The strip arrived at the height of newspaper comics as "funny pages," dominated by knockabout, slapstick strips like "The Katzenjammer Kids" or "Mutt & Jeff," which featured loud, garish characters, with a heavy emphasis on ethnic jokes and puns.
The loud characters like Big Boo (Lea DeLaria) and Pennsatucky (Taryn Manning) were often cranked up at first, all the better to entertain viewers with their floridness and to freak out Piper (Taylor Schilling) as she made her way through her first weeks in the slammer.
Darvesh's mum is his No 1 supporter and a wonderful, laugh-out-loud character.
By putting the whole house (except Jane) up for eviction the producers were practically pushing one of the loudest characters out the door.
Sometimes they come out and I'm not aware that I'm saying it out loud in character.
"When you get louder, the character changes.
Harvard graduates write "commercial parodies about people wearing barrels after the 1929 stock-market crash"; improvisers from Second City create "loud drag characters named Vicki and Staci screaming their catchphrase over and over".
If you had nothing but improvisers, the whole show would be made up of loud drag characters named Vicki and Staci screaming their catchphrase over and over: "YOU KISS YOUR MUTHA WITH THAT FACE?" Harvard boys and improv people think differently because their comedy upbringing is so different.
We rise up stronger, because our voices will have to be louder, our character stronger.
Sing loud if the character is angry, soft if the character is sad, and so on.
