Dave Damaschek
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
And they'll have to pay for that.
Pay for that fiesta mix.
No one's going to eat it.
That's a good point.
Keep everybody nice and light.
So know your audience.
Speaking of audience, actually bring it full circle.
You mentioned that Johnny Carson used to do jokes that you didn't consider very funny about Orson Welles.
I think in general that's a statement about TV.
We've talked about it in movies, too.
In MASH, you mentioned MASH, too.
MASH held up as the greatest sitcom of all time.
And we've gone over it.
It was two phases, basically.
You know, the early days where it was slapsticky comedy, you know, sort of like Marx Brothers bantering and stuff.
And then it turns into a melodrama that really should have just been turned into an hour-long self-serious thing.
And by the way, as though there are two sides to that argument.