Feature in NYLON Guys Magazine on the show, following episode 4 w/ Tunde Adebimpe (of TV on the Radio) and Kumail Nanjiani. Read the full article here.
Published in the Jan. 2010 issue
“Radio Happy Hour is part fiction, part play, and part concert. What’s not to love?” -NYLON GUYS MAGAZINE January 2010
“Radio Happy Hour is a monthly variety show dedicated to off-kilter conversations with writers and musicians, in an environment that encourages daytime drinking and slurred questions from enthusiastic audience members. Host Sam Osterhout knows how to keep things casual, even when the stakes are high.” -ONION A/V CLUB 11/5/09
“On occasion, you stumble upon something special and unique. This happened to me this past Saturday. I attended Radio Happy Hour, a live variety show performed at Le Poisson Rouge that features guest actors/actresses who read through hilarious screenplays, perform intimate shows and interact with the audience through random quizzes.” -MUSIC TASTER’S CHOICE 10/13/09
“Looking to return to simpler times? Leave the iPod at home for an afternoon, and tune into (le) poisson rouge’s old-timey Radio Happy Hour, a live variety show, created by Sam Osterhout, featuring the behind-the-scenes making of a radio program complete with sound effects, trivia games, and live performances by special guests. Today, Tunde Adebimpe of TV on the Radio and comedian Kumail Nanjiani (most recently of Comedy Central’s Michael and Michael Have Issues) sing songs and do skits (in one, Adebimpe leaves the music business to start a wilderness camp for “ineffectual” men), while you laugh along and get drunk like it’s 1931.” -THE VILLAGE VOICE 10/7/09
“Pop-jazz artist Norah Jones, a lifelong “Prairie Home Companion” fan, starred in New York’s “Radio Happy Hour” in mid-June. During the show, Jones oversaw a Norah Jones trivia session with an audience that she also asked to whistle along with one of the two songs she performed. She also starred in a comedy skit about a snarky hotel owner not so coincidentally named Norah Jones.”
“It was awkward and funny . . . hopefully,” says Jones. When asked how the experience compared to a concert, she says, “It was totally different. It was chilled out and everyone was drinking. It was nice.” -NEW YORK POST 7/11/09
“Created by Sam Osterhout (co-founder of the Minneapolis-based radio sitcom Electric Arc Radio Show), this monthly hour of conversation recklessly, if lovingly, careens between the fine lines of interview, performance and questions from the audience — anchored by an old-time radio drama/comedy in which the special guest appears as him or herself.” -THE VILLAGER 6/2/09
“Old fashioned radio is making a comeback in Greenwich Village!” -WCBS 6/15/09
