Editing Garrison Keillor (section)

==Career==
===Radio===
Garrison Keillor started his professional radio career in November 1969 with Minnesota Educational Radio (MER), later [[Minnesota Public Radio]] (MPR), which today distributes programs under the [[American Public Media]] (APM) brand. He hosted a weekday drive-time broadcast called ''A Prairie Home Entertainment'', on KSJR FM at [[College of Saint Benedict/Saint John's University|St. John's University]] in [[Collegeville, Minnesota|Collegeville]]. The show's eclectic music was a major divergence from the station's usual [[classical music|classical]] fare. During this time he submitted fiction to ''[[The New Yorker]]'' magazine, where his first story for that publication, "Local Family Keeps Son Happy," appeared in September 1970.<ref name="Lee">{{Cite news |last=Lee |first=J. Y. |year=1991 |title=Garrison Keillor: A Voice of America |url=https://archive.org/details/garrisonkeillor00judi |url-access=registration |publisher=[[University Press of Mississippi]] |location=Jackson |isbn=978-0-878-054732}}</ref>

Keillor resigned from ''The Morning Program'' in February 1971 in protest of what he considered interference with his musical programming; as part of his protest, he played nothing but the [[Beach Boys]]' "[[Help Me, Rhonda]]" during one broadcast. When he returned to the station in October, the show was dubbed ''A Prairie Home Companion''.<ref name="Lee" />

Keillor has attributed the idea for the live Saturday night radio program to his 1973 assignment to write about the [[Grand Ole Opry]] for ''[[The New Yorker]]'', but he had already begun showcasing local musicians on the morning show, despite limited studio space. In August 1973, MPR announced plans to broadcast a Saturday night version of ''[[A Prairie Home Companion]]'' with live musicians.<ref name="Lee" /><ref>{{Cite news |date=August 24, 1973 |title=Keillor to Quit Daily Show, Others Leave KSJN |work=[[Minneapolis Tribune]] |publisher=Star Tribune Media Company LLC |location=Minneapolis, Minnesota |page=14B}}</ref>

''[[A Prairie Home Companion]]'' (''PHC'') debuted as an old-style variety show before a live audience on July 6, 1974; it featured guest musicians and a cadre cast doing musical numbers and comic skits replete with elaborate live sound effects. The show was punctuated by spoof commercial spots for [[A Prairie Home Companion#Fictional sponsors|''PHC'' fictitious sponsors]] such as Powdermilk Biscuits, the Ketchup Advisory Board, and the Professional Organization of English Majors (POEM);{{sfn|Lee|1991|pp=35, 85}} it presented parodic serial melodramas, such as ''The Adventures of [[Guy Noir]], Private Eye'' and ''The Lives of the Cowboys.'' Keillor voiced Noir, the cowboy Lefty, and other recurring characters, and provided lead or backup vocals for some of the show's musical numbers. The show aired from the [[Fitzgerald Theater]] in [[St. Paul, Minnesota|St. Paul]].

After the show's intermission, Keillor read clever and often humorous greetings to friends and family at home submitted by members of the theater audience in exchange for an honorarium. Also in the second half of the show, Keillor delivered a monologue called ''The News from Lake Wobegon'', a fictitious town based in part on Keillor's hometown of [[Anoka, Minnesota]], and on [[Freeport, Minnesota|Freeport]] and other small towns in [[Stearns County, Minnesota]], where he lived in the early 1970s.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Keillor |first=Garrison |url=https://archive.org/details/insearchoflakewo0000keil/page/12 |title=In Search of Lake Wobegon |publisher=Viking Studio |year=2001 |isbn=978-0-670-03037-8 |location=New York |pages=[https://archive.org/details/insearchoflakewo0000keil/page/12 12–13] |author-link=Garrison Keillor}}</ref> [[Lake Wobegon]] is a quintessentially Minnesota small town characterized by the narrator as a place "... where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average."

[[File:2014DworskyKeillor.jpg|thumb|Keillor with [[Richard Dworsky]] on the 40th anniversary of ''A Prairie Home Companion'']]
The original ''PHC'' ran until 1987, when Keillor ended it to focus on other projects. In 1989, he launched a new live radio program from New York City, ''The American Radio Company of the Air'', which had essentially the same format as ''PHC''. In 1992, he moved ARC back to St. Paul, and a year later changed the name back to ''A Prairie Home Companion''; it remained a fixture of Saturday night radio broadcasting for decades.<ref>{{Cite web |title=A Prairie Home Companion |url=https://www.prairiehome.org/about/history |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161115070843/https://www.prairiehome.org/about/history |archive-date=November 15, 2016 |access-date=2016-11-14 |publisher=A Prairie Home Companion |df=mdy-all}}</ref>

On a typical broadcast of ''A Prairie Home Companion'', Keillor's name was not mentioned unless a guest addressed him by name, although some sketches featured Keillor as his alter ego, Carson Wyler. In the closing credits, which Keillor read, he gave himself no billing or credit except "written by [[Cerebellum|Sarah Bellum]]," a joking reference to his own brain.

Keillor regularly took the radio company on the road to broadcast from popular venues around the United States; the touring production typically featured local celebrities and skits incorporating local color. In April 2000, he took the program to Edinburgh, Scotland, producing two performances in the city's Queen's Hall, which were broadcast by BBC Radio. He toured Scotland with the program to celebrate its 25th anniversary. (In the UK, Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand, the program is known as ''Garrison Keillor's Radio Show''.) Keillor produced broadcast performances similar to ''PHC'' but without the "Prairie Home Companion" brand, as in his 2008 appearance at the Oregon Bach Festival.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Oregon Bach Festival pressroom |url=http://www.oregonbachfestival.com/pressroom/news/267 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101128155233/http://oregonbachfestival.com/pressroom/news/267 |archive-date=November 28, 2010 |access-date=August 17, 2009 |df=mdy-all}}</ref> He was also the host of ''[[The Writer's Almanac]],'' from 1993 to 2017, which, like ''PHC'', was produced and distributed by American Public Media.

In a March 2011 interview, Keillor announced that he would be retiring from ''A Prairie Home Companion'' in 2013;<ref>{{Cite news |date=March 17, 2011 |title=Garrison Keillor, 'Prairie Home Companion' Host, to Retire From Radio |url=http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/garrison-keillor-prairie-home-companion-168797 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110318085208/http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/garrison-keillor-prairie-home-companion-168797 |archive-date=March 18, 2011 |access-date=March 30, 2011 |work=The Hollywood Reporter |df=mdy-all}}</ref> but in a December 2011 interview with the ''Sioux City Journal'', Keillor said: "The show is going well. I love doing it. Why quit?"<ref>{{Cite news |last=Miller |first=Bruce |date=December 1, 2011 |title=Garrison Keillor keeps the home fires burning |url=http://siouxcityjournal.com/entertainment/arts-and-theatre/garrison-keillor-keeps-the-home-fires-burning/article_fa5de025-6cb5-541d-a7fa-b055d065b5ae.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120106092749/http://www.siouxcityjournal.com/entertainment/arts-and-theatre/garrison-keillor-keeps-the-home-fires-burning/article_fa5de025-6cb5-541d-a7fa-b055d065b5ae.html |archive-date=January 6, 2012 |access-date=January 22, 2012 |work=[[Sioux City Journal]] |publisher=[[Lee Enterprises]] |location=Sioux City, Iowa |df=mdy-all}}</ref> During an interview on July 20, 2015, Keillor announced his intent to retire from the show after the 2015–2016 season, saying, "I have a lot of other things that I want to do. I mean, nobody retires anymore. Writers never retire. But this is my last season. This tour this summer is the farewell tour."<ref>{{Cite web |date=July 21, 2015 |title=Garrison Keillor to retire from 'Prairie Home' in 2016 |url=http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/garrison-keillor-retire-prairie-home-2016-article-1.2298464 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150723170139/http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/garrison-keillor-retire-prairie-home-2016-article-1.2298464 |archive-date=July 23, 2015 |website=[[New York Daily News]] |publisher=[[Tronc]] |location=New York City |df=mdy-all}}</ref>

Keillor's final episode of the show was recorded live for an audience of 18,000 fans at the [[Hollywood Bowl]] in California on July 1, 2016,<ref name="Guardian">{{Cite news |date=July 2, 2016 |title=Garrison Keillor hosts final A Prairie Home Companion episode |url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/jul/02/garrison-keillor-final-prairie-home-companion-episode |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161004195612/https://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/jul/02/garrison-keillor-final-prairie-home-companion-episode |archive-date=October 4, 2016 |work=[[The Guardian]] |location=London, England}}</ref> and broadcast the next day, ending 42 seasons of the show.<ref>{{Cite web |last1=Justin |first1=Neal |last2=Navidi |first2=Leila |date=June 18, 2016 |title=Sun is setting on Garrison Keillor's time on Lake Wobegon |url=http://www.startribune.com/sun-is-setting-on-garrison-keillors-time-on-lake-,wobegon/382713261/ |website=[[Minneapolis Star Tribune]] |publisher=Star Tribune Media Company LLC |location=Minneapolis, Minnesota}}</ref> After the performance, President [[Barack Obama]] phoned Keillor to congratulate him.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Garner |first=Dwight |date=2016-07-03 |title=Keillor turns out the lights on Lake Wobegon |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/04/arts/garrison-keillor-turns-out-the-lights-on-lake-wobegon.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161015121132/http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/04/arts/garrison-keillor-turns-out-the-lights-on-lake-wobegon.html |archive-date=October 15, 2016 |work=[[The New York Times]] |df=mdy-all}}</ref> The show continued on October 15, 2016, with [[Chris Thile]] as its host.

==== Separation from MPR ====
On November 29, 2017, the ''[[Star Tribune]]'' reported that [[Minnesota Public Radio]] was terminating all business relationships with Keillor as a result of "allegations of his inappropriate behavior with an individual who worked with him." In January 2018, MPR CEO Jon McTaggart elaborated that they had received allegations of "dozens" of sexually inappropriate incidents from the individual, including requests for sexual contact.<ref name="mpr-yuen">{{Cite news |last1=Yuen |first1=Laura |last2=Sepic |first2=Matt |last3=Kerr |first3=Euan |date=January 23, 2018 |title=For some who lived in it, Keillor's world wasn't funny |url=https://www.mprnews.org/story/2018/01/23/keillor-workplace |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180123220449/https://www.mprnews.org/story/2018/01/23/keillor-workplace |archive-date=January 23, 2018 |access-date=January 23, 2018 |work=[[MPR News]] |publisher=[[Minnesota Public Radio|MPR]] |location=St. Paul, Minnesota |df=mdy-all}}</ref> Keillor denied any wrongdoing and said his firing stems from an incident when he touched a woman's bare back while trying to console her. He said he had apologized to her soon after, that they had already made up, and that he was surprised to hear the allegations when her lawyer called.

In its statement of termination, MPR announced that Keillor would keep his executive credit for the show, but that since he owns the trademark for the phrase "prairie home companion", they would cease rebroadcasting episodes of ''A Prairie Home Companion'' featuring Keillor and remove the trademarked phrase from [[A Prairie Home Companion with Chris Thile|the radio show hosted by Chris Thile]]. MPR also eliminated its business connections to PrairieHome.org and stopped distributing Keillor's daily program ''[[The Writer's Almanac]]''.<ref name="MPR">{{Cite web |date=November 29, 2017 |title=Minnesota Public Radio statement on the firing of Garrison Keillor |url=http://www.startribune.com/mpr-statement-on-the-firing-of-garrison-keillor/460818103/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171201034154/http://www.startribune.com/mpr-statement-on-the-firing-of-garrison-keillor/460818103/ |archive-date=December 1, 2017 |access-date=November 30, 2017 |website=[[Minneapolis Star Tribune]] |publisher=Star Tribune Media Company LLC |location=Minneapolis, Minnesota |df=mdy-all}}</ref> ''[[The Washington Post]]'' also canceled Keillor's weekly column when they learned he had continued writing columns, including a controversial piece criticizing [[Al Franken]]'s resignation because of sexual misconduct allegations, without revealing that he was under investigation at MPR.<ref name=":0">{{Cite news |last=Baenen |first=Jeff |title=Garrison Keillor firing prompts backlash from fans; MPR reports 1 formal complaint |url=http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/ct-garrison-keillor-firing-backlash-20171130-story.html |access-date=January 16, 2018 |work=[[Chicago Tribune]] |publisher=[[Tronc]] |location=Chicago, Illinois |language=en-US}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite news |last1=Ohlheiser |first1=Abby |last2=Zak |first2=Dan |last3=Fisher |first3=Marc |date=November 29, 2017 |title=Garrison Keillor, founder of 'A Prairie Home Companion,' fired after allegations of improper behavior |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/garrison-keillor-ex-host-of-a-prairie-home-companion-dropped-by-minnesota-public-radio-after-allegations-of-improper-behavior/2017/11/29/5fa1256c-d52c-11e7-b62d-d9345ced896d_story.html |access-date=January 16, 2018 |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |publisher=Nash Holdings LLC |location=Washington DC |language=en-US |issn=0190-8286}}</ref>

Several fans wrote MPR to protest Keillor's firing, but only 153 members canceled their memberships because of it. In January 2018, Keillor announced he was in mediation with MPR over the firing.<ref name=":2">{{Cite news |last=Baenen |first=Jeff |date=January 8, 2018 |title=Keillor in mediation with Minnesota Public Radio over firing |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/keillor-in-mediation-with-minnesota-public-radio-over-firing/2018/01/08/3bab778e-f4b7-11e7-9af7-a50bc3300042_story.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180109003213/https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/keillor-in-mediation-with-minnesota-public-radio-over-firing/2018/01/08/3bab778e-f4b7-11e7-9af7-a50bc3300042_story.html |archive-date=January 9, 2018 |access-date=January 16, 2018 |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |publisher=Nash Holdings LLC |location=Washington DC |language=en-US |issn=0190-8286}}</ref> On January 23, 2018, MPR News reported further on the investigation after interviewing almost 60 people who had worked with Keillor. The story described other alleged sexual misconduct by Keillor, and a $16,000 severance check for a woman who was asked to sign a confidentiality agreement to prevent her from talking about her time at MPR (she refused and never deposited the check).<ref name="mpr-yuen" />

==== Settlement and access to archived shows ====
Keillor received a letter from the MPR CEO, Jon McTaggart, dated April 5, 2018, confirming that both sides wanted archives of ''A Prairie Home Companion'' and ''The Writer's Almanac'' to be publicly available again. In April 2018, MPR and Keillor announced a settlement under which MPR would restore the online archives.<ref name="Settlement">{{Cite web |last1=Yuen |first1=Laura |last2=Kerr |first2=Euan |date=April 13, 2018 |title=MPR-Keillor deal preserves Prairie Home, Writer's Almanac archives |url=https://www.mprnews.org/story/2018/04/13/mpr-reaches-agreement-with-keillor-on-public-access-prairi-home-companion-writers-almanac |access-date=April 16, 2018 |publisher=[[Minnesota Public Radio|MPR]]}}</ref>

==== ''Finding Your Roots'' segment ====
Also due to the allegations of inappropriate behavior, Keillor's segment in the [[PBS]] series ''[[Finding Your Roots]]'' episode that aired on December 19, 2017, was replaced by an older segment featuring [[Maya Rudolph]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=December 11, 2017 |title=Garrison Keillor pulled from PBS's 'Finding Your Roots' series |url=https://www.twincities.com/2017/12/11/garrison-keillor-pulled-from-pbss-finding-your-roots-series/ |access-date=February 5, 2021 |website=Twincities.com}}</ref>

===Writing===
At age 13, Keillor adopted the pen name "Garrison" to distinguish his personal life from his professional writing.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Minnesota Author Biographies: Garrison Keillor |url=http://collections.mnhs.org/mnauthors/index.php/10001072 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160417214633/http://collections.mnhs.org/mnauthors/index.php/10001072 |archive-date=April 17, 2016 |access-date=September 11, 2016 |publisher=Minnesota Historical Society |df=mdy-all}}</ref> He commonly uses "Garrison" in public and in other media.
[[File:2016GK.jpg|thumb|Keillor in 2016]]
Keillor has been called "[o]ne of the most perceptive and witty commentators about Midwestern life" by [[Randall Balmer]] in ''Encyclopedia of Evangelicalism.''<ref>Randall Balmer: ''Encyclopedia of Evangelicalism''. Revised and expanded edition 2004, Baylor University Press.</ref> He has written numerous magazine and newspaper articles and more than a dozen books for adults as well as children. In addition to writing for ''[[The New Yorker]],'' he has written for ''[[The Atlantic Monthly]]'' and ''[[National Geographic (magazine)|National Geographic]].''<ref>{{Cite web |title=In Search of Lake Wobegon @ |url=http://www.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0012/feature5/index.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071211061532/http://www.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0012/feature5/index.html |archive-date=December 11, 2007 |access-date=2015-03-04 |publisher=Nationalgeographic.com |df=mdy-all}}</ref> He has also written for [[Salon.com]] and authored an [[Agony aunt|advice column]] there under the name "Mr. Blue." Following a heart operation, he resigned on September 4, 2001, his last column being titled "Every dog has his day":<ref>{{Cite web |last=Miller |first=Laura |date=September 4, 2001 |title=Every dog has his day |url=http://www.salon.com/books/col/keil/2001/09/04/adieu/index.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110126114425/http://www.salon.com/books/col/keil/2001/09/04/adieu/index.html |archive-date=January 26, 2011 |access-date=March 4, 2015 |website=[[Salon.com]] |publisher=[[Salon Media Group]] |location=San Francisco, California |df=mdy-all}}</ref>

In 2004, Keillor published a collection of political essays, ''Homegrown Democrat: A Few Plain Thoughts from the Heart of America,'' and in June 2005 he began a column called ''The Old Scout'',<ref>{{Cite web |title=Liberal - Political |url=http://www.tmsfeatures.com/columns/political/liberal/garrison-keillor/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081113155530/http://www.tmsfeatures.com/columns/political/liberal/garrison-keillor/ |archive-date=2008-11-13 |access-date=2015-03-04 |publisher=www.tmsfeatures.com}}</ref> which ran at Salon.com and in [[Print syndication|syndicated]] newspapers. The column went on hiatus in April 2010 so that he could "finish a screenplay and start writing a novel."

===Bookselling===
[[File:2009-0811-StP-BlairFlats-CGB.jpg|thumb|right|"Common Good Books, G. Keillor, Prop." in St. Paul]]
On November 1, 2006, Keillor opened an [[independent bookstore]], "Common Good Books, G. Keillor, Prop." in the [[Blair Flats|Blair Arcade Building]] at the southwest corner of Selby and N. Western Avenues in the Cathedral Hill area in the [[Summit-University]] neighborhood of [[Saint Paul, Minnesota]].<ref>{{Cite news |last=Webb |first=Tom |date=December 2, 2011 |title=Keillor's bookstore outgrows St. Paul space and will move to Macalester College campus |url=http://www.twincities.com/ci_19456988 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131004213129/http://www.twincities.com/ci_19456988 |archive-date=October 4, 2013 |access-date=May 28, 2013 |work=[[St. Paul Pioneer Press]] |df=mdy-all}}</ref>

In April 2012, the store moved to a new location on Snelling Avenue across from [[Macalester College]] in the [[Macalester-Groveland|Macalester-Groveland neighborhood]].<ref>{{Cite news |last=Craine |first=Tatiana |date=May 7, 2012 |title=Garrison Keillor's Common Good Books re-opens in new location |url=http://blogs.citypages.com/dressingroom/2012/05/garrison_keillors_common_good_books_re-opens_in_new_location.php |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130529101027/https://blogs.citypages.com/dressingroom/2012/05/garrison_keillors_common_good_books_re-opens_in_new_location.php |archive-date=May 29, 2013 |access-date=May 28, 2013 |work=Citypages.com |df=mdy}}</ref> In April 2019, Keillor sold his interest in the bookstore.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Tribune |first=Emma Nelson Star |title=Garrison Keillor's bookstore in St. Paul gets new owner, name |url=https://www.startribune.com/garrison-keillor-s-bookstore-in-st-paul-gets-new-owner-name/508717972/ |access-date=2021-12-11 |website=Star Tribune|date=April 18, 2019 }}</ref> The store was renamed Next Chapter and is in the same location.<ref>{{cite web | last=Grossmann | first=Mary Ann | title=Common Good Books begins Next Chapter, as Garrison Keillor's bookstore changes hands | website=Twin Cities | date=2019-04-18 | url=https://www.twincities.com/2019/04/18/common-good-books-garrison-keillor-st-paul-minneapolis-bookstores-nex-chapter/ | access-date=2024-11-29}}</ref>

===Voice-over work===
Probably owing in part to his distinctive [[North-Central American English|North-Central]] accent, Keillor is often used as a [[voice-over]] actor. Some notable appearances include:
* Voiceover artist for Honda UK's "the Power of Dreams" campaign. The campaign's most memorable advertisement is the 2003 [[Honda Accord]] commercial ''[[Cog (television commercial)|Cog]]'', which features a [[W. Heath Robinson|Heath Robinson]] contraption (or [[Rube Goldberg Machine]]) made entirely of car parts. The commercial ends with Keillor asking, "Isn't it nice when things just work?"<ref>{{Cite web |title=Creative Club - Home |url=https://www.creativeclub.co.uk/prelogin/home.aspx |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070929010925/http://www.creativeclub.co.uk/prelogin/mg.aspx?m=tv&r=208543&ref= |archive-date=September 29, 2007 |access-date=February 5, 2021 |website=Creativeclub.co.uk}}</ref> Since then, Keillor has voiced the tagline for most if not all UK Honda advertisements, and even sang the voiceover in the 2004 Honda Diesel commercial ''[[Grrr (advert)|Grrr]]''.<ref>{{YouTube|puGvk1RgmrE|Grr Commercial}}</ref> His most recent ad was a reworking of an existing commercial with digitally added England flags to tie in with the [[2006 FIFA World Cup|World Cup]]. Keillor's tagline was "Come on, England, keep the dream alive."
* Voice of the Norse god [[Odin]] in an episode of the Disney animated series ''[[Hercules: The Animated Series|Hercules]]''
* Voice of [[Walt Whitman]] and other historical figures in [[Ken Burns]]'s documentary series ''[[The Civil War (TV series)|The Civil War]]'' and ''[[Baseball (TV series)|Baseball]]''
* Narrator of "River of Dreams" Documentary at the [[National Mississippi River Museum and Aquarium]] in Dubuque, Iowa
* In 1991, Keillor released ''[[Songs of the Cat]],'' an album of original and parody songs about cats.

=== Film ===
In 2006, Keillor wrote and portrayed himself in the [[Musical film|musical]] [[comedy film]] ''[[A Prairie Home Companion (film)|A Prairie Home Companion]]'', directed by [[Robert Altman]]. It is a fictional representation of behind-the-scenes activities at the long-running public [[radio show]] of the [[A Prairie Home Companion|same name]]. The film received mostly positive reviews and was a moderate box-office success on a small budget. It features an [[ensemble cast]] including [[Woody Harrelson]], [[Tommy Lee Jones]], [[Kevin Kline]], [[Lindsay Lohan]], [[Virginia Madsen]], [[John C. Reilly]], [[Maya Rudolph]], [[Meryl Streep]], and [[Lily Tomlin]].