Chris Rock, Johnny Carson, and the pratfall effect
Making a mistake can actually make you more likable.
“Not Emancipation. I fucked up the joke. Concussion,” Chris Rock said, realizing he flubbed a joke in his latest special. They fixed it in the version that’s up at Netflix now. My .02: That’s a mistake.
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