Source: The Joel Hodgson Stalker Site 4/15/2001 MST3K and Joel Hodgson Articles Return to mst3k.booyaka.com 1982 Comic Makes World of Difference at Cabaret Minneapolis Tribune - June 16, 1982 "Hodgson's world is a fascinating, vulnerable, existential one in which he seems to have only scant control, yet manages to constantly surprise and delight as he hangs on." Funnymen Fight to Knock Out Competition with Punchlines St. Paul Dispatch - September 9, 1982 Backstage: Tricky Comic Wins Local Contest St. Paul Dispatch - September 30, 1982 Local Comedian Gets Last Laugh in Competition Minneapolis Tribune - October 1, 1982 Interesting reading about how Joel formulates his comedy act.

1983 Backstage: Finn's Dropping Gags, but New Club May Open St. Paul Dispatch - February 17, 1983 TC Comedians Find LA Success St. Paul Dispatch - August 4, 1983 Joel Hodgson and Louie Anderson...neophytes.

1984 Three Area Comedians Think Los Angeles is the Way to Go Minneapolis Tribune - March 18, 1984 Joel leaves time bomb in hotel. Joel Hodgson Coming Home to Say Farewell to Comedy St. Paul Dispatch - October 18, 1984 Comic Hodgson Quits While He's Ahead Minneapolis Star and Tribune - October 25, 1984 Most interesting. Read it and see. The Seven Faces of Comedy Interview - December 1984

1985 Crystal Court Never Mean for Standing Room Only Minneapolis Star and Tribune - April 8, 1985

1986 Seinfeld and Hodgson Minneapolis Star and Tribune - May 5, 1986 Meeting of the minds.

1988 Comedy: Toying With Laughs Again St. Paul Pioneer Press Dispatch - April 21, 1988 When Joel Comes Out to Play, Everyone Has Fun St. Paul Pioneer Press Dispatch - April 22, 1988 Showtime to Tape Area Comics St. Paul Pioneer Press Dispatch - June 24, 1988 TV Supplies Witty Companions to Help Watch Bad Old Movies Minneapolis (Minnesota) Star and Tribune - December 19, 1988 Quite a good article on MST3K's beginnings.

1989 "Mystery Science Theater 3000" The Last Voyage? Twin Cities Reader - May 31-June 6, 1989 [unknown] Star Tribune - August 6, 1989 Getting uncomfortably psychological with Joel. Bachelor of Comedy Minnesota Daily (U of M paper) - August 18, 1989 Mostly about Josh Weinstein. "Mystery Science Theater": A New Mission Twin Cities Reader - October 11-17, 1989 Hodgson Takes Act to HBO St. Paul Pioneer Press Dispatch - October 13, 1989 Comics are Funny, but Tamer, in 'Loons 3' St. Paul Pioneer Press Dispatch - December 6, 1989

1990 Great Fun If You Can Get It Star Tribune - April 1, 1990 "{Joel's} the kind of comic whose office wall is given over to a big diagram explaining Masters of the Universe toys." Wry "MST 3000" a Trash-Film Treat The New York Times - September 6, 1990 My In-Law, the Housefly Time - October 29, 1990 Picks & Pans People Weekly - December 31, 1990

1991 Comic Enterprise Rolling Stone - January 24, 1991 The Million-Dollar Sight Gag Corporate Report Minnesota - April 1991 Quite revealing article about the business side of a creative venture. Wired for Weirdness on Cable USA Today - May 31, 1991 Exacting Science Fiction Post - June 1991 Some tech talk on the post production of MST3K. Revenge of the Critic Wall Street Journal - July 8, 1991 Comic's Notebook New York Times - July 12, 1991 Crummy Movies, Funny Jokes Entertainment Weekly - August 16, 1991 'MST3K' Means Fine Television Washington Post - December 27, 1991

1992 Movies from Outer Space Mademoiselle - February 1992 A 'Mystery' Made for Mail Order Entertainment Weekly - February 1992 Tom Servo Explains it All San Francisco Chronicle - February 3, 1992 MST Article The UCSD Guardian - February 6, 1992 The Art of Heckling: "Bad print, bad sound, bad for you." Pulse! - March 1992 Out of This World Satellite Orbit - March 1992 'MST 3000's' Spacey Satellite TV - March 22-28, 1992 These days, the only contact {MST3K} has with Hollywood...is responses from the actors in the films they dissect...But Hodgson says, "A lot of people are dead now so we don't get a lot of calls." Big Fans on Campus TV Guide - April 18, 1992 Fun With Bad Flick Springfield News-Leader - June 4, 1992 Defying Gravity The Washington Post - June 5, 1992 Picks & Pans People Weekly - June 8, 1992 MST 3-K Twists Old Flicks Into Wild Glee Chicago Sun Times - Thursday, June 11, 1992 Not a bad article, despite Lon's persistence in misspelling "MST3K" What a grammatical facial tic. Comedy: Down to Earth Skyway News - July 7, 1992 Live Action Wacky Rolling Figures! City Pages - July 8, 1992 Pretty good, especially the part about the Crow love doll. "Mystery Science Theater 3000": Goofs in the Machine Twin Cities Reader - July 8, 1992 Conniff deadpans that after enjoying the cult-like success of MST 3000, he'll have "a pathetic career like those guys from "Star Trek"-...and jokes that the show is "a stepping stone to sci-fi conventions." The Mystery Science show touching down at the Uptown Star Tribune - July 10, 1992 Cable Ready Premiere - November 1992 Critic's Choice USA Today - November 25, 1992 Diversions Campus Voice - December 1992 "Kevin: It's really strange. Seems like the more pain we go through, the more people like it." Look Who's Watching Entertainment Weekly - December 4, 1992

1993 Hip Lips Dis Yucky Flicks Newsweek - January 18, 1993

1995 Fame Magic - August 1995 Some insight from Joel interspersed with other performer's observations.

1999 Joel Interview Empty Love Stories #2 - reprinted August 1999

The Indeterminate Years Comedy Series on Cable Gives Bad Movies a Good Talking To Los Angeles Daily News 'Science Theater' Scores with Bombs Montgomery Adverstiser Best Bet: Laugh With a Prop Comic Minneapolis Star and Tribune As you read the names you can hear the gears of fate shifting... From UHF to Cable The Milwaukee Journal