The Daily Show: live
On the day that I learned I was definitely getting to move to NYC, I visited the Daily Show website and looked to see how I could get tickets to a taping of the Daily Show with Jon Stewart. Then, I got a date that seemed, back then, ages away: nearly 4 months later in January 2010. Well today was that day, so I skipped out of work for a few hours in the afternoon (fear not any Googlers reading this- back now and here a while. :)) and braved the NYC cold to catch the taping. What I learned: The warm-up guy Paul Mercuio was pretty funny. He made fun of a Investment Banker in the first row that ended with "Why do you kee p looking at your wife? Is she your attorney? Oh...she IS an attorney....Well, Sue me later." (you had to be there) They don't let you take pictures inside the studio and warn you about it repeatedly, so the only proof I have that I went is the picture of the entrance ticket attached. The studio is surprisingly small. Lesson: everything looks bigger on TV...