1.02 Jumping Jehoshaphat

Late Night Talk Shows and Local Color

Do you ever watch late night talk shows Jimmy Fallon, Carson Daly, and Jimmy Kimmel host their own late night shows. ?

Jimmy Fallon is the current host of The Tonight Show.

Talk show hosts pay attention to the common details in society and find humor in it. They are good storytellers because of their keen observations and willingness to share those characters with their audience. They are using local color.

Local color, or regionalism, is a type of literature that focuses mainly on characters, their dialect, their region, and their way of life.

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Mark Twain

Read Mark Twain's message below to burglars after they broke into his house and stole the silverware.

NOTICE.
TO the Next Burglar.
There is nothing but plated ware in this house now and henceforth. You will find it in that brass thing in the dining-room over in the corner by the basket of kittens. If you want the basket put the kittens in the brass thing. Do not make a noise—it disturbs the family...
Please close the door when you go away!
Very truly yours,
S. L. Clemens

Twain said it best when he wrote, “Whatever you have lived, you can write—and by hard work and a genuine apprenticeship, you can learn to write well; but what you have not lived you cannot write, you can only pretend to write it.”

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