Re: [ARSCLIST] blooper samples?

[Rod Stephens <savecal@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

In the movie industry, we called our assembled and edited funny out 
takes, "gag reels".

Rod Stephens

David Lennick wrote:

> David Breneman wrote:
>
> > --- David Lennick <dlennick@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >
> > > 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
> >
> >
> >       _____________________________
>
>
> 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