Hubster Zena has sent us this wonderful “Taping ReporT” of her trip to the June 4th, 2013 taping of “The Colbert Report”.
I went to taping with my boyfriend, and this was his first time going to see Stephen’s show. We got there very early, waited for several hours and ended up receiving 4th and 5th tickets. So our patience paid off. We went through into the waiting room and I went around taking pictures of the portraits that had been hung up before we sat down at the new benches. They were still playing that Best Of DVD, but this time there were two tvs. So we sat and watched the old clips and waited for them to let us in.
As we were being lead into the studio, the security guy who was leading us to our seats asked the second greatest question of the night; “Would you two mind being in the front row?” (The greatest question comes a while later.) I answered of course not and we were lead to the two seats by the staircase closest to Stephen’s desk.
As we got closer to the seats, we saw there were pens on the all chairs! So I scooped up our pens into the my bag and sat excitedly thinking how close I was to Stephen’s desk. They played music for a while. While the music was playing, the security guy who seated us told us that Stephen would run out and go all crazy and that he would high five us. I had forgotten about that and got excited about it and then the warm up comic came out, who is the same warm up guy that had been at the Daily Show when I went like a year ago.
So the comic came out and he was funny. He mainly joked on the audience members and where they went to college, like these two gay couples or this one guy who managed to take both his current and ex-girlfriend to the taping with him. He noticed me in my ‘Keep Calm, Colbert On’ shirt as I was sitting right in front of him. Then he moved on to my boyfriend, who’s British and he joked on my boyfriend’s accent and what he studied in university, which was American Studies. And he was going to dig into him some more but then Mark came over.
Mark was all, “Saved by the bell!” to my boyfriend, and then proceeded to explain how we should go crazy cheering and he showed us the signal he would give us so we would know when to start cheering, mainly for like lead ins from commercial breaks.
Then the warm up comic introduced Stephen and we all went crazy and stood up and clapped and cheered and chanted. As he was running to high five everyone, I was all anticipation and stuck my hand out. But Stephen missed my hand, so I was a little sad. That was quickly overpowered by just being in the room with him and feeling his energy though.
He asked us if we had any questions “to humanize him in your eyes before I go say these horrible things on television as my character.” I think the questions are out of order but me and my boyfriend are sure we got all of them. (Also my boyfriend raised his hand but didn’t get to ask his question, more on that later.)
“What did you think of the Hobbit?”
“I loved it. Though I saw it in 3D and it was a bit too much for me. My favorite scene was the riddles in the dark, I thought that was really well done. I want to see it again, but in 2D. But yeah I thought it was great.”
“If you could tell everyone one thing, what would it be?”
“That I am not my character.”
“What would you being doing if not show business?”
“This is all I know how to do. Probably time, if I wasn’t in show business.”
“If you could be any crayon the a Crayola box, which color would you be?”
“I think all both know I’d be white.”
“Do you still go to the South Carolina restaurant that has your show’s first year’s portrait hanging on the wall?” [The person who asked said the name of the restaurant but I couldn’t make it out.]
“No. Not anymore. It’s just to awkward to eat in front of a portrait of himself. Like the food is delicious but I just can’t look up and see my face. Too awkward.”
“What’s the craziest thing an audience member has done?”
“Well I have a very good security team. Also, people have proposed before. Had some guy in the front row just get down on one knee. No pressure guys, especially if it’s a first date!”
After that Stephen went to his desk and began flinging out wriststrong bracelets into the audience and a few writers came over before to talk about the show I guess. Then he did the table of contents, which didn’t end up in the show. I can only remember the last two jokes though. The joke about Alex Gibney was “Remember kids, if you break the law, he’ll make a movie about you!” and the last joke was about how Farmville had laid of 18% of it’s workforce, “which incidentally leads to them having more time to play Farmville.”
Then they showed the intro and we all stood up and cheered but because I was so close to him, Stephen noticed me in my shirt. He pointed at it/me and smiled! You can kind of tell in the beginning of the episode, I’m the one he’s pointing at.
The show mainly went along as it aired. There was one major character break though. During the part when he was talking about how the Google glasses wouldn’t allow porn, they showed a clip then cut back to him. Then he started coughing. It was timed so perfectly we thought it was a joke and started laughing, then he took out his water and said, “I really wish this was a bit. It’s just revenge of a cashew. I’m sorry you had to find out that I’m not perfect. But no one will know as long as no one blogs about this.” (Sorry Stephen.)
After that everything went pretty smoothly. Although after the interview ended he went back and rerecorded a few lines from earlier in the show, “that we’ll just drop in like lego pieces.”
Then he did the sign off for the show and he asked if anyone had any questions. My boyfriend raised his hand, and Stephen said, “I saw your hand first.” My boyfriend asked the greatest question of the night by asking if Stephen he could high five me, as he missed me when he went around before the show started. Stephen answered “Come back next time”, and everyone including us went ‘aww.’
He took a final question from a guy who asked him what he would want his legacy to be. Before he answered that he got up, I thought it was just to head out as he always would like the last times I went to the show. Instead he answered the question with, “I really want it to be my kids.” And then he went up to me and high fived me!
That made the taping experience even better. I was buzzing from it the entire way home.
June 4th, 2013: The Taping ReporT!
Hubster Zena has sent us this wonderful “Taping ReporT” of her trip to the June 4th, 2013 taping of “The Colbert Report”.
I went to taping with my boyfriend, and this was his first time going to see Stephen’s show. We got there very early, waited for several hours and ended up receiving 4th and 5th tickets. So our patience paid off. We went through into the waiting room and I went around taking pictures of the portraits that had been hung up before we sat down at the new benches. They were still playing that Best Of DVD, but this time there were two tvs. So we sat and watched the old clips and waited for them to let us in.
As we were being lead into the studio, the security guy who was leading us to our seats asked the second greatest question of the night; “Would you two mind being in the front row?” (The greatest question comes a while later.) I answered of course not and we were lead to the two seats by the staircase closest to Stephen’s desk.
As we got closer to the seats, we saw there were pens on the all chairs! So I scooped up our pens into the my bag and sat excitedly thinking how close I was to Stephen’s desk. They played music for a while. While the music was playing, the security guy who seated us told us that Stephen would run out and go all crazy and that he would high five us. I had forgotten about that and got excited about it and then the warm up comic came out, who is the same warm up guy that had been at the Daily Show when I went like a year ago.
So the comic came out and he was funny. He mainly joked on the audience members and where they went to college, like these two gay couples or this one guy who managed to take both his current and ex-girlfriend to the taping with him. He noticed me in my ‘Keep Calm, Colbert On’ shirt as I was sitting right in front of him. Then he moved on to my boyfriend, who’s British and he joked on my boyfriend’s accent and what he studied in university, which was American Studies. And he was going to dig into him some more but then Mark came over.
Mark was all, “Saved by the bell!” to my boyfriend, and then proceeded to explain how we should go crazy cheering and he showed us the signal he would give us so we would know when to start cheering, mainly for like lead ins from commercial breaks.
Then the warm up comic introduced Stephen and we all went crazy and stood up and clapped and cheered and chanted. As he was running to high five everyone, I was all anticipation and stuck my hand out. But Stephen missed my hand, so I was a little sad. That was quickly overpowered by just being in the room with him and feeling his energy though.
He asked us if we had any questions “to humanize him in your eyes before I go say these horrible things on television as my character.” I think the questions are out of order but me and my boyfriend are sure we got all of them. (Also my boyfriend raised his hand but didn’t get to ask his question, more on that later.)
“What did you think of the Hobbit?”
“I loved it. Though I saw it in 3D and it was a bit too much for me. My favorite scene was the riddles in the dark, I thought that was really well done. I want to see it again, but in 2D. But yeah I thought it was great.”
“If you could tell everyone one thing, what would it be?”
“That I am not my character.”
“What would you being doing if not show business?”
“This is all I know how to do. Probably time, if I wasn’t in show business.”
“If you could be any crayon the a Crayola box, which color would you be?”
“I think all both know I’d be white.”
“Do you still go to the South Carolina restaurant that has your show’s first year’s portrait hanging on the wall?” [The person who asked said the name of the restaurant but I couldn’t make it out.]
“No. Not anymore. It’s just to awkward to eat in front of a portrait of himself. Like the food is delicious but I just can’t look up and see my face. Too awkward.”
“What’s the craziest thing an audience member has done?”
“Well I have a very good security team. Also, people have proposed before. Had some guy in the front row just get down on one knee. No pressure guys, especially if it’s a first date!”
After that Stephen went to his desk and began flinging out wriststrong bracelets into the audience and a few writers came over before to talk about the show I guess. Then he did the table of contents, which didn’t end up in the show. I can only remember the last two jokes though. The joke about Alex Gibney was “Remember kids, if you break the law, he’ll make a movie about you!” and the last joke was about how Farmville had laid of 18% of it’s workforce, “which incidentally leads to them having more time to play Farmville.”
Then they showed the intro and we all stood up and cheered but because I was so close to him, Stephen noticed me in my shirt. He pointed at it/me and smiled! You can kind of tell in the beginning of the episode, I’m the one he’s pointing at.
The show mainly went along as it aired. There was one major character break though. During the part when he was talking about how the Google glasses wouldn’t allow porn, they showed a clip then cut back to him. Then he started coughing. It was timed so perfectly we thought it was a joke and started laughing, then he took out his water and said, “I really wish this was a bit. It’s just revenge of a cashew. I’m sorry you had to find out that I’m not perfect. But no one will know as long as no one blogs about this.” (Sorry Stephen.)
After that everything went pretty smoothly. Although after the interview ended he went back and rerecorded a few lines from earlier in the show, “that we’ll just drop in like lego pieces.”
Then he did the sign off for the show and he asked if anyone had any questions. My boyfriend raised his hand, and Stephen said, “I saw your hand first.” My boyfriend asked the greatest question of the night by asking if Stephen he could high five me, as he missed me when he went around before the show started. Stephen answered “Come back next time”, and everyone including us went ‘aww.’
He took a final question from a guy who asked him what he would want his legacy to be. Before he answered that he got up, I thought it was just to head out as he always would like the last times I went to the show. Instead he answered the question with, “I really want it to be my kids.” And then he went up to me and high fived me!
That made the taping experience even better. I was buzzing from it the entire way home.