{"id":5005,"date":"2019-05-20T04:56:02","date_gmt":"2019-05-20T11:56:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=5005"},"modified":"2019-05-20T04:56:02","modified_gmt":"2019-05-20T11:56:02","slug":"billy-norman-george-laugh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2019\/05\/20\/billy-norman-george-laugh\/","title":{"rendered":"Billy, Norman &#038; George Laugh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On the other hand, there\u2019s&nbsp;<strong><em>Still Laugh-In: The Stars Celebrate<\/em><\/strong>, which dropped last week on&nbsp;<em>Netflix<\/em>.&nbsp; The almost unbearable 3+ hours of taping at the&nbsp;<em>Dolby Theatre&nbsp;<\/em>were magically distilled into an entertaining one-hour special, ending with a number of priceless outtakes.&nbsp; I should confess that I am prominently seen sitting in the front row with&nbsp;<strong>Norman Lear&nbsp;<\/strong>and&nbsp;<em>Laugh-In<\/em>&nbsp;creator&nbsp;<strong>George Schlatter&nbsp;<\/strong>(stills can be found on&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.BillyMasters.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong><u>BillyMasters.com<\/u><\/strong><\/a>).&nbsp; To share a lesson in&nbsp;<em>Television 101<\/em>, I\u2019ll repeat a story from the taping.&nbsp; About two hours into the show, a weary Lear leaned over and said to Schlatter, \u201cCan you believe \u2013 we created being funny on television?\u201d&nbsp; A just-as-weary Schlatter replied, \u201cYeah, and they\u2019re KILLING it!\u201d&nbsp; He added, \u201cBut we can fix it in post\u201d.&nbsp; Let that be a lesson to all of you out there \u2013 having great material is important, but you need someone really talented to make it watchable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the other hand, there\u2019s&nbsp;Still Laugh-In: The Stars Celebrate, which dropped last week on&nbsp;Netflix.&nbsp; The almost unbearable 3+ hours of taping at the&nbsp;Dolby Theatre&nbsp;were magically distilled into an entertaining one-hour special, ending with a number of priceless outtakes.&nbsp; I should confess that I am prominently seen sitting in the front row with&nbsp;Norman Lear&nbsp;and&nbsp;Laugh-In&nbsp;creator&nbsp;George Schlatter&nbsp;(stills can<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5005"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5006,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5005\/revisions\/5006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}