Re(4): Help for younger Americans Posted on October 14, 2021 at 06:50:44 AM by just sayin
Well then, just blurt out your calls, and then repeat your fake radio name of first name and another first name as your last name. Most people don't actually LOL at something they see on TV or radio, tho if there's a professional laugher in the audience or a laugh track, ordinary attempts at humor seem almost funny.
I went to see the Johnny Carson one night with free affiliate tickets and the back door entrance in Burbank, just once. Never seen a live network sh ow til then. The sound stage was incredible, sitting in the audience sounded exactly like it did on the other side of my TV at home.
But I found myself laughing with the audience where at home I would never have done that, even when he was doing his famous Carnak bit which I saw that night.
Laughter, applause, etc is very contageous in the middle of a crowd. Its way harder on the radio without some kind of stinger sound, even if just a jingle going into a music set.
I learned that pretty early which I guess is why I was able to play a pretty good straight man for the morning guy. I could serve as his stinger, just like Ed McMahon did for Johnny.
The other phenomenon I learned that night was how effective a guy like Ed was to warm up the audience for the star's monologue. We were ready to laugh and clap uproarously during the very familiar Tonight show theme with the even more familiar Doc Severenson.
That was as memorable as getting to see Janis Joplin from the front row at Memorial Hall in 1970. THAT experience taught me how excited people get up close watching a performer connect. TV just aint the same but rarely.
The most memorable film clip I ever saw was Kevin Bacon in "Taking Chance", the airport scene when the Marines, the aircraft crew, et al at attention and respect when the flag draped coffin came out of the hold of the jetliner as he was being escorted for burial where he grew up.
if ya haven't seen it and you're not utterly cynical about all things patriotic, you might be moved by the sacrifices people have paid in war and the respect theyre given for it. I only new one classmate who died in Vietnam. A fraternity brother, even and my roommate at the house. KIA not long before his tour was to be over. By then I'd already been drafted and was in army school. In those days a great many of us went in, involuntarily. It's an experience not nearly so universal for the kids of us boomers unless they wanted to enlist.
If ya didn't like my essay and ya read all the way down here, no need to trash me for it kept your interest. I'm not sure that happens often in a rambling essay longer than 128 characters. Today people born after us boomers don't really read much, do they? Replies: