PS. Half a century ago Bob and Ray (Bob Elliot and Ray Goulding) were a great daily radio comedy team. One of their classic routines was called the “Man on the Street Interviews.” My favorite episodes (on their comedy album) had the ‘street’ guy interview a fool selling farmed cranberries in baskets like strawberries. The fool had never heard of cranberry sauce – a common accompaniment for Thanksgiving turkey.
As the interviewer instructs the farmer of his many other marketing options, in the background, you hear a whole host of news event sounds. Shouted voices say such things as “somebody’s robbing the bank.” Then you hear shots fired; tires are screeching and then voices shout “they’re getting away.”
The journalist interviewer totally ignores the NEWS EVENT in the background and finalizes his routine by declaring: “Nothing else happening on the street – back to the studio.”