With President Obama releasing his full birth certificate, here’s a new feature for the show called “I Don’t Believe You”. The listener tells you a one sentence story about something that may or may not have happened in their life (i.e. I went to the OB-GYN yesterday and the speculum broke, I was born in the back of a taxi cab). Once the listener offers it up, the show must collectively decide if they believe them.
Two ideas around this week’s Royal Wedding: using Google Earth, bring up the street view of Westminster Abbey (where the wedding is taking place). Note the small shops around the abbey and call them to find out what it’s like there this week. Then there’s a game called “Wedding, Bedding, or Both”. You’ll give a term that applies to the event in London, the name of a mattress at the local mattress company, or both. For instance “The Majesty” (it’s both actually – the Queen aka “her Majesty” will be at the wedding – it’s also the name of a Temperpedic mattress).
Go find the most masculine guys in your town (i.e. construction workers, etc.) and get them to come in to do karaoke doing girly songs in a new feature called “Burley Men Singing Girly Songs”. Hearing some burley guy sing a Taylor Swift song is a great mental visual and might be very funny to listen to.
Offer up a one-line set-up for a new joke and then open the phones for a new feature called “The Joke’s On You”. Listeners suggest punchlines for your set-up. The funniest one wins!
We’re not too crazy about produced features but here’s a new one called “We’ll Make It Funny Even When It Isn’t”. Go grab audio from a serious conversation on TV (from the evening news, Oprah, some other source). Place canned laughter after people say serious things. That disparity might be very funny to hear. It’s kind of Letterman-esque and can be done every now and again to make people laugh.
Another recurring Friday feature that ties into a weekend lifestyle is called “Best Weekend Ever”. This one starts as a simple phone topic on Friday (“call and tell us why this will be the best weekend ever for you”). Then, choose one caller doing something that most intrigues you and have them back on the following Monday so they can tell you about what they did!
Most people think they carry a big weight on their shoulders. Here’s a new weekly feature that takes advantage of that. “F My Life Friday” is where you open the phones asking listeners to tell you a fun story about something that happened to them in the past week where, at the end, they’d say, “F my life!”
Spring break is about to happen for college students in every market across the country. Remember those memories of drunken debauchery as kids? Re-live them by finding a fun female college student who’ll check in with the show each morning at the same time during the week they’re away on break. The curve ball? Without her knowing, have her mother on the other line listening in to all the tales of alcohol, sex, and brushes with the police. Then, once the conversation is done with your female college student, get her mother’s take on what her kid is up to!
With spring training happening now, what kind of audio might you get if the guys on the show took a bunch of colorful women in the office to the local batting cage to celebrate spring training? This works if you choose fun people – record everything, and then have the women in the studio the following morning as you air the fun pieces of audio.
Everyone likes to beat up on and stereotype New Jersey. That’s one of the draws of the hit reality show “Jersey Shore”. A game to play from this is called “Jersey Are You Sure?”. Get interesting trivia facts about the state of New Jersey. Then make some up. Offer a nugget up to your contestant who must identify if it’s fact or fiction. Always after their answer, you’ll ask: “Jersey, are you sure?”