I finally saw the full episode last night. My sense of the bit was that the cracks about Notaro's breasts registered with the people she talked to even less than the ridiculousness of the head shots. It came across as though a different reaction was expected, but they went ahead and ran the full remote.
Given how underplayed the mastectomy was played in the taped piece, I think it would have felt a bit out of place to play up the difference between Notaro and Eve. Perhaps if Notaro's segment had aired before J.J. Abrams' appearance the next night, where Alice Eve's appearance in the film was a point of conversation, then some comparison could have been played to decent effect. David >________________________________ > From: donz5 <[email protected]> >Subject: [TV orNotTV] Re: Tig Natoro on Conan > > >I didn't sense any discomfort from either the audience during the >remote nor Eve's composure. I think the thought of the audience almost >booing Tig is ridiculous. > >On May 25, 1:44 pm, PGage <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Sat, May 25, 2013 at 6:26 AM, Adam Bowie <[email protected]> wrote: >> > I tend to agree that it was more because the piece wasn't funny (and I say >> > that as someone who did buy and like her breakthrough routine around her >> > cancer). If the laughs had been much bigger it would have felt like someone >> > was holding the audience at gunpoint to laugh. Sadly the piece just didn't >> > really work. >> >> > I do think Alice Eve was awkward though, hence her getting Tig involved >> > right at the start. (SNIP) >> >> Right - and this may have been Kevin's main point anyway. The contrast >> between the two women could not have been more stark - including the fact >> that Eve was listed as a guest, and Tig was not, and Conan, apparently as >> part of the setup to her bit, introduced her as having asked if she could >> come on, and I was a bit surprised she stayed on the couch for the rest of >> the show. It is a comedy show, not an in-depth public affairs program; but >> her whole persona is about being uncomfortably honest, so it would have >> been honest and uncomfortable and potentially (at least occasionally) funny >> if someone (Tig probably, but Conan, Andy or, probably most >> problematically, Eve herself) had commented on the juxtaposition of one >> woman who was publicly so defined by the absence of both breasts, and >> another was so defined by the over-abundance of her breasts. > > > -- -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
