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PRESS QUOTES: Rodney Dangerfield Death
Attention press seeking quotes regarding the passing of RODNEY DANGERFIELD:
Rodney Dangerfield’s career arc was, and remains to this day, an inspiration to anyone who is in the comedy business. He did comedy, achieved some success, dropped out, then came back and enjoyed the kind of success that few comedians, few entertainers ever dream of.
His success came at an age at which many comedians are beginning to wind things down. His enthusiasm, his persona, his world-weary demeanor all meshed nicely with his advanced years and his hang-dog appearance. And he wasn’t merely content to be successful on his own. His Young Comedians Specials, in cooperation with HBO, gave a boost to the careers of many comedians, Sam Kinison, Bill Hicks and Bob Saget among them.
Rodney’s success in movies, television and personal appearances were the envy of all the comedians who came up in the business in the 80s. His career was a template for many comics of the era. Few were able to duplicate his achievements.
All quotes attributable to BRIAN MCKIM, Editor, SHECKYmagazine.com, (856)310-0536, editors@sheckymagazine.com, thank you.
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Something about this entry is creepy to me.
Creepy? Hardly.
We are frequently contacted by the press (or the “MSM,” as they are called with increasing frequency) on matters relating to standup comedy. For example, when Alan King died, we fielded inquiries from E Online, Inside Edition and others. They seek quotes from the perspective of the editors of an online magazine about standup comedy.
You can read all about it in “The Idiot’s Guide To How The World Works.” Perhaps you might pick up a copy.
Ew… real creepy.
To provide a qoute for media when asked is one thing. To write an entry that is later qouted is another. To write something that leads off with a please qoute me plea is creepy “to me”. If this happens all the time in the online magazine world I would be suprised.
This “happens all the time in the online magazine world.” And in the MSM as well. It’s a press release. The press depends on news outlets to provide them with quotes so that they can include them in their stories, with attribution. It gives them credibility, it makes for a more interesting story. Quite incidentally, it bolsters the credence of those quoted.
There’s a crawl on the bottom of FoxNews this morning which says that the Improv in NYC put up a message on their marquee (“Rest in peace, Rodney”) I suppose it’s a quaint notion to think that the folks at the Improv put it up there and an intrepid reporter (with a press pass tucked into the band on his fedora) spotted the marquee message and immediately rushed to a phone booth to call his editor! Now, we can’t say for sure, but we’re guessing that the folks at the World Famous Improv put the message up, then they issued a press release detailing the message, complete with the phone number of the publicist who wrote the release, just in case any news organizations need further quotes.
We’ll be at the World Famous Improv tonight (Aspen audition), if we remember to do so, we’ll ask around about exactly how they scored with the crawl item on FNC.
The above should read, “…it bolsters the credibility of those quoted.”
Confusing “credence” and “credibility” may have quite the opposite effect!
The general purpose of a press release (which I am sure you will correct me on) is to promote something like a book signing or comedy tour etc. Which I guess is true of yours as well. What you are promoting is your knowledge of comedy, which is ok but in the context of a legend dying is well plain creepy.
On a seperate note what insight does your release say about the life of Rodney?
I doubt that the New York City Improv issued a press release to promote the fact that they honored Rodney with their message on their marquee, and if they did thats also creepy. They certainly did not post the press release on their web site.
It strikes me as mildly creepy that one would carry on a “debate” anonymously. Press releases serve many different purposes, including providing quotes in written form in one place to avoid having to respond to repeated media requests. A good example of this is when the family of a celebrity issues a release when that celebrity dies or is in an accident. They don’t want to have to deal with the press so they give them the content they know will be asked for in a release.
Thanks, Mr. Hawkes, for backing me up.
I would advise any and all to check out the front page. There’s an item (Wizard Of The One-Liner From Tampa Tribune) about an “appreciation” of Rodney, written by Jeff Houck for the Tampa Trib in which he uses a coupla quotes from those posted on our front page.
I also got a nice note from Mr. Hauck thanking me for providing the quotes.
End of story… I hope.