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...Comedies are actually a lot harder to shoot than a horror movie or a drama,” Reid explains. “It's harder to tell a joke, it’s harder to be funny than it is to be mad or scared.” Which means the grueling process of filming My Boss’s Daughter took more of a toll on the starlet than the shoot-’em-up antics of Alone in the Dark...
...It’s a copy of an older one,” he wrote, referencing the similar joke Cal Tech played on the Washington Huskies...
...crotch of a paper target. Carson's greatness was reflected not just in the zinger he came up with--"I didn't even know you were Jewish!"--but in what came before. Watch the playback: he lets the laughter crescendo--five seconds, 10. He knows he has the joke. He knows it will kill. But you cannot have it yet. For a moment, he is keeping it for himself, like a diamond stowed in his breast pocket...
...comedians, this is called timing, and in leaders it is called command. Carson was not joke for joke the funniest man on TV, nor the best interviewer. He was simply the best host: he could flow with events instead of being carried off by them, yield the spotlight to guests while transcending any particular night's program, withhold even as he made us believe he was giving...
...billionth hamburger. Why, do you realize that if all the meat in those burgers were stacked up, it would stretch to here?" - and he raises his hand a foot from the desk top. (McDonald's threatened to sue, not realizing it was goofy to demand a retraction for a joke...