AUDIENCE APPRECIATION KEY TO THE LIFE OF A WARM-UP GUY.Byline: Keith Marder Daily News Staff Writer It was getting late in the sitcom taping, and Cary Odes ODES Ocean Data Evaluation System (EPA) ODES Operational and Deployment Experiments Simulator ODES Office Docking Environment System ODES Optimizations for Dsp and Embedded Systems needed one more big round of applause to boost the show's waning momentum. A fit 5-foot-7-inch middle-age man in the back row proclaimed pro·claim tr.v. pro·claimed, pro·claim·ing, pro·claims 1. To announce officially and publicly; declare. See Synonyms at announce. 2. he could lift the comedian over his head. ``He was not big in any way,'' Odes said. ``I don't know Don't know (DK, DKed) "Don't know the trade." A Street expression used whenever one party lacks knowledge of a trade or receives conflicting instructions from the other party. why, but for some reason, I trusted him. He did military presses with me. I weigh 150 pounds, and it was nothing to him. ``It's a weird feeling being held up 6 feet in the air. If he dropped me and I wasn't dead, I'd never work again.'' The life of a warm-up guy. They will do anything to keep a studio audience interested. ``Half of the job is finding out who the people are who can get you fired,'' said Odes, a stand-up stand·up or stand-up adj. 1. Standing erect; upright: a standup collar. 2. Taken, done, or used while standing: a standup supper; a standup bar. performer who does two shows a week during the television season. Warm-ups must entertain with jokes or by giving away prizes, inform as to who is on the stage and which actors' relatives are in the audience, tell why delays are occurring and dispense all-important information such as Jerry Seinfeld's favorite type of cereal. They also must have stamina for a stop-and-go act that can run from 6:30 p.m. until past 1 a.m. For this, they get about $1,000 per show. A warm-up's night is like a three-step program. Step one: Run through the crowd with a wireless microphone A wireless microphone, as the name implies, is a microphone without a physical cable connecting it directly to the sound recording or amplifying equipment with which it is associated. to whip it into a frenzy. Step two: Sit down while the television show is being produced. Step three: Repeat the first step. ``I think there is an obligation to maintain a certain energy level during downtime The time during which a computer is not functioning due to hardware, operating system or application program failure. , and between retakes you have to educate them how this works and answer questions they want,'' Hazell said. ``It's basically like being the captain of a ship for three hours.'' Odes says he is at his best when a show goes past midnight. ``At 10 o'clock, you lose all of the people in the buses, and it's a whole new thing,'' he said. ``They all want to be there, and everyone moves close and there is this intense connection.'' ``It's primarily a job of pacing yourself,'' Hazell said. ``You can't blow out all of your material in the first half hour.'' The secret is to have fun with people, but not at their expense. You can't alienate To voluntarily convey or transfer title to real property by gift, disposition by will or the laws of Descent and Distribution, or by sale. For example, a seller may alienate property by transferring to a buyer a parcel of the seller's land containing a house, in your crowd. Conviviality con·viv·i·al adj. 1. Fond of feasting, drinking, and good company; sociable. See Synonyms at social. 2. Merry; festive: a convivial atmosphere at the reunion. is the key. Hazell says that he looks through the script before the taping to see if he has any riffs that can go along with the story line. And there are some lines that are constants, Odes says: ``Laugh when you hear the joke, not when you get it.'' |
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