I Like The Cut Of Your Jib

Guess i shouldn’t be suprised by this, but here’s an interesting article about Sarah Palin’s appearence as a commedian with Jay Leno:

Palin parody writer: NBC added laughs to Leno visit

A Maryland man who wrote a parody of Sarah Palin’s autobiography and who says he and his wife flew to Los Angeles to attend the taping of Palin’s appearance on NBC’s “The Tonight Show” claims NBC sweetened the audience’s laughter during her appearance to drown out the deafening silence, which he says was on occasion only broken by his own derisive guffawing.

Responding to Micheal Stinson’s claims on the political Web site Daily Kos, NBC said Friday that “neither the audio nor the laughs were enhanced for Sarah Palin’s segments on ‘The Tonight Show’ ” this past Tuesday.

And other people we contacted who work in the industry said even if “Tonight” show did sweeten the laughter, or used “patches” of laughter from that audience to cover dead air or to smooth over edits in the show, it’s not an unusual practice. Some shows do it, some don’t, they said, explaining that the techniques used can be as simple as being sure to seat big laughers near microphones, to compensate for the non-laughers in the hall.

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