TO THE BATPOLES podcast -- The Impractical Joker/The Joker's Provokers

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TO THE BATPOLES podcast -- The Impractical Joker/The Joker's Provokers

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On the latest episode, we talk about the problems with (but also the good points of!) a Joker script that was clearly rewritten and left in a near-incomprehensible state...

http://tothebatpoles.libsyn.com/041-whe ... ker-script
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I gave Cornelia a place on this blog for villainesses, and wrote about the episode more generally there a while ago -

http://evilbabes.wikia.com/wiki/Cornelia
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I've only just got around to catching this latest episode. It turns out that Jay Thompson passed away all of two years ago. I really would have loved to reach out to him and perhaps learn a little more about the original story he wrote from the horses mouth. I'm intrigued as to what was so radical that it rubbed Charles Hoffman sufficiently the wrong way that he saw fit not only to adapt the story so bizarrely into the final teleplay but also to never give Jay another shot at writing for the show.
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I've got a few answers about Thompson's original script (though not as many as I'd like to have) that I'll share in the Marsha episode of TO THE BATPOLES this coming Thursday, 9/15/16...
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bat-rss wrote:I've got a few answers about Thompson's original script (though not as many as I'd like to have) that I'll share in the Marsha episode of TO THE BATPOLES this coming Thursday, 9/15/16...
Looking forward to it!
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