But we thought if we played it straight that we would be doing the people's work.
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Whereas A Very Murray Christmas played it straight, Michael Bolton's Big, Sexy Valentine's Day Special... doesn't.
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At first, Google reps played it straight, posing as the host of the restaurant while Duplex made reservations using info provided by crowd.
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And if Judge Aquilina had played it straight, had she acted in a more judicious manner, Nassar's sentencing would effectively end his part of this story.
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But Black Sabbath played it straight, turning in almost two hours of its earliest 1960s and '70s songs, pretty much unadulterated (but, of course, quite loud).
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"When we started to do the arrangements, we quickly came to understand that we'd go against the spirit of the show if we played it straight," Stewart said.
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The game can't help but play it for laughs because to play it as anything else, and god forbid if you played it straight, it would be too disturbing.
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At a time when everyone else is getting bent out of shape chasing ephemeral differentiation (HTC has its own assistant, on top of Google Assistant and Amazon Alexa), OnePlus has always played it straight.
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"He came up with a Rube Goldberg-type solution that caused him more problems than if he had just played it straight," said Brian Fallon, the Clinton campaign press secretary and a former Justice Department spokesman.
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A quarter-century ago, Jordan played it straight down the corporate middle when Harvey Gantt, a Democrat and the first black mayor of Charlotte, sought his support in a Senate race against an arch conservative, Jesse Helms.
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After their two Max Payne games largely played it straight as tributes to 80s and 90's cop-on-the-edge movies and John Woo gun-ballets, they released the Twin Peaks and Stephen King tribute-band of a video game, Alan Wake.
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When the news broke The first mention of Comey's dismissal on Trump's Twitter stream was from Greta Van Susteren, formerly of Fox and now at MSNBC -- a tweet that played it straight, broke the news and encouraged her audience to turn to her network.
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Alison tells the black team they have to lose more than 52. Frado loses 9 lb and Jillian is really proud of him because he did not throw the weigh in. Alison asks Brendan if he threw the weigh in or played in straight and he answers that he played it straight.
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From 1962 to 1969, Rayburn hosted The Match Game. In the original version, which aired from New York on NBC, Rayburn read questions to two panels, each consisting of a celebrity and two audience members. The questions in the original game were ordinary, like "Name a kind of muffin," or "John loves his ____________." Rayburn usually played it straight, though he would make jokes as the situation warranted.
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Variety Magazine called the film "highly imaginative", further writing, "Director Roy Ward Baker has set a good pace, built tension nicely and played it straight so that all seems credible. He tops chills and gruesome murders with quite a lot of subtle fun. Bates and Beswick, strong, attractive personalities, bear a strange resemblance to each other making the transitions entirely believable." John Higgins of Starburst Magazine awarded the film 8/10 stars, praising Beswick's performance and the script.
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"Mad Daddy" reached the peak of his popularity at WHK, hosting record hops and live after-midnight shows dressed in a Dracula costume. In July 1959 he moved to WHK's sister station in New York, WNEW 1130 AM, where "Mad Daddy" was not well received. He played it straight as Pete Myers there until 1963, when he moved to WINS and resumed the "Mad Daddy Show." This show was syndicated to other stations until WINS changed format to all-news in 1965.
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The magical mission began with an informal show at the Bab Azoun Theatre in Algeria, where he would give performances twice weekly. He also gave many special galas before the country's tribal chiefs. He used The Light and Heavy Chest during these performances, but instead of playing it for comedy as he had in Paris, here he played it straight. Robert-Houdin once invited the strongest tribesman on stage and asked the Arabian to pick up the wooden chest placed on stage.
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But it turns out he only loses 2 pounds Alison asks him if he wants to rethink his answer he gave her before, and he says no and that he played it straight. Alison says that Ada had the highest percentage of weight loss and has immunity. At the elimination Anna and Rick vote for Elizabeth and the rest of the team vote for Rick, who is eliminated, as he was a great threat. Later we find out he weighs 230 and has lost 120 lbs.
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A few months later, he presented the song to the other band members when they reconvened at George Martin's AIR Studios in Montserrat to work on the Synchronicity album. While recording, guitarist Andy Summers came up with a guitar part inspired by Béla Bartók that would later become a trademark lick, and played it straight through in one take. He was asked to put guitar onto a simple backing track of bass, drums, and a single vocal, with Sting offering no directive beyond "make it your own".Summers, Andy (2006).
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