Podcast appearances and mentions of joel kupperman

The OTRNow Radio Program Christmas SpecialThe OTRNow Radio Program Christmas-01 The New Burns and Allen Show. December 16, 1941. Program #11. CBS net. Sponsored by: Swan Soap. Gracie drags George to the post office with a very heavy package. George Burns, Gracie Allen, Bill Goodwin, Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra, Jimmy Cash, Clarence Nash. The Quiz Kids. December 05, 1948. NBC net. Sponsored by: Alka-Seltzer, One-A-Day. The first question is, "What are the best reasons you can think of to prove that there really is a Santa Claus.". Patrick Owen Conlon, Ruthie Duskin, Joel Kupperman, Lonny Lunde, Melvin Miles, Willard Olson (guest: director of research in child development, University of Michigan), Joe Kelly (host), Bob Murphy (announcer).Candy Matson, YUkon 2-8209. December 10, 1949. NBC net, San Francisco origination. "Jack Frost". Sustaining. A "Santa's Helper" named Jack Frost has disappeared. This leads Candy to a Christmas murder. Bill Brownell (sound effects), Dudley Manlove (announcer), Eloise Rowan (organist), Helen Kleeb, Henry Leff, Jack Thomas, Jay Rendon (sound effects), John Grover (announcer), Lou Tobin, Monte Masters (writer, producer), Natalie Masters.Duffy's Tavern. December 21, 1945. NBC net. Sponsored by: Minit-Rub, Ingraham Shave Cream. Guest is harpist Robert Maxwell. The cast does, "The Christmas Carol," by Charles and Archie Dickens. Robert Maxwell (harp), Ed Gardner, Sandra Gould (as "Miss Duffy"), Charlie Cantor, Eddie Green, David Titus (producer, director), Marvin Miller (announcer), Matty Malneck and His Orchestra. Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar. December 23, 1956. CBS net. "The Missing Mouse Matter". Sustaining. A $50,000 singing mouse named Gulliver has been kidnapped. Keep your eye on the cat! Bob Bailey, Howard McNear, Dan Cubberly (announcer), Charles Smith (writer), G. Stanley Jones, Amerigo Moreno (musical supervisor), Richard Beals, Parley Baer, Jack Johnstone (producer, director), Mary Jane Croft, Bill James, Lawrence Dobkin.Have Gun, Will Travel. December 21, 1958. CBS net. "Matt Beecher" ("The Hanging Cross")Sponsored by: Kent. Paladin tries to prevent a battle between Matt Beecher and the Pawnees, caused by a small boy claimed as the son of both Matt Beecher and the Indian Chief. The script was used on the "Have Gun, Will Travel" television show on December 21, 1957. John Dehner, Ben Wright, Norman Macdonnell (producer, director), Gene Roddenberry (writer), Hugh Douglas (announcer), John Dawson (adaptor), Vic Perrin, Jess Kirkpatrick, Roy Woods, Richard Beals, Ann Morrison, Virginia Christine, John James, Bill James (sound effects), Tom Hanley (sound effects), Herb Meadow (creator), Sam Rolfe (creator). 

The OTRNow Radio Program  Father's Day 01The Jell-O Program Starring Jack Benny. June 18, 1939. Red net. Jell-O. The cast does down to the railroad station to leave for Waukegan. Carmichael the bear is going along too! The last program on which Kenny Baker appears. Andy Devine, Don Wilson, Jack Benny, Kenny Baker, Mary Livingstone, Phil Harris and His Orchestra, Eddie Anderson, Harry Baldwin, Ed Beloin (writer, performer), Bill Morrow (writer), Cliff Nazarro, Frank Nelson, Blanche Stewart.The Quiz Kids. June 20, 1948. NBC net. Alka-Seltzer, One-A-Day. The first question is, "Why would Pennsylvania and protactinium remind you of the third Sunday in June?" The Quiz Kids vs. The Quiz Kids' fathers. Joe Kelly (host), Bob Murphy (announcer), Joel Kupperman, Joe Kelly Jr. (temporary host), Patrick Owen Conlon, Naomi Cooks, Mark Mullin, Joel Kupperman Sr., Joe Mullin, Patrick Conlon, Julius Cook.Hollywood Star Playhouse. April 23, 1951. CBS net. "Father's Day". Bromo Seltzer. The start of the program's second year on the air. Jeff Alexander and His Orchestra (composer, conductor), Maurice Zim (writer), Jack Johnstone (director), Norman Brokenshire (commercial spokesman), Johnny Schneller (engineer), Gus Bayes (sound effects), Ross Murray (sound effects), Carleton Young, Theodore Von Eltz, Jeanette Nolan, Robert Griffin, Bea Benaderet, Anne Whitfield, David Brian (recorded preview of next week's program), Barbara Stanwyck, Herbert Rawlinson (host)This Is Your FBI. June 08, 1951. ABC net. "The Return of Father Crime".The Black Museum. 1952. Syndicated, WRVR-FM, New York aircheck. "The Chain". Participating sponsors. A woman has been hearing ghosts, dragging a chain. The date is approximate. Syndicated rebroadcast date: October 30, 1974. Harry Alan Towers (producer), Orson Welles (narrator), Ira Marion (writer), Sidney Torch (composer, conductor). Baby Snooks Clip 1944-06-14 Worlds Most Patient Father

The OTRNow Radio Program  Mother's Day-01The Life Of Riley. May 14, 1944. Blue Network. Riley fixes dinner for Mothers Day.  William Bendix, Ken Niles (announcer),  Irving Brecher (creator, producer), Lou Kosloff (music), Paula Winslowe, Sharon Douglas, Conrad Binyon.Hallmark Playhouse. May 05, 1949. CBS net. "Mother". Hallmark Cards. There is unusually fine acting in this well-written story of motherhood and an errant daughter. James Hilton (host), Kathleen Norris (author), Linda Darnell, Verna Felton.The Quiz Kids. May 09, 1948. NBC net. Alka-Seltzer, One-A-Day. A Mother's Day show. The mothers of the Quiz Kids join the competition. The first question is, "If you combined the symbols for molybdinum, thorium, and Erbium, what would you have?". Joel Kupperman, Marcella Conlon, Naomi Cooks, Alma Mullin, Patrick Owen Conlon, Rose Cook, Sarah Kupperman, Mark Mullin, Joe Kelly (host), Franklin Ferguson (announcer).Maxwell House Coffee Time. May 20, 1948. NBC net origination, AFRS rebroadcast. Gracie's mother is staying with the Burns'. She doesn't think much of George's career in show business. George Burns, Gracie Allen, Meredith Willson and His Orchestra, Tobe Reed (announcer), Verna Felton.This Is Your FBI. May 25, 1951. ABC net. "Old Mother Larceny". The Equitable Life Assurance Society. Stolen wrist watches and binoculars are the stock in trade of the fun-loving Berian brothers...and their mom. The system cue is added live. Stacy Harris, Larry Keating (announcer), William Woodson (narrator), Tony Barrett, Ted de Corsia, Charles Maxwell, John Mitchum, Jeanette Nolan, Victor Rodman, John Sheehan, Jerry D. Lewis (writer), Frederick Steiner (composer, conductor), Jerry Devine (producer).Suspense. January 04, 1959. CBS net. "Don't Call Me Mother". 4-Way Cold Tablets, Fitch Shampoo, Tums. A good story about a possessive mother who's determined to break up her son's marriage. Agnes Moorehead, Cathy Lewis, James McCallion, Barney Phillips, Norman Alden, George Walsh (announcer), William N. Robson (writer, producer, director).

We’re on the air with the school kids questionnaire! The Quiz Kids, five bright loveable youngsters ready for another difficult examination in the Alka-Seltzer School room of the year. None of the children has seen or heard any of the questions in advance. All questions have been sent in by listeners and are presented by the chief quizzer Joe Kelly and the roll call today includes three boys and two girls who are: 9-year-old Joel Kupperman, 12-year-old Maureen Patrice Buckley, 15-year-old Harve Bennett Fischman, 13-year-old Judy Graham, and 5 year old Richard the riddler Lexler. Starring: Joe Kelly, Harve Fischman, Joel Kupperman Broadcast date: March 24, 1946 --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/dennis-moore9/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/dennis-moore9/support

First up this week: Maura Tierney! You know her from her time on the hit drama ER - she played Abby. She's currently on the Showtime series The Affair, as well. And, here's a personal favorite of ours: She also starred on the sitcom Newsradio as Lisa, the ambitious reporter and producer. Her latest role is in the film Beautiful Boy, where she stars alongside Steve Carell and Timothée Chalamet. Then, Michael Kupperman. He's a comics artist and writer whose work usually comes off as surreal, silly and always hilarious. Not so much with his latest work, though. He made a touching, fascinating graphic memoir about his father. It's called "All The Answers." Michael's dad is Joel Kupperman - who, for a brief period in the 40s and 50s, was one of the most famous people in the nation. Joel spent almost his entire childhood and adolescence on TV as a "quiz kid," answering trivia questions for prizes. Finally, for the outshot: Jesse tells you about the last great album Sly Stone ever recorded.

Michael Kupperman, best known for the likes of Snake ‘n’ Bacon and Tales Designed to Thrizzle, decided to go with a more serious and narrative-driven approach with his latest work, All the Answers. It’s the true story of how his father, Joel Kupperman, became famous on the radio and TV show Quiz Kids during and … Continue reading #610 Michael Kupperman gives us “All the Answers”

“I felt like it was a noble thing to do, to help people laugh,” says Michael Kupperman. “I’ve had that beaten out of me, a little bit.” The cartoonist sounds a bit defeated, describing earlier work like Tales Designed to Thrizzle and Mark Twain's Autobiography.   It’s not an uncommon sentiment — humor comics are a hell of a tough place to make a living, even after decades of churning away. Kupperman latest book finds the artist turning a page, putting his own family under the microscope. His father, Joel Kupperman is the subject of All the Answers.   The academic rose to fame at a young as the star of NBC’s nationally broadcast radio series, Quiz Kids. The elder Kupperman’s life is fascinating and often stark, as he grabbles with the lasting impact of having fame cast upon him at the age of seven.   It’s bold new territory for the cartoonist, and the result is easily one of the year’s best comics.

What Happens when a Child Media Celebrity doesn't want to be famous ? Kupperman's new graphic novel is a serious look at his father's years as a childhood star of Old Time Radio's The Quiz Kids. The weekly Chicago based radio and TV program was hugely successful in the war years and early 1950s. Joel Kupperman joined the show as a math prodigy at age 6 but never enjoyed the fame game. It so embittered him, that he dropped Math as a pursuit and refused to talk about his 9 years of fame. As described in the amazon entry  "In this moving graphic memoir, Eisner Award-winning writer and artist Michael Kupperman traces the life of his reclusive father—the once-world-famous Joel Kupperman, Quiz Kid. That his father is slipping into dementia—seems to embrace it, really—means that the past he would never talk about might be erased forever...With wit and heart, Michael Kupperman presents a fascinating account of mid-century radio and early television history, the pro-Jewish propaganda entertainment used to counteract anti-Semitism, and the early age of modern celebrity culture."

What Happens when a Child Media Celebrity doesn't want to be famous ? Kupperman's new graphic novel is a serious look at his father's years as a childhood star of Old Time Radio's The Quiz Kids. The weekly Chicago based radio and TV program was hugely successful in the war years and early 1950s. Joel Kupperman joined the show as a math prodigy at age 6 but never enjoyed the fame game. It so embittered him, that he dropped Math as a pursuit and refused to talk about his 9 years of fame. As described in the amazon entry  "In this moving graphic memoir, Eisner Award-winning writer and artist Michael Kupperman traces the life of his reclusive father—the once-world-famous Joel Kupperman, Quiz Kid. That his father is slipping into dementia—seems to embrace it, really—means that the past he would never talk about might be erased forever...With wit and heart, Michael Kupperman presents a fascinating account of mid-century radio and early television history, the pro-Jewish propaganda entertainment used to counteract anti-Semitism, and the early age of modern celebrity culture."

Time Codes: 00:24 - Introduction 03:18 - Setup of interview 05:37 - Interview with Michael Kupperman 56:33 - Wrap up 58:16 - Contact us On this interview episode, Gene and Derek are happy to have Michael Kupperman on the show to discuss his new book All the Answers, just out from Simon and Shuster's  Gallery 13 imprint. Long-time fans of Kupperman will find a significant tonal shift from his earlier works such as Tales Designed to Thrizzle or Snake 'n' Bacon's Cartoon Cabaret. This new book is an emotional and probing look at his father, Joel Kupperman, and his time as one of the famous Quiz Kids of the 1940s and 1950s. Throughout this memoir, Kupperman investigate his father's history and attempts to understand how his time in the celebrity spotlight marked his life forever after...and at the same time, helped to determine his father's future behavior and his family's emotional trajectory. In this way, All the Answersserves not only as a way to understand his father, but as a means to grapple with Michael Kupperman's own sense of self and how he relates to his own family. Over the course of their conversation, Gene and Derek talk with Michael about the research that went into his new book, the genesis of the project, his efforts in pursuing this extremely sensitive family history, and how All the Answersmay be a stylistic turning point in his career.  

On this ep, I interview Eisner-Award winning writer & artist, Michael Kupperman. Michael’s comic drawings & strips have appeared in dozens of publications including The New Yorker, Fortune, The New York Times, Forbes, Esquire, McSweeney’s comic books for DC, Marvel, & others, & have been collected in multiple books, including 5 of his own. They’ve also been animated for SNL, Adult Swim, & Comedy Central. Michael’s new graphic memoir “All The Answers” hit stores TODAY. In the book, Michael traces the life of his reclusive father, the once world-famous Joel Kupperman. During World War II, Joel’s uncanny ability to solve complex math problems in his head made him one of the young geniuses to star on the hit radio series, Quiz Kids. After a childhood spent in the public eye, Joel Kupperman deliberately left it as soon as he could. As dementia threatens to erase his father’s memories, Michael searches for the answers to why his father never spoke about his famous past - even to his own son.

Michael Kupperman rejoins the show to talk about his new book, All The Answers! We talk about his father Joel Kupperman's experience on the Quiz Kids radio and TV shows and how it led to a multigenerational chain of trauma, the shifting of gears from absurdist humor to heartfelt family memoir, the airing of family secrets, the five-plus years of work this book required, and more. We also get into how Mike learned to be a father on the fly, the way his PR push for the book has turned into an ongoing therapy session, why it's important for him to reach a non-comics audience, the change to a mainstream house after working with comics publishers, and his assessment of his career and his perceived lack of respect (that would be the aforementioned therapy session). • More info at our site • Support The Virtual Memories Show via Patreon or Paypal

     All the time Joel Kupperman was a soft spoken, distinguished philosophy professor at the University of Connecticut, he carried a secret he discussed with no one – not even his family.    That secret? That he had once been America's greatest child radio and tv star . Joel Kupperman was so popular he was written about by J D Salinger, Philip Roth, Nora Ephron, and the poet William Friedman. Now, as he slips into dementia , his son, the award-winning graphic novelist Michael Kupperman has created a graphic memoir about his father's hidden past. All the Answers uncovers Joel Kupperman's life as a Quiz Kid, and the cost being the most popular child celebrity in America inflicted, not just on Joel, but his whole family.       This is one of our best ever podcasts, and at the end, we'll tell you how to enter to win a free copy of the book.        This episode presented by Attorney Peter Bowman, helping the seriously injured and holding distracted drivers accountable for their actions. More at bowman.legal. And Connecticut Humanities, co-publisher of Connecticut Explored magazine.

Welcome the creator of Snake N’ Bacon’s Cartoon Cabaret, Tales Designed to Thrizzle, Mark Twain’s Autobiography, & his new memoir All The Answers–Michael Kupperman! Joel Kupperman was an early child star who met wild fame early in life as a “Quiz Kid,” but that fame haunted him much of his life. Michael tells all about his new book, and about growing up with a formerly famous dad. What was it like moving into memoir from absurdist humor strips? And of course plenty of process talk about the making of the book. PLUS: Big jibba jabba segment, because Mike was Nominated for an Eisner (! Best Webcomic), and Zack’s Kickstarter is LIVE! (and a bit of not super spoilery Infinity War chit chat at the end)

Welcome the creator of Snake N’ Bacon’s Cartoon Cabaret, Tales Designed to Thrizzle, Mark Twain’s Autobiography, & his new memoir All The Answers–Michael Kupperman! Joel Kupperman was an early child star who met wild fame early in life as a “Quiz Kid,” but that fame haunted him much of his life. Michael tells all about his new book, and about growing up with a formerly famous dad. What was it like moving into memoir from absurdist humor strips? And of course plenty of process talk about the making of the book. PLUS: Big jibba jabba segment, because Mike was Nominated for an Eisner (! Best Webcomic), and Zack’s Kickstarter is LIVE! (and a bit of not super spoilery Infinity War chit chat at the end)