EXCLUSIVE: Craig Ferguson Show Paying Audience Members!
CliffB
Posted on Feb 25, 2010 @ 04:14PM
The mountains of praise Craig Ferguson is receiving for his “no
audience” trial show may be undeserved: Ferguson is the only late
night show to pay audience members, RadarOnline.com has exclusively
learned.
“The Craig Ferguson Show is currently using a service for their
audience procurement,” an insider tells RadarOnline.com. “They have
100 seats, of which 10 are reserved for house guests, and 30-40
members are through requests for tickets. The rest of the seats, about
50-60, are each paid for by the show. At around $20 per person, that’s
almost $1,000 per hour-long taping, which is one expensive laugh
machine.”
Ferguson claimed the quiet set was a “nod to his predecessor, Tom
Snyder, who went audience free for years,” but in reality, insiders
tell RadarOnline.com that the show simply can’t fill the seats and
wants to save money.
“No one else in late night pays for any portion of their audience.
There’s beyond enough of a demand for tickets to Jay Leno, David
Letterman, Jimmy Kimmel and Jimmy Fallon,” said our source. “They
regularly have too many people who want to attend,” adding that their
studios are much larger, averaging around 200 seats or more.
“Why Craig has to pay people to sit through his show is beyond me.
It’s even more funny that when he stopped, everyone is lauding him for
‘breaking the mold.’ He hasn’t done anything original!” laughed our
source. “This was a decision based solely on need.”
Ok, but we still think he’s hilarious.
Micah
> EXCLUSIVE: Craig Ferguson Show Paying Audience Members!
> Posted on Feb 25, 2010 @ 04:14PM
I'd ask for a link, but it really doesn't matter. That's not true. At
worst, the On-Camera Audiences or whoever organizes the free tickets
may be getting paid, but please.
- Micah
Micah
http://www.radaronline.com/exclusives/2010/02/exclusive-craig-ferguson-show-paying-audience-members
I'll rephrase - It seems silly. I certainly wasn't paid when I went.
Maybe I'm just jealous.
- Micah
F/32 Eurydice
Nobody watches Ferguson any more, because he's a faggot. He
squandered the best start any tv comedian ever had, just by acting
queer. He simply isn't funny any more, and hasn't been for a long
time. Faggotry is not funny; it's disgusting and abnormal.
JRStern
wrote:
http://www.radaronline.com/exclusives/2010/02/exclusive-craig-ferguson-show-paying-audience-members
but he says they get free candy, too!
Twibil
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> EXCLUSIVE: Craig Ferguson Show Paying Audience Members!
AND IN FURTHER NEWS: Sarah Palin announced today that after she's
swept into office her first act as President will be to kill every
Liberal's fist-born son!
It must be true, 'cause I read it somewhere on the web.
Sally
It's nonsense, based on the prices his Coral Springs, Florida
appearance on March 16 is going for. They have two tickets left...one
for over $100, and the other for over $200. Hey, it was CliffB who
posted. I thought, mercifully, that he was gone. Evidently, he's
desperate for attention.
http://events.pbpulse.com/coral-springs-fl/events/show/88398758-craig-ferguson
Sally
James Langdell
It sounds like the show pays an outside firm $20 to find each people
to
attend a given taping, rather than paying audience members that $20
to put up with the show.
Two reasons I can think of why Craig Ferguson's show farms out
the job of filling many of its seats:
1. It costs money to process and follow up with audience ticket
requests.
The expenses and additional staffers are reduced when some of the
seat-filling responsibility is outsourced. And it sounds like the LLS
staff is kept smaller than most other shows. Less staff time is spent
filling a few seats, in a way that still enables them to respond to
non-local
viewers who request tickets.
2. I have the impression that Craig's show's taping schedule is more
erratic
than most other talk shows. They seem to do a lot of
shows recorded out of synch with the days they'll be aired, and even
recording different segments of a night's show on different days with
different audiences. Calling on an outside firm that can fill some
seats at
any odd time with locally obtained people takes a big burden off
the show's staff.
--James
gullive...@yahoo.com
> Nobody watches Ferguson any more, because he's a faggot. He
> squandered the best start any tv comedian ever had, just by acting
> queer. He simply isn't funny any more, and hasn't been for a long
> time. Faggotry is not funny; it's disgusting and abnormal.
Rarely do you get a chance to see someone wear their latent
homosexuality on their sleeve, but here we have a classic example.
F/32 Eurydice
Twibil
>
>
> It's nonsense, based on the prices his Coral Springs, Florida
> appearance on March 16 is going for.
Of *course* it's nonsense, Sally. Cliffie posted it.
QED
~Pete
Twibil
>
>
> > Rarely do you get a chance to see someone wear their latent
> > homosexuality on their sleeve, but here we have a classic example.
>
> In other words, faggots are really straight.
Heh.
Look up "Straw Man Argument" if you ever puzzle out how to use Google.
F/32 Eurydice
You're the one who needs to look up "Straw Man Argument" and puzzle
out Google, you phony.
Twibil
>
>
> > > > Rarely do you get a chance to see someone wear their latent
> > > > homosexuality on their sleeve, but here we have a classic example.
>
> > > In other words, faggots are really straight.
>
> > Heh.
>
> > Look up "Straw Man Argument" if you ever puzzle out how to use Google.
>
> You're the one who needs to look up "Straw Man Argument" and puzzle
> out Google, you phony.
Heh. (Again.) Despite Usenet cliche' #3 that states "Anything I post
automatically becomes true.", you still don't know what a Straw Man
argument is.
When you posted "In other words" and then followed it up with
something that *you* made up -and that the OP never said, or even
implied- you used a Straw Man argument. A type of argument that's only
good for one thing: making it's author look like an idiot.
Thanx for the free entertainment, Poopsie.
gullive...@yahoo.com
understanding what was said about him, and not responding
appropriately, or even on topic.
JRStern
<noway...@gmail.com> wrote:
>Heh. (Again.) Despite Usenet cliche' #3 that states "Anything I post
>automatically becomes true.", you still don't know what a Straw Man
>argument is.
I never lie, and I'm always right.