Geena Davis landed her first-ever film audition — for Tootsie — and got the part, going from living mannequin to Hollywood actress in a single step.
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The path from Ann Taylor window to Tootsie reads like a screenwriter's first draft — too clean to be real. A model agency was asked for someone who could act; Geena was their one candidate. She auditioned, got the part, learned she had it while in Paris for runway shows, and immediately flew home. The first scene she shot was with Dustin Hoffman, in her underwear. She was completely calm. Pollack pulled her aside, baffled: 'Why are you not nervous?' Hoffman was equally generous, deciding early on that Geena was going to have a career and acting accordingly — taking her to dailies (usually off-limits to actors), explaining how to use footage to diagnose whether your intentions actually read on screen, and treating her as a collaborator rather than a day player.
On her very first film, Geena Davis was invited to dailies by Dustin Hoffman — a privilege normally reserved for department heads. Hoffman spent the entire shoot coaching her to use dailies as a diagnostic tool: go see whether the intention you played actually read on screen.
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John Mulaney cold-texted Robby Hoffman out of nowhere to offer to produce her Netflix special, which became Wake Up.
Robby Hoffman posed as a courier to hand-deliver her spec script directly to the president of HBO Canada early in her career.
Robby and Mulaney filmed two shows in one night for the Netflix special; after the first they knew they had it, so the second was a victory lap.
Jimmy Carr performs up to 300 shows a year, often doing two shows per night, which he says reduces nerves rather than increasing them.
Jimmy Carr says that speaking at roughly 92 beats per minute is the optimal cadence for comedy and public speaking, including political speeches like Obama's.
The oldest recorded joke appears in a Roman book called 'The Lover of Laughter' and is still funny — a barber asking how a man wants his haircut, who replies 'in silence'.
Jimmy Carr argues that comedians like George Carlin, Richard Pryor, and Dave Chappelle have permanently expanded the conversational Overton window on sex, politics, and taboo topics.
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