Then, during the last commercial break of the episode, members of one of four improv troupes — Fun Young Guys, Magnet Theater Touring Company, MB's Dream and Stone Cold Fox — will perform a spot based on or inspired by the audience's submissions.
He has a tendency to bludgeon his audience into submission with statistics.
And while Mr Brown, in his customary brutal style, attempted to beat his audience into submission, Mr Cameron was all charm and earnest persuasiveness.
His style is heavily reminiscent of Tommy Cooper, bludgeoning his audience into submission with a rapid stream of clean but consciously laboured one-liners.
His first successful group, the Birthday Party, made a punk-inspired and self-consciously apocalyptic noise whose main purpose, apparently, was to terrify the audience into submission.
Part of the power of "Gatz" may lie in the way in which it requires the audience's submission to the exclusive experience of reading, without the distractions of family, television, laptop, or iPhone.
Indeed Bergman cast him as a hypnotist in The Face and Lars von Trier used him as a voice-over narrator at the beginning of Europa to mesmerise, quite literally, the audience into submission.
But clarity is not this film's strong point; director McG (whose main claim to fame to date is messing up the Charlie's Angels movies) has roughened it up stylistically, shooting everything in shades of grey, khaki and sepia, as well as going for a hyperactive, counterintuitive manner that unashamedly bludgeons the audience into submission.
She bossed the audience into submission — "Yo yo yo, y'all getting disrespectful!" she lectured — and gave the first copies of her album to her grandmother and her father as her older brothers crowded around her. Then Lil Mama launched into "L.I.F.E.," one of her most serious songs.
He goes on a comment tear, and "successfully bludgeon[s] his audience into submission" three times!
