Improvised Golden Age Radio
Improvised Golden Age Radio
Podcast Description
Improvised Golden Age Radio is broadcasting now!Veterans of Chicago’s best improv shows like Baby Wants Candy, Improvised Shakespeare Company, Hitch Cocktails and more bring you an hour of hilarious long form improv! Playing with inspiration from the Swinging 30s, 40s and 50s, these cool cats will have you in stitches with a small twist on the long form improv Chicago is famous for.
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The podcast focuses on various improvisational storylines often inspired by historical settings and genres, including episodes like 'The Crew on the Cruise' where characters navigate hijinks at sea and 'The Mayor's Gone Missing', which takes listeners through a comedic mystery. The show highlights the art of long-form improv and often incorporates musical soundscapes and audience interaction.

Improvised Golden Age Radio is broadcasting now!
Veterans of Chicago’s best improv shows like Baby Wants Candy, Improvised Shakespeare Company, Hitch Cocktails and more bring you an hour of hilarious long form improv!
Playing with inspiration from the Swinging 30s, 40s and 50s, these cool cats will have you in stitches with a small twist on the long form improv Chicago is famous for.
A leech loving scientist posing as an OBGYN just might not be the worst doctor in town… extra hilarious episode, please check out our upcoming live shows at iO at www.improvisedradio.com
Crew –
- Chuck Cotterman – Host
- Katlin Schneider – Proudction
- Ed Zak – Foley Table
Cast –
- Joe Hartenstein – Jessica’s Husband, Jimmy the Bartender
- Carly Olson – Helen the Telekenetic Nurse, Frederique the French Leech, Becky the Travel Agent
- Jordan Reichardt – The Straight Forward Psychologist , Milton the Milkmen
- Ben Vigent – Opening Narrator, Dr.Mcdreamy the OBGYN,
- Ashley Whitehurt – Jessica the Human, Jessica the Leech
- Eric Pedersen – Dr. Seymour Powers, Michelle the Leech
Theme Music: Mark Rose www.downwrite.com
Here's a silly AI recap of the episode:
Step into a crackling world where vintage radio charm meets razor-sharp improv. We stage a full golden age broadcast—complete with foley, sponsor jingles, and a pompous announcer—and build a heartfelt, absurd mystery around Dr. Seymour Powers, a not-quite-licensed OBGYN who swears by medieval cures and keeps leeches like family. When Jessica arrives determined to keep her pregnancy secret from a well-connected spouse, the clinic becomes a crossroads for agency, love, and the strange comforts of confidence without competence.
As the story unfolds, Helen the telekinetic nurse proves she sees everything; Milton the milkman rations dairy and gossip with equal menace; and Becky, a feminist travel agent who always wanted to pilot, finally takes the cockpit. Between witty “Johnson’s Jalopies” ads and a bartender’s deadpan advice, mustard poultices stand in for medicine, leeches sing doo-wop, and a city’s worth of characters pile into a plane that somehow becomes a chapel. Along the way, we dig into the real stuff—who gets to decide, how power masks as tradition, why being seen can rewrite a life—and we do it with a smile and a chorus.
By the time vows are exchanged at cruising altitude and a candy addiction is “cured” by community, you’ll have laughed at the nonsense and felt the truth underneath it: authority is often a performance, and care is something we make together. If you love improvised comedy, old-time radio vibes, feminist humor, eccentric doctors, and joyful chaos that lands with heart, this one’s for you.
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