funny monday
1:27 p.m.
when i tried taking a nap on friday before the partying, i was awoken by some dude named john. my mom had texted me to say he would be calling, but since i was asleep, i didn't get the heads up.
turns out, he was from letterman, and calling about my reservation request. dan was really keen on seeing letterman above leno, for example, so i wanted to make sure i got em. it was weird - i had already secured conan and leno tickets, so i was used to the process.
but this time they asked me a trivia quesition and made sure i was a huge fan and was superexcited to go. of course, i made an educated guess and got it right, and feined excitement, and within moments i got tix.
so the show was on monday. we checked out of the hotel, left our baggage in the lockup and headed midtown to get on way.
we secured a spot in the audience, which didn't really mean shit cuz they still lined up people randomly. and then headed out to get food.
we didn't even realize it, but we were superclose to the food truck from the night before, and since he bestowed upon us a load of sauce, he deserved our business again. so we headed over, bought our gyros, and returned to the scene of the crime - in front of the sheraton, where our food remains still littered the ground from the night before.
and then, we headed back to check in for showtime.
...
well, the thing about having gone to tv school, we are pretty aware of the PAs hyping up the audience etc. and could see which PAs were like the people we went to school with.
needless to say, it was overkill. it felt so forced to be cheering and clapping that it was like overcompensating. i actually fell asleep during the first half of sharon stone's first segment. and trekked on through seth myers and wyclef jean/cyndi lauper. it was pretty underwhelming, but hey.
after the show, we returned to the hi ex to grab our stuff and cabbed it to jason's before heading to dan's comedy show.
it was an asian themed show, and dan got us in for free. linda came! and that was really sweet because i def wanted to see her before we left. this chick - allie wong i think her name was - was my favourite of the whole night and redeemed both asian and female comedians for me. she was awesome.
it was funny to see how much racist humour was dished out. it was to be expected.
afterward, we headed right around the corner to katz's so dan could eat a $15 sandwich. the pickles were delish. thats pretty much alls i ate for dins. and linda and i drank some more.
at that point, we were on good time to head up to meet mo mo, bo bo, and jason to catch a free show at the UCB. for dan's first cs experience, it was great to have jason suggest catching the ucb.
it was a pretty good line up. a pretty good day of laughs for free.
even though we were sleeping on the ground, it was a pretty great since jason was a swell host and centrally located. i was all laughed out and it was time to sleep.
turns out, he was from letterman, and calling about my reservation request. dan was really keen on seeing letterman above leno, for example, so i wanted to make sure i got em. it was weird - i had already secured conan and leno tickets, so i was used to the process.
but this time they asked me a trivia quesition and made sure i was a huge fan and was superexcited to go. of course, i made an educated guess and got it right, and feined excitement, and within moments i got tix.
we secured a spot in the audience, which didn't really mean shit cuz they still lined up people randomly. and then headed out to get food.
we didn't even realize it, but we were superclose to the food truck from the night before, and since he bestowed upon us a load of sauce, he deserved our business again. so we headed over, bought our gyros, and returned to the scene of the crime - in front of the sheraton, where our food remains still littered the ground from the night before.
and then, we headed back to check in for showtime.
...
well, the thing about having gone to tv school, we are pretty aware of the PAs hyping up the audience etc. and could see which PAs were like the people we went to school with.
needless to say, it was overkill. it felt so forced to be cheering and clapping that it was like overcompensating. i actually fell asleep during the first half of sharon stone's first segment. and trekked on through seth myers and wyclef jean/cyndi lauper. it was pretty underwhelming, but hey.
after the show, we returned to the hi ex to grab our stuff and cabbed it to jason's before heading to dan's comedy show.
it was an asian themed show, and dan got us in for free. linda came! and that was really sweet because i def wanted to see her before we left. this chick - allie wong i think her name was - was my favourite of the whole night and redeemed both asian and female comedians for me. she was awesome.
it was funny to see how much racist humour was dished out. it was to be expected.
afterward, we headed right around the corner to katz's so dan could eat a $15 sandwich. the pickles were delish. thats pretty much alls i ate for dins. and linda and i drank some more.
at that point, we were on good time to head up to meet mo mo, bo bo, and jason to catch a free show at the UCB. for dan's first cs experience, it was great to have jason suggest catching the ucb.
it was a pretty good line up. a pretty good day of laughs for free.
even though we were sleeping on the ground, it was a pretty great since jason was a swell host and centrally located. i was all laughed out and it was time to sleep.
