return to saturday, and the drew carey show.
The quote of the day:
Running news:
A small 3 mile run. I figure I should get my body into the habit of running every day
Here's the beach at Malibu:
I saw this Swim/Surf sign and the three guys posed by it:
Mitch, the flying disk expert, showed us how to throw correctly. Here he was doing some kind of trick shot, and he threw the disk before I had a chance to get a picture with it in his hand:
Here Darin and Scott watch in amazement as Mitch's throw hurtles toward them, showing no sign of veering wildly off-course or hitting the sand:
Here I flee in terror at the oncoming disk:
Today we didn't do much: Darin and Scott played computer games until they didn't want to anymore; then we went and had lunch at Mo's in Burbank.
Because we didn't get in to Whose Line Is It Anyway? last weekend, we got a special green card guaranteeing us entrance into any other show handled by Audiences Unlimited. We decided to keep with the Drew Carey theme and go to see a taping of his sitcom, The Drew Carey Show.
We had to be there before 6 ("One minute after six and your place cannot be guaranteed," said the phone lady) and they warned that the taping might be a few hours. Like, until 11. Which it did. (Ouch.) We saw the episode that's going to air here on November 4, and it concerns Drew's ex-fiancee marrying someone else.
They did every scene twice, usually rewriting dialogue in between takes of the scene. The show is done with 4 cameras, which means we can't see much of what's going on on the stage anyhow, but we enjoyed it anyhow. Well, the first 2.5 hours, at any rate; then things started to drag a little bit, not in the least because the final few scenes of the show were filmed on the "swing set" or part of the set that can be changed for every episode. Which, because it's the part of the set that isn't permanent, is way out of the audience's view--we had to watch the scenes being filmed on the monitors.
All in all, it was a pretty good show and I'm glad we went. And we won't go again for another couple of years or unless our friends pay us.
Basically, Darin and I were there for Ryan Stiles, who is simply hysterical no matter what he says or does or how many times he says or does it.
Most interesting possible happening: we think the two women in front of us made the groupie connection with Drew Carey, because a page came up and made some kind of arrangements with them...and not for the page, either. Groupie Tip Alert: one of them went up to the front when he was signing autographs and asked, "Hey, what are you doing later?" Drew evidently looked up and decided, "You."
Funniest comment: heard outside, as we were herded like little sheep toward the audience vans: "They do those scenes over and over again." Hey, they did them only twice, with a minimum of screw-ups on everyone's part. (The really amazing thing, right there--but this is TV; you have to get it right in one or two takes.) Perhaps this will give the public some understanding when they hear of Stanley Kubrick shooting 40, 50, 100 takes of a scene for Eyes Wide Shut. I'm amazed the actors can remember the lines, let alone what they mean, at that point.
After Drew Carey we went to dinner at--ugh--Jerry's Famous Deli in Studio City, the only place we could think of that was open at 11:30. We're sure there are more; we just don't know what they are (not usually going out to eat at that hour).
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