On Wed, Jan 17, 2018 at 2:17 PM, Kevin M. <drunkbastar...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 17, 2018 at 7:05 AM, PGage <pga...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> >> Which leads me to my main criticism, which is doing this in front of a >> live audience - would much have preferred a quiet, intimate setting. >> >> Tom Snyder would almost certainly have agreed with you. > James Franco was a recent guest on Marc Maron's WTF. They started the conversation by recalling that Franco had appeared on a live WTF as part of a panel in front of an audience and how weird it went. Maron said having a live audience turns a conversation into a performance and trained performers know they have to keep the audience engaged and that leads to laugh lines and applause lines. Maron no longer does the live shows which shows he thinks that's not the best way to an in depth conversation. It took me a few days to find a way to watch the first episode as I do not have Netflix. I stayed away from reading reviews because they would all compare this show to the late night shows and that's just lazy on the reviewers' part. It felt good for a first episode. I especially like the intercutting between the interview and the pretape. Dave would bring up the topic of race and they would go to the pretape in Selma. Then Obama would comment on that segment and that kept the conversation alive and focused. The show has room to grow. As they go along I'm sure it will improve. And it is a norm that an ex-president does not comment on the job the current president is doing. As we live in a time that the current house is smashing norms all the time it wouldn't be beyond the acceptable if Obama smashed the norm as well. But one thing ex-presidents know is what the current occupant is going through every day and it's respect for the office not to slam him. -- 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 tvornottv+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
