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The Adventures of Guy Noir

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What great, good, smile provoking fun! Fans of Garrison Keillor and a Prairie Home Companion will thoroughly enjoy this 11 episode collection of detective stories originally heard in live broadcast.

If you missed these sketches on the radio, not to worry - now you can meet Guy, the intrepid gumshoe who chases crime from St. Paul. Sam Spade and Hercule Poirot would duck their heads in shame to learn of Guy's exploits. After all, he never knows whether the knock on his door means a fish has been filched or Henry Kissinger needs help.

In this parody on the old-time private eyes, we can't resist the guy or Guy who keeps his vigil on "A dark night in a city that knows how to keep its secrets but high above the empty streets, on the 12th floor of the Acme building, one man is still trying to find the answers to life's persistent questions."

Keillor is supported by members of the Prairie Home companion cast, thus "Guy Noir" is a terrific ensemble performance. Among the sketches are

Gotham Gets The Girl
Operator
Bad Grits
Gotta Go
Bad Blood
Picnic Plaid
Movie Shoot
Hotdish Hangover
Renata Flambe
Snow Job
Missing Fish.

Very highly recommended - don't miss it!

- Gail Cooke

I don't know what CD the below reviewers are reviewing, but The "Adventures of Guy Noir : Radio Private Eye" contains actual, full episodes of "Guy Noir" from PHC -- guest stars, audience laughing, everything. If you like it on the radio show, then this is for you because it's from the radio show.

I am a professional truck driver from Quebec and I discovered the wonderful world of Garrison Keillor two years ago while listening to NPR Radio. It took me several months to find out who he was and finally found Prairie Home Companion via the Internet and listened to many of the programs from the archives. Since then I have religiously tuned in to its weekly program with News from Lake Wobegon and Guy Noir, Private Eye. When I bought the CD "The Adventures of Guy Noir" about the famous Private Eye; my wife and children all fell in love with its hilarious stories. I regularly listen to his adventures in my truck while travelling all over Canada and the USA. Guy Noir a.k.a Garrison Keillor, you are the best. I can't wait to get "the rest of the stories."

The FIRST Guy Noir release was more faithful to the original conceit of Noir - as a hard-boiled detective talking tough with his clients, his friends and his women.

Here, you get something else: Guy's much more self-conscious. While interacting with PHC guest stars would normally promise some greater variety, it is honestly not too forthcoming. He has become fussy and self-absorbed, and a lot of the great tough talk present in earlier episodes is missing here.

It's a good listen - and I love PHC, too. It's just not as good as the very first release...

I am a long time listener of A Prairie Home Companion. I always look forward to Saturday evenings at 6, when my local station airs APHC. The show is great and pokes fun at politics, headline news, and just old funnies in a non-threatening way.

Guy Noir is my second favorite part of the show, following Garrison Keillor's "News from Lake Wobegon." Each week the theme song is played and Guy Noir is involved in a wonderful sketch filled to the brim with laughs as he goes and solves mysteries, for he is Private Eye.

This contains 2 CDs - approximately 2.3 hours of play with 6 skits on 1 CD and 5 skits plus the Guy Noir theme on the other. These are not new skits - they were recorded live from the radio program. If you're already a fan, you'll love it. If not, it will probably make you one...

Guy Noir is my favorite part of PHC and I adored this 2-CD set. I wish it were longer. Absolutely hilarious.

This collection of "Guy Noir" routines, lifted from A Praire Home Companion, are very funny. Garrison Keillor and his merry band of actors give a sense of the old time radio drama? with these. The sound effects are excellent and the theme is pretty cool. Both series are great.

If you're looking for the Guy Noir we all came to love from the original Guy Noir album, you'll be sorely disappointed. Don't get me wrong, it's still Garrison Keillor, and so, worth listening to, but the only relation to the original Guy Noir album is that they refer to him as Mr. Noir.
Pete is noticably absent (and sorely missed).
Basically an extension of the Lake Wobegone series. Good by itself, but disappointing when you're expecting Guy Noir.

Not the "Guy Noir" stories you know and love from "Prairie Home Companion". It's eight short stories, all the same plot and characters who sit and talk and each story ends the same way. One of these stories is funny; eight is a ripoff.