What barrier does Hannah Baxter remove when she acknowledges and comments directly to the audience?
Hannah Baxter Hannah Baxter is the lead semi-fictional character and protagonist of the British ITV2 television series "Secret Diary of a Call Girl". Hannah secretly has a double life as a high-class call girl as her alter ego Belle, for which she acknowledges and comments directly to the audience, throughout each episode.
Slowly I Turned "Slowly I Turned" is a popular vaudeville sketch wherein a character is relating a story and is triggered into violent outburts when the listener inadvertently utters a triggering phrase. Versions have also been performed in cinema and on television. Comedians Harry Steppe, Joey Faye, and Samuel Goldman each laid claim to this routine, also referred to as "The Stranger with a Kind Face" by clowns, "Niagara Falls" by fans of The Three Stooges and Abbott and Costello, "Martha" by fans of " I Love Lucy", "Pokomoko", and "Bagel Street".