See an episode of a TV show live

“I think that’s what bugged me about the whole thing the most was the audience response felt somewhat scripted. If we all went ahhhh for example after one take they might ask us to laugh during the next one. If they really wanted to get an honest audience reaction I am not sure telling us how to react was the best way to go about that. Still it was really neat to be on the Connors set and seeing the iconic couch and the cast introductions in the beginning were almost worth it. I say almost because the taping really drug on and ultimately it took 3 hours to film 22 minutes of TV. It wasn’t even 22 minutes because three of the scenes were pre-recorded and as interesting as it was to watch folks work their craft towards the end I did get pretty tired.”

“Set wise, I was shocked to see how close up the table is to the floor audience. On camera, there must be some forced perspective because it does seem like a larger gap in camera than in real life. Also, due to the microphones only picking up the audio feed for the actual broadcast, it was sometimes difficult to hear what the hosts were saying since I sat in the very top row lol. [...] On a final note, I got to see Paul desperately try to tell Joy to wrap segment one, he kept spinning his hand for about a minute or two, as the robot topic was eating up much of their time and they had to cut to commercial. They even brought out a card with a large lettering of WRAP to tell her. It was cool to see the dynamic of live TV up close.”