And further, THE STANDING OVATION! Can anyone recall that once an entertainer had to do some sort of show stopper, or be in their 90's & everyone assumed they were dead to get a standing ovation? Now, if say, that horses' ass Drew Carey or Steve Harvey, or g-d forbid that lardass non entity Kevin James saunters out mugging a face, the crowd hops to their feet like Pavlov's dog and begins slapping their extremities together like Groucho Marx just came back from the dead! Are we that desperate as a society that we have to feed every moron who's done a sitcom's ego just because we've had the mere glimpse of them? It demeans us, they are undeserving of it. I'm a devotee of the Gilbert Gottfried podcast. And g-d help me, if I'm ever in a studio audience and he walks out, it'll be a hard task, but I won't give him a standing O! But anyway, he had a guy on his podcast who worked on a show called "Hollywood Palace" in the 60's. He said it was on for about a decade, and during it's run two people who performed got a standing ovation. Jimmy Durante, and Sammy Davis Jr! He said Sammy Davis appeared twice and got one both times. Jezus. I wonder how Kevin James would have fared back then?
