"Stephen Colbert really lost his shit tonight."
Mini Report
March 13, 2008
This was my fourth taping, and I feel like every time I go it gets a little less special and exciting. Of course, this is relative as it is still loads and loads of fun, but... yeah. Kind of making me sad.
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Stephen messed up on everything today, but the only key thing I thought worth noting was near the end of the taping when he redid his transition into the pretaped segment.
He did a typing motion and said, "I know you're all going to go home and blog about this. 'Stephen Colbert really lost his shit tonight.' Remember, I have a mommy too. And she google searches me. So be nice."
Then when the music went up, he pointed at Allisa (who he had also acknowledged when he initially walked out to greet the audience: "Nice to see you again"), did fake typing and mouthed something like, "I know you're going to blog about it. I know you do it."
Which is funny, because I'm the one blogging about it. No matter.
Allisa also got to ask Stephen a question. (It was the only actually interesting question...and the only one I remember well, anyway.) She asked, "Who is your favorite Golden Girl?" And Stephen said Rue McClanahan. "She once pointed at me, you don't need to know why... she once pointed at me in a theatre and said, 'You like to take your clothes off.'" Context please, Stephen?!
Not much else note-worthy that you couldn't find in other taping reports. EVERYONE working at the studio described Tuesday's audience as a "suckfest." And Mark recognized Allisa (in an appreciative way) and chatted with Allisa, Kaitlyn and me at the front of the line.
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We got out at 8ish. Allisa wasn't up for stagedooring, so Kaitlyn, Danny and I waited around with a "deadline" of 8:45 p.m. so that we could catch reasonable trains home. Stephen came out at exactly 8:45 p.m., and Danny and I asked for a picture. I've been looking forward to a non-blurry picture with a recognizable and un-smudged Stephen.
Unfortunately, the picture gods do not smile upon me. For some reason, my camera was on extremely low batteries even though I charged it overnight specifically for today. So Kaitlyn used her camera, which had a weird delayed flash or something. Kaitlyn thought something was wrong with her camera, so Stephen relaxed from smiling for a second(?)... but then the camera went ahead and clicked the picture. As a result, Stephen looks kind of pissed, but I promise we were all polite and jolly! On the bright side, the picture isn't a blur. Baby steps.
I am a dumb ass. After taking a look at the pic on a screen larger than the camera's tiny screen, Kaitlyn notes that it looks like Stephen is posing angry. That's probably what happened. So let's go along with that story.
March 13, 2008
This was my fourth taping, and I feel like every time I go it gets a little less special and exciting. Of course, this is relative as it is still loads and loads of fun, but... yeah. Kind of making me sad.
---
Stephen messed up on everything today, but the only key thing I thought worth noting was near the end of the taping when he redid his transition into the pretaped segment.
He did a typing motion and said, "I know you're all going to go home and blog about this. 'Stephen Colbert really lost his shit tonight.' Remember, I have a mommy too. And she google searches me. So be nice."
Then when the music went up, he pointed at Allisa (who he had also acknowledged when he initially walked out to greet the audience: "Nice to see you again"), did fake typing and mouthed something like, "I know you're going to blog about it. I know you do it."
Which is funny, because I'm the one blogging about it. No matter.
Allisa also got to ask Stephen a question. (It was the only actually interesting question...and the only one I remember well, anyway.) She asked, "Who is your favorite Golden Girl?" And Stephen said Rue McClanahan. "She once pointed at me, you don't need to know why... she once pointed at me in a theatre and said, 'You like to take your clothes off.'" Context please, Stephen?!
Not much else note-worthy that you couldn't find in other taping reports. EVERYONE working at the studio described Tuesday's audience as a "suckfest." And Mark recognized Allisa (in an appreciative way) and chatted with Allisa, Kaitlyn and me at the front of the line.
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We got out at 8ish. Allisa wasn't up for stagedooring, so Kaitlyn, Danny and I waited around with a "deadline" of 8:45 p.m. so that we could catch reasonable trains home. Stephen came out at exactly 8:45 p.m., and Danny and I asked for a picture. I've been looking forward to a non-blurry picture with a recognizable and un-smudged Stephen.
Unfortunately, the picture gods do not smile upon me. For some reason, my camera was on extremely low batteries even though I charged it overnight specifically for today. So Kaitlyn used her camera, which had a weird delayed flash or something. Kaitlyn thought something was wrong with her camera, so Stephen relaxed from smiling for a second(?)... but then the camera went ahead and clicked the picture. As a result, Stephen looks kind of pissed, but I promise we were all polite and jolly! On the bright side, the picture isn't a blur. Baby steps.
I am a dumb ass. After taking a look at the pic on a screen larger than the camera's tiny screen, Kaitlyn notes that it looks like Stephen is posing angry. That's probably what happened. So let's go along with that story.