| "As you get older, you become more conservative. I wear underwear now." |
[Feb. 16th, 2008|06:50 pm] |
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The/A Daily Show Panel at UNC
Accompanying picture post here.
Just got back from UNC, where Ashe and I got to go to a (freeeeee) Daily Show panel featuring John Oliver, Rob Riggle, Rory Albanese and, showing up midway through, LEWIS BLACK. There was also another person from TDS and some guy from SNL, and previously the Chapelle Show.
The panel was so amazing after being away from home and so live comedy-deprived. I am trying to remember all the funny/adorable/interesting bits. There were many of them.
+ At one point, John was explaining something and said "half six." Rory interrupted, "That means six thirty." And John, "We invented numbers."
+ Talking about sharing an office with Riggle, John described a sort of odd couple show, "A US Marine. An uptight Brit. In a 12-foot office space. How could they possibly get along?" Rob then shook his fist and went, "Oliveerrrrr!"
+ I think Rob was describing what he and John do all day (playing computer/video games, making up pointless funny bits unrelated to everything), and Rory said something about a bench press. John pretended to flex, and Rob said, "What's that, John?" And John said, "This is trouble. You are all in trouble."
+ Riggle talked about how during rehearsals Jon Stewart is really relaxed, so it makes you (as a correspondent) feel like you can be laid back too... which results in Jon cutting your bit during rewrites. "You really need to sell it," Riggle said. "...Actually, I just realized that. That could be helpful."
+ Riggle made the other rando TDS guy (He used to be an intern, and I think he was named Jon/John too) talk about the coolest part of his job. Apparently, before rewrites, Jon has to throw a football, and he has a special hallway where he always tosses a football with other Jon/John. (Rory said this used to be part of his job.) Rob said no one else is allowed in the hall or allowed to disturb Jon's game of catch. Too adorable.
+ Rob also mentioned a field piece he was working on yesterday in Berkeley. "Stomping on hippies," someone described it as. It's about these people trying to kick the Marines out of town.
+ Lewis Black surprised everyone by showing up part way through. He told a little story, saying it was more for the guys on stage "because I never get to see you guys." Apparently he did a parody of Chris Crocker/the "Leave Britney Alone" kid where he is crying about Huckabee. The panel laughed more than the audience, and Lewis said, "They appreciated it more than you guys, and that's why I told THEM!" Lewis then went on to say Huckabee doesn't exist. "Until he believes in evolution, he just doesn't exist."
+ I would just like to say that John cracked up at everything Lewis said, and it was pretty fucking adorable.
+ Rory made Lewis talk about his opinion of college students who affiliate with a political party. Lewis said college students shouldn't be worrying about that, that instead they should just be concerned with issues/things they care about. Either you are the same party as your parents: "well, don't YOU have a mind of your own!" Or you are the opposite party of your parents: "Fuck you! I'm a democrat!" He went on that a bit and ended, "As you get older, you become more conservative. I wear underwear now."
+ Rob told this really great story about his audition, which he thought went really badly. He said when he got in Jon was really relaxed, probably trying to make him comfortable too, and said something like how about you read through your first bit. Rob said he had never read from a teleprompter before, so he was reading really quickly and then the teleprompter just started scrolling quickly and then he would read even more quickly. "It was like I was racing the teleprompter. Who's going to win? Am I going to win? Are you? ...The teleprompter won." Rob said he had thought that was just a rehearsal before doing the segment properly, but then Jon said to go onto the next one, which freaked Rob out. He said he could only think about the first segment, and then it was like an out of body experience watching himself fail. (Rory, on the other hand, said everyone had thought Rob was amazing.)
+ Someone asked a question about taping Indecision live, and the panel discussed how they rarely ever have to stop filming anyway so it really isn't that different. Rob talked about how he's had the "pleasure" of stopping filming when he's fucked up so badly. Then he mentioned Stephen, and how he heard Stephen would call for the camera's to stop. (Ballsy.) Rory mentioned Stephen's amazing BANANA bit and how hilarious it was. He said it was actually even longer than what we've seen. He also mentioned a Steve Carell segment, where he had to eat a spoon of Crisco. They were going to replace the Crisco with cool whip, but Carell insisted on eating the actual Crisco... which is gross but hilarious.
+ John talked about his n-word segment with Larry Wilmore, saying re-runs bleeped the word which kind of destroys the point of the entire thing.
+ Lewis talked about how on Conan (I think) he was told he couldn't say "Martha Stewart's vagina" ("...That's a medical term.") and was told to use "cooter" instead ("Now that just sounds like I've been there.")
+ The SNL guy mentioned two funny things about censorship, which he said seemed almost arbitrary. He said once one of the lawyers approached them and said they couldn't use the word "cooter." "Then what do you want us to use instead? And this 50-year-old woman, she says, '...Snatch?'" In another case, he said in the phrase "[n-word] in a Cadillac" the word Cadillac was censored as not to offend the company.
+ There was this kind of clueless kid in the front row who tried to video tape the panel, but Rory told him (repeatedly) to put the camera away (because it was annoying, and they didn't want it to just end up on YouTube). (Note: Also a reason I don't have any pictures of the panel. It would have been really cool, but I didn't want to annoy them.) Anyway, they eventually let this kid ask a (really stupid) question, and when he did, Rory got out his cell phone and John got out his iPhone, and they leaned forward and pretended to tape the kid.
+ One kid went on and on and on about geekster rap and how the TDS should do a bit on it. Rory rejected the idea right out, but the kid would not shut up. "That wouldn't work on the Daily Show." "I disagree." "And that's why we're on stage." Rob and the SNL guy also mentioned how they don't like it when outside people try to give them ideas, because then it feels like it is automatically off limits even if they had thought of it already.
+ John said hilarious news always happens when TDS is on hiatus. He said he predicts a lot of great footage of Bush in Africa, awkwardly standing in the middle of a tribal dance (which John acted out while sitting in his chair).
+ Rory said whenever Jon Stewart says on the show that he has read an author's book... he has. That means a LOT of reading on top of already a lot of work, obviously, and Rory said Jon is a really fast reader. Sometimes he just can't find time to read a book, but Rory says Jon tries his best. Judging by the show, he succeeds most of the time.
+ After the show, but... some kid asked John Oliver to sign his chest, and John obliged. Afterward John said, "I feel like Bon Jovi." (Ashe has a picture of the exchange... paretty awesome.)
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After the show, Ashe and I got caught in all the people leaving the auditorium, which worked out as the panel ended up having to walk through the same way too. Ashe got a picture with Lewis Black (!!!!!), but he ran away really quickly so I couldn't ask for one too (lame). I think I'm okay with it though. The panel was being rushed to dinner, and they do have a show tonight. Then Ashe and I got to talk to John Oliver, who recognized Ashe right away! He got all chatty with Ashe, which was pretty cool. We took some pictures with him, and then a picture with Rob Riggle, with whom Ashe chatted about Del Close.
Theeee end.
I'll probably post my pics later once Ashe gets home. And I might update this post if I remember anything else interesting from the night. Or maybe I'll post the bits if I make a picture post too. |
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