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Jan. 2nd, 2004 10:47 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
oakenguyAccording to my calendar, today is "Day after New Year's Day", a national holiday in New Zealand. I'm guessing it's the day where they celebrate all the things no one's come up with a good name for. Happy whatever-it-is, you Kiwis!
Last night I watched something very educational on public access tv: it was Jimmy Tingle, one of the Boston area's best-known comedians, *bombing* in front of a crowd of about twenty senior citizens at the tv station's annual picnic. Every couple minutes the camera would cut away from him to show that, yes, the old folks were still eating their sandwiches and totally ignoring him.
It was fascinating. I mean, normally on tv you see comedians working with the best possible audience (even when the tape has to be cobbled together from several nights' performances, or the laughs have to be "boosted" in the sound editting.) Watching a good comic get grim, clench his jaw and plow on through as he realizes he's got a Bad Crowd on his hands, that's a totally different animal. It made me feel a lot better about some of *my* gigs.
Last night I watched something very educational on public access tv: it was Jimmy Tingle, one of the Boston area's best-known comedians, *bombing* in front of a crowd of about twenty senior citizens at the tv station's annual picnic. Every couple minutes the camera would cut away from him to show that, yes, the old folks were still eating their sandwiches and totally ignoring him.
It was fascinating. I mean, normally on tv you see comedians working with the best possible audience (even when the tape has to be cobbled together from several nights' performances, or the laughs have to be "boosted" in the sound editting.) Watching a good comic get grim, clench his jaw and plow on through as he realizes he's got a Bad Crowd on his hands, that's a totally different animal. It made me feel a lot better about some of *my* gigs.
