That show where Colbert showed the rehearsal monologue

[David Bruggeman]

Comedian Maria Bamford was scheduled for the last Late Show with Stephen Colbert taped in the Ed.  Turns out that she wasn't bumped for Dr. Sanjay Gupta.  They did tape the interview, but didn't air it.  Until they put it up on the YouTube Friday.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0EPTeHkZ0Gg

You might remember this show as the one where Colbert clearly used the rehearsal monologue, and was already into the liquor.  But for both his interviews, he seemed pretty clearheaded.  While it seems weird to me, could they have taped the interviews so early in the day that they were before rehearsal?

David

[stannc]

They could have taped the interview on a different day. Colbert is not as strict as Letterman was about airing a single show from beginning to end. Did Letterman ever piece together interviews from different days, except for a clip show?

-Stan

[David Bruggeman]

I was reading the Tweetybox as I was watching the original trainwreck, and Bamford gave the impression on her account that they taped the interview that day, and she found out much later it wouldn't air that night.  Of course, they could easily have taped both her interview and Dr. Gupta's before they shot the monologue.  Without an audience, it wouldn't matter so much.  In fact, I'd wager pre-taped interviews is a more common practice with talk shows in quarantine.

As for whether Letterman did something similar on his broadcast shows, I have no idea.

David

[Jon Delfin]

Colbert's interview with Stephen King had him sporting the other-side part hairdo he'd had one day a week before. Yeah, they're banking segments. 

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[Tom Wolper]

On Sun, May 10, 2020 at 11:21 PM stannc <sta...@gmail.com> wrote:

They could have taped the interview on a different day. Colbert is not as strict as Letterman was about airing a single show from beginning to end. Did Letterman ever piece together interviews from different days, except for a clip show?

Letterman didn't do the pre-tapes on different days as he wanted the show that was broadcast to be as close as possible to what was taped. Craig Ferguson would structure his tapings in the same way - mono;ogue, comedy bit, interview, musical or standup performance - but the show broadcast that night might have a different celebrity interview and/or performance.

[stannc]

CFerg was the first time that I had noticed it being done. He came back from commercial and was wearing a different suit.

I know that Letterman wanted to tape his show the same way that Johnny did. The in-studio clock was set at 11:30/5 and didn’t stop unless something went badly. The only concession that I saw Dave make in the later years was doing two shows on Wednesday or Thursday in order to have a new show on Friday.

-Stan

[Jon Delfin]

[sidebar] Speaking of time, all last week, Seth Meyers's show started at 12:36 instead of 12:37, As of tonight, the DVR program guide shows that as the official start time. NBC was having trouble filling all of the ad time for Fallon, so they cut "Tonight" by a minute? Does anybody know about this?

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[Tom Wolper]

On Mon, May 11, 2020 at 10:03 PM stannc <sta...@gmail.com> wrote:

CFerg was the first time that I had noticed it being done. He came back from commercial and was wearing a different suit.

I know that Letterman wanted to tape his show the same way that Johnny did. The in-studio clock was set at 11:30/5 and didn’t stop unless something went badly. The only concession that I saw Dave make in the later years was doing two shows on Wednesday or Thursday in order to have a new show on Friday.

There was a time that Letterman taped the Friday show on Monday. which makes sense as it's the beginning of the week and Dave and the staff have the most energy. Obviously it has its drawbacks for a topical humor show. In 2008 I applied for tickets for a Monday and was told I had the option of the Monday show taping at 3:30 and the Friday show taping at 8:00.

I can't speak to the timing of Carson's show but the Late Show tapings ran a little long, usually if they needed to pad somewhere if they had to make a cut somewhere else. I remember another taping I went to where the show ended around 4:50. The first guest was John Cusack. The interview was rambling and went on and on. When I saw the broadcast version later that night most of it had been cut.

[Darren Glass]

The Daily Show was taping interviews on different days from the rest of the show dating back to the Kilborn days.  The first time I got tickets to a taping (1998?) the middle segment was a field piece and the guest was pretaped, so the whole thing was somewhat underwhelming.  On the flip side, once I went to a Jon Stewart era taping where I got to watch three different guests.  Additionally, that night something was going on behind the scenes so Colbert came out and joined the warmup for close to an hour.  All in all, it was like three hours that we were in the studio..

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[Jim Ellwanger]

In the before times, Conan did a lot of "winking" to the audience when interviews were taped separately, or when he taped one day's monologue on the previous day. (At present, he's not even bothering to match outfits between segments.)

I was in the studio audience for this, when the musical guest had been taped earlier. The intro with Conan saying "oh, you'll see him" did actually air that way, but the closing got cut off on the air version before Conan started shaking hands with the curtain.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ozIfSxda0Q

Part of the clip refers back to Timothy Olyphant talking during his interview segment about how he got underwear when he was a guest on "Ellen."

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