Garrison Keillor spins a Halloween Yarn of Lake Wobegon

One of the finest storytellers and Monologists of our time, Garrison Keillor is a master of wit, cadence, precision and humanity as he comfortably and effortlessly relates a tale of his fictional home town, Lake Wobegon, MN.

This monologue was enjoyed and captured live from the audience at the 2005 Halloween performance of A Prairie Home Companion in Saint Paul Minnesota at the famed Fitzgerald theater.


Truely timeless, GK is without question a National Treasure.

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[Jeff Kahl]

GK's voice is like warm milk! I could listen to him read the phonebook!

[charliehuka]

i love minnesota

[MisterEsoteric]

Yes this was the Friday night rehearsal. Quite a bit longer and less tight than the Friday broadcast. But they do sell out (Cheaper) tickets to the Friday run thru.

[PDAJUGGERNAUT]

I listened to the original show in October 2005,this is a re-telling of the story at a different time.What s the date on this footage because he really had this audience captivated.Sometimes when he tells a story twice it gets better the second time around.

[AthensAnna]

Um, just about everybody in his audience, is my guess! I mean, folks of ALL persuasions love Garrison. Guess what: dat's called DIVERSITY :)!!

[jrlomy2k]

Proud to say that I'm from the area of "Lake Wobegon", MN. Out of all the years I had listened to Garrison Keillor and his stories of LW, it wasn't until his picture book, "In Search of Lake Wobegon", that I discovered that all the pictures are of my tiny 'map-dot' home town areas--all the areas that I grew up in and know so well, Central MN. My grandparents are even in a couple of the pictures!

[dogbitzu]

So what happened inside the car with the wire coil? Anyone know the end of that story?

[psmithhpro]

one of the best ever...



[Christine Von Lossberg]

The master story teller..just love him! Can't get enough of his corny stuff!

[wellershill]

Boy, you are way off mark. Here is an American who embodies the best about the US - humour, tolerence, wit, warmth, storytelling and humility. Be proud of him.

[gloomyrival]

If you look up the phrase, "pompous untalented twit" in the dictionary you will see a picture of Keillor.