Entertainment hypothesis
Posted on May 11th, 2008
Hypothesis: Entertainments in which the actors are visibly having a good time with one another, and are winking at the audience, don’t age well.
Evidence: Rat Pack movies. Burt Reynolds movies. Jimmy Fallon sketches.
Evidence to the contrary: ___________?
Hugh Laurie and Stephen Fry in “Jeeves and Wooster”
“Pink Flamingos,” and John Waters’ movies in general.
Jackie Chan, especially Rush Hour
The Carol Burnett Show, perhaps? Though I haven’t re-watched any of the jillions of shows in which they cracked each other up in mid-sketch.
And… is it more proof of what you’re saying, or a counterexample, that concerts are more fun when the band is visibly having a good time?
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off does a lot of winking at the audience and still works for me.
I’m not sure Rush Hour is old enough to be known to escape the iron jaws of my hypothesis.
I saw a Burnett snippet recently and imo it confirms my almighty hypothesis.
Ed, we’d have to watch old concert video, but I believe the Hypothesis of Steel does not apply to concerts where the musicians are having fun. They’ve got to be winking at the audience, too, but I don’t know how musicians do that.
Couple of counter examples:
Any of the Hope and Crosby on the Road pictures (well, except road to singapore). Hold up well and good deal of the comedy is when the actors interact with the audience.
Marx Brothers – pick any. The brothers always seem to be in on the joke. Margret Dumont, not so much.
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