http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQmJCf_sh_c&mode=related&search=
Click on this link and observe how it's done in Belgium (if I'm not mistaken). From what I've been able to decipher this is a clip where the host of the talk show Boemerang recounts the disaster of his 1st and last show and what was ostensibly the end of his TV career. The show appears to be about medical mishaps and his guests and some of the audience members have suffered greatly from malpractice. The host, Erik Hartmann, tries his best to be empathetic but fails miserably in what I think is the all time greatest crash and burn (I'm not one given to hyperbole) in the history of television. Invest the 6 or so minutes it takes to view this clip....you'll thank me in the morning.
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Ohmygod. Imagine being that poor guy. I've been in situations like that, where laughing is totally inappropriate yet impossible to resist. I've done brass quintet gigs where someone -let's say a horn player-cracks a note by accident, then another guy-maybe a trumpet player- can't resist but two bars later the melody comes up for him and he deliberately cracks the same note. There's very little hope for the concert unless a third guy-let's say the trombonist-can resist the urge to follow suit. But if you're on a 6 x6 stage at Eaton's around Christmas time and you're doing a canonical version of "Joy to the World". OOh, baby. Reisitance is futile. We weren't rehired.
It's happened to me too on more than one occasion. Once a few friends and I were watching a baroque bassoonist having all sorts of trouble during a concert. It honestly sounded like she was strangling an enormous goose. We had to up and leave. Unfortunately (or fortunately)the clip from this post was actually a comedy sketch. I did some more detective work and finally came to the conclusion that it's a clip from In De Gloria...a Belgian show. A fake but VERY well done and hilarious nonetheless.
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