Re: [ARSCLIST] blooper samples?

[David Lennick <dlennick@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

David Breneman wrote:
> --- David Lennick <dlennick@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> > He did that more than once..the famous one I know is when Mary
> > pronounced Drew  Pearson "Dreer Pooson". The writers actually
> > rewrote the script during the live broadcast...
>
> Benny's show was really the originator of the "break down
> the fourth wall" philosophy.  Everyone that's done that
> since owe's him a debt of gratitude.  I remember reading that
> once Don Wilson botched a sponsor's tag line at the end of
> a broadcast, and was for some reason (vacation?) going to
> miss the next broadcast.  So the writers devised a story
> thread for several weeks that Wilson was in hiding from the
> ad agency fearing he'd get fired.  On one episode he even
> "phoned in" his opening.
>
>
> David Breneman         david_breneman@xxxxxxxxx
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And George Burns took that fourth wall even further on television., talking to 
the audience about what had just transpired, having actors walk in front of him 
on their way to one of the sets, and finally actually watching the show's 
events on his own TV screen.

Meanwhile, back to bloopers..which used to be called "fluffs" or "flubs" by 
performers. The word "blooper" was popularized by Schafer.  Today, people know 
these things are going to be saved and probably make many of them deliberately 
and they've become a major bore.

dl