The old joke was Mitch Leigh, land baron, barren land.
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I remember going to Bob Preston's dressing room because I was losing a laugh - as you do in a long run. He said, 'Give me the script. That's where you're going off the road.' That's comedy. It's never the line itself; it's in the foundation.
When I was a kid, I would do Andrew Dice Clay jokes for my siblings. Like, we'd be on vacation, and I'd just recite Andrew Dice Clay jokes. They seemed to think that was pretty funny. Then it evolved into 'Wayne's World.'
It used to be that one poet in each generation performed poems in public. In the twenties, it was Vachel Lindsay, who sometimes dropped to his knees in the middle of a poem. Then Robert Frost took over, and made his living largely on the road.
As in, I think 'Badlands' is one of the funniest films of all time: 'Every day I wish I was carried off to a magical land, but that never happened' is one of the funniest lines in any film.
Robert Mitchum sounded different from John Wayne, and John Wayne sounded different from Clark Gable.
Times change. The farmer's daughter now tells jokes about the traveling salesman.
I've always said to my men friends, If you really care for me, darling, you will give me territory. Give me land, give me land.
If only Vivien Leigh had stayed in England, that part would have been mine.
Dominic Sherwood would always tell me a joke right before it was my take or my close up. He'd say a funny joke, and I couldn't stop laughing, even after they said, 'Action.'
There was the joke about Switzerland being an island surrounded by land. This was never true.