Hubster Cloe has sent us this wonderful “Taping ReporT” of their trip to the July 23rd, 2013 taping of “The Colbert Report”.
I got tickets for my son’s 18th birthday. Only tried three or four times to get them before. There were people in line that had tried for years and just got them. We took a 4 hour bus ride and stayed at the Hilton Garden Inn on 8th. It was great, clean, perfect location.
We walked over to the studio at 3:30PM and were surprised to find I was about 20 people back already. It was really hot! Bring water people. We were standing on the sidewalk at first and someone from the show walked down the line checking tickets and IDs. Then at about 5:00PM the line moved under an awning along the building which made it even hotter. Security came out and told us no phones or any kind of recording and that they would take phones. Also anything like box cutters, pepper spray etc would be confiscated and they would take it and put it in the safe until after the show. They give you laminated cards with a number in the corner, we were 34 thru 37. You go through the metal detector and they search your bags and you stand in a tine room for about an hour and a half. We were so happy to be in the air conditioning at first then they stuff over 100 people in that room and it is not good. There are bathrooms but trying to negotiate the line while in a sardine can is tough. They had a water cooler but it was located in the front corner of the room which there is no getting to until 7:30PM when they start calling the numbers to go in. Oh and military and police are VIPs. They will get you in first.
Now all this being said once you get in there it is so exciting. The warm up comedian was great. I was surprised to learn that the chanting Stephen, Stephen is not random. They ask you to do it. Bring a question for him because he does answer them. My son’s girlfriend asked Stephen what was still on his bucket list and he replied that he would like to jump out of a plane, she said she would like to also and Stephen replied let one of us remember the parachute. His wife was there because she was celebrating her birthday and he had a big surprise party at one of the hotels for her. Someone asked him a complicated question about the press core dinner speech that he gave for President Bush and he said that he and his writers were on the plane writing material and his wife was reading it saying – no -no oh Stephen no. There were a couple of small corrections he had to make on pronunciation but there weren’t any bloopers. We got free pens, but no where to buy shirts The set is iChat smaller than it looks on tv. But Stephen was great. We were out by 9:30PM-ish. Would do it again!!
For those who have yet to check out the July 23, 2013 – Episode Guide:
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Just had a conversation in Latin with Stephen Colbert. He took questions before the show- and then we sang felicem natalem diem to his wife!
July 23, 2013: The Taping ReporT!
Hubster Cloe has sent us this wonderful “Taping ReporT” of their trip to the July 23rd, 2013 taping of “The Colbert Report”.
I got tickets for my son’s 18th birthday. Only tried three or four times to get them before. There were people in line that had tried for years and just got them. We took a 4 hour bus ride and stayed at the Hilton Garden Inn on 8th. It was great, clean, perfect location.
We walked over to the studio at 3:30PM and were surprised to find I was about 20 people back already. It was really hot! Bring water people. We were standing on the sidewalk at first and someone from the show walked down the line checking tickets and IDs. Then at about 5:00PM the line moved under an awning along the building which made it even hotter. Security came out and told us no phones or any kind of recording and that they would take phones. Also anything like box cutters, pepper spray etc would be confiscated and they would take it and put it in the safe until after the show. They give you laminated cards with a number in the corner, we were 34 thru 37. You go through the metal detector and they search your bags and you stand in a tine room for about an hour and a half. We were so happy to be in the air conditioning at first then they stuff over 100 people in that room and it is not good. There are bathrooms but trying to negotiate the line while in a sardine can is tough. They had a water cooler but it was located in the front corner of the room which there is no getting to until 7:30PM when they start calling the numbers to go in. Oh and military and police are VIPs. They will get you in first.
Now all this being said once you get in there it is so exciting. The warm up comedian was great. I was surprised to learn that the chanting Stephen, Stephen is not random. They ask you to do it. Bring a question for him because he does answer them. My son’s girlfriend asked Stephen what was still on his bucket list and he replied that he would like to jump out of a plane, she said she would like to also and Stephen replied let one of us remember the parachute. His wife was there because she was celebrating her birthday and he had a big surprise party at one of the hotels for her. Someone asked him a complicated question about the press core dinner speech that he gave for President Bush and he said that he and his writers were on the plane writing material and his wife was reading it saying – no -no oh Stephen no. There were a couple of small corrections he had to make on pronunciation but there weren’t any bloopers. We got free pens, but no where to buy shirts The set is iChat smaller than it looks on tv. But Stephen was great. We were out by 9:30PM-ish. Would do it again!!
For those who have yet to check out the July 23, 2013 – Episode Guide: