Did NBC Give Sarah Palin's Stand-Up Debut A Little Audio Encouragement?
Palin's whole stand up routine the other night on The Tonight Show was more than a little surreal. But I thought it was odd how boisterous the audience was for such lame jokes.
Who needs teleprompters when a studio can simply insert canned laughter?
I've dealt with sound engineering for 30 years, as a film maker, interviewer, musician, working with master reel to reel tapes/decks at EMS Music in Seattle in the 80's as a sound duplication engineer, or setting sound levels for my and other bands in live situations at shows. I won a Hollywood award for animation in 2000. I know sound. And it's my opinion that audio portions of Sarah Palin's March 2nd appearance on Jay Leno's Tonight show were added or amplified, edited before broadcast to make it appear that Sarah Palin was more welcome than she was.
I know. I was there.
They added laughter where there was none during uncomfortable portions. Well, there was some laughter. Mine, of derision. During those pregnant pauses in her performance I was laughing long and loud, couldn't help myself as much of what she was saying was utterly surreal, ridiculous, hypocritical - nonsense, spewed platitudes, pushed buttons. I was seriously thinking of leaving as it was getting hysterically unfunny.
After sitting through the taping of the show in the studio I can recount many portions where there was little or no laughter or response, but at the later broadcast they are smoothed over with applause and laughter that WERE NOT THERE at the taping. Groans, hoots, grumbling, or just dead silence - all missing.
Given how carefully Palin's people manage her appearances, I think it's safe to say we'll never see Palin trying her act anywhere else. Can you imagine how Letterman or Colbert would laugh in her face for that kind of special treatment? Or even better, the kind of heckling she'd face at a comedy club?
which won't happen because corporatist Dems will drop the balls they don't have because of spinal missing-gitis.
"I mean Romney is the most conservative on illegal immigration and I don't think Ronald Reagan could get elected in California today."
Ann "Clipped" Coulter
Even Amato is behind the canned laughter.
Yes...the sound was enhanced!
you were there? If so, I will take your word for it. I don't think she is funny at all.
she is quoting a source fron dailyKos:
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2010/3/4/84...
But it seems legit.
The post mentions a previous parody of Palin created by the author and his wife. And he's also a sound engineer?
Corruption favors the wealthy.
the pic of the Tonight Show tickets?
Anything can be faked nowadays, but it still seems legit to me.
But it still seems kind of convenient.
Corruption favors the wealthy.
Ask NBC/2nite Show ... or do a simple audio analysis of the laughter on that and previous episodes.
A lot more scientific than analyzing kerning on bush documents.
If anyone can send me links to the Palin episode and another seated comedian I can do it.
If it's canned it should be a different acoustic signature, and have a pattern.
to see Adam Lambert. After watching the video it really does seem the laughter was enhanced. No technical expertise, just what I remember. FWIW
but NOT funny ha, ha
she's funny wierd.
I won't watch Leno or Palin. nothing funny about either.
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I have been saying it for as long as Leno has been the Big Kahuna:
he isn't funny, his interview technique sucks, his monologue sucks, his jokes suck, and now, as far as I am concerned, the entire Leno brand sucks if this is the kind of special treatment they will give anyone, let alone an idiot freak like Failin' Palin.
I'm just superstitious enough to hedge my bets.
The funniest thing he does is Headlines, and anybody could do that. I'd rather skip the unfunny middleman and just read Failblog.
He supports the republicans and the way he protect his billions of dollars..
Leno never uses the money he makes on NBC or investments , he makes enough doing out show work...
I do not even see where Leno is very funny... It has been a long , long time since I watch his show , but to me he just keep attacking democrats like Clinton every single night...
None
Doesn't he use some of it to add to that collection of 10 bazillion useless cars he owns?
And I'll never understand this sick, twisted fascination with Sarah Palin. That's enough. Stop it!
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The same sick twisted fascination that people have watching car crashes.
"Anyone that makes less than $150K in this country, has no business voting Republican."
Maybe he banged Palin as well or she blew him for special treatment.
Who knows.
I wouldn't put it past either one of them.
He's a lefty blogger and has been a sound engineer for three decades. He was at the taping. Seattle Weekly ran a story about his being there and not hearing the laughter he says was added later. I'm really angry that NBC allowed this to happen. I know the talk shows are illusion like everything else on TV, but I think it should have allowed Palin's jokes to fall flat so people would know the truth: she isn't funny, and the studio audience was not under her spell.
laughter. They went with the loser, and they're trying to pretend they didn't.
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...not some conspiracy to help Palin seem funny. All these "live" shows blend in the canned laughter. It's all a fraud.
Agreed. I used to work with Just For Laughs here in Montreal. Adding/re-arranging laughter happens all the time in the industry. There's even a word for it: 'sweetening'. Palin's bit felt sweetened to me.
the whole thing; the fact she did a stand-up routine, the fact that she came out for an 'interview' and then was re-introduced before her comedy routine, and now this claim that they used canned laughter... weird
i loathe palin's politics (and her), but i love me some good ole fashioned trainwrecks... and the palin choo-choo, when it finally derails, is going to be spectacular.
by the networks, handlers, 'Baggers, etc., is just delaying the inevitable. It'll be a hoot when it hoppens for all the world to see.
If you have watched these shows much, when they have a single guest featured in multiple segments (i.e., a musical guest, who usually appears at the end, being interviewed as well), that's the format of the show: introduce the guest being interviewed, thenc lose out that segment, and introduce the guest for the musical/comedy segment - who just happens to be the same person.
Not really that wierd.
At least for comedians. Singers, yes. Comedians, not so much.
Usually the comedians do their stand up and then may or may not be invited to sit down and chat with the host.
Back in the day when Carson was still host, being invited to sit down was a huge anointing that you had made it as a comic.
Leno doesn't have the same cache, sadly.
jammed down our throat...
I hate that we can't even decide who is funny any more. LEno and the RNC is going to tell us who's funny?
ratings, just like the MSM.
Well when did she become a well known comic? And as Nicole says, the guest usually comes out, does their thing and then is maybe invited to sit down and chat. Sometimes if the guest is a person already famous for their talent, maybe they might chat before doing whatever they do.
This was like playing pretend. Sarah comes out and chats and then everyone pretends she is this well known comic who is asked to perform for the audience.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
I am so sick and tired of the corporate media manufacturing and massaging this idiot's image.
The next time she does her little stand-up routine, someone in the audience needs to record it. That way, when someone posts these doctored videos, rebuttal videos can be put up where you can hear the groans and the crickets chirping...
NBC didn't use the "uh-oh" lady from the "I Love Lucy" laugh track.
(BTW, it was Lucille Ball's mom.)
When Palin was on SNL, she tried to show that she was in on the joke. But she wasm't "in" on the joke: she is the joke.
I caught a little bit of Leno. I don't know why the audience was so hot to applaud her. She is neither funny nor insightful.
The media is reporting that she is "working on a book." Does that mean she is writing one, or trying to read it?
I hear it's popular amongst those of her ilk and reading level...
"I could give a flying crap about the political process.... We're an entertainment company."
- Glenn Beck - Forbes interview; April 26, 2010
In the process of coloring in one.
She's still got some work to do on staying in the lines.
"Anyone that makes less than $150K in this country, has no business voting Republican."
travelogue of alaska
it may sell
Yeah, it won' involve her family. Instead Sarah will be sort of a tour guide showing everyone what Alaska is like. If it does become a show, I think it will be a good one to miss.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
about people who have inspired her....like Willie Sutton.
“The greatest evildoers are those who don’t remember because they have never given thought to the matter, and, without remembrance, nothing can hold them back,”
But I was thinking of G. Gordon Liddy;-)
i know she didn't write the 'jokes' she delivered, but, jesus, is that even considered comedy? maybe that is the leno-type humor (i don't watch), but it really sucks. like REALLY sucks.
So bringing on this idiot to entertain his idiot audience at home is no stretch.
I'm just superstitious enough to hedge my bets.
Leno must have been desperate for a guest to have asked her on and then gone along with her little silly entrance into stand-up comedy. I don't remember any other political figure doing stand-up comedy on a late night teevee show or anywhere else.
How's this all going to play out if she makes a run for the oval office in three years.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
She's not running.
She's too busy living the "white trash girl makes good" life. The Palins never had a pot to piss in. She stepped in it when she became Mayor of Wasilla, and given her track record...her house, her lifestyle all advanced on the public's money.
When she became Governor, all of a sudden she actually had to WORK. So, she quit.
She's ridin' the gravy train now. Trips to NYC, speaking tours, ghost written books, tons of cash flowing in and no one has to break a sweat workin'. She's gonna milk this cash cow for as long as she can, and once it's over...she'll turn into Joe Franklin or more likely, Jerry Springer.
We meet people like the Palins every day. The only difference is, they don't get picked by a bunch of political rubes to run for VP of the USA.
"Anyone that makes less than $150K in this country, has no business voting Republican."
So why is she still campaigning? ;o}
I pledge allegiance to the Constitution of the United States of America, and to the republic which it established, one nation from many peoples, promising liberty and justice for all
CHA CHING! CHA CHING! CHA CHING! CHA CHING!
That's why.
Wait till you see the fallout when she finally realizes she's a political laughingstock and has to bow out...and then has to account for where all her campaign money went.
"Anyone that makes less than $150K in this country, has no business voting Republican."
;)
She's just sharing her fancy pageant self with as many people as possible. She knows how dang loveable she is. I mean hell, her daddy gives her advice all the time about what kind of ammo to use when she blows the hell out of whatever animal she chooses to kill next. She believes that she's a man's woman in that she is flirty, clever and of course loves the idea of shooting and gutting Alaskan creatures.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
So when are they coming out with a blow up version? Or is she the blow up version?
Update:
Sorry, it's been around since 2008:
http://www.kocosports.com/absolutenm/anmviewe...
Google sarah palin blow-up doll.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
I did.
But they don't tell you how to order one.
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
Thankfully!!
"Anyone that makes less than $150K in this country, has no business voting Republican."
extra air in the head??
I think I'm turning Japanese, I think I'm turning Japanese, I really think so.....
She's no different than during the heyday of a Paris Hilton, or whomever is the latest corporate media craze.
what Johnny Carson would have done with her schtick? Honestly, I doubt he would have had her on at all.
Please oh please Sarah....Quit your day job and pursue your career in Stand-Up!
this crap wouldn't happen when Conan was in this time slot. Get rid of Leno. He's lousy and a disgrace to the Tonight Show.
And why is Sarah Palin still in the media she's a loser!!! For God sake's she lost the election people!! LOSER!!! Are you listening media folk? Move along.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IC4N5wkp2Ug
"Go Away, Sarah Palin," Tom Chapin and friends on YouTube.
but it is Show Biz and you have to make people think they are having a good time regardless...
don't hate me.
strictly speaking from a tv show production POV.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRNEGw4fVU0
you sing like an angel!
You must have a crappy show where applause signs aren't enough fakery.
The only truly funny thing she said was when she told Jay that she joined fox news to bring some balance to the MSM.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
that's not funny....she admits to be having a hand in the perversion of respectable journalism. She admits she's being unethical, yet thinks it's a joke. That's not funny, that's scary and sad.
I didn't get the impression she thought what she said was a joke, she sounded very sincere.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
Sarah Palin! Look! Here ^!
That's what humor looks like, Caribou.
Not funny....at all. Just scary.
she didn't know how ridiculously funny that really is because SHE ACTUALLY THINKS FAUX NOISE IS FAIR AND BALANCED!!!
“The greatest evildoers are those who don’t remember because they have never given thought to the matter, and, without remembrance, nothing can hold them back,”
It's the mental distortion that her many delusions create as they suck her mind away from the world, and into a tiny point. The delusions will increase as the disconnect increases. She is on a one way trip to La La Land.
The Tonight show is cold leftovers.
More sounded like a good idea, but now we realize we are full. Gettin' old, NBC.
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
To see a Palin / Franken laugh-off.
As long as the proceeds go to the winner, and the winner will certainly not be Ms. Lady Lipstick.
i can't stand leno.
On the other hand, the caliber of political discourse in this country would be vastly improved were laugh tracks introduced to the televised "newsrooms" of America's corporate airwaves.
report real news and get higher ratings.
Hey! FOX Terror Theatre needs a laugh track 24 hours a day. In fact that sounds like a great little project for youtube.
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
add a laugh track to some of the videos?
Can't C&L Fri, 03/05/2010 - 13:36 — ron
add a laugh track to some of the videos?
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I'd prefer a porno audio.
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FeXQNHkLnt8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlJGrIyt-X8
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
FOX Terror Theatre
Palin dressed as Vampirella giving hourly terror updates.
Domestic terrorism would drop immediately. All those toothless rubes would be rubbing themselves silly inside their trailers.
"Anyone that makes less than $150K in this country, has no business voting Republican."
Their gums?
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
Being a not-funny comedian is a much better job for Palin than Vice President.
We should all encourage Caribou Barbie to pursue the comedy path instead of politics.
You mean she's after Leno's job?
It's all a vast corporate conspiracy!
Shame on NBC. Par for Jay Leno.
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
Total anedote.
I did not watch Palin on Leno, but I heard some local radio guys discussing how fake it was.
Apparently, they had spoken with some audience members who said there was very little laughter during the show, but when they watched it later, there was lots of canned laughs.
One even remarked that there were a couple of awkward silences during the live show that were absent from the broadcast.
I pledge allegiance to the Constitution of the United States of America, and to the republic which it established, one nation from many peoples, promising liberty and justice for all
yuk it up folks, while you still have the stomach for it.
i guarantee it will no longer be funny if this freak ever gets close to the nuclear football, and don't think for a second there are not enough christian warriors around to enable her.
you see, if you own the airwaves, you can put this kind of fiendish agit-prop on every night of the week.
those that are so sure of themselves, they have a certain blank look in their eyes, like snakes, or lizards, or sharks.
they don't care if anybody likes them, they just want to feed, on a country, a soul, a spirit, doesn't matter.
no, sister sarah (warrior princess for god) and her silent todd sidekick will be around for a long time.
you see god is on their side, and they have millions of apostles in the prayer warrior network, and don't think the warrior part is for show.
Actually spiritual belief will always be a personal choice. Everything else is corrupt.
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
sure, sure, personal choice, until they smash out the windows and kick in the doors.
problem is, in our mediatized society, we only think it is real if it is up on the screen; when it actually happens, well we can just hardly believe it.
don't be fooled, it is happening here, now - and no one, no one with the technological megaphone loud enough for the general public to hear - is speaking up.
it should be our president, our top law enforcement officials, hell - they're afraid of little dizzy miss lizzie.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_j-o1vtBs1Y
http://www.uclick.com/client/nyt/po/
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
live '65 is great, but live peace in toronto is my fave.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HckNUFaSGpY
not sure how to make the link work, me being able to remember when there were no beatles, i am just that little bit challenged.
Do you just add water?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2kxlZDOHeQ
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
Good thing mz zarah didn't pull a janet jackson
She'd a made a boob of herself.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5r5MBBRRn1Y
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
applause? Would seem rather fitting - too bad Palin didn't perform in cut-off blue jean shorts and a red/white checkered shirt in front of a few hay bales. "Wasilla, Alaska. Saaaaaaa-luuuuuuute!"
I've seen some stuff, man. And some thangs...
she should have been introduced as political pole dancer.
Then the guys can stand up if you know what I'm sayin'. At least someone was speaking the truth to Hammity the other night about the real attraction of sarah palin, the political pole dancer.
As a general rule, shows with live studio audiences often have enhanced laugh tracks and applause tracks.
That's why they have selected live audiences and applause signs. Also, too, live shows that have to rely on that don't get picked up.
Sure, it's who you know or blow to get your shot, but you actually have to entertain people to keep it.
How can someone who cannot laugh at herself make other people laugh? Jeez. I was hoping NBC gave tomatoes to the audience. It still wouldn't be funny, but at least it'd be entertaining.
Don't play with your food.
"Anyone that makes less than $150K in this country, has no business voting Republican."
so true, who can afford to waste a food giveaway these days?
I'm sure they can cut you a deal!
They used to call hot babes tomatoes.
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
Ya, Tomatoes, huh.
Hmm.. Hey! check out the tomato with the eggplants over there?
Hey babe! nice ginsengs?
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
It's not Sarah Palin! It's P-doody!
During the actual interview with Leno, were the cheers coming from real rednecks trucked in from somewhere? Or were they the "posse" that took all those trinkets from the Oscar Gift Suite?
Or were these sounds added later too?
Leno didn't challenge her once. Not even when she explained writing on her hand. How about telling her even a Gray Parrot can remember three things without being able to read or write at all.
let's see, put a dyed in the wool christian conservative, all born again and rarin' to go; team em up with a dedicated neo-con war hawk.
bush/cheney 2000?
or palin/cheney 2012?
please somebody wake me up, i must be having a nightmare.
yeah, you betcha!
"But I thought it was odd how boisterous the audience was for such lame jokes."
I've heard the same thing claimed for a lot of Letterman's stuff, too. Obviously, there's a warm-up guy who comes out before the show and strongly encourages the audience to react loudly to everything any given host does, whether it's Letterman, Leno, Craig Whats-his-name (the best of the lot, I think) or whoever.
So, while I'm sure the reaction to Palin was a bit "juiced", I don't think she's got a monopoly on juicing.
GE owns NBC, and therefore Leno ratings sucks, and need to suck up to GE to keep his job. I just saw a statement from NBC that Leno took his time slot back to save Conan failings attempt at that time slot, which couldn't be further from the truth.
I think with this laugh track and continue adding rabib rightwinger to the show, and dissing Conan is all going to be their downfall. Just wait till Oprah has her new network of her own, and I hope she brings Conan back on her network.
Oprah is slated to have her own network before the 2012 election, and I am betting she is going to campaigning for Obama.
I've been to a few tapings of shows--Carson, Leno, Maher and a some LA-based sitcoms. They do have an audience warm up guy who pumps up the audience. They also have signs that light up when they want the audience to respond.
While sitcoms clearly do have canned laughter, I do not believe that Maher uses canned laughter on his show, nor did Carson. You could hear when jokes bombed. Carson was a master at turning that around and making his reaction work to save the joke.
I've been to a few tapings myself, including one of Carson's final performances. Indeed, he never added artificial laughter. He just made the fact that the joke failed into the next joke.
But for those artists less adept at such self-deprecation or otherwise working with the vibes of a live audience, there are plenty of other showbiz tricks to get an audience to laugh.
Including scolding. No, I'm not kidding. At a taping of The Munsters Today (a hideous show I only saw because my brother had a small part in one episode), the director de jour literally scolded the audience for not "doing our duty" by laughing hard at the jokes. Of course, people weren't laughing because the jokes just weren't funny. But most of those seated "did their duty," and on the next take, pretended to laugh really loudly at a bad joke they'd already heard. It wasn't "canned" laughter. It wasn't a laugh track added in later. But it might as well have been. And it sounded just as fake.
True, Sarah Palin hardly has a monopoly on canned (or otherwise faked) laughter. Not at all. And in sit-coms, the audience is better thought of as a character directly in the show, not a voyeur. But given Palin's personal histrionics, I have no trouble believing that her handlers said something to the effect of, "When she goes on, she will get laughs. You see to it. No matter how you have to. You don't want to deal with an angry Sarah Palin who felt unappreciated by an audience." (See my post below on Histrionic Personality Disorder.)
Everyone is equally entitled to the pursuit of happiness. Wasn't that once self evident?
Of course there's warmup, of course there are signs ... but you don't overdub laughter to a live show unless it's lame.
No one in the industry falls for that crap, and you don't get renewed.
Now maybe, if the canned laughter is true, that the audience at home is the 25% outlier that usually watches his show. In that case, they love them some Palin, and it doesn't matter what any one says about Sarah plain and stupid.
ever, ever watch Leno again. As if anyone needed one.
... and I admire his passion for cars, and I have an passion for steam anything, but funny or good at his job? ehh, not so much.
OTOH, how can you fill the shoes of Jack, Steve & Johnny?
I would bet good money that Sarah Palin has Histrionic Personality Disorder.
I know people with this disorder. They are in a similar psychiatric category as sociopaths and psychopaths.
Seriously, check out the Wiki link. It would be TERRIFYING to have someone like that in a serious position of leadership.
Everyone is equally entitled to the pursuit of happiness. Wasn't that once self evident?
In the book "Game Change" they tell about bouts of what appears to be some sort of depression she had during the times of pressure on the campaign trail. She would just fall into a slump and become inactive. They would have to cater to her like a child to bring her out of her funks.
After reading the info at the link you offered, it sounds just right to me.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
1) Game change was written by losers to indemnify their loss.
2) It's just wrong to diagnose anyone 2nd hand.
three wing chicken propositioner.
"I mean Romney is the most conservative on illegal immigration and I don't think Ronald Reagan could get elected in California today."
Ann "Clipped" Coulter
So, am I wrong? Happy to hear why I might be off base. Yeah, its just a guess. I have no expertise.
But if I'm discredited from questioning a frightening loon like Sarah Palin merely because I told a story about how some of us relieved a little stress when running petition drives, I don't know what to say.
But thanks for showing how political fighting works. Cuz, you know, that's how campaigns are run in this country. If I were to run for office against you, your campaign would have an ad about how I used to campaign to put a third wing on chickens.
I can hear the baritone voice-over already: Karen says she's serious about changing politics for the better. Well, is it serious to trick people into signing petition? Is it serious to talk about putting a third wing on chickens? Cuz that's what Karen wants for you and your family.
;)
Everyone is equally entitled to the pursuit of happiness. Wasn't that once self evident?
'that time of the month' for ricky.
me-oww!
I was betting on Borderline Personality Disorder myself. It's on the previous page in the DSMIV. Even though we're not on the same page, we're in the same book!
From what I do know, Borderline and Histrionic are very similar, and there's a lot of overlap.
I have some personal experience dealing with histrionic people, and Sarah Palin seems like one of them.
Everyone is equally entitled to the pursuit of happiness. Wasn't that once self evident?
-->"Borderline and Histrionic are very similar, and there's a lot of overlap"
Umm, OK.
[Notes: patient exhibits symptoms of paranoia and over reliance on printed materials. Apparently unaware that psychology is not actually a science. Why does patient insist on diagnosing people she's never met?]
I was trying to do some arm-chair diagnosing from afar of you too, but apparently the DSM doesn't list "nitwit" as an official pathology.
It's a blog posting. It's tossing out ideas. It's not like I'm testifying in court to have her committed.
But then, I'm just a paranoid person relying too much on printed materials, whereas you are THE Sailor, so I guess I should watch my step.
;)
Everyone is equally entitled to the pursuit of happiness. Wasn't that once self evident?
Patient exhibits signs of passive aggressive tendencies.
Have patient schedule next session when psychology becomes a science.
Wait, passive aggressive? I thought I was being pretty direct, doc.
;)
Everyone is equally entitled to the pursuit of happiness. Wasn't that once self evident?
I'm thinking that someone (not you) is projecting.
me-oww!
Oh, I dunno. Perhaps I trespassed on his area of expertise. I admittedly have none in psychology, and I don't exactly take well to people telling me how the criminal law works in this country.
I actually thought whether Palin might be histrionic would make for an interesting thread. I guessed wrong.
Oh well.
Everyone is equally entitled to the pursuit of happiness. Wasn't that once self evident?
Neither of you got it.
I work in science, psychology isn't a science.
What I was doing is called 'satire', you can Google it.
Alas, Jon Swift truly is dead.
you must not have done a good job with your 'satire.'
You work in science, and satire is not a science. I didn't need to Google it. It helps if you put out a recognizable form of the art which you are attempting to practice.
And you are crap at condescension too. You could Google it, but I don't think you could get any better at it by doing so.
me-oww!
P=.002 is not a correlation.
And please, your funny bone has the same problem as Sarah Palin's. It needs more humorous.
door neighbor.
I would accuse you of promising a three wing chicken and noit delivering.
And as for miss_kitty, I could check to see if she caught the thread and gets the joke, but her cut is too close to home.
As a Democrat I already know from hanging around here I have no balls and I am afraid to look down there now.
"I mean Romney is the most conservative on illegal immigration and I don't think Ronald Reagan could get elected in California today."
Ann "Clipped" Coulter
Well, I definitely did not deliver. I'd have to concede on that one.
Hell, I couldn't even turn in those signatures to the county. Had it been the age of camera phones and YouTube, though, I would have filmed us, and posted some amateur version of Candid Camera. Cuz it's kinda funny-scary to watch people sign a piece of paper after you've told them it's for nonsense.
Anyway, if you were kidding around, and it went over my silly head, I'm sorry. ;)
Everyone is equally entitled to the pursuit of happiness. Wasn't that once self evident?
I kinda thought you were joking...
:D
me-oww!
let their Governor answer the higher calling of late night comedy.
Didn't see the credits at the end. Were her jeans donated?
"I mean Romney is the most conservative on illegal immigration and I don't think Ronald Reagan could get elected in California today."
Ann "Clipped" Coulter
No, but the chromosomes were triple X.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dyu4Tpoq8hc
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
I'd like to know when someone up there is going to get off their ass and start looking into the Palin's financial situation. I've heard rumours that their house was built under questionable circumstances. Then there is the cabins on their other property that they have not paid taxes on. So, how about it? Are the authorities in Alaska brain dead. Or corrupt?
can't we have both?
Because you are not the boss of me.
The real comedy of Sarah 'Plank'
Pencils, cookies, and dog decorations.
I don't think mrs palin has the smarts to be pres or even vice.
But all TV shows have canned laughter.
republicanism/conservatism is a mental illness that has almost totally destroied our morals and our economy! Not to even mention all the innocent people that have been killed because of their bad decisions!
Some have live audiences.
The BBC recorded shows like 'Red Dwarf' on sets in a large studio in front of a live audience, to get a real audiences reaction to the show.
Stewart, Colbert, and others all do their stuff in front of live, it keeps the show, the stars, the writers on form.
Real comedy is a performance art.
without the sweetening would be truly funny. We can only hope.
like Ronald Reagan - someone charming enough to obscure their ugly politics
Laugh Track?
Reminds me of that Half Hour thingy that used to be on Fox Comedy...
NOBODY 2012
Does Sarah take a stab at being a country music singer to try to milk every last penny out of her 15 minutes?
She's following the Joe(not his real name) the Plumber(not really a plumber)career path.
These people have no concept or desire to work at a job.
They both quit their jobs to run away from home and join the media circus.
This woman is completely hollow, totally ignorant and proud of it. The people that love her are just as completely idiotic. Leno is a hack, always has been. He never should have got his show back. NBC seems to want to destroy some of its most popular shows. Meet the press sucks now and the Tonight Show has sucked since Leno came aboard.
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