Letterman! – 25 September
…so we got the call on Sunday afternoon (as we were walking around downtown – the cunning diversion to a Broadway show only put the walking off for a day!) that we could come to the taping on Monday.
We left work early and met up at the studio, where we had to bring ID to get our tickets. We talked to one of the staff while we were in the queue and ended up getting good seats as a result of being (a) foreign and (b) smiley. An hour later (after a quick bite and queuing in the lobby) we were seated in the studio with the warm up.
It was an interesting experience, being a live studio audience. There was a warm up guy, some clips from old shows and then David Letterman himself before the show started. As we were sat in the audience clapping and cheering like loons as the credits rolled on the little monitor in front of us, it struck us that this was really weird – a lot of people had booked their vacation around tickets for the show; we had just wandered past two days before – and all the shots of New York that we’ve seen on the show before were places we’d been walking through in the past couple of months. Just slightly odd.
The show itself was good – Nathan Lane (a bit ironic, considering we saw The Producers at the weekend) and a comedian I forget the name of were on, but for me the most interesting thing was seeing how many people were milling around behind the cameras on the stage, and seeing how often David Letterman got handed rewritten jokes to accommodate what had happened earlier in the show, which he then incorporated into the show. Really, really interesting stuff.
We left work early and met up at the studio, where we had to bring ID to get our tickets. We talked to one of the staff while we were in the queue and ended up getting good seats as a result of being (a) foreign and (b) smiley. An hour later (after a quick bite and queuing in the lobby) we were seated in the studio with the warm up.
It was an interesting experience, being a live studio audience. There was a warm up guy, some clips from old shows and then David Letterman himself before the show started. As we were sat in the audience clapping and cheering like loons as the credits rolled on the little monitor in front of us, it struck us that this was really weird – a lot of people had booked their vacation around tickets for the show; we had just wandered past two days before – and all the shots of New York that we’ve seen on the show before were places we’d been walking through in the past couple of months. Just slightly odd.
The show itself was good – Nathan Lane (a bit ironic, considering we saw The Producers at the weekend) and a comedian I forget the name of were on, but for me the most interesting thing was seeing how many people were milling around behind the cameras on the stage, and seeing how often David Letterman got handed rewritten jokes to accommodate what had happened earlier in the show, which he then incorporated into the show. Really, really interesting stuff.
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