From: mjm <mmoynihan-AT-wi.rr.com>
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2006 17:25:28 -0500
To: puptcrit-AT-lists.driftline.org
Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] Ronn Lucas and Scorch the Dragon


To cut to a reaction shot of the host is a director decision.
If the star (Letterman) demanded it, I'm sure he would have it.
(Watch Leno, or Carson D., they are much more screen grabbing)
Letterman never does it during guest stand-ups or musician's songs.
Not inviting them to the couch is also consistent.
Most of the vent acts do stage or club shows for a living.
The point of a talk show spot is to hype & build your live show  
audience.
The shorter the routine, the better, since once you give your material  
away on TV, millions of people have already seen it.
Nightly live on tape TV chews up acts that depend upon the same  
material for years, even decades of livelihood.
The Blue Man Group clones themselves and are everywhere, while the  
original 3 guys create new shows while the clones make $ for them.
Not so the vent artists (altho a vent who had a "character like a blue  
man could),
Bergan came at a time when he parlayed a live vaudeville act into  
movies, radio (how weird) and eventually TV.
Plus as Letterman shakes hands just before they cut to commercial you  
hear the first few words of his, which indicate that he already  
personally knows these performers, probably from his years on the road  
as a stand-up or this decades as a TV host.
My main problem with the week is no clips of Se=F1or Wences, who  
performed in the Ed Sullivan Theatre many times, and lived a few blocks  
away. Wenceswas the very first vent to be on the Letterman show, back  
in 1982. Maybe they cannot get any rights. NBC owns the old Letterman  
footage. Too bad.

m
(still enjoying my Axtell vinyl Amazing Apes)
"'S all right" - Pedro

On Sep 21, 2006, at 3:17 PM, jmwyrd-AT-aol.com wrote:

>  Good point. When an act is as visual as vent acts tend to be, it  
> would be rather rude to cut away from the performer just to get a mug  
> of the host on the screen. One might miss something from the  
> performer. I suppose no one really knows but Dave himself.
>
>  Jeff
>
>  -----Original Message-----
>  From: sandbar-AT-wowway.com
>  To: puptcrit-AT-lists.driftline.org
>  Sent: Thu, 21 Sep 2006 2:07 PM
>  Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] Ronn Lucas and Scorch the Dragon
>
>   On Thu, 21 Sep 2006 15:33:31 -0400, jmwyrd wrote
>> Perhaps the reason is because Dave is, in his own way, a comedian.
>> Could it be that he's just a tad worried that he might get upstaged
>> by these guys?
>
> Or, he doesn't want to upstage the act, which is my take.  When I'm  
> watching
> a performer, I don't really want to cut away to see the host.   
> Especially
> when I might miss something like a "booger".
>
> Sandy
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