fuzzygobo
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The one show that had an even longer waiting list was Rosie O’Donnell. Her show only ran a few years, but there was no shortage of people wanting to be in the audience. Why? Rosie used to give away all this free stuff. There would be three hundred in the audience, and she’d give them all passes to Disney World.
Oprah did stuff like that too. One time everyone got a new car.
The only show I was in the audience for was David Letterman. January 2014. Tickets were relatively easy to get. A year or so later, when he announced his retirement, tickets became impossible to get.
The taping of the show lasts about two hours, which will get edited down to 50 minutes that night.
The show came on 11:30 at night, but taped at 4 in the afternoon.
About 3 we lined up outside the theatre, then they usher you in. The bottom part of the audience gets filled up first, then the rest of us go to the balcony. I was in the front row of the balcony, and right underneath me was where Paul Schaeffer and the band played.
As @ D’ Snowth knows, tv studios are TINY. It looks big on screen, but it’s actually the size of my living room.
There’s a thousand lights in the ceiling.
They keep the studio cold because the lights give off so much heat.
The band warmed up with a few songs, then they started the taping. David’s guest that night was Kevin Hart and this band called the Orleans (they SUCKED!!)
During the opening scenes, there were a couple shots of the balcony, so I got 1.84537289 nanoseconds of screen time. It was still a great time. The taping was over at 6 my wife and I had a nice dinner somewhere, then came home to see the show that night. It was tremendous.
Oprah did stuff like that too. One time everyone got a new car.
The only show I was in the audience for was David Letterman. January 2014. Tickets were relatively easy to get. A year or so later, when he announced his retirement, tickets became impossible to get.
The taping of the show lasts about two hours, which will get edited down to 50 minutes that night.
The show came on 11:30 at night, but taped at 4 in the afternoon.
About 3 we lined up outside the theatre, then they usher you in. The bottom part of the audience gets filled up first, then the rest of us go to the balcony. I was in the front row of the balcony, and right underneath me was where Paul Schaeffer and the band played.
As @ D’ Snowth knows, tv studios are TINY. It looks big on screen, but it’s actually the size of my living room.
There’s a thousand lights in the ceiling.
They keep the studio cold because the lights give off so much heat.
The band warmed up with a few songs, then they started the taping. David’s guest that night was Kevin Hart and this band called the Orleans (they SUCKED!!)
During the opening scenes, there were a couple shots of the balcony, so I got 1.84537289 nanoseconds of screen time. It was still a great time. The taping was over at 6 my wife and I had a nice dinner somewhere, then came home to see the show that night. It was tremendous.