He did bagpipes, helicopters, mortars, common drunks, caribou (and elands and elk and wapiti), garbage trucks backing up, handsaws and hammers, and a beautiful vocalization of a man falling from a great height into piranha-infested waters." His whinny was amazing - noble, vulnerable, articulate. "He was serious about silliness and worked hard to get a moo exactly right and the cluck too and the woof. "Tom was one of radio's great clowns," he said. "Garrison has a big imagination," Connelly said, "and Tom was able to step into that world and help Garrison with the show." Keith started as a board operator, but began appearing more and more in skits Keillor produced for the show. Keith wound up working with Garrison Keillor, who at the time was host of an early version of The Morning Show. ![]() "The person who interviewed him didn't have time to read his application and just said, 'Well, can you start tomorrow?'" Connelly said. He applied to be a board operator at MPR, then a small operation. ![]() Keith accepted, and in 1973 he was out of the military and looking for a job. ![]() Keith said he had papers to go to Vietnam, but another Marine who hadn't been tapped to go offered to trade assignments. After a stint at the University of Minnesota where he was a standout baseball player, Keith joined the Marines.
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