oceanmaster:

Before MST3K, (co-producer) Jim Mallon and (writer/voice of Tom Servo) Kevin Murphy worked together at KTMA, producing parody news shorts in their off-hours. This short is titled “The Wall” (higher quality), focusing on the wall separating Minnesota’s twin cities, Minneapolis and St. Paul.

During the day the two of us wrote and produced the station promotions and the commercials the little TV station managed to sell, and then at night and on weekends we used the camera gear and production facility to make the kind of TV we dreamed of doing—very much like what ten years later became The Daily show. Both having had formal training in documentary television, we did parodies of the news (see “The Wall”), and because the station had bargain basement programming, the work that Kevin and I did was nearly all the positive press KTMA would garner.