{"id":1341,"date":"2007-01-30T23:21:00","date_gmt":"2007-01-31T07:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2007\/01\/30\/folks-the-show-may-be-over\/"},"modified":"2007-01-30T23:21:00","modified_gmt":"2007-01-31T07:21:00","slug":"folks-the-show-may-be-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2007\/01\/30\/folks-the-show-may-be-over\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Folks, the show may be over.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Z4Y4keqTV6w\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Z4Y4keqTV6w\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>I love watching comedians lose it on stage.  Note, however, that it&#8217;s only amusing if they&#8217;re actually funny to begin with, and something (or, in this case, some<span style=\"font-style:italic;\">one<\/span>) happens to get the better of them.<\/p>\n<p>The frequent crack-ups between <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=fs0rzNy-FdY\">John Stewart and Stephen Colbert<\/a>, during their Daily Show-ending check-ins, wouldn&#8217;t be half as entertaining if they weren&#8217;t both good performers in the first place.  It&#8217;s the fascination of finding something outrageous enough to crack those professional facades, and then watching them recover from it.  Or not.<\/p>\n<p>Now that&#8217;s comedy.<\/p>\n<p>~CKL<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love watching comedians lose it on stage. Note, however, that it&#8217;s only amusing if they&#8217;re actually funny to begin with, and something (or, in this case, someone) happens to get the better of them. The frequent crack-ups between John&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tv"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1341\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}