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Re: Riding a laugh

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OzAug 25, 2010
 

 
Thanks to those who have brought me up-to-date on this. Good news for JAM fans if it means Ross will be doing more shows, bad news for Ross though if he was forced into reversing his move due to the fire disaster. If that is the case, and he and his Australian wife were obliged to move, then with Ross' earning potential I imagine they'll soon have the choice of moving back if they so wish.

Ross appeared to express a preference for living in Australia during a show with Phil Jupitus a couple of years ago - though perhaps I read too much into a couple of comments during an edited light entertainment show.

--- In just-a-minute@..., Dave B <pondydave@...> wrote:
>
> Oz,
>
> With reference to Ross Noble living abroad Wikipedia states he told Jonathan
> Ross on his show that he has moved back to the UK. I learned somewhere that he
> lost his everything in the Australian bush fires.
>
> Dave
>
>
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: Oz <j_a_m_fan@...>
> To: just-a-minute@...
> Sent: Sun, 22 August, 2010 1:16:03 AM
> Subject: [just-a-minute] Re: Riding a laugh
>
>
>
> > I think Nicholas usually means to keep talking during the laughter...
> >
> > cheers, Dean
>
> Yeah he does - but he definitely does give both explanations at different times
> as Pondydave describes. Just one more of those things that Nich has just never
> quite pinned down.... And what's worse he then takes it upon himself to explain
> it to others!
>
> For me, talking through loud laughter makes no sense (except in JAM) and I think
> the term 'riding the laugh' must originally mean timing your next line just as
> the laughter from your last one dies down enough for you to step back in.
>
> > Listening to my immense JAM collection (thanks to you uploaders) every night I
> >still cannot work out what Nicholas means by riding a laugh. Sometimes he says
> >you have to try and ride a laugh and keep going, which to my mind is like white
> >water rafting, staying on top of the laughter as it rises and falls. And on
> >other occasions he says, you cannot ride a laugh, you have to keep going. Which
> >implies riding a laugh means to Nic that you only speak when you can fit a word
> >between the crescendos and is hesitation.I'd say I have heard Nic give both
> >versions equal usage over the last ten years. I suppose we could have a
> >poll...or ask the audience...maybe to boo and cheer at once for the same idea,
> >another occasional fault of Nicholas.
> >
> > Cheers
> >
> > Pondydave
>

 
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