questions posed by the interviewer, which basically shows that he is the one in focus and everybody is concentrated mainly on him. The audience and Jimmy are listening to him, and Jimmy is consistently responding to Ryan’ s narrative; he listens to Ryan’ s stories and poses questions relevant to the stories. This exchange is done with the intention of revealing as much information about the story as possible, particularly background information in order to make the story a lot more comprehensible for those who are hearing it for the first time. When the two get overly excited about their conversation, particularly when they’ re talking about how Ryan’ s baby calls him his mama, and then Jimmy interjects and they start talking about this book that Jimmy wrote which is called Your Baby’ s First Word Will be DADA. So, they’ re overlapping each other, which doesn’ t necessarily make the audience confused, but it does show their level of enthusiasm because during those overlaps and interruptions, a rise in volume is noted as one tries to talk over the other. They’ re both trying to get their points across because they both have something to contribute to the conversation. There is speaker support present from both Jimmy and Ryan, mainly when they chime in to comment on the story and its meaning and when they repeat what the other said as though they’ re reflecting on what has been said. This constant repetition is noted throughout the interview, and it plays an important role in making the entire conversation flow better and makes sense to the audience. There are also various slight pauses that I’ ve noted, which are very frequent and characteristic of talk shows, and their purpose is to give the audience some time to respond. So, when Jimmy is telling a joke, he pauses for a second midway to give the audience some time to take it all in and to comprehend, and then after he finishes his joke, there is another pause where the audience erupts in boisterous laughter.
The entire conversation feels like a game between the interviewer and the interviewee, as they regularly take turns and contribute some new piece of information to the story. Although
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