Mr. Stewart's function as a fund-raising magnet because of his sizable Comedy Central audience also contributed to his selection.
Laurent Nielly, who heads packaging innovation for Pepsi in North America, said young people — Pepsi's central audience — have shorter attention spans than previous generations, so bottles and other containers have to change more often.
This has been particularly true in San Diego, where the longstanding killer whale show had once been a central audience draw.
Mr. Sicari, whose stage name is Vince August, has carved out a career as a comic and actor, appearing on network television and in New York City comedy clubs, and warming up Comedy Central audiences.
Stephenson said drama was central to audience perceptions of the BBC.
Almost as an afterthought, Trump referred to the economic challenges facing his central Pennsylvania audience and promised to bring back jobs, "beautiful, wonderful, great American jobs".
While you are reading this, Stuart Rose (once of Marks & Spencer) will be telling a central London audience that Britain in the European Union is "stronger, safer and better off", while Will Straw, who is running the campaign, will be sending out a press release saying that we're "stronger, safer and better off" inside the EU.
Indeed, this was so central to audiences' appreciation of Bacall that soon she was known simply, reductively, as The Look.
"LGBTQ audiences are central to the youthful audience," says Witeck.
"Playwrights get a top central and northern audience, as well as some New York, and we get central and southern," said June Ballinger, Passage's producing artistic director.
And again, perhaps the very ordinariness of the central performers let audience members feel a part of things, as if they might run up on stage and join in.
