The Credibility Gap

The Credibility Gap was a satirical comedy team active from 1968 through 1979. They emerged in the late 1960s doing comedic commentary on the news for the Los Angeles AM rock radio station KRLA 1110, and proceeded to develop more elaborate and ambitious satirical routines on the "underground" station KPPC-FM, Pasadena, California. Founded as loose collective centered on KRLA staff members Lew Irwin, John Gilliland, Thom Beck, Richard Beebe, and folk singer Len Chandler, the group is chiefly remembered today for its 1971–79 line-up, comprising Beebe, Harry Shearer, David L. Lander and Michael McKean.

KRLA 1110 news director Lew Irwin formed The Credibility Gap in 1968 with his radio colleagues John Gilliland, Thom Beck, Richard Beebe, and folk singer Len Chandler. They took their name from the Vietnam-era term Credibility gap, a euphemism for political dishonesty, and broadcast their comedy along with the news on KRLA. In 1968 (billed as "Lew Irwin and The Credibility Gap") they released An Album Of Political Pornography for Blue Thumb, consisting of highlights from their radio sketches. Thom Beck left in late 1968, and was replaced by Harry Shearer. Then Lew Irwin left a few months later, being replaced by David L. Lander in February, 1969.

In 1969, The Credibility Gap performed on KRLA's Pop Chronicles music documentary. By this point, Gilliand and Chandler had left, to be replaced by Bob Goodwin. This left Beebe the only original member remaining, and as the various professional newsreaders left, The Credibility Gap came to be dominated by comedians. Goodman stayed with the group for about a year, but by late 1970, the Credibility Gap consisted of Beebe, Shearer and Lander.

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