One of the most (in)famous monologues in wrestling history was all ad-libbed, and even though it's 99% pure screaming gibberish if you actually follow the numbers, all the arithmetic is correct!

Some random mid-level guy from the 90s who was the first example that came to my mind (and one of the few where the workers got one over on the bosses).

Billy Kidman was fired in storyline by WCW, and he convinced management that the way to REALLY convince people it was real was to actually for-real release him from his terrible contract.

He debuted on WWE the next day.

With the possible exception of AEW, all the other ones eventually failed because they were even bigger mad houses. There was a period in the 90s where they tried to convince the *wrestlers themselves* that the storylines were real!

Warren herself, funnily enough, was the one single Senate Democrat who endorsed Zohran Mamdani and campaigned with him. After the primary, but still.

there's a huge difference between saying, "Ds aren't fighting hard enough" and "Ds and Rs are the same" if you want to appeal to D voters who are passionately motivated by anti R animus (as they should be.)