For 40 years, Barret Hansen, known on the airwaves as "Dr. Demento," has broadcast everything weird in the music world. The Dr. Demento Show has become a cult radio institution, providing an ...

Do you remember "The Dr. Demento Show"? The radio show was syndicated an unpredictable mix of music and comedy and first introduced the world to "Weird Al" Yankovic. After nearly 40 years ...

Our guest Dr. Demento requires only five words: "Mad music and crazy comedy." That's how he describes the legendary Dr. Demento Show, which gave a radio home to songs like "Fish Heads," "Dead ...

Last month, Barret “Barry” Hansen, a Minneapolis area native better known to millions as Dr. Demento, gave up his weekly syndicated radio show, which had been distributed nationally since 1974.

For decades Demento has been a Sunday-night fixture on radio stations across the country, keeping alive the music of political satirists like Tom Lehrer (“The Vatican Rag”), while making a ...

After nearly 40 years of broadcasting catchy little tunes celebrating everything from dogs getting run over by lawnmowers to cockroaches devouring entire cities, Dr. Demento is discontinuing his ...

All of this experience has perhaps made Hansen uniquely overqualified to assume the radio persona of Dr. Demento. While other disc jockeys were spinning hit records and adopting cool personas ...

Seattleite Rainn Wilson remembers when he first heard a song by “Weird Al” Yankovic on the Dr. Demento radio show not long after his family moved to Chicago when Wilson was 16. “I remember ...

Of course, it's not exactly Hansen they're going to see. Instead the draw is Hansen's radio alter ego, Dr. Demento, who for more than three decades has been playing comedy, novelty and just plain ...

After nearly 40 years of broadcasting catchy little tunes celebrating everything from dogs getting run over by lawnmowers to cockroaches devouring entire cities, Dr. Demento is discontinuing his ...