Colbert! Report!
May. 9th, 2006 09:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
captainsblogOMGWTFWØRD!!!!
Just you watch. In the moments before Stephen goes over to interview Frank Rich, and he's high-fiving the people in the first two rows? The petite Filipina and the big guy in the Pooh tie next to her? Erm, that was us.
We didn't, strictly, strike Colbert, but we came pretty damn close.
It was all there for the taking (though we were exhorted not to- not the tsotchkes on the wall, not a single hair on his little head). We even got a double shot of the dear boy, for tonight he did "the toss" from Jon Stewart, seen on the Daily Show, live in front of us. We could see the text of their dialogue already loaded into the teleprompter, but before they did that one (about the changes at the CIA), Colbert and Stewart improvised an even better bit about Colbert running into O'Reilly at a dinner and the dangerous hiliarity that resulted.
Bless you, Annie, for the heads-up about getting my butt-up and over there. I snagged the 45th place in the "blue" line, which got me and guest into the second row. Perfect view of the camera angles, the set (especially the guest set), and of course of all the knickknacks on the shelves. The "Scarlet Letter" Cliff's notes next to the complete set of "Chicken Soup for the Soul" books may have been my favorite among those.
I saw them put hairspray on the Lincolnesque mane. Calm yourselves, ladies.
The crew was friendly and appreciative of the Tuesday night effort we put in. I liked the way the cameramen dress up their cameras like cubicles, with notes and pictures taped all over them.
Hardest job on the staff? The stage manager, standing behind Frank Rich's back desperately waving a WRAP! sign at Stephen when the segment was starting to run long.
Since Stewart was running late and the writing staff was still making edits right up until tape time, we did not get a Q&A with His Hostiness ("a little chit-chat," as he described it), and the sound system drowns out whatever out-of-character interaction he's having with the writers and stage people during the commercial breaks. Yet you do get the sense that they get along and that even the grizzled union stagehands think it's all pretty damn funny.
Either that or I'm an easily-fooled bumpkin.
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May's the best of company. Cubic inch per cubic inch, even more so. Thanks for food, drink and friendship ::hugs::
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The plane home boards in 20 minutes. Weather permitting, I'll see both shows in full before I land, then they'll be DVRing tomorrow.
Just you watch. In the moments before Stephen goes over to interview Frank Rich, and he's high-fiving the people in the first two rows? The petite Filipina and the big guy in the Pooh tie next to her? Erm, that was us.
We didn't, strictly, strike Colbert, but we came pretty damn close.
It was all there for the taking (though we were exhorted not to- not the tsotchkes on the wall, not a single hair on his little head). We even got a double shot of the dear boy, for tonight he did "the toss" from Jon Stewart, seen on the Daily Show, live in front of us. We could see the text of their dialogue already loaded into the teleprompter, but before they did that one (about the changes at the CIA), Colbert and Stewart improvised an even better bit about Colbert running into O'Reilly at a dinner and the dangerous hiliarity that resulted.
Bless you, Annie, for the heads-up about getting my butt-up and over there. I snagged the 45th place in the "blue" line, which got me and guest into the second row. Perfect view of the camera angles, the set (especially the guest set), and of course of all the knickknacks on the shelves. The "Scarlet Letter" Cliff's notes next to the complete set of "Chicken Soup for the Soul" books may have been my favorite among those.
I saw them put hairspray on the Lincolnesque mane. Calm yourselves, ladies.
The crew was friendly and appreciative of the Tuesday night effort we put in. I liked the way the cameramen dress up their cameras like cubicles, with notes and pictures taped all over them.
Hardest job on the staff? The stage manager, standing behind Frank Rich's back desperately waving a WRAP! sign at Stephen when the segment was starting to run long.
Since Stewart was running late and the writing staff was still making edits right up until tape time, we did not get a Q&A with His Hostiness ("a little chit-chat," as he described it), and the sound system drowns out whatever out-of-character interaction he's having with the writers and stage people during the commercial breaks. Yet you do get the sense that they get along and that even the grizzled union stagehands think it's all pretty damn funny.
Either that or I'm an easily-fooled bumpkin.
----
May's the best of company. Cubic inch per cubic inch, even more so. Thanks for food, drink and friendship ::hugs::
----
The plane home boards in 20 minutes. Weather permitting, I'll see both shows in full before I land, then they'll be DVRing tomorrow.
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Date: 2006-05-10 01:58 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-05-10 09:02 am (UTC)Isn't she, though? :)
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