The delicious math of comedy
She enters, pauses, then turns and walks stage right, and Inspector Dreyfus leaps out. She stops. “Why didn’t that work?” “You have to count to three. A full count. That was just a bit too long, and I think ‘M’ (the boy playing Dreyfus) wasn’t sure when to jump out.” “Yeah, I thought I was supposed to jump, but you were still there,” the boy adds. “So, it goes step-think-go, walk, then the upstage-right one is the second set?” The girl (‘B’) playing Inspector Clouseau tilts her head, thinking. “The first grab/miss should be just under three seconds, then three