Lawrence Welk: Death of a Square (with special guest Fred Armisen)

Mobituaries with Mo Rocca

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Society & Culture, History

4.8 • 20.6K Ratings

🗓️ 3 January 2020

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Fred Armisen joins Mo to pay tribute to legendary bandleader and TV host, Lawrence Welk. Welk was another victim of television's Rural Purge of the early 1970s, when his long running musical variety show was canceled by ABC after his audience was deemed too old. But Welk did not go quietly. He defied the critics, bringing his show back to life on his own terms - and reaching an even wider audience.

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0:00.0	Hey Jeff Prope's Chair, host and executive producer of Survivor.
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0:09.6	On Fire with me, Jeff Prope's.
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0:28.7	podcasts.
0:31.0	Hi, how you doing?
0:32.0	Oh great, how are you doing?
0:33.0	Good.
0:34.0	Thanks for having me.
0:35.0	Oh, I love that you're here.
0:36.0	I'm so glad that I ran into you on the street that day.
0:39.0	Yeah.
0:40.0	I believe in stuff like that sometimes.
0:41.0	I'm in the studio today with my friend, actor, comedian and musician, Fred Armason.
0:47.4	He's here for a MoPituary's first, a sequel episode.
0:52.4	Earlier in the season, I told you the story of television's rural purge of the early 1970s.
0:59.8	Since when CBS, in search of a younger, more cosmopolitan audience, decided to cancel
1:06.0	on mass, the rural themed shows that had come to define it.
1:11.1	Green Acres, Headycoat Junction, The Beverly Hillbillies, all of them bought the farm.
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