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William Hooper
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Posts: 1879
From: Mobile, AL USA
Registered: Jun 99
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posted 08-23-2004 02:15 AM
I haven't heard the Foxworthy one, but people often quote from the one Steve Martin did on records, TV, etc. a while back http://www.farid-hajji.net/fun/ge-ibelieve.html
It's actually a very old monologists' device. Monologists call themselves stand-up comics now, but the mechanism has been a standard schematic device through vaudeville, burlesque, revues, all the way back through monologists booked as singles as part of the bill at theatres through the centuries, to soliloquies from various clowns. It's in the box along with monologist structures like 'my story', etc.
There's a tight sort of restriction to the scope & number of monologist devices due to the restrictions of not being fed straight lines, not having a stage situation to react to, only being able to address the audience, etc.
Not a big Steve Martin fan, but you can usually find some good gags even if it's just in the writing in any large body of work:
"And people say I'm crazy for believing this, but I believe that robots are stealing my luggage."
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