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By popular demand, The New Adventures of Johnny Dollar, Vol. 2, is a follow-up to volume one, dramatized pastiches of the great old time radio detective series by Joe Bevilacqua (“Joe Bev”). This second volume features The Bowery Boys Matter, The James Forbes Matter, The Sarah Martin Matter, The Ugly Pattern Matter, The Walter Patterson Matter, and The Larson Arson Matter. Also, included are bonus tracks of some of Joe Bev’s old time radio parodies of Sherlock Holmes, the Shadow, and the Green Hornet.

Over one hour, hear JoeBev's interpolation of the characters of James Thurber ("Unicorn in the Garden"), featuring some lesser known Thurberesque stories, including the baseball saga "You Can Look it Up". Who better to interpret James Thurber than JoeBev, who was the protégé of Daws Butler, the voice of Yogi Bear.

Award-winning radio producer and voice actor Joe Bevilacqua, a.k.a. Joe Bev, presents an hour of jungle adventure parodies.

Included in this comedy variety show, Lorie Kellogg performing "Bob Dylan Sings Mother Goose", "The Big Match", "The Vegetable Patch", "Elise's Bachelor Party" part one (from The Comedy-O-Rama Hour), "The Girl with the Beautiful Face", kitchen scene from "Our Miss Brooks: One Principle Too Many, One Principle Too Meany", "The Island of Invention", "Elise's Bachelor Party" part two (from The Comedy-O-Rama Hour), "Uncle Goopie: Too Big or Too Small Store" (from The Comedy-O-Rama Hour), and more.

Award-winning radio producer and voice actor Joe Bevilacqua, a.k.a. Joe Bev, presents an hour of sea adventure parodies.

A Marx Brothers Festival is a hilarious collection of tributes, parodies, and rarities - written, produced, and performed by Joe Bevilacqua. Bonus tracks feature remastered radio and TV performances by Groucho, Chico, and Harpo.

A Bud & Lou Festival is a hilarious collection of tributes, parodies, and rarities of the Abbott & Costello comedy team - written, produced, and performed by Joe Bev. Bonus tracks feature remastered episodes of their radio broadcasts.

A Hollywood Heroes Festival is collection of tributes, parodies, and rarities of great actors of the past: Humphrey Bogart, Gary Cooper, Cary Grant, and John Wayne—written, produced, and performed by Joe Bevilacqua. Bonus tracks feature remastered classic radio broadcasts.

A Stan & Ollie Festival is a hilarious collection of tributes, parodies and rarities of the Laurel & Hardy comedy team-written, produced and performed by Joe Bev. Bonus tracks feature remastered clips of their classic performances on radio, stage and screen. Included in this set: "For the Freedom of the World", "Fatherland Security Officers", "A Pilgrim's Progress", "The Courtship of Miles Standish", "Ollie Ox and Stanley Frog", "For the Birds", "Deconstructing Laurel and Hardy", "Knuclear Knuckleheads", "Mr. Slater's Poultry Market", and more.

An Edward G. Robinson Festival is a collection of tributes, parodies, and rarities of the great film actor-written, produced, and performed by Joe Bevilacqua. Bonus tracks feature remastered classic radio dramas. This set includes "If We All Talked Like Allen Jenkins", "Murder is a Merry-Go-Round", "The Reflection", "Hobo Hawk", "Willaby Meets the Godfather", "The Man who Wanted to be Edward G. Robinson", "The Trap", and "Key Largo".

Listeners are fully immersed in the world of mid-Victorian England like never before in this thrilling, action-packed "theater of the mind" made for both serious Sherlockians and casual mystery lovers. "The Question of the Clever Cat Burglar" is just one of 16 Sherlock Holmes mysteries in this new audio drama collection - written, produced, directed, voiced, and enhanced with stereo soundscape and music by veteran award-winning audio artist Joe Bev.

Forty Fantastically Funny Fables is a collection of 40 funny fables for the whole family. And they're funny!

The original Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar was a radio drama that aired on CBS Radio from February 18, 1949, to September 30, 1962. The best-known incarnation was with Bob Bailey starring in "the transcribed adventures of the man with the action-packed expense account-America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator." This first new volume includes: "The Suicidal Bicycle Matter", "The Clever Chemist Matter", "The Where the Elite Meet to Eat Matter", "The Thelma Ibsen Matter", "The Jack Benny Matter", "The Murder Is a Merry-Go-Round Matter", and "The Expose Matter".

Many years before AMC's Mad Men was a hit, Daws Butler (Yogi Bear) wrote The Ad Game. Adam is the top copywriter at his firm when he finds himself in a career crisis that baffles his wife, Melissa, and his father-in-law, Ed, who is his boss.

Nature comedy, including "The Magic Tree", "The Tree and the Vegetables", "The Lazy Bird", "A Frog in a Frying Pan", "A Drop of Water", "The Last Dinosaurs", "Billy Peck, Tight Rope Waddler", "Batbird", "The Little Stone Bird", "Friends from the Vegetable Patch", "Colorful Animals", "The Grumpy Tree", "Birth of the Turtles", "The Unfriendly River", "The Toothy Toad", "Sparky Hooves", "Scuttleball, Soccer for Ants", "The Red Moon", "The Carnivorous Plant", and more.

When a bear gets in the Camp Waterlogg chicken coop, young Squeaky Lkie dreams that it's Yogi Bear. Joe Bevilacqua, protégé of renowned voice-actor Daws Butler, uncovered rare recordings of Butler as Yogi Bear and, along with his wife, Lorie Kellogg, improvised this hour-long story. This special edition of Bevilacqua's Comedy-O-Rama Hour has aired on Sirius-XM, NPR stations, and podcasts throughout the world.

Like a Jay Ward cartoon in audio, The Adventures of Tea Man, Volume Two is a hilarious, wacky collection of radio theater written and performed by Mitchell Pearson and the DQD Theater of Philadelphia and produced by Joe Bevilacqua. Get ready for two hours of comedy entertainment!

These are the further misadventures of the pertinacious professor and his perky partner who pucker around the globe and through time and space, in a vain attempt to "cure the world of all its ills".

Award-winning radio producer and voice actor Joe Bevilacqua, a.k.a. Joe Bev, presents an hour of big-top parodies.

The Ology of Isms is a Nigerian twist on Hans Christian Anderson's classic fairy tale "The Emperor's New Clothes", written by Nigerian playwright Emmanuel Adeleye. This radio theater production is produced by Joe Bevilacqua and features sound effects, music, and a full cast.