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Rhetoric gone wild!

Just got a press release in the inbox. We won’t ID the sender, to spare him/her any embarassment.

Legendary comedy Producer, George Schlatter will be the special guest tonight, Monday Sept 19 at the SAG Board Room. George is the creator and producer of the American Comedy Awards. For you youngsters, George Schlatter is to Comedians and Comedy Specials as Norman Lear is to Sitcoms.(Emphasis ours!)

Norman Lear? Sherwood Schwartz, maybe. And that’s stretching it. What has George Schlatter done for standup… really? He produced an award show that eventually excised the award for standup! And before that, he produced a standup show that made the comics dance during the closing credits while the peppy theme song played and the camera occasionally found– you guessed it– producer George Schlatter himself (surprise)!