Short Ribbs [SEP] original network
Short Ribbs
Short Ribbs was a weekly local sketch comedy program, broadcast in the Orange County / Los Angeles area on KDOC-TV. Featuring a midget and dwarf cast, The show starred veteran actor Billy Barty, whose production company produced the program.
The format of "Short Ribbs" was similar to Saturday Night Live, featuring take-offs of TV shows and commercials. The series was sponsored by 7 Up, and first aired on KDOC-TV on Saturday night, September 23, 1989 at 8:30 pm
; revised and expanded from the following:
- "The Path of Progress" (nv/na), The Return of the Djinn and Other Black Melodramas, Borgo Press Aug. 2009
- "The Tyranny of the Word" (Black Coat Press Sep. 2019)
Works Fiction Chapbooks.
- "The Cosmic Perspective/Custer's Last Stand" (Chrim Drumm 1985); collection of 2 original novelettes
- "Slumming in Voodooland" (Pulphouse Short Story Paperback #26 July 1991); an original short story