Your Christmas Memory
Any idea what you bought your spouse or significant other last Christmas? Or what they got you? Time to put that to the test by having someone on in each cast member’s life and quizzing to see if they remember, too.
Let’s All Celebrate “Drunksgiving”
There are a ton of stories to mine from the long holiday weekend. This is as easy one – who turned Thanksgiving into “Drunksgiving”? Ask listeners to give you the list of friends and relatives who had too much to drink on the holiday and what happened as a result.
No…More…Politics
With families getting together this week for the Thanksgiving holiday, there’s no doubt politics will enter the conversation by someone with the midterms just over. Which is why you’ll ask what family member will be the first to talk politics over the holiday and get that person to recite your humorous oath to not engage once that happens at the dinner table.
The Thanksgiving Bail Out
Go grab two nights at the sleaziest motel in your city. Then take calls from listeners hosting family this Thanksgiving. Give the nights at the motel to the listener who best convinces you that they will need to leave their home at some point because certain family members will become intolerable.
The Thanksgiving Meltdown
If a few cast members have kids and you think you’ll get a great reaction, quietly record what they do when you have a meeting to inform them of a family gathering they did not attend where it was voted that after the Thanksgiving meal, they were chosen to clean up the entire dining room and kitchen and won’t be getting help from anyone else.
We Know Your Dog’s Name
Dumb, silly, fun bits are always remembered. Here’s a new feature for the show you can do on occasion called “We Know Your Dog’s Name”. Listeners call, give you the breed, age, and gender of their dog and you guess its name. The running joke is that you walk in hyper-confident with each caller and never, ever guess one correctly.
Hallow Queen
With Halloween and the opening of the Queen movie next week, it might be fun to bring a few kids in the studio and make them up as Freddie Mercury for the holiday.
The Famous Pumpkin
What might be fun is to find a few creatives in the audience and give them the task of carving a very famous celebrity into a pumpkin. Then closer to Halloween, they bring the pumpkins in and let listeners decide on social media who carved it best (for this idea, have every carver do the same celebrity).
The Halloween Marketing Plan
For a narrative arc close to Halloween, why not help a kid in the audience put together and execute a marketing plan directed at his or her neighborhood trying to convince those who live close by to give out full-sized candy bars this year? Then come back on November 1st and see how good the marketing plan was!
Billy’s First Week in Prison
Do you wonder at all what Bill Cosby’s first week in prison has been like? Great stories happen on the fringe so it might be interesting to find a listener or two who’ve done time and get them to tell you what Cosby’s life is like now.