Chicago Tribune

August 23, 1992
Rick Kogan column

Promoted from his role as TV critic, Kogan is free to declare "Joe's Basement: underground hit" in a column which promotes the series' first live event, a party in a loft to celebrate the completion of fifty episodes.

Excerpt

"There may be some of you out there, those without cable television... who have never heard of Joe Winston. He is the host, the guiding light and the star of 'This Week in Joe's Basement,' an iconoclastic, witty and intellectually aggressive program."