One mark of a professional broadcaster is rolling gracefully with surprises. Garrison Keillor did this humorously during a live broadcast of "A Prairie Home Companion." I heard this during a rebroadcast of the show on October 15, 1988:
"...As I was saying 'Hello' to all those people, I'm suddenly joined here on stage by Philip Brunelle and his trio, Janis Hardy, and Mr. Vern Sutton, who are now going to do that segment of songs which I was talking about much earlier in the show...I thought they were going to do it then, but they're going to do it now. So, if you've just tuned in in the last few minutes, this doesn't probably make a lot of sense, but you'll now get to hear something, which, if they had done it before, you wouldn't have heard it. So, it all works out for the best."
