Whether it was a vaudeville act in an old movie, Miss Piggy on Sesame Street, or Bugs Bunny in a cartoon, I always enjoyed watching someone “get the hook.” It made me laugh. To “get the hook,” if it’s an unfamiliar phrase, is when a musician—or actor, dancer or comedian—is yanked off stage with a long hooked pole in the middle of a performance due to incompetence or, in general, causing the audience misery. Have you ever gotten the hook? It may not have looked like the Bugs B