Xevious
CAGiversary!
[quote name='epobirs']One notable thing about many of these candidates is they are often people who were very successful long ago but are long since past their prime. It can be hard to appreciate some acts if you don't catch them in the era that spawned them. Often the case is they were very original and stood out but have been imitated so much since that younger viewers have trouble knowing the difference.
I saw Robin Williams perform before he'd done the Happy Days guest shot that led to 'Mork & Mindy' and overexposure. At the time nobody else out there could come even close to his energy and improvisational ability. It was the kind of thing that could leave you paralyzed with laughter.
It doesn't work forever. The performer slows down, the material is less in tune with the times, and the audience has seen it too many times before.
A lot of the names that have come up here repeatedly had their moments of greatness. Billy Crystal had a routine about adolescent lust that killed and still does. That doesn't mean he can create a comparable act today but nothing erases that past moment. George Carlin gave up humor for ranting and raving in the late 80's but there were five albums in the 70's that remain masterpieces. Jack Benny was a superstar when my parents were children but you'd have trouble getting the average 14-year0old to sit still for it today. Their approach to humor is much too subjective to appreciate that of different eras. Sometimes they grow out of it, sometimes they don't.[/quote]
Thats a good point.
I saw Robin Williams perform before he'd done the Happy Days guest shot that led to 'Mork & Mindy' and overexposure. At the time nobody else out there could come even close to his energy and improvisational ability. It was the kind of thing that could leave you paralyzed with laughter.
It doesn't work forever. The performer slows down, the material is less in tune with the times, and the audience has seen it too many times before.
A lot of the names that have come up here repeatedly had their moments of greatness. Billy Crystal had a routine about adolescent lust that killed and still does. That doesn't mean he can create a comparable act today but nothing erases that past moment. George Carlin gave up humor for ranting and raving in the late 80's but there were five albums in the 70's that remain masterpieces. Jack Benny was a superstar when my parents were children but you'd have trouble getting the average 14-year0old to sit still for it today. Their approach to humor is much too subjective to appreciate that of different eras. Sometimes they grow out of it, sometimes they don't.[/quote]
Thats a good point.
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