The Performers Test: The Sweep Returns Zero at Every Tie Strength

Row 1 · Born / raised / schooled, printed distinctly

Lead: The sweep was run at three distinct tie strengths — born here, raised here, schooled here — across the performer and filmography record, and at every strength the verified roll for New Carlisle, Indiana is empty. No stand-up comic, no comic actor, no comedy writer in the reachable record is documented as born in New Carlisle, Indiana; none as raised there; none as schooled there. The names the sweep did surface are instructive precisely because each fails on a stated coordinate, and they are printed here at their true coordinates so the zero can be audited. Charles Butterworth (July 26, 1896 – June 14, 1946), the American actor specialising in comedic and musical roles, is a South Bend birth — son of a South Bend physician, South Bend High School, a University of Notre Dame law degree in 1924, and a reporter's desk at the South Bend News-Times after graduation; the Hoosier State Chronicles' own history of that paper floats him past New Carlisle's orbit, but birth, schooling and first job are all South Bend and Notre Dame, and no source ties him to the town. Tyler Maynard (born September 27, 1978), the stage actor of Altar Boyz, is the trap in person: born in New Carlisle — New Carlisle, Ohio, where he also grew up, in Clark County; the Indiana town gets nothing from him. Bill Carlisle, the Kentucky hillbilly singer who performed radio comedy as "Hot Shot Elmer," shares only a surname with the town's founder and was born at Briar Ridge, Kentucky. Jim Gaffigan is Chesterton, Indiana's; the surname returns (Carlisle the coach, Carlisle the town in other states) were read and discarded as non-performers or non-places. A birth-only tie would have printed at birth size; the sweep found not even that. Zero is not a rounding of the record — it is the record, at all three strengths, after the near names were chased to their real towns.

Sources:

1. Charles Butterworth record: born South Bend, Indiana, July 26, 1896; Notre Dame law degree 1924; News-Times reporter (biographical record; Hoosier State Chronicles project history of the South Bend News-Times).
2. Tyler Maynard record: born September 27, 1978, New Carlisle, Ohio; grew up in New Carlisle, Ohio.
3. Bill Carlisle record: born Briar Ridge, Kentucky; "Hot Shot Elmer" radio comedy persona — surname only, no town tie.
4. Richard Risley Carlisle record: born Burlington County, New Jersey, 1814; townsite purchase 1835; circus acrobat — excluded from comedy by the banked frame and by his own record.
5. Town-name performer searches ("New Carlisle" Indiana comedian / born in New Carlisle, Indiana actor) — no verified town tie returned.