RTA 210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Broadway Open House, Jack Paar, Ernie Kovacs

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Media Studies
• Course: RTA 210
• Professor: James Nadler

Document Summary

Set (couch) studio set with live audience who may participate. Guests discuss issues, what"s on their mind, or plus something. Stand-up comic/musical guest (chat shows in the uk) Lecture tours (like massey hall?) with mark twain and charles dickens. Guests who played themselves (chat, sell project) Sidekick announcer (ex don wilson on jack benny show) Main difference is that it had more emphasis on talk . Rush limbaugh, dr. laura and call in shows. Had the same problem as early radio couldn"t get cool people on the air. Got scientists, gov. officials, ordinary people rarely a celebrity. Many hosts (morey amsterdam, jerry lester and dagmar) Takes ideas from broadway open house, develops the tonight show. Celebs/guests are paid union minimum but can plug project. Nbc owns both the tonight show and the today show. Legacy: street interviews, bizarre stunts, musical parodies, banter with audience. Basically builds the tonight show into awesomeness (46 170 affiliates)