Garrison Keillor
Garrison Keillor
Gary Edward "Garrison" Keilloris an American author, storyteller, humorist, radio actor, voice actor, and radio personality. He is known as creator of the Minnesota Public Radio show A Prairie Home Companion, which he hosted from 1974 to 2016. Keillor created the fictional Minnesota town Lake Wobegon, the setting of many of his books, including Lake Wobegon Days and Leaving Home: A Collection of Lake Wobegon Stories. Other creations include Guy Noir, a detective voiced by Keillor who appeared in A...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionRadio Host
Date of Birth7 August 1942
CityAnoka, MN
CountryUnited States of America
Mark Twain told jokes, but they somehow stayed funny for a hundred years; they're still funny today. When Mark Twain said, 'He was a good man in the worst sense of the word,' we know exactly what he's talking about. When he said 'Wagner's music is not as bad as it sounds,' it still is funny. Mark Twain was really a miracle.
If you lived today as if it were your last, you'd buy up a box of rockets and fire them all off, wouldn't you?
A cruise ship is a floating town of lazy people.
The funniest line in English is 'Get it?' When you say that, everyone chortles.
There is almost no marital problem that can't be helped enormously by taking off your clothes.
A lovely thing about Christmas is that it's compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together.
God writes a lot of comedy... the trouble is, he's stuck with so many bad actors who don't know how to play funny.
They say such nice things about people at their funerals that it makes me sad that I'm going to miss mine by just a few days.
Powdermilk biscuits: Heavens, they're tasty and expeditious! They're made from whole wheat, to give shy persons the strength to get up and do what needs to be done
Secret of life is to go through something harrowing that doesn't kill you...and to love one woman for the rest of your life.
May his soul be forever tormented by fire - And his bones be dug up by dogs - And dragged through the streets of Minneapolis
one of the amazing experiences of my young life.
It's been a quiet week in Lake Wobegon, my home town, out here on the edge of the prairie
Where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking and all the children are above-average.