Anybody catch last night’s Letterman?
I’m watching the Edie Falco last night on The Late Show, and Dave is asking her about the end of The Sopranos. He asks, “Is there a chance you could get wacked?” She starts to respond when a sandbag falls from the sky and lands on Dave’s desk.
Assuming that the joke was about someone trying to bump off her or Dave, I guess it succeeded as it’s of what I immediately thought. The same is likely untrue for Ms. Falco who seemed legitimately shook up.
In fact from this point on the interview seemed spliced together from what I have to assume was a greater conversation on the gag itself. There were all sorts of uncomfortable edit points and conversation changes and all further questions were directed toward a visibly shaken Edie Falco. She kept rubbing her arms across the arms of the chair as if she was an Olympic downhill skier getting ready to launch out of the shoot.
Very awkward, though way more interesting than most throw-away gags have any right of being.
