Garrison Keillor and Erica Rhodes: “The Crazy Uncle and His Sensible Niece"

Garrison Keillor

Garrison Keillor did “A Prairie Home Companion” for forty years, wrote fiction and comedy, invented a town called Lake Wobegon where all the children are above average, even though he himself grew up evangelical in a small separatist flock where all the children expected the imminent end of the world. He’s busy in retirement, having written a memoir and a book of limericks and is at work on a musical and a Lake Wobegon screenplay, and he continues to do “The Writers Almanac” sent out daily to Internet subscribers (free).

“Fans laughed, applauded and sang along throughout Sunday night’s two-hour show” -Jeff Baenen, AP News

“His shows can, for a couple of hours, transform an audience of even so-called coastal elites into a small-town community with an intimacy only radio and its podcast descendants can achieve” -Chris Barton, LA Times

“[Keillor is] an expert at making you feel at home with his low-key, familiar style. Comfortable is his specialty.” -Betsie Freeman, Omaha-World Herald

Erica Rhodes

Erica Rhodes is a comedian and actor who has appeared on America’s Got Talent, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Don’t Tell Comedy, ABC’s Modern Family, HBO’s Veep, Fox’s New Girl, @midnight, NBC's Bring the Funny, CW’s Howie Mandel Comedy Extravaganza, and Fox’s Punchline. Erica voiced the scene-stealing character of “Dotty” in the hit Netflix animation series, A Tale Dark and Grimm and starred in the ABC Digital series The Off-Season.

Erica was chosen as a New Face for the 2018 Just for Laughs Festival and has performed at JFL Bermuda & Vancouver, Netflix is A Joke, Moontower Comedy Festival, and San Francisco Sketchfest. Her most recent album, Ladybug was released in 2023, and her albums, Sad Lemon and Ladybug hit #1 on the iTunes comedy charts. Her one-hour comedy special, La Vie en Rhodes was produced as part of the Tribeca Drive-In Fest and can now be viewed on Amazon Prime. Her Dry Bar special, Love You More, has more than 2 million views on YouTube and can also be viewed on Amazon. Sofia Vergara proclaimed Rhodes "The best comedy act she has ever seen on AGT." Bring the Funny judge Jeff Foxworthy described Erica as “The best-defined comic voice of the competition.” Erica semi-regular performer/writer on NPR’s A Prairie Home Companion, and recurred on the Audible series, Dr. Katz: The Audiobook.