The Medicine Show!
He looks like Colonel Saunders and he sounds like Foghorn Leghorn!
The Colonel has travelled far and wide assembling an entourage of testimonial characters:
Giant grasshoppers from Borneo, who learned to dance in France; an animated soul singing plant from deepest, darkest Brazil; the world's largest egg from a rocky cliff on Mount Never-rest; and a guitar-playing singing catfish from the muddy bed of the Detroit River who learned to sing East Harlem.
In olden days, about one hundred years ago or so, when people had to work a lot harder, working in the fields or in the home or on the farms, there wasn’t a whole lot of time for entertainment. There was no television, no radio, there were no movie theatres, and no malls.
Most of the time people were just too busy working, getting sore backs and tired feet.
Every once in a while a travelling entertainment show might make its way into the town or village.
They called this kind of show a Medicine Show because it was really just a long entertaining commercial to get the audience to buy medicine. The show was always free, but the people were told that afterward they could buy some amazing medicine that would cure their sore backs and tired feet, and anything else that hurt.
The medicine was fake and never helped anyone. The funny thing is that the people knew the medicine might be fake, but they didn’t mind buying a bottle anyway, because they’d had a good time watching the show.
The Medicine Shows aren’t around anymore, and that’s kind of too bad, because people say they were a lot of fun.
Well now you can take a break from your chores, and go to your town hall to see what has come to your town... Matthew Romain, The Laughtertainer brings you a whacky revival of the great old travelling snake-oil salesman shows:
Colonel W. D. Quack-Horn's Extraordinary Travelling Medicine Show!
