Audiobooks by Robert J. Cirasa

The Comedy-O-Rama Hour: The XM Satellite Years

Now available in one collection for you to enjoy! Long before Sgt. Lefty and the Camp Waterlogg gang took over, The Comedy-O-Rama Hour residents were parody versions of Mysteries (Sherlock Holmes), Old-time Radio (The Shadow, The Lone Ranger, etc.), SCI-FI (Willoughby and the Professor), Superheroes (Teaman and Polfroon), and more. "Those were the XM years," explains Joe Bevilacqua (Joe Bev), who not only produced Comedy-O-Rama, but also wrote and voiced 80% of the productions, which aired four years on XM Satellite Radio. Joe Bev, explains, "The idea started in 1996 as a website paying tribute to old-time comedians. When XM Program Direct Steve Karesh asked me to turn the website into a weekly radio show, I wrote many hours of radio theater, complete with sound effects and music. Many others contributed and ended up making 60 hours worth!" The original scripted Comedy-O-Rama came to a conclusion in 2008, a victim of the SiriusXM merger. During the show's hiatus, Joe Bev created a number of other successful radio shows, including The Jazz-O-Rama Hour, The Joe Bev Experience, Cartoon Carnival, and The Joe Bev Audio Theater, all still produced and running today on many radio stations, as well as podcasts. In 2012, Joe Bev revamped The Comedy-O-Rama Hour as an totally improvised radio theater experience involving the fictional Camp Waterlogg. Over 70 hours of those have since been produced, and all are available, under separate titles, from Blackstone Audio. "Great parodies of old-time radio icons, classic moments with legendary comedians, and wonderful voice acting, The Comedy-O-Rama Hour picks up where great radio comedy left off decades ago. Heck, it's even produced in the Borscht Belt."-Steve Karesh, Program Director, Sirius-XM Satellite Radio

Charles Dawson Butler, Emmanuel Adeleye, Joe Bevilacqua, Lorie Kellogg, Pedro Pablo Sacristan, Robert J. Cirasa (Author), A Full Cast, Alison Nead, B. H. Barry, Cathi Tully, Charlie Morrow, David Garland, Ed Hyland, Gwendolyn Lewis, Henry J. Quinn, James Patrick Cronin, Jan Meredith, Jay Snyder, Joe Bevilacqua, Lorie Kellogg, Margaret Juntwait, Mitchell Pearson, Peter Cummings, Peter Nevargic, Rick Ramos, Thomas Babkowski, Vernon Morris, William Melillo (Narrator)

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The Whithering of Willoughby and the Professor: Their Ways in the Worlds, Vol. 2: The Best of Comedy

These are the further misadventures of the pertinacious professor and his perky partner who pucker around the globe and through time and space, in a vain attempt to “cure the world of all its ills.” This second set of imaginative, sound-effect-rich audio cartoons, produced, directed, and voiced by veteran, award-winning radio theater artist Joe Bevilacqua, with announcing by David Garland (WNYC, WQXR) and a special guest appearance by Margaret Juntwait (the Metropolitan Opera), includes “You’re a God, Apollo Jacques! or Boys Don’t Have Feats” – the seventeenth and final episode in the NPR/Sirius XM Satellite series “Willoughby and the Professor Meet Willaby and the Professor” – improvisations heard on Joe Bev’s Cartoon Carnival radio show “The Squidge Attack” – a short story, part of Pedro’s Fables “The Incompetent Genie” – a short story, part of Pedro’s Fables “Willoughby and the Professor Meet the Godfather” – an early prototype improvisation “Willoughby and the Professor Go to Hollywood” – an early prototype improvisation “Science-O-Rama” – the soundtracks to the first seven Popular Science magazine videos, animated by Lorie Kellogg “Dimension X Revisited, or Willoughby Goes and Gets It” – a new radio theater based on the short story appearing in the book It’s That Time Again: The New Stories of Old Time Radio The complete music score for the series composed by David Garland and Joe Bevilacqua

Joe Bevilacqua, Pedro Pablo Sacristan, Pedro Pablo Sacristán, Robert J. Cirasa (Author), David Garland, Joe Bevilacqua, Margaret Juntwait, Various Performers (Narrator)

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A Joe Bev Audio Theater Sampler, Vol. 4

Don’t miss this fourth volume of audio drama, comedy, and biography from veteran award-winning radio dramatist Joe Bevilacqua. Together with his wife, Lorie Kellogg, Joe Bev has amassed thousands of hours of audio entertainment through both Waterlogg Productions and Blackstone Audio. This collection includes “Holy Smoke, or The Red-Suited Man” by Joe Bevilacqua “The Christmas That Almost Never Was” by Daws Butler “Sherlock Holmes’ Creepy Christmas” by Joe Bevilacqua “A Pedro Christmas Sampler” by Pedro Pablo Sacristan “A Call from the Storm” conclusion by Jim Nixon “ Scenes from the Dawes Butler Workshop, Part Two” by Daws Butler “Settling In” by J. C. De La Torre “Uncle Dunkle’s Umbrella, Tire, and Jalopy” by Daws Butler “Son of Harpo Speaks, Part 2” by Bill Marx “More Teaman and Friends” by Mitchell Pearson “A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Part Two” by William Shakespeare “This Here Is Your Life, Sherlock Holmes” by Dawes Butler “Perils of the Tiger Barn” by Roger Smith

Bill Marx, JC De La Torre, Joe Bevilacqua, Robert J. Cirasa, Roger Smith (Author), Bill Marx, Daws Butler, Joe Bevilacqua, Lorie Kellogg, Others, Various Narrators (Narrator)

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New & Old Time Radio

A tribute to the golden age of radio from veteran producer Joe Bevilacqua, New & Old Time Radio is a collection of radio dramas and parodies featuring beloved radio characters and shows. The New Stories of Old-Time Radio: Volume One, Set One Produced, directed, and voiced by Joe Bevilacqua, with Lorie Kellogg, this is the first anthology of new fiction based on the beloved old-time radio characters and shows. The New Stories of Old-Time Radio: “Fibber McGee” and “Duffy’s Tavern” A follow-up to the first volume, this radio theater production features two new old-time radio stories, complete with sound effects and music. Old-Time Radio Parodies: The Best of Comedy-O-Rama Hour, Season Two Producer Joe Bevilacqua parodies some of the most beloved old-time radio shows, including The Shadow, The Lone Ranger, The Green Hornet, and War of the Worlds.

Joe Bevilacqua, Robert J. Cirasa, William Melillo (Author), A Full Cast, Alison Nead, Aundrae Dair, Cathleen Tully, Jim Folly, Joan Bierschenk, Joe Bevilacqua, Kenny Savoy, Lorie Kellogg, Paul Salomone, Peter Cummings, Peter Nevargic, Rick Ramos, Vernon Morris, William Melillo (Narrator)

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New & Old Time Radio

A tribute to the golden age of radio from veteran producer Joe Bevilacqua, The New Stories of Old Time Radio is a collection of radio dramas and parodies featuring beloved radio characters and shows. The New Stories of Old Time Radio: Volume One, Set One Produced, directed, and voiced by Joe Bevilacqua, with Lorie Kellogg, this is the first anthology of new fiction based on the beloved old-time radio characters and shows. The New Stories of Old Time Radio: 'Fibber McGee' and 'Duffy's Tavern' A follow-up to the first volume, this radio theater production features two new old-time radio stories, complete with sound effects and music. Old Time Radio Parodies: The Best of Comedy-O-Rama Hour, Season Two Producer Joe Bevilacqua parodies some of the most beloved old-time radio shows, including The Shadow, The Lone Ranger, The Green Hornet, and War of the Worlds.

Joe Bevilacqua, Robert J. Cirasa, William Melillo (Author), A Full Cast, Alison Nead, Aundrae Dair, Cathleen Tully, Jim Folly, Joan Bierschenk, Kenny Savoy, Lorie Kellogg, Paul Salomone, Peter Cummings, Peter Nevargic, Rick Ramos, Vernon Morris (Narrator)

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The Whithering of Willoughby and the Professor: Their Ways in the Worlds: The Best of the Comedy-O-R

This is an epic science fiction/fantasy comedy about a boy and his professor who travel across time and space in a failed attempt to “cure the world of all its ills.” Stories include I'll Teach You! or Box of Nothing; Holy Smoke, or The Red-Suited Man; More Edible Than Durable, or You Smashed My Monkey!; Oh Boy, She Looks Great! or Which Witchway Is Which?; Your Separate World Lines, or I’m Big and You’re Small; Now It’s Time to Sing! or Unwanted Noises in the Air; I Like This Box! or Oh Victim Man!; Oh Dalai, or Life Is Dukka; The Traveling Extravaganza, or His Name Is Bub; More Dogs for Me?, or Knock-a-Knock-Knuckles; You’re a Messiah, or Buboes in the Lymph Nodes; A Box in the Dark, or Dead Men Do Not Groan; Is Eloquence a Bauble, or Where’s My Cyaneus; I Do Not Like the Blackness of Her Nose, or The Penguins Laugh at You!; The Genius of These Woods, or I’m Also Wearing Explosives; and Say Jacques!, or She’s Got Kneepads! “Descendants of Laurel and Hardy and Holmes and Watson, among others, Willoughby and the Professor bring radio listeners along on a series of adventures, often in exotic lands and always in the more exotic land of the imagination. Judging from the hundreds of letters WNYC Radio has received about Willoughby, a couple of characters who can go anywhere in the world while remaining inside the listener’s radio and head is just the ticket.”—New York Daily News

Joe Bevilacqua, Joe Bevilacqua, Robert J. Cirasa (Author), David Garland, Joe Bevilacqua, Joe Bevilacqua, Margaret Juntwait (Narrator)

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The Misadventures of Sherlock Holmes: The Honest and True Memoirs of a Nonentity

Comedy and mystery are happy bedfellows in The Misadventures of Sherlock Holmes. Award-winning veteran radio producer Joe Bevilacqua’s ten-part radio theater series pays humorous homage to the classic characters of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The stories are filled with sly references to the original “canon,” and even the Baker Street Irregulars and other Holmesian groups and scholars have enjoyed this about the series. Titles include The Mystery of the Creepy Hack Writer, My Dinner at Baker Street, Sherlock Holmes in Trouble, A Study in Lavender, The Death of Mr. Sherlock Holmes, The Giant Rat of Sumatra, Tales From the Vienna Wards, His Second to Last Bow, Revenge of the Beekeeper, and Holmes’ Creepy Christmas.

Charles Dawson Butler, Daws Butler, Joe Bevilacqua, Robert J. Cirasa (Author), A Full Cast, B. H. Barry, Ed Hyland, Gwendolyn Lewis, Henry J. Quinn, Jan Meredith, Joe Bevilacqua, Terry Price, Vernon Morris (Narrator)

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Old-Time Radio Parodies

As heard on Sirius XM Radio and NPR stations! These are not old-time radio shows but incredible simulations! Created by veteran audio theater producer Joe Bevilacqua, these humorous half-hours take off on such classic old time radio shows as The Shadow, The Lone Ranger, The Green Hornet, War of the Worlds, Suspense, and The Jack Benny Program. The fine cast includes Joe Bevilacqua, Rick Ramos, Alison Nead, Cathi Tully, William Melillo, Jay Snyder, Peter Cummings, Thomas Babakowski, Peter Nevargic, and James Cronin. Stories include “The Silhouette,” “The Old Ranger,” “The Red Hornet,” “Brute Ballingham, Private Detective,” “Suspension: Waiting for Rochester—to Stop,” and “War of the Welles.”

Joe Bevilacqua, Robert Cirasa, Robert J. Cirasa, William Melillo (Author), A Full Cast, Alison Nead, Cathleen Tully, Joe Bevilacqua, Peter Cummings, Peter Nevargic, Rick Ramos, Vernon Morris (Narrator)

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