Wooster Footlights was a radio-comedy troupe founded in the ancient days of the early 1990s. They were all students at the College of Wooster in Ohio and broadcast their show on the colleges radio station WCWS every Friday. This 2 hour show was a loose collection of skits, parodies, and music, with all original content written and performed by Footlights 13 members. Back then, WCWS was lucky to get a campus audience. Broadcasting at full power was not an option because the radio antenna played havoc with the experiments of the Physics Department. Thus, the Footlights group rarely reached an off-campus audience. Until now. We have begun to digitize our old cassette tape recordings of those broadcasts and share them with you as a podcast. Although many of the references are severely dated, and some of the humor is shockingly derivative, this podcast series collects together a significant portion of the groups output at its height.
The members of Footlights loved Wooster.They also loved making fun of both it and themselves. Only a few words of explanation are needed to make some ...
Footlights attempted many kinds of parodies, so it was inevitable that soap operas would make the list. Our in-house soap opera was called As the Minu...
Footlights had several recurring segments such as Footlights Presents the Classics, Art Forum, Candidate Watch, and Great Moments in History. This epi...
Footlights had several recurring segments such as Footlights Presents the Classics, Art Forum, Candidate Watch, and Great Moments in History. This epi...
This episode brings three random subjects together. Monster parodies were always fun to do even when it was not Halloween. Although when it was Hallow...
Ad execs dream of broadcasting nothing but commercials. Footlights often did. They were the easiest kind of sketches to write after all. Please note t...
Television parodies are a staple of every two bit sketch show, and Footlights was no different. Back when we still had analog TV, these masters were m...
Footlights did not often do movie parodies. Instead, they did movie commercial parodies. Their fictitious Hollywood studio was called Sunny Day Pictur...
Three of the writers for Wooster Footlights were Classical Studies majors at the College of Wooster. This meant that many sketches centered around the...
This collection presents several sketches with a religious theme that were broadcast between 1990 and 1992. As you will hear, most of them were just e...