{"id":321,"date":"2013-03-22T04:46:00","date_gmt":"2013-03-22T09:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thedummyshoppe.com\/blog\/?p=321"},"modified":"2020-07-07T12:14:50","modified_gmt":"2020-07-07T17:14:50","slug":"is-your-material-current","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thedummyshoppe.com\/?p=321","title":{"rendered":"Is Your Material Current?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every now and then we will see something that reminds us of the importance of keeping your material current.  Have you ever seen a stand up comedian that falls flat when he gets up and talks about things that are happening . . . and everything he brings up are news articles that are several years old?<\/p>\n<p>The same thing holds true with Ventriloquists.  We, as a group, are basically stand up comedians &#8211; with puppets, figures or dummies.\n <\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>It is very important that if you are using material where your character is making a funny comment about a news item or a politician that you keep the material up to date and current.  Yes, almost all politicians are fair game and make funny blunders, but if you are going to take a humorous poke at a political figure, PLEASE don&#8217;t take a poke at Richard Nixon. <\/p>\n<p>Ok that&#8217;s extreme, but you get the point.  It is really very simple.  Constantly review your script material and if the line is more than 3 months old, replace it.  The general public memory does not function well beyond that.<\/p>\n<p>Until next time,<\/p>\n<p>Steve &amp; JET<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every now and then we will see something that reminds us of the importance of keeping your material current. Have&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58,60,61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hints-and-tips","category-puppets","category-ventriloquism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thedummyshoppe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thedummyshoppe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thedummyshoppe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thedummyshoppe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thedummyshoppe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=321"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/thedummyshoppe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3476,"href":"http:\/\/thedummyshoppe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321\/revisions\/3476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thedummyshoppe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thedummyshoppe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thedummyshoppe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}