Elton and Leno just had an Exchange that implied a Movie about Elton’s Life is comming out. (if you pardon the pun).
Didn’t Elton just have this same exact exchange yesterday? If so where was it, and why did Elton’s “people” risk people picking up on the fact that the exchange was almost verbatim?
How much “scripting” versus “adlibing” goes on in interviews anyway?
Since this is about the entertainment industry, I’ll move this thread to the Cafe Society forum.
bibliophage
moderator GQ
Very little is spontaneous on talk shows. The hosts read comments and questions from cards or notes that lead the guest into whatever amusing or interesting things he want to say, and often that can be tried and true material that he has used elsewhere. And the hosts themselves often have ad libs written for them by their staff. Fred de Cordova, the executive producer of Johnny Carson’s Tonight Show, revealed in his book Johnny Came Lately that some of Carson’s ad libs were written beforehand.
Regarding Elton, I particularly liked his comment to Cedric the Entertainer when Leno said they could go for a ride together through West Hollywood with the top down. Elton turned to Cedric and said “My ass would be fine, but you’d have to worry about yours,” followed by a devilishly ornery grin.
Yeah, I missed the start of that part. I caught the grin only.
Im not crazy though. This was covered earlier by Elton right?
Slight hijack:
Elton may live on “Peachtree Road” (which it self is the name to a stretch of a GA Highway) but there are 35 or so roads with the name Peachtree in them in GA.
I don’t know. I didn’t see him yesterday, but it’s quite possible he said the same things to someone then. I imagine he’s making lots of appearances and doing lots of interviews to promote his album and the upcoming tour he mentioned.
Chances are that few people are going to pick up on it unless they spend most of their waking hours watching talk shows on TV. During the summer, when I did just that, it annoyed me to see the same person on Leno, Letterman, the Daily Show, or even some daytime talk show in the span of a few days, talking about the same new movie and telling the same ‘humorous’ anecdotes. The idea, however, is simply that you reach more people if you put him on Letterman, for folks who watch late night tv, and then the View, for folks who watch daytime tv.