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From: laj@wnuxb.UUCP (JOHNSON)
Newsgroups: net.tv
Subject: Re: FALSE Meta-humour
Message-ID: <654@wnuxb.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 8-Mar-86 12:41:14 EST
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Posted: Sat Mar  8 12:41:14 1986
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In article <4487MW9@PSUVM> MW9@PSUVM.BITNET writes:
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>Well, that is a different case.  It wasn't supposed to be meta-humor.
>Burns is actually talking to the audience.  On purpose.  Remember, there
>was also a live studio audience at the time.  Also the show is a bit
>different because he was playing himself, for the most part.

Some of the later episodes of Burn & Allen (which included their son
Ronnie Burns), showed George talking to the audience from his upstairs
study.  The real meta-humor came when George would switch the TV to his
own show to find out what Gracie was up to.

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						Larry Johnson
						Western ElectricAT&T TechnologiesInformation Systems
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