On Sun, Apr 30, 2017 at 12:01 PM, PGage <[email protected]> wrote: > I thought he killed it - he way exceeded my expectations. A lot of the > jokes that bombed in the room were making fun of journalists, so F em if > they cant take a joke (he really did a job on USA Today early that seemed > to tickle about half the audience and make the other half uncomfortable). I > would put him among the top 3 or 4 who have done it. >
It's a very tough room to play (cavernous). And it's not so much that jokes bombed as that the victims of those jokes didn't laugh when it was their turn to suffer, and their peers tried not to gloat-laugh. In audience shots, you could pretty much identify the non-press people -- they were the ones laughing without guilt. I'm not a big fan of bullet-point monologues, but it's inevitable here. You stop to build, you lose the crowd, so you just keep setting them up and knocking them down. At least he kept the after-jokes to a minimum (doing the punch line, and then acting it out -- see Colbert and Meyers, and especially see Ken Levine's essay about it from last week). -- -- 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/d/optout.
