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|data2  = [[Work In Progress]]
|data2  = [[Work In Progress]]
|data8 = [[:Category:Serious_Monologue|Serious Monologue]], 60 mins / 87 mins / 120 mins
|data8 = [[:Category:Serious_Monologue|Serious Monologue]], 88 minutes
|data4  = [[:Category:1986|1986]]
|data4  = [[:Category:1986|1986]]
|title = [https://www.joefrank.com/shop/no-show No Show][https://www.joefrank.com/streaming/shows/?jfsearch=No%20Show]
|title = [https://www.joefrank.com/shop/no-show No Show][https://www.joefrank.com/streaming/shows/?jfsearch=No%20Show]
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== Synopsis ==
== Synopsis ==
* Joe announces that there is no show, and spends the program explaining why against soft piano music.
* Joe announces that there is no show, and spends the program explaining why against soft piano music.
* Discussing the inter-connectedness of all things and the indomitable desire to live with a producer.
* Discussing the inter-connectedness of all things and the indomitable desire to live with his producer.
* Joe sweeps a tuner across commercial radio stations, suggests his audience listen to something else
* Joe sweeps a tuner across commercial radio stations, suggests his audience listen to something else
* A woman invites herself to Joe's apartment, talks forever about nothing, and harasses his cat.  Sharing a frozen dinner with an elderly cat.
* A woman invites herself to Joe's apartment, talks forever about nothing, and harasses his cat.  Sharing a frozen dinner with an elderly cat.
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* Joe's friend talks about problems with his mother.
* Joe's friend talks about problems with his mother.
* Joe's cat goes into a seizure.
* Joe's cat goes into a seizure.
* Living in a noisy neighborhood.  Waking up to a film crew outside.
* Living in a noisy neighborhood.  Waking up to a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_%26_Simon ''Simon & Simon''] film crew outside.
* Joe picks up a girlfriend at the airport.   
* Joe picks up a girlfriend at the airport.   


== Music ==
== Music ==
{{My First Homage (Gavin Bryars)}} [Intro] <!--radio segment includes "Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 17 in G major, Allegro" - András Schiff | "Killing Me Softly With His Song" - Anne Murray | "I Can't Stop Loving You" - Ray Charles -->
{{My First Homage (Gavin Bryars)}} [Intro] <!--radio segment includes "Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 17 in G major, Allegro" - András Schiff | "Killing Me Softly With His Song" - Anne Murray | "I Can't Stop Loving You" - Ray Charles -->
== Shared material ==
* [[No Show (Remix)]] (60 minutes)


== Additional credits ==
== Additional credits ==
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== Miscellanea ==
== Miscellanea ==
*Although broadcast frequently in a 60-minute edit, there are 90-minute and 120-minute versions.
*Joe's most truly autobiographical show. 100% true, *probably*.  He talks about his daily life and frustrations, and the cumulative interruptions which have caused him to be unprepared to write a show.
*Joe's most truly autobiographical show. 100% true, *probably*.  He talks about his daily life and frustrations, and the cumulative interruptions which have caused him to be unprepared to write a show.
*Joe's most "improvised" monologue. You hear him tell unprepared stories about his life, his narrative is less polished, more hesitant, sounds like his "true speaking voice".
*Joe's most "improvised" monologue. You hear him tell unprepared stories about his life, his narrative is less polished, more hesitant, sounds like his "true speaking voice".
*Includes material about his lawsuit against the screenwriter from the Scorcese film "After Hours", which is not included in the [[No Show (Remix)|60-minute version]].
*Includes material about his lawsuit against the screenwriter of the Martin Scorcese film ''After Hours'', which is not included in the 60-minute version.
*There is also a 120-minute version that contains duplicated segments plus an excerpt from [[Joe Frank's America]].


[[Category:Serious_Monologue]]
[[Category:Serious_Monologue]]

Revision as of 20:14, 25 October 2021

No Show[1]
Noshow.jpg
Series
Work In Progress
Original Broadcast Date
1986
Cast
Joe Frank
Format
Serious Monologue, 88 minutes
Preceded by: A Landing Strip In The Jungle
Followed by: Let Me Not Dream

I have an announcement to make this evening. There is no show.

No Show is a program Joe Frank produced as part of the series Work In Progress. It was originally broadcast in 1986.

Synopsis

  • Joe announces that there is no show, and spends the program explaining why against soft piano music.
  • Discussing the inter-connectedness of all things and the indomitable desire to live with his producer.
  • Joe sweeps a tuner across commercial radio stations, suggests his audience listen to something else
  • A woman invites herself to Joe's apartment, talks forever about nothing, and harasses his cat. Sharing a frozen dinner with an elderly cat.
  • Joe calls a telephone counseling line from the studio.
  • A dinner party in Joe's honor, feeling a fraud, discussing the meaning of quality of life. Dinner parties as an Olympic sport.
  • The lawsuit against a film company for plagiarism.
  • Joe's friend talks about problems with his mother.
  • Joe's cat goes into a seizure.
  • Living in a noisy neighborhood. Waking up to a Simon & Simon film crew outside.
  • Joe picks up a girlfriend at the airport.

Music

Shared material

Additional credits

The original broadcast credits state: "Technical production by Tom Strother."

Miscellanea

  • Joe's most truly autobiographical show. 100% true, *probably*. He talks about his daily life and frustrations, and the cumulative interruptions which have caused him to be unprepared to write a show.
  • Joe's most "improvised" monologue. You hear him tell unprepared stories about his life, his narrative is less polished, more hesitant, sounds like his "true speaking voice".
  • Includes material about his lawsuit against the screenwriter of the Martin Scorcese film After Hours, which is not included in the 60-minute version.
  • There is also a 120-minute version that contains duplicated segments plus an excerpt from Joe Frank's America.