Garrison Keillor
Garrison Keillor
Gary Edward "Garrison" Keilloris an American author, storyteller, humorist, radio actor, voice actor, and radio personality. He is known as creator of the Minnesota Public Radio show A Prairie Home Companion, which he hosted from 1974 to 2016. Keillor created the fictional Minnesota town Lake Wobegon, the setting of many of his books, including Lake Wobegon Days and Leaving Home: A Collection of Lake Wobegon Stories. Other creations include Guy Noir, a detective voiced by Keillor who appeared in A...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionRadio Host
Date of Birth7 August 1942
CityAnoka, MN
CountryUnited States of America
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God is a great humorist. He just has a slow audience to work with.
To choose Norm Coleman over Walter Mondale is like going to a great steakhouse and ordering the tuna sandwich.
Give up your good 'Christian' life and follow Jesus
Don't pour the oil directly into my navel, pour it on my sternum and let it run down into my navel, you ignorant peasant.
That's why God created marriage, so people wouldn't have to fight with strangers.
People in cars cause accidents and accidents in cars cause people.
Never insult a writer. You may find yourself immortalized in ways you may not appreciate.
In the end, all solutions are temporary.
For me, the monologue was the favorite thing I had done in radio. It was based on writing, but in the end it was radio, it was standing up and leaning forward into the dark and talking, letting words come out of you.
Those people on daytime TV talking about how their parents never gave them the positive feedback they needed and that's why they shot them- those are not Minnesotans.
This is the big reason most humorists fail. Drunks don't read books.
In romance, as in life, you only learn when you're losing.
When you're old you feast on your memories, and if you spend too much time on exercise, you may get old and not have many.
Wal-Mart is going in and slaughtering [small towns] just as we once killed the buffalo.