Found in the Democrat's archives. You can tell how old the article is from the reference to VH-1 showing videos. So silly VH-1 only shows Flavor of Love now.
Please tell me copiesof the Ramon Escobar Show still exist because I would really like to watch.
June 4, 1990
' Escobar' ragged but right on target
Byline: FEATURES
On the Air It's not Wayne's World, but it's pretty funny. What it is, is The Ramon Escobar Show, a homemade comedy produced by Matt Dishongh and John Moran of Little Rock. It will be carried at 10 p.m. today on Storer Cable Channel 2 in Little Rock, the channel that normally carries the VH-1 music video network. The show, put together by Dishongh and Moran and some of their college buddies, shows interludes of real creativity, especially in a segment called " D. V. P. Video Classics." That segment of the half-hour show features an intriguing segment about a mysterious wind-up penguin that waddles about the top of a teen-ager's bureau, knocking to the floor a series of the owner's belongings while the owner chats on the phone. It doesn't sound like much on paper, but the effect on tape is funny and interesting. Other segments include a renegade visit to Riverfest where Dishongh attempts to open a "checking account" at the booth that dispenses River Money, and a poetry corner that features the dangedest white rapper you ever heard. There's a real funny sequence about a sleep-fogged teen-ager's week-long war with his toaster, which produces toast that is too white. The quality of the tape is ragged, about on a par with Rob Lowe's famous Atlanta hotel-room production, but the editing and writing show real thoughtfulness and creative charm. Some guitar jamming and a few "extreme close-ups" would put The Ramon Escobar Show on the road to providing some real competition to Wayne's World.
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