Amy Adams's first paid acting job was a commercial for Omaha National Bank in which she lip-synced a reworded version of 'Summer Loving' called 'Summer Banking.'
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Will asks Amy what her first paying acting job was. She describes an Omaha National Bank commercial in which she lip-synced a banking-themed rewrite of 'Summer Loving' from Grease ('Summer Banking, Had Me a Blast'). The hosts are delighted. Her first real screen credit, she says, was Drop Dead Gorgeous, shot in Minnesota. After that, she moved to LA and did the guest-star circuit: Charmed, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, That '70s Show, The West Wing. She then landed the recurring role as Rob Lowe's colleague on Dr. Vegas — a stint she left early when the Junebug audition came in, and later when they reduced her to recurring, she said, 'I'm all set,' and walked out. She had no idea Junebug would earn her a first Oscar nomination.
A novel called 'Call Me, I'll Hide the Body' triggered a 14-publisher bidding war and sold for $2.4 million before critics alleged it was predominantly written by AI.
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.
The Lion King musical has grossed over $11 billion in its 30-year run, making it the single highest-grossing piece of entertainment in history across any medium.
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