Something New From Radio’s Famous Ad Story Man

Outside of the spot commercial world and his zany spots, Dick orkin’s most well known creative is the hilarious “Chickenman” and “The Secret Adventures of the Tooth Fairy, ” created almost fifteen years ago and still on the air throughout radioland.

Introducing America’s Most Dysfunctional Couple

Dick Orkin and Christine Coyle—his one-time Famous Radio Ranch spot-writing partner in “couple” commercials based on their authoring and voicing odd couples to carry the spot continuity -- are at it again.

This time it’s a new humor serial: “Family Side Show,” about a middle-American married couple who are totally split in their political and social perspectives. They filter the news of the day (and virtually all their relationship and life-style issues), through their own blatantly biased perspectives, she to the far right and he to the far left,. Their entire marital relationship is a quarrelsome battleground for opposing points of view about virtually everything..

Larry and Lydia and their familes are deliberately drawn from  people Orkin and Coyle know intimately. Orkin explains, “One is my mother and the other is Christine’s father; and then there are other extended family members who—despite their initial resistance-- get dragged into the cacophonous and hilarious fracas of Larry and Lydia butting of heads.  

He explains. “On the news side of the serial, we engage the two characters in a conflict about a talked –about or controversials news story. The result permits  station listeners to re-experience the news of the day through the lives  of an American couple stuck in a wildly dysfunctional relationship. The result, for many listeners, is familiar and identifiable fun.”—Rebecca Cuellar, Ranch Bunk House.