Re: [ARSCLIST] blooper samples?

[David Lennick <dlennick@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

And in radio, we'd say "Okay, that's one for the Christmas tape."

dl

Rod Stephens wrote:
> 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