Hubster Agnitti has sent us this wonderful “Taping ReporT” of her trip to the November 4th, 2014 taping of “The Colbert Report”.
Hello! I’m Agnitti and I haven’t missed an episode of The Colbert Report in over four years (yeah, I know, probably not healthy) so… Um… Yeah. Sorry, needed to get that off my chest.
I’ve been around the Hub for a good bit, but I can’t say I’ve been active in a while. I kinda stopped what little activity I did do just after “I Am a Pole and so Can You” for some reason. It was certainly nothing to do with the Hub, I think a bunch of life happened. Anyhow, I read more Taping ReporTs than is normal when I was here because A ) I was in South Carolina and going to an actual taping was impossible (but I did get to go the South Cain-olina Primary Rally) and B ) I was too young to go to a taping anyway. It’s kinda awesome to finally contribute to the thing I gleaned everything I knew about the workings of a TCR taping.
I went to the November 4th, 2014 show (not taping) with guest Andrew Sullivan. Most importantly though, it was the Colbert Report’s last live election coverage.
6 hours before the live show was due to start, as far as I was concerned, going to see it wasn’t going to happen. As it was on a Tuesday (and I don’t have class on Tuesdays) I got to wake up at the oddly natural hour of 3-ish in the afternoon. Being a normal college aged person, the first thing I checked was what notifications my phone had picked up for me. I’d set the DailyTix twitter feed to send me notifications when they tweeted because I was on the hunt for Colbert Report tickets. I had to see a taping before Stephen moved to proper late night. 5 tickets to that night’s taping were given out an hour ago. Suddenly I put two and two together and realized that if there were tickets to be gotten as a last chance to see the Colbert Report, the last live election coverage ever could be a good choice. I spent the next hour watching the DailyTix twitter feed like a hawk (in between trying to write an essay and figuring out the atomic light spectrum). Then I missed 4 tickets. I was sad. I attempted to console myself with a baked potato lunch/breakfast. It worked a little. Potato in hand, on a whim I decided to refresh the ticket page even though DailyTix hadn’t tweeted. Two tickets for the November 4th live taping appeared. I was shocked. I let Chrome’s auto fill do its job. I accepted the terms and conditions. I got the “Congratulations!” message. I had reserved tickets at 5:00, just hours before the show would be due to start.
After a moment of squee, I texted my go to people for Colbert Report trips, explaining the live 11:30 aspect and understanding the abruptness of the request. Neither were able to go. One on the grounds of an 8am class, the other on a curfew. The one with a curfew had a friend though, someone I had never met, who had a roommate who got tickets weeks ago. Jake, as he is called, was completely willing to go. I was really going. I started to get ready immediately; I live in New Jersey (Nutley, just one town over from Montclair: home of Stephen. Happy coincidence; I swear I’m not that obsessed) so the next bus was a must to get good seats. By the time I was running out of the house it was 6:53 and the next bus left at 7. It’s a good thing those things run late more often than on time.
(On my way, I managed to spill the hot chocolate I’d made in preparation for a chilly November night. Hot chocolate is a mess if it wants to be, and this hot chocolate was filled with ambition. My hands were disgustingly sticky before the bus managed to arrive. Not to mention the odd brown blotches decorating my jeans. I powered on though, Colbert would be more than worth it.)
I navigated PABT, the E train, and got off at 50th St. (I was briefly stopped by a stupid MTA machine that I’m pretty sure owes me money. The subway system and I did not get along that night). I’ve spent an embarrassingly large amount of time on Google maps staring at the area around the studio (did I mention this was my first time going to the Colbert Report? Google maps has been my only experience), so my subway blues were forgotten as soon as the AT&T building came into view. I rounded the corner of 10th and 54th as they started letting people standing outside the studio into the alley beside the studio. They had a tent roof and walls and it was actually a bit cosy. I was at the end of the first layer of line which eventually translated into ticket number 65. Not bad for getting reservations 3 hours earlier.
About an hour later (time in which I should have spent reading The History of the Peloponnesian War but instead spent on Facebook), Jake arrives. His roommate is abandoned to fight for a ticket near the back of the line (eventually ticket 110) and because they guy has impeccable timing, we start getting let in to the holding room of Colbertian glory.
If there’s one part of the adventure that everyone knows about, it’s the holding room with all of the stuff that’s Colbert related and hang-able. The Best of tape played on the monitors as the audience coordinators stuffed the entirety of the audience members into the room. Jake and I ended up next to the wall Colbert (who is decidedly not 5’11) and we’re pretty sure his shoulder is in 20 different people’s Colbert-on-the-wall pictures. Apologies to those people.
After approximately forever (and after an attempt at screaming loud enough to interrupt Jon Stewart’s live show), they let us into the studio.
God, that thing is as glorious as you’d expect it to be. Jake and I spent the majority of the time between sitting down and the warm up comedian analyzing the little café they set up for Andrew Sullivan across the room. And singing along absurdly to the music playing overhead.
Jake and I were stuffed off to the side, middle of the section closest to the unused interview table (but closest to the used fireplace). I’m pretty sure we didn’t make it into the wide shot, but hey, I’m not going to let that define the night.
The warm up comedian came out, Paul Mecurio (the same one I saw when I went to The Daily Show on October 9th). He was plenty funny, but at this point the audience was hyped enough on nothing but being in the studio at 11pm, mid-last-live-election-night-Colbert-coverage. We played a nice game of spot the couples for a few minutes between yelling “ha” at Paul, and soon it was Stephen time!
He ran out as he usually does, slapping hands and cheering along to Cheap Trick’s “I Want You to Want Me” before coming to a rest in front of the audience. Because it’s live and toss-able, he confirms that we are going to do a Daily Show toss (“Something we used to do but don’t anymore,” he said in a wistful tone) so he’ll be taking questions from behind his desk for optimum questions-to-toss transition time. (On a side note, I may have screamed a bit too excitedly when he confirmed the toss. By myself. It earned me an appreciative glance from Stephen though, so it was completely worth it.)
And now the part you’re all actually here to read: Q&A! (These are, of course, from memory and probably aren’t the exact words)
Q: Which do you think is more representative of the views of the American people? Tonight’s [some kind of sport organization] vote or the midterm election results? A: What? [laughter] Q: Which do you think is more representative – A: You’re going to have to wait for these guys to get quiet. [more laughter] Q: [eventually] Which do you think is more representative of the views of the American people? Tonight’s [sports] vote or the midterm election results?
A: Well, one of them is going to get more viewers… [moves on to next question]
Q: I used the word truthiness in a high school English paper and my teacher told me it isn’t a word. What would you say to her?
A: [super seriously] I’d tell her she needs to look in the Oxford. English. Dictionary. [cheers] Because it’s in there! It’s a word! [more cheers]
Q: [an older man in a round about way alludes to the Teachers’ Union/Wisconsin debacle and mentions something about a sign inviting Stephen and Jon to join their rally. Stephen tried to hurry him along, but it didn’t work] A: Ah, no, I wouldn’t go there. That’s not where my show needed to go at all. Q: Ok, but now that you’re going to be without this show, do you plan on going to events like that more?
A: The thing is, there aren’t going to be events /like/ that. They’re all very unique. But I’d have to see. I’m very interested in politics, so if there’s something I’d like to go to, I think I would.
Q: What’s your favorite song to sing?
A: Oh, there are so many great songs to sing! [then he sings some low, gospel sounding song that I wasn’t able to recognize, much to my chagrin. Beautifully, of course, and we all cheer]
Q: I just got done writing a 20 page paper at Northwestern about your show. A: That guy was doing it in high school! [laughter] Q: Yeah, I was just wondering if you ever did anything like that as work during your time at Northwestern, like write a paper on a TV show.
A: No, back when I went to school we had to do actual work. [cheers from the older half of the audience] Actually, I was a theatre major, so I didn’t really do any work. [in a flowery voice] I got up, did a sun salutation, stretched out my vocal chords, you know. Theatre major!
From a British chick who came all the way over just to ask this one question. [Stephen imitated her London accent to tell her how wonderful that is] Q: Where are Chuck and Geoffrey?
A: Oh, so you’ve seen Strangers? Then there’s something psychologically wrong with you too. [laughter] Chuck and Geoffrey are on the run, off doing whatever they’re doing. They’re cowards, they’re not going to do anything but be lovers.
Q: Do you plan on ever letting the character out on your new show?
A: No, the thing is, I’m not going to be a pundit once I leave, so he’s not coming. We’re all just going to get to slowly find out how much of me was really in him. [Stage manager Mark motions that Jon’s just hit his last commercial break before the toss] I guess he’ll just go off with his lover… Geoffrey. [laughter]
A: Alright! We’ve got a toss to do! [the music comes on and the staff nearly descends, but he cuts them off before telling us] Have a good show!
And then he’s swarmed by writers and election fact fetchers and makeup and hair ladies and sound guys and we don’t see Stephen for a few minutes.
The toss happens with no pre-toss, unfortunately, so no there’s unscripted Jon and Stephen banter to report on.
After they finished the toss, we watched the final seconds of The Daily Show (and awww-ed at Jon’s urging to continue on to watch Stephen), the credits, and the opening of The Colbert Report. Literally everyone in the studio was jamming along to the theme song. Stephen even did the (not actually an) eagle screech. There wasn’t any kind of media black out enforced on us (just a “no phones on in the studio” rule), so we knew there was a democrat blood bath going on outside, but despite that, the audience was way pumped. Stephen has that effect on an audience.
It was, of course, a live show. What you saw is what we saw (but you didn’t see me freaking out about the TARDIS on Andrew Sullivan’s laptop). There was some off-screen maneuvering of dropping a green screen down and getting a devil into place and covered with a green screen cape (that was red on the inside, clever prop masters), and stage manager Mark getting ready for a skull-stick and dagger hand off. That entire bit was done live too, there wasn’t any prerecorded part to it (and I stress that part, because I’ve heard a few people thinking otherwise).
The commercial break included a good bit of hand wiping, result handings, adjusting of the Social Tracker 8700, and some in seat dancing.
The next segment went off without a hitch, as you all saw – all hail the power of live television!
A few more results were handed over and Andrew Sullivan’s laptop table was adjusted and the regular interview table was pushed off the side to make way for the fireside chat chair and rug during the next commercial break. Then we were back into show mode for the interview.
What you saw is what we got, again.
Afterward there was an extra “Andrew Sullivan everybody!” and another round of cheering. The commercial break seemed really long this time. Stephen didn’t go back to his desk, and instead spent the time chatting with Mark and a few of the writers standing around the fireplace. As we had the entire night, the audience clapped along to the music playing overhead and it inspired some dancing on Stephen’s part, now that he wasn’t stuck behind the desk. That was probably my favorite part of the show. It was so “Stephen and the audience”. Nothing scripted, no rush to get it all in, just jamming to good music.
Then the time came for him to sit down in the chair of fireside chat-ness and say goodnight from his last election coverage. You heard us, the audience was nearly to tears in both laughter and sadness! Luckily, Mark reminded Stephen that he has another month’s worth of shows to do, so we were left on a high-ish note.
After the bit was done and the camera pulled out and the credits played over the monitors, Stephen got up and gave Mark a hug that turned into them rocking together in successful-last-live-election-coverage bliss. (This was Jake’s favorite part of the show because of the raw happiness that was just oozing off of the two of them.) Then he turned and moved to the other side of the stage (apparently that’s where the guy with a watch stands) and asked how far off we were time wise.
“We were right on time?!” Stephen gasped in disbelief launching the audience into another round of cheers.
Stephen then took one last question from the audience before saying goodnight.
Q: Who got you into Tolkien?
A: [I cannot, for the life of me, remember the guy’s name] He showed me the wonderful world if Tolkien. He saw that I was reading a lot if sci-fi at the time and so he handed me the book, said “I think you’ll like this.” It was… The Fellowship, I’m pretty sure, and I read it and [with the biggest geek grin] you know. I wasn’t going to not like it! Then though, I got invited down to New Zealand to actually be in the Hobbit [cheers] and when I was there Peter Jackson gave me this Balrog, original, first-rate Balrog, and the first thing I did was send it to him as a huge thank you. Because he started it all.
And we collectively aww-ed at his geeky sweetness and Stephen said his final goodnight and then we made our way out into the New York midnight. No one was up for hanging around for pictures because it was late and Tuesday and everyone had something to do tomorrow. Plus, at the rate Stephen got off of the set, we all kinda guessed he booked it as soon as he was able – he did have a show the next day (and judging by the “no parking – filming on the 5th of Nov.” sign outside, it was going to be a busy one).
It was a fantastic night even if it began with rushing out of the house, getting covered with hot chocolate, and wrestling with a MTA machine. I didn’t even get to ask my question (does the opening notes of the theme song sound like “Come All Ye Faithful” on purpose? Because, think about it, it does, and although it’s not really meant for information gathering, I feel like if I point it out it will be real or something), but it was probably the best thing I’ve ever done. I’m still buzzing with excitement.
Er… Um… Thanks for reading, and sorry it’s so long!
November 4th, 2014 – Live Election Special: The Taping ReporT!
Hubster Agnitti has sent us this wonderful “Taping ReporT” of her trip to the November 4th, 2014 taping of “The Colbert Report”.
Hello! I’m Agnitti and I haven’t missed an episode of The Colbert Report in over four years (yeah, I know, probably not healthy) so… Um… Yeah. Sorry, needed to get that off my chest.
I’ve been around the Hub for a good bit, but I can’t say I’ve been active in a while. I kinda stopped what little activity I did do just after “I Am a Pole and so Can You” for some reason. It was certainly nothing to do with the Hub, I think a bunch of life happened. Anyhow, I read more Taping ReporTs than is normal when I was here because A ) I was in South Carolina and going to an actual taping was impossible (but I did get to go the South Cain-olina Primary Rally) and B ) I was too young to go to a taping anyway. It’s kinda awesome to finally contribute to the thing I gleaned everything I knew about the workings of a TCR taping.
I went to the November 4th, 2014 show (not taping) with guest Andrew Sullivan. Most importantly though, it was the Colbert Report’s last live election coverage.
6 hours before the live show was due to start, as far as I was concerned, going to see it wasn’t going to happen. As it was on a Tuesday (and I don’t have class on Tuesdays) I got to wake up at the oddly natural hour of 3-ish in the afternoon. Being a normal college aged person, the first thing I checked was what notifications my phone had picked up for me. I’d set the DailyTix twitter feed to send me notifications when they tweeted because I was on the hunt for Colbert Report tickets. I had to see a taping before Stephen moved to proper late night. 5 tickets to that night’s taping were given out an hour ago. Suddenly I put two and two together and realized that if there were tickets to be gotten as a last chance to see the Colbert Report, the last live election coverage ever could be a good choice. I spent the next hour watching the DailyTix twitter feed like a hawk (in between trying to write an essay and figuring out the atomic light spectrum). Then I missed 4 tickets. I was sad. I attempted to console myself with a baked potato lunch/breakfast. It worked a little. Potato in hand, on a whim I decided to refresh the ticket page even though DailyTix hadn’t tweeted. Two tickets for the November 4th live taping appeared. I was shocked. I let Chrome’s auto fill do its job. I accepted the terms and conditions. I got the “Congratulations!” message. I had reserved tickets at 5:00, just hours before the show would be due to start.
After a moment of squee, I texted my go to people for Colbert Report trips, explaining the live 11:30 aspect and understanding the abruptness of the request. Neither were able to go. One on the grounds of an 8am class, the other on a curfew. The one with a curfew had a friend though, someone I had never met, who had a roommate who got tickets weeks ago. Jake, as he is called, was completely willing to go. I was really going. I started to get ready immediately; I live in New Jersey (Nutley, just one town over from Montclair: home of Stephen. Happy coincidence; I swear I’m not that obsessed) so the next bus was a must to get good seats. By the time I was running out of the house it was 6:53 and the next bus left at 7. It’s a good thing those things run late more often than on time.
(On my way, I managed to spill the hot chocolate I’d made in preparation for a chilly November night. Hot chocolate is a mess if it wants to be, and this hot chocolate was filled with ambition. My hands were disgustingly sticky before the bus managed to arrive. Not to mention the odd brown blotches decorating my jeans. I powered on though, Colbert would be more than worth it.)
I navigated PABT, the E train, and got off at 50th St. (I was briefly stopped by a stupid MTA machine that I’m pretty sure owes me money. The subway system and I did not get along that night). I’ve spent an embarrassingly large amount of time on Google maps staring at the area around the studio (did I mention this was my first time going to the Colbert Report? Google maps has been my only experience), so my subway blues were forgotten as soon as the AT&T building came into view. I rounded the corner of 10th and 54th as they started letting people standing outside the studio into the alley beside the studio. They had a tent roof and walls and it was actually a bit cosy. I was at the end of the first layer of line which eventually translated into ticket number 65. Not bad for getting reservations 3 hours earlier.
About an hour later (time in which I should have spent reading The History of the Peloponnesian War but instead spent on Facebook), Jake arrives. His roommate is abandoned to fight for a ticket near the back of the line (eventually ticket 110) and because they guy has impeccable timing, we start getting let in to the holding room of Colbertian glory.
If there’s one part of the adventure that everyone knows about, it’s the holding room with all of the stuff that’s Colbert related and hang-able. The Best of tape played on the monitors as the audience coordinators stuffed the entirety of the audience members into the room. Jake and I ended up next to the wall Colbert (who is decidedly not 5’11) and we’re pretty sure his shoulder is in 20 different people’s Colbert-on-the-wall pictures. Apologies to those people.
After approximately forever (and after an attempt at screaming loud enough to interrupt Jon Stewart’s live show), they let us into the studio.
God, that thing is as glorious as you’d expect it to be. Jake and I spent the majority of the time between sitting down and the warm up comedian analyzing the little café they set up for Andrew Sullivan across the room. And singing along absurdly to the music playing overhead.
Jake and I were stuffed off to the side, middle of the section closest to the unused interview table (but closest to the used fireplace). I’m pretty sure we didn’t make it into the wide shot, but hey, I’m not going to let that define the night.
The warm up comedian came out, Paul Mecurio (the same one I saw when I went to The Daily Show on October 9th). He was plenty funny, but at this point the audience was hyped enough on nothing but being in the studio at 11pm, mid-last-live-election-night-Colbert-coverage. We played a nice game of spot the couples for a few minutes between yelling “ha” at Paul, and soon it was Stephen time!
He ran out as he usually does, slapping hands and cheering along to Cheap Trick’s “I Want You to Want Me” before coming to a rest in front of the audience. Because it’s live and toss-able, he confirms that we are going to do a Daily Show toss (“Something we used to do but don’t anymore,” he said in a wistful tone) so he’ll be taking questions from behind his desk for optimum questions-to-toss transition time. (On a side note, I may have screamed a bit too excitedly when he confirmed the toss. By myself. It earned me an appreciative glance from Stephen though, so it was completely worth it.)
And now the part you’re all actually here to read: Q&A! (These are, of course, from memory and probably aren’t the exact words)
Q: Which do you think is more representative of the views of the American people? Tonight’s [some kind of sport organization] vote or the midterm election results? A: What? [laughter] Q: Which do you think is more representative – A: You’re going to have to wait for these guys to get quiet. [more laughter] Q: [eventually] Which do you think is more representative of the views of the American people? Tonight’s [sports] vote or the midterm election results?
A: Well, one of them is going to get more viewers… [moves on to next question]
Q: I used the word truthiness in a high school English paper and my teacher told me it isn’t a word. What would you say to her?
A: [super seriously] I’d tell her she needs to look in the Oxford. English. Dictionary. [cheers] Because it’s in there! It’s a word! [more cheers]
Q: [an older man in a round about way alludes to the Teachers’ Union/Wisconsin debacle and mentions something about a sign inviting Stephen and Jon to join their rally. Stephen tried to hurry him along, but it didn’t work] A: Ah, no, I wouldn’t go there. That’s not where my show needed to go at all. Q: Ok, but now that you’re going to be without this show, do you plan on going to events like that more?
A: The thing is, there aren’t going to be events /like/ that. They’re all very unique. But I’d have to see. I’m very interested in politics, so if there’s something I’d like to go to, I think I would.
Q: What’s your favorite song to sing?
A: Oh, there are so many great songs to sing! [then he sings some low, gospel sounding song that I wasn’t able to recognize, much to my chagrin. Beautifully, of course, and we all cheer]
Q: I just got done writing a 20 page paper at Northwestern about your show. A: That guy was doing it in high school! [laughter] Q: Yeah, I was just wondering if you ever did anything like that as work during your time at Northwestern, like write a paper on a TV show.
A: No, back when I went to school we had to do actual work. [cheers from the older half of the audience] Actually, I was a theatre major, so I didn’t really do any work. [in a flowery voice] I got up, did a sun salutation, stretched out my vocal chords, you know. Theatre major!
From a British chick who came all the way over just to ask this one question. [Stephen imitated her London accent to tell her how wonderful that is] Q: Where are Chuck and Geoffrey?
A: Oh, so you’ve seen Strangers? Then there’s something psychologically wrong with you too. [laughter] Chuck and Geoffrey are on the run, off doing whatever they’re doing. They’re cowards, they’re not going to do anything but be lovers.
Q: Do you plan on ever letting the character out on your new show?
A: No, the thing is, I’m not going to be a pundit once I leave, so he’s not coming. We’re all just going to get to slowly find out how much of me was really in him. [Stage manager Mark motions that Jon’s just hit his last commercial break before the toss] I guess he’ll just go off with his lover… Geoffrey. [laughter]
A: Alright! We’ve got a toss to do! [the music comes on and the staff nearly descends, but he cuts them off before telling us] Have a good show!
And then he’s swarmed by writers and election fact fetchers and makeup and hair ladies and sound guys and we don’t see Stephen for a few minutes.
The toss happens with no pre-toss, unfortunately, so no there’s unscripted Jon and Stephen banter to report on.
After they finished the toss, we watched the final seconds of The Daily Show (and awww-ed at Jon’s urging to continue on to watch Stephen), the credits, and the opening of The Colbert Report. Literally everyone in the studio was jamming along to the theme song. Stephen even did the (not actually an) eagle screech. There wasn’t any kind of media black out enforced on us (just a “no phones on in the studio” rule), so we knew there was a democrat blood bath going on outside, but despite that, the audience was way pumped. Stephen has that effect on an audience.
It was, of course, a live show. What you saw is what we saw (but you didn’t see me freaking out about the TARDIS on Andrew Sullivan’s laptop). There was some off-screen maneuvering of dropping a green screen down and getting a devil into place and covered with a green screen cape (that was red on the inside, clever prop masters), and stage manager Mark getting ready for a skull-stick and dagger hand off. That entire bit was done live too, there wasn’t any prerecorded part to it (and I stress that part, because I’ve heard a few people thinking otherwise).
The commercial break included a good bit of hand wiping, result handings, adjusting of the Social Tracker 8700, and some in seat dancing.
The next segment went off without a hitch, as you all saw – all hail the power of live television!
A few more results were handed over and Andrew Sullivan’s laptop table was adjusted and the regular interview table was pushed off the side to make way for the fireside chat chair and rug during the next commercial break. Then we were back into show mode for the interview.
What you saw is what we got, again.
Afterward there was an extra “Andrew Sullivan everybody!” and another round of cheering. The commercial break seemed really long this time. Stephen didn’t go back to his desk, and instead spent the time chatting with Mark and a few of the writers standing around the fireplace. As we had the entire night, the audience clapped along to the music playing overhead and it inspired some dancing on Stephen’s part, now that he wasn’t stuck behind the desk. That was probably my favorite part of the show. It was so “Stephen and the audience”. Nothing scripted, no rush to get it all in, just jamming to good music.
Then the time came for him to sit down in the chair of fireside chat-ness and say goodnight from his last election coverage. You heard us, the audience was nearly to tears in both laughter and sadness! Luckily, Mark reminded Stephen that he has another month’s worth of shows to do, so we were left on a high-ish note.
After the bit was done and the camera pulled out and the credits played over the monitors, Stephen got up and gave Mark a hug that turned into them rocking together in successful-last-live-election-coverage bliss. (This was Jake’s favorite part of the show because of the raw happiness that was just oozing off of the two of them.) Then he turned and moved to the other side of the stage (apparently that’s where the guy with a watch stands) and asked how far off we were time wise.
“We were right on time?!” Stephen gasped in disbelief launching the audience into another round of cheers.
Stephen then took one last question from the audience before saying goodnight.
Q: Who got you into Tolkien?
A: [I cannot, for the life of me, remember the guy’s name] He showed me the wonderful world if Tolkien. He saw that I was reading a lot if sci-fi at the time and so he handed me the book, said “I think you’ll like this.” It was… The Fellowship, I’m pretty sure, and I read it and [with the biggest geek grin] you know. I wasn’t going to not like it! Then though, I got invited down to New Zealand to actually be in the Hobbit [cheers] and when I was there Peter Jackson gave me this Balrog, original, first-rate Balrog, and the first thing I did was send it to him as a huge thank you. Because he started it all.
And we collectively aww-ed at his geeky sweetness and Stephen said his final goodnight and then we made our way out into the New York midnight. No one was up for hanging around for pictures because it was late and Tuesday and everyone had something to do tomorrow. Plus, at the rate Stephen got off of the set, we all kinda guessed he booked it as soon as he was able – he did have a show the next day (and judging by the “no parking – filming on the 5th of Nov.” sign outside, it was going to be a busy one).
It was a fantastic night even if it began with rushing out of the house, getting covered with hot chocolate, and wrestling with a MTA machine. I didn’t even get to ask my question (does the opening notes of the theme song sound like “Come All Ye Faithful” on purpose? Because, think about it, it does, and although it’s not really meant for information gathering, I feel like if I point it out it will be real or something), but it was probably the best thing I’ve ever done. I’m still buzzing with excitement.
Er… Um… Thanks for reading, and sorry it’s so long!