Re: The live audience is ruining the show

On Mar 30, 10:06 pm, Crash Bandicoot <NoS...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Tom W wrote:
But there's no mechanism to ramp it up. Maybe there's a change in the
pacing and the audience senses punch lines even if they aren't there.
Any given audience isn't going to come in the theater with the knowledge
of how an audience behaved 10 years ago and knowingly behave differently..

Tom W

They are only following orders, and the pressure to laugh comes from the
  pages. It's laid on thick; with not-so-subtle warnings that they'll be
"punished" if they don't laugh because Dave will pull the best comedy
bits and use them for another, more appreciative audience.

And, again, you take these "warnings" seriously?
.

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