Happy ThanksgivOMGCONAN

November 24th, 2006

When I first moved to New Jersey, I told myself that I had to see Conan O’Brien live as soon as possible. Well, after calling. And calling. And calling. I finally found available tickets, which just happened to be for a Thanksgiving show. Not having any other thanksgiving plans, I excitedly talked to an operator and, after holding for 10 minutes, had two tickets (all tickets are free)! The confirmation was emailed to me. Then, it was all a matter of waiting for a month until the show.

doot doot doot.

Finally, it’s thanksgiving! I print out the email thing, drive to new brunswick, take the train to penn, and find my way to the nbc studios. It was said to arrive no later than 12:45 for the 2p taping. We were at the studios at noon. We went up the escalator and showed someone the email; then they gave us each a ticket and a wristband and told us to come back at 12:45p. So, we checked out the building a little bit, I bought some Godiva ((there are two godiva stores in the building!)) then we wandered back to the spot at 12:45p.

There, lots of people were waiting for our numbers/letters to be called. After about five minutes they call our number and we are led to another area where we stand in line while they line everyone up and get all the numbers situated. We waited in this line about twenty minutes, then went through metal detectors and then finally was led into the studio.

It was sooooooooo neat! Neat and also illusion-crushing at the same time. But just seeing how a show like that runs is a great thing to observe. The show was live and filmed in real-time; there were commercial breaks, which the band played during. I think we left the studio around 3:15p.

Conan is the only show I would actually want to see taped live, but the experience alone was great. And since the tickets are free I see little reason for anyone to not go see a taping!

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