Word: censor
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Head Writer Paul Keyes: "Held it! I think it should be 'Boy, does she have a headache!'" (Looks thoughtfully at NBC censor Sandy Cummings.) "Unless you think we could...
...Censor Cummings (briskly...
Schlatter: "How about, 'Well, at least she hasn't got a headache-but I do?' " (Censor nods approval...
...censor will accept one line and not another is often a matter of metaphysical subtlety. Carol Burnett describes a hassle during a recent taping session for her comedy show: "I'm in a nudist colony wearing nothing but a barrel. An interviewer asks me what kind of recreation nudists have on Saturday nights...
Often, Laugh-In has its own esoteric battles with the censor. "We're not trying to get a lot of dirty stuff on the air," explains Rowan. "About 90% of the stuff that's cut out of the script for being too blue, we take out ourselves. But our writers are normal, healthy guys, and they've got to have the freedom to throw anything into the pot. And then we discuss it." And discuss and rediscuss...