR Show
https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-j-otr-show-with-joe-bev/id851220143
Lorie's Book Nook
https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/lories-book-nook-lorie-kellogg/id851216546
The Voice Actor Show
https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/voice-actor-show-joe-bev/id851202383
The Lost OTR Show
https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-lost-otr-show/id883434985
Audio Classics Archive
https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/audio-classics-archive/id883434215
What's Cookin' with Chef Steve
https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/whats-cookin/id883434442


More about Waterlogg Productions at http://www.waterlogg.com.


Comedy-O-Rama Podcast on iTunes
https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-comedy-o-rama-hour/id572142422


Joe Bev Experience Podcast
https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-joe-bev-experience/id627773341


and check out Rick Oveton's podcast too! Overview with Rick Overton http://goo.gl/OM2mD