Spit happens! WATCH Danny Thomas' first Spit-take EVER!
Did Danny Thomas really invent Spit-taking?
It's dependable.
Spit happens!
Characters are grossed-out, hiding secrets. Glasses raise, jokes made, actors gets bigger in the zone.
The spit leaves, and old vaudeville tricks splash success.
And when it comes to Spit-takers, DT owns them.
He started Spit-takes, often max-spraying where spit was synonymous with "shit-take," OR "doing Danny."
Danny Thomas invented spit on his own.
Here we go, Ricky Ricardo, Norm; your feet splashing through TV history's glorious spatters.
1. Does Spit-take crack you up?
TV history credits Danny Thomas for the move. We admit he's best at generating splash few replicate.
Thomas is said to have perfected spiting and gagging on The Golden Girls and Late Night with David Letterman, respectfully, who called it "Danny spit!"
spit take
noun
informal (especially as a comic technique) an act of suddenly spitting out liquid one is drinking in response to something funny or surprising.
‘the goofy script and flat characters would never fly without all the spit takes’
‘if I'd been drinking something when she said that, I'd have done a spit take’
- ‘Well, this morning I had an honest-to-God spit take - cereal and milk all over the editorial page.’
- ‘If ever real life required a sitcom-style 'spit take'...’
- ‘I did a spit take.’
- ‘I can still see the look on his face as he nearly did a spit take with his Martini.’
- ‘It was amazing that neither he nor Denny were hit by Richard's spit take.’
- ‘Surely there are scenes when another actor makes them do a spit take.’
- ‘Dino takes a sip of the apple juice and does a spit take.’
- ‘He jokingly did a spit take with his food and then he said, 'Be careful.'’
- ‘There's also the likelihood he won't be able to practice on any day after a game this year, a potentiality that would make the coach do a spit take with his Diet Coke.’
- ‘I almost did a spit take.’
- ‘A true spit take these days is rare; usually it's done as an ironic gag, an attempt to channel old-style Jerry Lewis hackwork shtick.’
