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 1971-1979 line-up, comprising Beebe,
Harry Shearer,
David L. Lander and
Michael McKean.