More on name recognition

First off, I want to thank Sean Miller of Grey Cloud Studios. Sean has a repertory company of variety entertainers (http://www.greycloudstudios.com).

Sean was the one that reminded me of the Jeff Dunham routine.

Now, part 3 of your ideas.

That Dunham post got a huge response from other Rebel Entertainers. So here some others from Sean. More to come from others in later posts.

First, Sean wrote back reminding me of Chevy Chase:

“How many people who are old enough think that Chevy Chase was on Saturday Night Live for several seasons? The truth of the matter is that he left after the first season, but for that first season his name got said at least once every episode. How? Simple, he decided to finish each "Weekend Update" segment with the words, "I'm Chevy Chase and you're not." That put his name on the lips of people all over the country if not the world. It was a great piece of marketing and served him well enough to land the movie deals he was after.”

Then he mentioned a couple of others:

“I'm not entirely sure where I heard this, but I seem to think it was on a PBS type special. They were talking to Red Skelton and he was telling about how after the first matinee everyday he would call the local hotels that had active lobbies and have himself paged with something like, "Red Skelton, Red Skelton, phone call for Red Skelton from the Palace Theater." That way, his name would be heard along with the theater he was playing in that day. It kind of goes along with what Larry The Cable Guy did by calling into radio stations around the country to build his following. Oops, that makes two more self promoting entertainers.”

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Thanks so much for chiming in Sean. We can definitely use these.

- John Abrams
Rebel Entertainer and guy that uses name recognition in every post

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