It’s the second day of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart’s new season and I was there for the taping. Comedy Central overbooks the crowd for the show every day, to make sure the audience is full, so even though I had reserved a ticket, I had to show up two hours before they open [...]
NBC’s Late Night with Jimmy Fallon (@LateNightJimmy) taped it’s first episode of the Fall ‘09 season and I was there, live, watching the production and Jimmy Fallon (@jimmyfallon) every move (along with about 125 other people in the studio audience). It was, as a matter of full disclosure, the first time I’ve seen an episode [...]
It is September 8, 2009 and I’m standing in line at 30 Rockefeller Plaza with my ticket in hand ready to go into a live taping of Late Night with Jimmy Fallon (back from a 2-week summer hiatus). His guests today are Elijah Wood, Taraji P. Henson (@tarajihenson) and musical guest John Fogerty (john_fogerty). [...]
Leave it to Martha Stewart to give every other talk show host (her competitors) a proper smackdown when needed. While the other talk shows are clumsily fumbling around trying to figure out how to incorporate social media into their shows by doing everything from having the hosts say “t-w-i-t-t-e-r” awkwardly a dozen times during every [...]