Sarah and I finally made it over to a Daily Show taping yesterday. Before the taping Jon came out to talk/warm up the audience, and someone asked him a question about his college, William & Mary. He then discovered that a relatively cute 18 year old girl and a painfully goofy 18 year old boy in another section would both be attending his alma mater in the fall, and subsequently did the best he could to get this kid laid.
Suprisingly, after taping the entire show, the producers talked with Jon for about five minutes before announcing that they would be retaping the entire first third of the episode because it had run too long. The rerun was pretty flat, and I thought it too bad that everyone would be stuck watching the shorter, crappier version that night. I later found out that the producers made the right call and went mostly with the original takes, and instead cut out about half of Cameron Diaz's incoherent babbling.
Overall it was a pretty mediocre episode to catch, especially since we just missed Bill Russell and Larry David earlier in the week, but a cool thing to see nonetheless.
2 comments:
while the interview was weak and catching bill russel or larry david would have ruled, i thought it was one of the better episodes of the week if you don't consider any of the interviews.
Yeah, I liked the first act, and more than anything it was just cool to be there.
I didn't notice it before, but after watching it again this afternoon with Sarah they also changed the moment of zen and a couple of the video segments. Its interesting how much of it they seem to do by the seat of their pants.
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