Topic: Ray Magliozzi
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The Monitor's View: Just kidding
Today's American politics needs the mix of humor and civility heard on NPR's soon-to-end "Car Talk." Mass culture that includes self-deprecatory jokes and a friendly tone can influence the nation's political discourse.
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'Car Talk' to end, leaving void in mechanics-who-talk-like-Noël Coward niche
Tom and Ray Magliozzi, the Tappet Brothers of 'Car Talk' fame, announced that they will end their 35-year run on public radio in September. The unique show was comedy 'of the first order.'
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In Gear 'Car Talk' radio show: Magliozzi brothers calling it quits
'Car Talk' will continue in reruns and as print column. But after 25 years of puzzles, puns, and other antics, 'Car Talk' will end in September.
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Car Talk hosts, Tom and Ray, to avoid all radio work
Car Talk hosts Tom and Ray Magliozzi say they will retire in September. 'My brother has always been 'work-averse,' Ray Magliozzi said. 'Now, apparently, even the one hour a week is killing him.'
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Tubegazing: The Car of the Future
Will tomorrow's vehicles resemble something from 'The Jetsons'? A PBS show by the hosts of radio's 'Car Talk' aims to find out.
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