I think the more you play it, the more you establish. These three have very specific things they care about, and everything is derivative of that.
It's that event that's the beginning of the avalanche of this play. The first loose rock.
So all our choices about how to build to those lines make them funny. Or not. The line itself is not necessarily funny.
His father was a highway patrolman.
David first appeared on Broadway in 1971.
David received numerous death threats in 1971 after he played a character who tried to rape Edith Bunker in All in the Family.
Every year, one third year Theater Arts student working toward a career in stage acting is rewarded the David Dukes Memorial Scholarship.
The Lincoln Center Library for the Performing Arts mounted an exhibit of David's theater archive in 2003.
David's first film appearance was in The Strawberry Statement in 1970.
David replaced John Lithgow in the original production of the play M. Butterfly.
David received an Emmy nomination for Best Supporting Actor for his role in The Josephine Baker Story.
David Dukes died while filming mini series Rose Red.
In 1980 he was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Actor in the Broadway play Bent.