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The ''Joy Boys'' was a popular daily improvised comedy radio show in Washington, D.C., between 1955 and 1974 that launched the broadcast careers of the program's co-hosts Willard Scott and Ed Walker. The two did various skits and satirized prominent people of the day, such as Scott's character "Arthur Codfish" (mocking Arthur Godfrey). They both regularly parodied NBC-TV's ''Huntley-Brinkley Report'' with their own zany "Washer-Dryer Report". Walker told an interviewer years later that the duo imitated some 20 voices in all.〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=University of Maryland )〕 Scott and Walker teamed as co-hosts on WRC-AM, the NBC-owned-and-operated station in Washington, beginning July 11, 1955. Initially, the program was titled ''Two at One'' and aired at 1 p.m. The term Joy Boys originated when they adopted a brief song of that title, set to the "Billboard March" as their theme music.〔("Where did the theme music come from?" ) -- The Joy Boys - History〕 ''We are the Joy Boys, of radio,'' ''We chase electrons to and fro-o-o-o...'' Later, the ''Joy Boys'' became a nightly feature at 7 p.m. on WRC. In a 1999 article recalling the ''Joy Boys'' at the height of their popularity in the mid-1960s, the ''Washington Post'' said they "dominated Washington, providing entertainment, companionship, and community to a city on the verge of powerful change".〔 Walker, who was totally blind since birth, said that growing up "radio was my comic books, movies, everything". On the ''Joy Boys'' program, Scott would sketch a list of characters and a few lead lines setting up the situation that Walker would commit to memory or note on his braille typewriter. Scott and Walker formed a professional and personal bond which continued up to Walker's death. Scott said in his book, ''The Joy of Living'', that they are "closer than most brothers". The ''Joy Boys'' moved from WRC to another Washington radio station, WWDC-AM (now WWRC), in October 1972, where it was heard until the show's final broadcast on October 26, 1974.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://thejoyboys.com/ )〕 The show was sold in syndication that year. American University has released some of the ''Joy Boys'' radio broadcasts of the 1960s on CDs. ==References== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Joy Boys」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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