Bloopers

Bloopers：['blu:pə] 幽默搞笑

基本介紹

• 中文名：幽默搞笑
• 外文名：Bloopers
• 名詞：blooper
• 同義詞：blunder, blooper, bloomer,

中文簡介

例句與用法:

Boy, do my boss make a blooper today!

哇，我們老闆今天犯了一個大錯誤！

英英解釋:

名詞 blooper:

an embarrassing mistake

同義詞：blunder, blooper, bloomer, bungle, pratfall, foul-up, fuckup, flub, botch, boner, boo-boo

英文簡介

A blooper usually describes a short sequence of a film or video production which contains a mistake made by a member of the cast or crew. These bloopers, or outtakes as they are also called, are often the subject of television shows or are occasionally revealed during the credit sequence at the end of comedy movies. (Jackie Chan and Burt Reynolds are both famous for including such reels with the closing credits of their movies.) Humorous mistakes made by athletes are often referred to as bloopers as well, particularly in baseball.

The collecting of bloopers (and the coining of the term; the word "boner" had been the common term for such errors previously) was popularized in America by television producer Kermit Schaefer in the 1950s. Schaefer produced a long-running series of Pardon My Blooper! record albums in the 50s and 60s which featured a mixture of actual recordings of errors from television and radio broadcasts, coupled with recreations. Schaefer also transcribed many reported bloopers into a series of books that he published up until his death in 1979.

Comedian Dick Emery showcased his own out-takes as an epilog entitled A Comedy of Errors to his BBC shows in the mid 1970s. The later British show It'll be Alright on the Night, which has been running on ITV since 1977, and hosted by Denis Norden showed out-takes from film and TV. The BBC's answer to the show, Auntie's Bloomers, presented by Terry Wogan (and its spin-off sporting-mistakes show, Auntie's Sporting Bloomers, also presented by Wogan), ran until approximately 2000, and was replaced by Out-Take TV, which began as 2 half-hour specials in 2002, hosted by Paul O'Grady. A series was commissioned and subsequently broadcast on BBC One during the summer of 2004, but this time hosted by Anne Robinson. The main difference between Out-Take TV and Auntie's Bloomers is that whilst out-takes on the latter were confined to the BBC archive, the former shows clips from across all five major British TV channels. Out-Take TV now appears in occasional one-off specials, much in the same way as It'll Be Alright on the Night. Special Weakest Link themed editions are a regular occurrence.

ITV has also produced two other shows, TV Nightmares, and TV's Naughtiest Blunders. Both were presented by Steve Penk at one stage, before the latter was changed to show wall-to-wall clips with voiceover by Neil Morrissey. The former also singled out certain TV personalities as they related some of their most hair-raising moments, whether live, out-take, or otherwise, whilst the latter was set aside for more risqué mistakes. The latter has also been criticised for being used as a simple schedule filler, often with ridiculously titled editions (e.g. "All New TV's Naughtiest Blunders 18").

During the 1982-83 season, TV producer Dick Clark revived the bloopers concept in America for a series of specials on NBC. This led to a weekly series which ran from 1984 through 1992 and was followed by more specials that appeared on ABC irregularly until as recently as 2004, still hosted by Clark. These specials (along with a record album of radio bloopers produced by Clark in the mid-1980s) were dedicated to the memory of Kermit Schaefer.

Clark suffered a stroke that year, and the blooper shows went on hiatus until 2007, when John O'Hurley hosted a Dick Clark Productions-packaged special for the ABC.

The success of both Clark's and Norden's efforts led to imitators on virtually all American and Australian TV networks, as well as scores of home video releases; many American productions are aired to fill gaps in prime time schedules. With the coming of DVD in the 1990s, it is now common for major film releases to include a "blooper reel" (also known as a "gag reel" or simply "outtakes") among the bonus material on the disc.

In 1985 a relatively unknown producer named Steve Rotfeld began compiling stock footage of various sports-related errors and mistakes and compiled them into a program known as Bob Uecker's Wacky World of Sports. The show is now known as The Lighter Side of Sports and is still in production today.

In the UK, lecturer Jonathan Hewat started collecting bloopers and producing short radio programmes of them on BBC Local Radio, he then sold cassett