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« on: September 09, 2012, 10:31:13 am » |
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I also learned that politicians are mainly good at expressing wshat I call "righteous indignation" which is something akin to faking anger at the sub-boiling point--you know, right before you smack someone across the face. It is the one thing politicians can do and --if they have really good timing (in the same way comedians have really good timing with a "slow burn") they can be very effective with the audience.
The audiences at conventions are probably the saddest thing when compared to Ed's audiences. Ed at least had some real diversity. Partisan audiences are perhaps visually diverse, but they are of a partisan culture which is essentially 'captured' in the same way a herd of sheep are captured. Ed Sullivan never really knew the disposition of audience in advance, or their intelligence or circumstances. He had to fashion his bill of acts with some theme or occasion in mind and assume his acts were going to be stronger than Arthur Godfrey's, George Goble's, Steve Allen's or quite a few others in the studios down the block. He was competing with other tv variety productions, and radio, and live theatre, and bidding against these guys to obtain the most succcessful acts in the hope of capturing his audience.
It wasn't as though he could force feed his sheep and get away with it--that is what I am trying to say.
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