The night was a reminder both of how hard it is to do live television and how great people living on the Spectrum and their family and friends can be. Apparently one of the real big challenges with live tv is getting the TelePrompTer right. Despite (because of?) the many glitches, a really enjoyable show. I particularly loved the video on the guy training police forces how to recognize Austistic people and not shoot them, and the closing number by the amazing Jodi DiPiazza.
I had the chance to see Chris Rock live in Oakland a few weeks ago, who gave a great, if somewhat defensive, show. People are funny in different ways, and I appreciate those whose funny comes at the end of a lot of work and feedback and re-writes. Rock does the work, but he is also just spontaneously funny, and he showed that on this show - I thought his ad libs through the prompter problems were the fabulous. The three stand-up sets were all great. There were some low points (Howie Mandel- nuff said). When they started this years ago I worried they were too close to amplifying some of the junk science that plagues the Austism world, and which both exploits and gets aggressively pushed by parents who are scared and desperate and heart-broken. Somewhere along the line they got their shit together on that (little or no discussion of an “Autism epidemic”, or of unsupported treatments) and a focus on programs designed to help people live their lives. I think I read something about Smiegel explicitly making this change, but I can’t remember the details. For those who don’t like to feed the HBO monster, the show is available for free on the youtube: https://youtu.be/pVypbknP4A8 -- Sent from Gmail Mobile -- -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
