--- In [email protected], "shempmcgurk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "sparaig" <sparaig@> wrote: > > > > --- In [email protected], "authfriend" <jstein@> wrote: > > > > > > --- In [email protected], "authfriend" <jstein@> > wrote: > > > > > > > > http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4776181634656145640 > > > > > > > > Four-minute Google video of Chris Bliss > > > > (be sure your speakers are on) > > > > > > OK. On the same Google page there's a link to > > > a "Chris Bliss Juggling Parody" video. > > > > > > This must really be inside-juggling. It looks > > > almost as impressive to me as Chris Bliss. Why > > > is this a parody, anybody have any idea? > > > > > > Here's the link: > > > > > > http://tinyurl.com/pw6f6 > > > > > > > Actually, the joke is on you (and all of Chris Bliss's cheering > > fans): the "parody juggling" was a much more difficult act... > > > > > Entertainment is entertainment is entertainment. > > If some elitist juggling snobs somewhere think what Chris Bliss did > was average or amateurish then that's there problem. > > From what I can tell, Bliss' main profession is as a comedian and > the juggling is a sideline. Well, more power to him for taking his > comedy audience and entertaining them with what looks to THIS > layman's uneducated eyes with great entertainment. > > I'm sure that in the world of professional banjo players that Steve > Martin is just a rank amateur. But the fact that he used to > intersperse his comedy act with his banjo-playing and entertained > people is all that matters. > > And, by the way, Bliss did his flawless juggling in front of a live > audience. As wonderful as the parody guy's juggling was, he didn't > do it in front of a live audience...wonder how flawless it would > have been had he been on the same level playing field as Bliss... > > > > > > > > > > > MUCH more difficult. By an order of magnitude at least. > > > > It's a prime example of an old juggler's saying: the audience > doesn't > > know shit about juggling. That's the joke. The parody (or mocking, > to > > be honest) is really of the cheering audience. > > > > Mind you, I agree that Chris Bliss did a much more polished > > performance, and it certainly LOOKED hard, but most of the tricks > he > > did were standard 3-ball juggling tricks. I can do maybe a quarter > of > > them and I'm out of practice. > > > > On the other hand, consider the difficulty of the pardody: I've > been > > juggling for decades and still haven't gotten 5-ball juggling > down, > > let alone 5 balls IN ONE HAND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! > > > > OMG. And I bet you yawned at that trick. > > > > Bet you yawn at 4 clubs but ooh and ah over 3 burning torches or 3 > > knives. Same thing: juggling 4 clubs is hard. The torches and > knives > > are always high-end professional equipment (well, my knives are > > cheapo and only cost me $115 for 3) and are perfectly balanced > unlike > > many clubs so if you can do 3 clubs, of course you can do 3 > juggling > > knives or torches with a little practice to get used to the > burning > > and the nervousness of the blade (which usually isn't a blade, but > a > > piece of flat metal scored to make it reflect like one). > > > > I can do 3 burning balls with almost no injuries, even though I > don't > > have access to the best cool-buring oil for the wicks but it looks > > really cool to have 3 flaming objects in the air, even though its > > only marginally more difficult than three beanbags. > > > > Again: the joke is making fun of the audience that cheered over a > > bunch of simple 3 ball tricks. Mind you, I thought it was a very > good > > performance also, but the "parody" would have gotten an audience > of > > jugglers cheering. > > >
ALl good points. I thought that the performance was excellent, BTW. However, the individual tricks were all "beginning level". ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Join modern day disciples reach the disfigured and poor with hope and healing http://us.click.yahoo.com/lMct6A/Vp3LAA/i1hLAA/UlWolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
