We’ve made it easy for you to listen to Pat Cashman’s remarkable podcasts—all well over an hour long—with his former cast members at Almost Live! by assembling the links below. Pat both reprises the best of their times—and skits—together on the iconic TV show, as well as bringing you up to date on their lives today.
The interviews will jog many pleasant—often hilarious—memories for long-time Seattleites and educate newcomers on what many believe were Seattle’s halcyon years.
Just click on the link and scroll down a bit to the podcast bar. Enjoy!
INTRODUCTION
Tracey Conway
Joe Guppy
Nancy Guppy
John Keister
Brooks McBeth
Joel McHale
Bob Nelson
Bill Nye
Ross Shafer
Bill Stainton
Steve Wilson
Ed Wyatt
In the podcast interviews, Pat and the cast members share stories of how they got on the show. their best-remembered experiences (including favorite and/or least favorite bits), tales about other people they worked with through the years—and what they’re up to now.
Cashman is a more than appropriate host—as a former cast member. He worked with everyone for much of the show’s 15 years and was responsible for classic bits like The Adventures of Sluggy, Roscoe’s Rug Emporium, Unsolved Mysteries of Seattle and many others. His contributions were just part of the show’s memorable menu of favorite sketches and characters: Mind Your Manners with Billy Quan; The Lame List; The Worst Girlfriend in the World; Uncle Fran; Cops (of Mercer Island, Kent, Redmond, Leavenworth, etc.), Green River Dance, The High-Fivin’ White Guys and many more. And here’s more of what Pat says in his Introduction:
“And after it was all over, the show had produced a remarkable group of considerable accomplishments and talents—including one of the of the world’s best-loved science personalities, an Oscar-nominated screenwriter, a big-time Hollywood star, several top national keynote speakers, one of Australia’s best-known TV sports personalities—and a top television director. Not to mention a clinical psychotherapist, emcees, auctioneers— and a stand-up comic or two. Not a bad lineup.
“The show’s long-running popularity may well have come from its distinctive focus on the very place it was broadcast—Seattle and its neighborhoods. It reflected a remarkable time when the growing city, its surrounding communities, citizens, businesses, music and culture were changing. Newcomers to the region invariably confessed that they learned more about their new home from Almost Live! than from any travel guide or chamber of commerce pamphlet. Since the show ended production in 1999, Seattle has exploded with the arrival of a massive tech industry, bringing with it thousands of new residents from around the country and the world—blurring the old lines between Redmond and Bellevue, Federal Way and Auburn, Renton and Mercer Island. That’s why watching rebroadcasts of Almost Live! today—or on YouTube—offers a witty, funny, and insightful window into how Seattle used to be, while simultaneously previewing where it was headed.
“We think you’ll enjoy the special conversations you’ll hear on Almost Live!: Still Alive— in hopes they’ll bring back fond memories of a remarkable place and time, from some of the people who comically chronicled them. Please share these episodes with anyone and everyone who lived in the Northwest during the original airings of Almost Live!—and through its long, continuing afterlife in reruns.
“Because as long as people remember it, Almost Live! really IS still alive.”
P.S. And don’t forget the newcomers either!