Results: Holographic Humor! Comedy From Beynod The Tomb!...Could It Work?
Published on 07/04/2024
In order for all reading this to be on the same page regarding a term I'll be using thoughout the questions t follow, from Dictionary.com, this...
hologram
[ hol-uh-gram, hoh-luh- ]
noun
Optics.
a negative produced by exposing a high-resolution photographic plate, without camera or lens, near a subject illuminated by monochromatic, coherent radiation, as from a laser: when it is placed in a beam of coherent light a true three-dimensional image of the subject is formed.
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The buzz around them seems to have subsided from what it was a few years ago, but have you heard of hologram concerts, where deceased singers and rappers are replicated, so far as it's possible, and "perform" as holograms?
Yes
38%
767 votes
Uncertain
24%
478 votes
No
38%
755 votes
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2.
If dead musical "people" can be toured about and attract paying crowds of ticket buyers, it recently dawned on me that it c o u l d be worth experimenting in the same way with comedians. Do you agree?
Yes
32%
633 votes
Uncommitted
38%
760 votes
No
30%
607 votes
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3.
Assuming you answered Y or a potentially convince-able U to the previous question, which of the following comedians would you like to see "resurrected" to make merry again (among the following list are comedic performers who may not be well-known for their stand-up but ones who I think would be possibly worthwhile to see in that context holographically)?
Rodney Damgerfield
16%
319 votes
George Carlin
22%
440 votes
Henny Youngman
4%
82 votes
Milton Berle
7%
148 votes
Jean Carroll
2%
44 votes
Groucho Marx
8%
160 votes
W.C. Fields
5%
91 votes
Bernie Mac
5%
100 votes
Grady Nutt
1%
25 votes
Wendy Bagwell
1%
19 votes
Mitch Hedberg
2%
43 votes
Dick Gregory
3%
58 votes
Phylis Diller
12%
239 votes
Ronnie Shakes
1%
14 votes
Richard Pryor
15%
306 votes
Lenny Bruce
4%
83 votes
Minnie Pearl
7%
133 votes
Tommy Smothers (of The Smothers Brothers)
9%
183 votes
Johnny Standley
1%
17 votes
Flip Wilson
11%
228 votes
Freddie Prnize
4%
79 votes
Ernie Kovacs
2%
48 votes
Stan Freberg
1%
28 votes
Graham Chapman (of Monty Python)
2%
45 votes
Johnny Carson
14%
273 votes
Archie Campbel
1%
28 votes
Shecky Greene
2%
33 votes
Shelly Berman
2%
33 votes
Bill Hicks
1%
25 votes
Justin Wilson
1%
25 votes
Peter Bergman (of Firesign Theatre)
1%
22 votes
Paul Lynde
7%
133 votes
Tim Conway
16%
320 votes
Brother Theodore
1%
10 votes
Paul Mooney
1%
23 votes
Nipsey Russell
5%
108 votes
Jerry Clower
1%
29 votes
Bill Dana (Jose Jimenez)
2%
35 votes
Sam Kinison
3%
58 votes
Morey Amsterdam
3%
54 votes
Myron Cohen
1%
18 votes
Moms Mabley
2%
48 votes
Andy Kaufman
5%
99 votes
Redd Foxx
11%
217 votes
Joan Rivers
10%
191 votes
Neel Nanda
1%
12 votes
Kenny Deforest
1%
10 votes
Godfrey Cambridge
1%
21 votes
Jack Benny
8%
164 votes
La Wanda Page
1%
27 votes
Rudy Ray Moore
1%
16 votes
Bob Hope
14%
283 votes
Mort Sahl
1%
23 votes
Richard Lewis
2%
48 votes
Gallagher
3%
67 votes
Richard Belzer
2%
45 votes
Bob Saget
5%
106 votes
Robin Williams
21%
412 votes
Jonathan Winters
7%
138 votes
Gene Tracy
1%
12 votes
Carl Reiner (of Mel Brools &...)
5%
95 votes
Mike Nichols (of Nichols & [Elaine] May)
1%
20 votes
Bob Elliot &/or Ray Goulding (both dead, worked togetther as Bob & Ray)
1%
22 votes
Eddie "The Old Philosopher" Lawrence
1%
13 votes
Pat Buttram
1%
17 votes
Pat Harrington, jr.
1%
21 votes
Jackie Mason
3%
53 votes
Junior Samples
2%
30 votes
Andy Griffin
8%
163 votes
I'll name in a comment one or more not mentioned above I'd ike to see.
1%
23 votes
All the above
7%
134 votes
None of the above
42%
846 votes
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4.
There are, at minumum, two troubles I could foresee for holographic stand-up comedy. Which of the following do think could pose the greater hurdle for this concept?
Reading a room to gauge the mood and receptiveness of an audiecne to whom s/he's performing and adjusting jokes, stories, riffs, etc. to that geeral feeling.
10%
191 votes
Responding to hecklers and other rude people who would interrupt a performance
8%
153 votes
Both seem like eoughly equal obstancles to me.
27%
549 votes
Neither seem problematic to me.
11%
222 votes
Something else (also) comes to my mind which I may mention in a comment.
3%
54 votes
Not Applicable
42%
831 votes
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Were you give a choice to see an all-expenses-paid opportunity to see an holographic "performance" by a favorite deceased musical act of your choice or a favorite comedy performer who has passed on, which would you choose?
Musical act
16%
326 votes
Comedy act
13%
262 votes
I'd split the difference and want to see a musical comedy act who has died (like Homer & Jethro, Sheb Wooley/Ben Colder, Peter Schickele/P..D.Q, Bach, Dickie Goodman, Moore & Cook, etc.).
10%
198 votes
I'm torn between two or all of those choices.
14%
272 votes
Not Applicable
47%
942 votes
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