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The president-elect had a successful career as an entertainment celebrity. The question, of course, is: Will Trump's war on entertainment celebrities be successful? Meanwhile, we have to recall that 20th century kinds of censorship of entertainment celebrities did kill careers. His medium had been television. So, he understands the attention game. Or megawattage. Without the right and enough attention the celebrity's career darkens into being a has-been. MORE
TV inspired Fun Stuff Entertainers Humor If you missed this Saturday Night Live Sketch with Nasim Pedrad playing Heshy Farahat, you are missing out on some pretty darn motivational speaking. I''m ready to sign up! MORE
Another entertainment legend has passed over. Barbara Hale, who played Della Street on "Perry Mason," has died. She was 94 years old. Here is the coverage from Daily Mail. It was "Perry Mason" which got America hooked on legal drama. Without that, there probably would not have been a market for "LA Law," "Boston Legal," and "The Good Wife." " Today, of course, there would be no market for goody-two-shoes "Perry Mason." MORE
Entertainers Programs The Business of Speaking TV inspiredBillboard Daily Blog Are you a fan of "Grace and Frankie," the hot Netflix series starring Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin? My husband and I arrived late to the party, but are now all caught up and attempting to savor season 3 instead of bingeing, like some of my friends have done. If you don't know the show, it's about two women in their seventies whose lives are turned upside down when their husbands divorce them to marry each other. MORE
An American sport is watching the ship go down. That version of the Titanic could be Tiger Woods's career or 2 girls delivering the news everyone already knows through a medium no one cares about. The watching, as in today's coverage of Diane Sawyer's first night on ABC, is all about hoping to be there to catch signs of the slow-motion breaking of the ship apart, then into pieces. As with all sports, the athletes are well paid. MORE
Binge watching whatever is becoming a preferred way to be entertained. Reduce stress. And hang out with bros and sistas. On the influential "Gillmor Gang," the panel predicts that phenomenon is helping keep television, in all its forms, very much alive. Also it could be dooming movie theatres. When we buy a ticket for a film such as "Manchester By the Sea," we receive an excellent ROI on our investment. But the experience is short. MORE
A red flag is that his latest altercation, this time on a boardwalk at the Jersey Shore, was videoed and recorded by entertainment media property TMZ. The media look to him for entertainment on an off-news day. All seasoned public relations players - professional PR folks and brandname personalities - know one thing. And that's the fine line between milking a marketable piece of performance art and going too far. MORE
Having raised the question of whether BBC's Question Time has lost its way through its selection of post-Robin Day chairmen and addition of a fifth guest ( previous post ) should enjoy this version from the Not the Nine O'clock News team. If you can't imagine a comedian pulling off anything as effective as this by impersonating Peter Sissons or David Dimbleby in the chair, it arguably supports the point I was making in the previous post MORE
I've nothing against Sissons or Dimbleby, other than that they are too straight and predictable to make the programme anything like as entertaining as it was when Day was in charge. Different from Day, yes, but both with a degree of eccentricity and unpredictability of the kind that used to make Question Time so very entertaining. MORE
I've taken a long break from posting - 11 months. But, to quote Hillary Clinton in Iowa, "Im Baa-aack!" So, before I get to insights from my hiatus, here is a chance to see two WGN anchors during their two. Television Hillary Clinton Lou Hampton Speak to Lead tv anchors WGN MORE
Congratulations to Barry Whetstine for his winning submission for the Animation for Entertainment contest. He says, "I teach a workshop that provides tools for people seeking career direction. They may have been laid off, under-employed or looking for a career change but have no idea how to determine what they want to become, thus the slide attached. As you will see the slide utilizes animation, music, Shapes, and Power Clip Art from Animation Factory.I MORE
Entertainers Fun Stuff Humor Public Speaking Anxiety Speakers If you haven''t seen this yet, take a few minutes and watch how singer-songwriter-graphic designer Joe Kowan learned to manage his stage fright. I hope this inspires you to do that thing you''ve been dreading: getting on stage! Joe did it and so can you! If you can''t see the video here, view it on TED.com. MORE
With $15 million funding from Turner Broadcasting, Mashable is dropping hard news and focusing on entertainment and video. Like so many other media properties, Mashable has to change to survive. Given that shift, its editor in chief Jim Roberts and more than 2 dozen editorial staffers are out. Here is the coverage by Keith J. Kelly in the New York Post. This is yet another example of the tough times journalists are living through. No, I don't anticipate things will get better. MORE
The issue is: Will Trumpism reduce Hollywood to mere entertainment. In essence it depends on how much the world needs the kind of entertainment Hollywood conjures up. The conservative Drudge Report might be considered the text version of Fox News. So, Drudge Report got right into the latest eruption of the tension between The Donald and liberal Hollywood. It was Hollywood which supported Hillary Clinton. And let's cut to the chase. MORE
… Performance Understand your Audience Audience Connection featured inspiration Interaction Making it Memorable Practice Role Models street entertainersThere’s a 36 year old guy, married with a mortgage and 3 kids. He stands on a cobbled street in London, asking tourists for money. If they don’t give him money, his kids don’t eat, his rent doesn’t get paid and he has to go and find himself the real job that he’s tried to avoid for his entire life.… MORE
Reporting has become a form of entertainment. From its graphics to its headlines, the DrudgeReport.com remains with its initial formula: News, hold the entrainment. Unlike the Huffingtonpost.com and Gawker.com, the web site is graphically bare. The most it ever had was a blue siren to signal breaking news. And its headlines are austere, communicating just the facts. MORE
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Posted: August 5, 2007 by Gary in Dealing with People , Humour & Laughter , Image and Impressions , Networking & Small Talk , Public Speaking , The Shy Speakers Guide , Videos & Podcast 0 Everybody wants to be entertained. And when I mean entertained, I do not mean entertainment in the Russel Peters or Jerry Seinfield sense! Entertainment is not necessarily confined to the field of humour. Then there are other forms of entertainment media too. MORE
A new entity is created: Comcast Entertainment Group. GE got lucky. It unloaded 51% piece of its old-economy/old-technology holdings on Comcast. That bundle is NBCU. But this could turn out to be as jinxed at AOL-Time Warner. The payoff, if there is any for Comcast, depends on its ability to create content that can be recycled on the web, e.g. YouTube. MORE
The Drudge Report knows exactly what news internet surfers want. So, of course, it has curated Variety's coverage of the low ratings for both Megyn Kelly's "Sunday Night" and for her old home Fox. Glam Girl Kelly and the House Roger Ailes built are the ones many love to hate right now. They had been hot, influential and rich. Now they seem to be racing to has-been status. The game is to watch them scramble. It's in a downward trajectory that dumb mistakes are made. MORE
I n case you missed the last edition of Have I Got News for You , here’s the sequence showing how much more interesting the BBC’s political editor Nick Robinson can be when he forsakes the awful slides he usually inflicts on us: You might also like to compare this with some of the following: BBC Television News: produced for or by morons? MORE
As I watch USA TODAY video footage of a female receiving a knockout from behind, it seems like we will have to wear rear-view mirrors in cities. That could prevent the new teenage street game, boasted about on social media. No, there's no need for even a gun. Here is that coverage. My current city, New Haven, Connecticut, and the city in which I grew up, Jersey City, New Jersey, are among the attack locations. MORE
Entertainers Quick Fixes Taking Risks TV inspired“I was so happy with how Freaks and Geeks came out, that in my head I thought 'my career is basically over.' I accomplished what I wanted to accomplish, and everything else is gravy. And so nothing else matters. I can experiment. I can do anything. Because I did what I wanted to do, perfectly, once.” ~ Judd Apatow How many of us can say we've done something perfectly, once? Probably a lot of us! MORE
Whenever a celebrity—whether actor, singer, athlete or other entertainer—takes the opportunity at an awards ceremony or other public event to speak out about a political issue, certain segments of the public immediately begin scolding and lashing out. We pay you to act and entertain us!" Awards shows Communication Entertainers Programs TV inspired MORE
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Watch Loren Lott''s Hollywood Week performance here: American Idol Entertainers The Business of Speaking In 2012 I wrote a post harshly titled, " I don''t care about your dreams." I was making the point that when Project Runway contestants suggested that they should go to Fashion Week because they ". had always dreamed of being a fashion designer," they were way off base. The audience (and Project Runway producers) doesn''t care about your dreams. MORE
As Kate Summerscale tells that true story in the 2016 book "The Wicked Boy," what screams out is this: It's nothing new that murder is a source of great entertainment as well as a platform for half-baked theories. In 1895, a 13-year-old boy in England, Robert Coombes. murdered murdered his mother. The The details are bizarre. MORE
I''ve taken a long break from posting - 11 months. But, to quote Hillary Clinton in Iowa, "Im Baa-aack!" So, before I get to insights from my hiatus, here is a chance to see two WGN anchors during their two. Television Hillary Clinton Lou Hampton Speak to Lead tv anchors WGN MORE
On GAWKER , Lauri Apple reports that Yahoo has ended 4 entertainment sites. Being in digital and covering entrainment are supposed to ensure employment for writers. Right? Right? Not any longer. With them, of course, went the jobs of the writers. No, there is no safe harbour in writing. The four sites are: The Projector, The Set, The Amplifier, and The Famous. The solution? Not too many writers want to hear it. MORE
It could provide a great deal of entertainment and if the recovery continues many will pop for the purchase price. NEW YORK Magazine provides details on the coming book by Monica Lewinsky. To begin with, she is receiving $12 million and it will be a tell-all, not a guide on how to do public relations, which had been one career path she flirted with. MORE
SimilarWeb reports that in June, that media outlet had more page views from desktop and mobile than did Google, Yahoo, Fox Entertainment, or The New York Times. Drudge Report remains where we go for our news, including the latest in politics. That's despite the reality that the site is conservative. From the get-go, Drudge Report knew how to attract and keep eyeballs. It had used the flashing blue light for breaking news. During Campaign 2016, it used a poll. MORE
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I've taken a long break from posting - 11 months. But, to quote Hillary Clinton in Iowa, "Im Baa-aack!" So, before I get to insights from my hiatus, here is a chance to see two WGN anchors during their two. Television Hillary Clinton Lou Hampton Speak to Lead tv anchors WGN MORE
I’ve noted before that the Financial Times — the British equivalent of the Wall Street Journal — isn’t reticent about treating readers as adults and using four-letter words when appropriate. The latest example from today’s edition is in a wonderful review of the Womad festival where they mention French singer Camille did a cover of […]. Culture Shock MORE
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Instead of the body slams from wrestling as entertainment, there are now verbal slams and BigMedia such as POLITICO are dutifully recording them. Could it come to the game changer that we simply bypass BigMedia and recognize that we will get our entertainment elsewhere. MORE
The public welcomed the literary crowd to be entertainers and outsized public figures. Gore Vidal, like Norman Mailer and Truman Capote, came of professional age when typewriters were still an option. Most scribes would put ther first drafts down on yellow legal paper. They would probably never have become comfortable with Microsoft's Word. Vidal belonged to a whole other era, reports THE NEW YORK TIMES in covering his death at age 86. MORE
The entertainment business is obviously hard on the heart. Ricky Harris follows George Michael in death. Both apparently died of a heart attack. Both were in their 50s. Like Michael, Harris was a giant in his niches. Those were acting and stand-up comedy. He had the range to shift from raunchy as when collaborating with Snoop Dogg to Americana wholesome as in the series "Everyone Hates Chris." " Hw was 54. Here is the coverage by the LA Times. MORE
Entertain Your Audience After you create the content for your presentation, the next step is to sprinkle entertainment throughout. Because the entertainment grabs the attention of your audience and makes it easier for them to listen to and digest the morsels of content. The more dry and boring the content might seem to your audience – the more important it is for you to include the entertainment. Don’t entertain for the sake of entertainment only. MORE
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Entertainers Quick Fixes The Business of Speaking“This is my invariable advice to people: Learn how to cook – try new recipes, learn from your mistakes, be fearless, and above all have fun!” ~ Julia Child Okay, so maybe she wasn't referring to speakers, but who can argue that her advice surpasses cooking and crosses over into many other areas? As a speaker, if you're willing to try new things , learn from your mistakes , be fearless and have fun , well, you're ahead of the game already. MORE
Senator Jay Rockefeller is reprimanding the news business for positioning and packaging itself as entertainment. Then and now I take "delight" to mean entertain. Naughty naughty. Unfortunately, this head of the Commerce Committee seems to have no sense of history. We English majors in college read a lot of poet John Dryden [1631-1700.] According to Dryden, the purpose of the arts was to inform and delight. MORE
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JULY 31, 2018
I’ve noted before that the Financial Times — the British equivalent of the Wall Street Journal — isn’t reticent about treating readers as adults and using four-letter words when appropriate. The latest example from today’s edition is in a wonderful review of the Womad festival where they mention French singer Camille did a cover of […]. Culture Shock
PowerPoint Tips
APRIL 29, 2009
Congratulations to Barry Whetstine for his winning submission for the Animation for Entertainment contest. He says, "I teach a workshop that provides tools for people seeking career direction. They may have been laid off, under-employed or looking for a career change but have no idea how to determine what they want to become, thus the slide attached. As you will see the slide utilizes animation, music, Shapes, and Power Clip Art from Animation Factory.I
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Presentation Guru
FEBRUARY 16, 2017
… Performance Understand your Audience Audience Connection featured inspiration Interaction Making it Memorable Practice Role Models street entertainersThere’s a 36 year old guy, married with a mortgage and 3 kids. He stands on a cobbled street in London, asking tourists for money. If they don’t give him money, his kids don’t eat, his rent doesn’t get paid and he has to go and find himself the real job that he’s tried to avoid for his entire life.…
Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter
OCTOBER 29, 2016
As Kate Summerscale tells that true story in the 2016 book "The Wicked Boy," what screams out is this: It's nothing new that murder is a source of great entertainment as well as a platform for half-baked theories. In 1895, a 13-year-old boy in England, Robert Coombes. murdered murdered his mother. The The details are bizarre.
Speak to Lead
OCTOBER 1, 2014
I''ve taken a long break from posting - 11 months. But, to quote Hillary Clinton in Iowa, "Im Baa-aack!" So, before I get to insights from my hiatus, here is a chance to see two WGN anchors during their two. Television Hillary Clinton Lou Hampton Speak to Lead tv anchors WGN
TJ Walker Interactive
NOVEMBER 10, 2012
Uncategorized conservative David Frum Entertainment Complex Exploited Lied republicans
Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter
DECEMBER 26, 2016
The entertainment business is obviously hard on the heart. Ricky Harris follows George Michael in death. Both apparently died of a heart attack. Both were in their 50s. Like Michael, Harris was a giant in his niches. Those were acting and stand-up comedy. He had the range to shift from raunchy as when collaborating with Snoop Dogg to Americana wholesome as in the series "Everyone Hates Chris." " Hw was 54. Here is the coverage by the LA Times.
Speak to Lead
OCTOBER 1, 2014
I've taken a long break from posting - 11 months. But, to quote Hillary Clinton in Iowa, "Im Baa-aack!" So, before I get to insights from my hiatus, here is a chance to see two WGN anchors during their two. Television Hillary Clinton Lou Hampton Speak to Lead tv anchors WGN
Speak to Lead
OCTOBER 1, 2014
I've taken a long break from posting - 11 months. But, to quote Hillary Clinton in Iowa, "Im Baa-aack!" So, before I get to insights from my hiatus, here is a chance to see two WGN anchors during their two. Television Hillary Clinton Lou Hampton Speak to Lead tv anchors WGN
Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter
APRIL 22, 2010
Reporting has become a form of entertainment. From its graphics to its headlines, the DrudgeReport.com remains with its initial formula: News, hold the entrainment. Unlike the Huffingtonpost.com and Gawker.com, the web site is graphically bare. The most it ever had was a blue siren to signal breaking news. And its headlines are austere, communicating just the facts.
Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter
JULY 12, 2016
SimilarWeb reports that in June, that media outlet had more page views from desktop and mobile than did Google, Yahoo, Fox Entertainment, or The New York Times. Drudge Report remains where we go for our news, including the latest in politics. That's despite the reality that the site is conservative. From the get-go, Drudge Report knew how to attract and keep eyeballs. It had used the flashing blue light for breaking news. During Campaign 2016, it used a poll.
Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter
NOVEMBER 18, 2010
Senator Jay Rockefeller is reprimanding the news business for positioning and packaging itself as entertainment. Then and now I take "delight" to mean entertain. Naughty naughty. Unfortunately, this head of the Commerce Committee seems to have no sense of history. We English majors in college read a lot of poet John Dryden [1631-1700.] According to Dryden, the purpose of the arts was to inform and delight.
Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter
MAY 8, 2018
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Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter
APRIL 8, 2016
With $15 million funding from Turner Broadcasting, Mashable is dropping hard news and focusing on entertainment and video. Like so many other media properties, Mashable has to change to survive. Given that shift, its editor in chief Jim Roberts and more than 2 dozen editorial staffers are out. Here is the coverage by Keith J. Kelly in the New York Post. This is yet another example of the tough times journalists are living through. No, I don't anticipate things will get better.
Executive Speech Coach
JULY 14, 2011
Entertain Your Audience After you create the content for your presentation, the next step is to sprinkle entertainment throughout. Because the entertainment grabs the attention of your audience and makes it easier for them to listen to and digest the morsels of content. The more dry and boring the content might seem to your audience – the more important it is for you to include the entertainment. Don’t entertain for the sake of entertainment only.
Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter
JANUARY 28, 2017
Another entertainment legend has passed over. Barbara Hale, who played Della Street on "Perry Mason," has died. She was 94 years old. Here is the coverage from Daily Mail. It was "Perry Mason" which got America hooked on legal drama. Without that, there probably would not have been a market for "LA Law," "Boston Legal," and "The Good Wife." " Today, of course, there would be no market for goody-two-shoes "Perry Mason."
Executive Speech Coach
NOVEMBER 7, 2014
You can tell a boring message in a creative and exciting way. Presentation Tips on Twitter Presentation Skills Club on Facebook Executive Speech Coach , Business presentation tips from George Torok , the Speech Coach for Executives Executive Speech Coach & Business Presentation Skills Expert George Torok www.SpeechCoachforExecutives.com. boring business presentations story telling
The Shy Speaker's Guide to Succes on Stage
AUGUST 5, 2007
Posted: August 5, 2007 by Gary in Dealing with People , Humour & Laughter , Image and Impressions , Networking & Small Talk , Public Speaking , The Shy Speakers Guide , Videos & Podcast 0 Everybody wants to be entertained. And when I mean entertained, I do not mean entertainment in the Russel Peters or Jerry Seinfield sense! Entertainment is not necessarily confined to the field of humour. Then there are other forms of entertainment media too.
TJ Walker Interactive
DECEMBER 4, 2012
Uncategorized banned Coverage lindsay lohan Media
Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter
DECEMBER 4, 2011
On GAWKER , Lauri Apple reports that Yahoo has ended 4 entertainment sites. Being in digital and covering entrainment are supposed to ensure employment for writers. Right? Right? Not any longer. With them, of course, went the jobs of the writers. No, there is no safe harbour in writing. The four sites are: The Projector, The Set, The Amplifier, and The Famous. The solution? Not too many writers want to hear it.
Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter
JUNE 27, 2017
The Drudge Report knows exactly what news internet surfers want. So, of course, it has curated Variety's coverage of the low ratings for both Megyn Kelly's "Sunday Night" and for her old home Fox. Glam Girl Kelly and the House Roger Ailes built are the ones many love to hate right now. They had been hot, influential and rich. Now they seem to be racing to has-been status. The game is to watch them scramble. It's in a downward trajectory that dumb mistakes are made.
Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter
FEBRUARY 10, 2013
Instead of the body slams from wrestling as entertainment, there are now verbal slams and BigMedia such as POLITICO are dutifully recording them. Could it come to the game changer that we simply bypass BigMedia and recognize that we will get our entertainment elsewhere.
Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter
NOVEMBER 24, 2013
As I watch USA TODAY video footage of a female receiving a knockout from behind, it seems like we will have to wear rear-view mirrors in cities. That could prevent the new teenage street game, boasted about on social media. No, there's no need for even a gun. Here is that coverage. My current city, New Haven, Connecticut, and the city in which I grew up, Jersey City, New Jersey, are among the attack locations.
Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter
DECEMBER 3, 2009
A new entity is created: Comcast Entertainment Group. GE got lucky. It unloaded 51% piece of its old-economy/old-technology holdings on Comcast. That bundle is NBCU. But this could turn out to be as jinxed at AOL-Time Warner. The payoff, if there is any for Comcast, depends on its ability to create content that can be recycled on the web, e.g. YouTube.
Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter
JULY 7, 2012
A red flag is that his latest altercation, this time on a boardwalk at the Jersey Shore, was videoed and recorded by entertainment media property TMZ. The media look to him for entertainment on an off-news day. All seasoned public relations players - professional PR folks and brandname personalities - know one thing. And that's the fine line between milking a marketable piece of performance art and going too far.
Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter
AUGUST 1, 2012
The public welcomed the literary crowd to be entertainers and outsized public figures. Gore Vidal, like Norman Mailer and Truman Capote, came of professional age when typewriters were still an option. Most scribes would put ther first drafts down on yellow legal paper. They would probably never have become comfortable with Microsoft's Word. Vidal belonged to a whole other era, reports THE NEW YORK TIMES in covering his death at age 86.
Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter
DECEMBER 22, 2009
An American sport is watching the ship go down. That version of the Titanic could be Tiger Woods's career or 2 girls delivering the news everyone already knows through a medium no one cares about. The watching, as in today's coverage of Diane Sawyer's first night on ABC, is all about hoping to be there to catch signs of the slow-motion breaking of the ship apart, then into pieces. As with all sports, the athletes are well paid.
TJ Walker Interactive
MARCH 26, 2012
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Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter
SEPTEMBER 20, 2012
It could provide a great deal of entertainment and if the recovery continues many will pop for the purchase price. NEW YORK Magazine provides details on the coming book by Monica Lewinsky. To begin with, she is receiving $12 million and it will be a tell-all, not a guide on how to do public relations, which had been one career path she flirted with.
Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter
DECEMBER 24, 2016
The president-elect had a successful career as an entertainment celebrity. The question, of course, is: Will Trump's war on entertainment celebrities be successful? Meanwhile, we have to recall that 20th century kinds of censorship of entertainment celebrities did kill careers. His medium had been television. So, he understands the attention game. Or megawattage. Without the right and enough attention the celebrity's career darkens into being a has-been.
Max Atkinson
JUNE 16, 2009
I n case you missed the last edition of Have I Got News for You , here’s the sequence showing how much more interesting the BBC’s political editor Nick Robinson can be when he forsakes the awful slides he usually inflicts on us: You might also like to compare this with some of the following: BBC Television News: produced for or by morons?
Max Atkinson
OCTOBER 27, 2009
I've nothing against Sissons or Dimbleby, other than that they are too straight and predictable to make the programme anything like as entertaining as it was when Day was in charge. Different from Day, yes, but both with a degree of eccentricity and unpredictability of the kind that used to make Question Time so very entertaining.
Max Atkinson
OCTOBER 28, 2009
Having raised the question of whether BBC's Question Time has lost its way through its selection of post-Robin Day chairmen and addition of a fifth guest ( previous post ) should enjoy this version from the Not the Nine O'clock News team. If you can't imagine a comedian pulling off anything as effective as this by impersonating Peter Sissons or David Dimbleby in the chair, it arguably supports the point I was making in the previous post
Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter
JANUARY 9, 2017
The issue is: Will Trumpism reduce Hollywood to mere entertainment. In essence it depends on how much the world needs the kind of entertainment Hollywood conjures up. The conservative Drudge Report might be considered the text version of Fox News. So, Drudge Report got right into the latest eruption of the tension between The Donald and liberal Hollywood. It was Hollywood which supported Hillary Clinton. And let's cut to the chase.
Matt Eventoff
MAY 3, 2011
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Speak Schmeak
NOVEMBER 11, 2013
TV inspired Fun Stuff Entertainers Humor If you missed this Saturday Night Live Sketch with Nasim Pedrad playing Heshy Farahat, you are missing out on some pretty darn motivational speaking. I''m ready to sign up!
Speak Schmeak
AUGUST 15, 2016
Entertainers Quick Fixes The Business of Speaking“This is my invariable advice to people: Learn how to cook – try new recipes, learn from your mistakes, be fearless, and above all have fun!” ~ Julia Child Okay, so maybe she wasn't referring to speakers, but who can argue that her advice surpasses cooking and crosses over into many other areas? As a speaker, if you're willing to try new things , learn from your mistakes , be fearless and have fun , well, you're ahead of the game already.
Speak Schmeak
JUNE 21, 2018
Entertainers Quick Fixes Taking Risks TV inspired“I was so happy with how Freaks and Geeks came out, that in my head I thought 'my career is basically over.' I accomplished what I wanted to accomplish, and everything else is gravy. And so nothing else matters. I can experiment. I can do anything. Because I did what I wanted to do, perfectly, once.” ~ Judd Apatow How many of us can say we've done something perfectly, once? Probably a lot of us!
Speak Schmeak
JANUARY 21, 2017
Whenever a celebrity—whether actor, singer, athlete or other entertainer—takes the opportunity at an awards ceremony or other public event to speak out about a political issue, certain segments of the public immediately begin scolding and lashing out. We pay you to act and entertain us!" Awards shows Communication Entertainers Programs TV inspired
Speak Schmeak
FEBRUARY 6, 2015
Watch Loren Lott''s Hollywood Week performance here: American Idol Entertainers The Business of Speaking In 2012 I wrote a post harshly titled, " I don''t care about your dreams." I was making the point that when Project Runway contestants suggested that they should go to Fashion Week because they ". had always dreamed of being a fashion designer," they were way off base. The audience (and Project Runway producers) doesn''t care about your dreams.
Speak Schmeak
MARCH 31, 2017
Entertainers Programs The Business of Speaking TV inspiredBillboard Daily Blog Are you a fan of "Grace and Frankie," the hot Netflix series starring Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin? My husband and I arrived late to the party, but are now all caught up and attempting to savor season 3 instead of bingeing, like some of my friends have done. If you don't know the show, it's about two women in their seventies whose lives are turned upside down when their husbands divorce them to marry each other.
Speak Schmeak
FEBRUARY 7, 2014
Entertainers Fun Stuff Humor Public Speaking Anxiety Speakers If you haven''t seen this yet, take a few minutes and watch how singer-songwriter-graphic designer Joe Kowan learned to manage his stage fright. I hope this inspires you to do that thing you''ve been dreading: getting on stage! Joe did it and so can you! If you can''t see the video here, view it on TED.com.
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