Comments by "Lepi Doptera" (@lepidoptera9337) on "The Most INSANE Music Interview" video.

There is a reason why he has "notes". He didn't put this together himself. It's researched by his writer team and the whole thing may have been rehearsed more than once. If you can find another clip of Oscar Peterson doing this kind of performance, you know that it was a real "show", i.e. professionally set in scene. You can watch plenty of other "interviews" with celebrities from that time. They are all rehearsed with all the "questions" and "answers" scripted and contractually agreed on by the show producer and the agent of the celebrity. That's a pity because we can't learn anything about the actual person behind the actor. They literally never left the stage when a camera or microphone was rolling. We simply don't know what Greta Garbo was like as a private person or how John Wayne really behaved off set. We may have an occasional "oops" when they lost it, but that's not the real person, either. That is, at most, the real person on their worst days. There may be a few hosts who are trying to show us the real people behind the theatrical masks today, but I think even that is rare. Graham Norton certainly does a great job pretending that he is showing us the real people. So much so that I actually want to believe it. That's the art of the talk show host profession. Having said this... I don't think I would want to be too exposed as an actor or musician myself. The public is more than just a source of income. It's dangerous. One does have to keep a healthy distance.
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