Why Does A Chicken Cross The Street
# Radio Episode Summary At the start of the show, the host asks: "Why does a chicken cross the street?" Later in the program, there's another question: "How does the old saying finish when it says, 'Never cross a bridge?'" Tom Howard is the male participant.
It Pays to Be Ignorant is a 1942–1951 radio comedy show which maintained its popularity during a nine-year run on three networks for such sponsors as Philip Morris, Chrysler, and DeSoto. The series was a spoof on the academic discourse on such authoritative panel series as Quiz Kids and Information Please. At the same time, the beginning of the program parodied the popular quiz show Doctor I.Q. The show featured announcers Ken Roberts and Dick Stark. The program was broadcast on Mutual from June 25, 1942 to February 28, 1944, on CBS from February 25, 1944 to September 27, 1950 and finally on NBC from July 4, 1951 to September 26, 1951. The series typically aired as a summer replacement.
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“Why Does A Chicken Cross The Street.” It Pays to Be Ignorant. Radio broadcast, October 20, 1944.
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