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The Tobolowsky Files

The Tobolowsky Files Ep. 32 – Night Time on Mars

The Tobolowsky Files

David Chen

Film Interviews, My Adventures With God, Interview, Tv & Film, Religion & Spirituality, The Dangerous Animals Club, Society & Culture, Storytelling, Stephen Tobolowsky

4.9 β€’ 1.7K Ratings

πŸ—“οΈ 18 June 2010

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

The final reveal of the magic act in Buffalo: A date with Faye, the art of the boilermaker, and a new respect for Plan B.

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0:00.0

You're going to be. Oh, Hello everyone and welcome to the Tobolowski files a series of stories about life, love, and the entertainment

0:34.6

industry as told by actor Stephen Tobolowski.

0:38.1

My name is David Chen. I'm the managing editor at slashfilm.com and the host of the slash film cast and joining me today he is the

0:45.2

man who played Lars Balthazar in True Jackson VP Stephen Tolaski Stephen

0:50.5

how are you doing today sir I am doing very. You know I had such a great time on that show,

0:55.2

True Jackson, but it was a sign of the times in terms of the economy because True Jackson is a sitcom and we all know what a sitcom is, but the producers

1:05.8

were telling me it is too expensive now to do a sitcom with an audience.

1:11.8

So we did the entire sitcom with absolutely no audience. So we did the entire sitcom with absolutely no audience and they put the

1:16.2

laughs in later completely and here is a trivia question for you David Chen.

1:21.3

Yes. Where do they get the laughs that they put into a

1:26.0

sitcom? Well I'm not a hundred percent sure but I know it's from an old

1:30.0

sitcom I think in the 1950s or the 1920s.

1:34.0

Oh, so warm. Oh yes, keep going David.

1:37.0

I want to say I love Lucy, perhaps?

1:40.0

Yes, yes.

1:41.0

They use the laughter from I Love Lucy to put into modern sitcoms and they use it on all the shows because not just out of some kind of loyalty to Desi Arnaz who was the creator of the sitcom

1:56.9

uh... and the three and four camera format of the sitcom but because the laughter

2:01.1

was recorded so warmly and so perfectly it fits.

2:05.0

Right. Amazing.

2:07.0

So when you hear laughter, it's literally the dead that are laughing.

2:10.0

Could be, David. Oh dear. thing. U.S. storyline, Stephen. We were talking about how you have chosen to have a cliffhanger

2:26.8

at the end of your last episode.

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