The Cuckoo Hour

The Cuckoo Hour

"The Cuckoo Hour", aka "The KUKU Hour", was an NBC radio series created in 1929 by radio comedian Raymond Knight.

Knight, a pioneer in satirical humor on the radio, studied law at Boston University and passed the Massachusetts bar, but he returned to school to study theater and writing at Harvard's 47 Workshop, followed by more studies at Yale. In 1927 he performed in the Broadway musical revue "The Manhatters".

He was writing continuity and commercials for NBC in 1929, when NBC programmer Bertha Brainard asked him to devise "something cuckoo" for the Blue Network. He responded with the zany "The Cuckoo Hour" as a showcase for his comedy, performing as Professsor Ambrose J. Weems, who ran a radio station where he would give his views on current events and chat with his sidekick, Mrs. Pennyfeather. [Dixon, Peter. "Radio Writing". New York, The Century Company, 1931.]

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External links

* [http://www.geocities.com/emruf2/otr/kuku.html "Station KUKU": "The Cuckoo Hour" transcript (December 23, 1930)]


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