Garrison Keillor!
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Keillor has also written many articles for The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, and Salon.com. Keillor is the host of The Writer's Almanac, a five-minute program which is broadcast daily on some public radio stations in the United States. Garrison Keillor Biography Keillor was born in Anoka, Minnesota, and raised in a family belonging to the Plymouth Brethren, a Christian denomination Garrison Keillor has since left. Garrison Keillor is six feet, four inches tall and is of Norwegian and Scottish ancestry. Keillor is a member of the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party. Garrison Keillor currently is an Episcopalian, but has been a Lutheran; Garrison Keillor often uses his religious roots in his material.
Garrison Keillor graduated from the University of Minnesota with a bachelor's degree in English in 1966. While there, Garrison Keillor began his broadcasting career on the student-operated radio station, known today as Radio K. Keillor is married to violinist Jenny Lind Nilsson; they have a daughter, Maia. His first wife was Mary Guntzel, with whom Garrison Keillor had a son, Jason. His second wife was Ulla Skaerved. Garrison Keillor Mr. Blue Garrison Keillor also authored an advice column on Salon.com, titled "Mr. Blue". Following a heart operation, Garrison Keillor resigned on September 4, 2001 in an article entitled "Every dog has his day": Illness offers the chance to think long thoughts about the future (praying that we yet have one, dear God), and so I have, and so this is the last column of Mr. Blue, under my authorship, for Salon. Over the years, Mr. Blue's strongest advice has come down on the side of freedom in our personal lives, freedom from crushing obligation and overwork and family expectations and the freedom to walk our own walk and be who we are. And some of the best letters have been addressed to younger readers trapped in jobs like steel suits, advising them to bust loose and go off and have an adventure. Some of the advisees have written back to inform Mr. Blue that the advice was taken and that the adventure changed their lives. This was gratifying. So now I am simply taking my own advice. Cut back on obligations: Promote a certain elegant looseness in life. Simple as that. Winter and spring, I almost capsized from work, and in the summer I had a week in St. Mary's Hospital to sit and think, and that's the result.
Every dog has his day and I've had mine and given whatever advice was mine to give (and a little more). It was exhilarating to get the chance to be useful, which is always an issue for a writer (What good does fiction do?), and Mr. Blue was a way to be useful. Nothing human is beneath a writer's attention; the basic questions about how to attract a lover and what to do with one once you get one and how to deal with disappointment in marriage are the stuff that fiction is made from, so why not try to speak directly? And so I did. And now it's time to move on. In June 2005, Keillor started a syndicated newspaper column, which Salon.com runs. Garrison Keillor in popular culture Garrison Keillor is the voiceover artist for Honda UK's "the Power of Dreams" campaign. The campaign's most memorable advert is the 2003 Honda Accord commercial entitled "Cog". The two minute television ad features a complex system of car parts that react with each other to create a chain reaction similar to a Rube Goldberg or Heath Robinson cartoon. The commercial ends with Keillor asking, "Isn't it nice when things just work?" Since then, Keillor has voiced the tagline for most if not all Honda UK adverts, and even sang the voiceover in the 2004 Honda Diesel commercial entitled "Grrr". His most recent advert was a reworking of an existing commercial with digitally added England flags to tie in with the World Cup. Keillor's tagline was "Come on England, keep the dream alive".
His laid back style is often the subject of parody. The Simpsons parodies Keillor in an episode where Homer is shown watching a Keillor-like monologist on television, and upon hitting the set, exclaiming "Stupid TV! Be more funny!", which has become one of The Simpsons' oft-quoted catchphrases. In practice, Keillor rarely reads his monologue directly from the script, but the monotonous intonation and style of dress caricature Keillor successfully. One Boston radio critic likens Keillor and his "down comforter voice" to "a hypnotist intoning, 'You are getting sleepy now'", while noting that Keillor does play to listeners' intelligence. In the UK, his commercials have been parodied especially his song (for Honda): "Hate something, Change something, Make something better" (clip available below). Keillor was featured in the Streaming Venue Songs of the band They Might Be Giants, supposedly inspiring John Flansburgh and John Linnell with "Mid-Western Pledge Drive Funk" songs Garrison Keillor had written, like "When Doves Cry," "Powdermilk Biscut Rain," and "Factory's a-Closin' in the Quaint Fictional Lutherin Town."
