In any case...
I had a good time at the taping of "Chelsea Lately". I met up with Cason down at LACC and then we motored on out to the studio where we waited. And waited. And waited. The tickets said to be in line by 2:15, so we got there around 1:30 - and there were already a couple of people in front of us. The security guards started passing out the small bins for us to put our jewelry, belts, etc. (anything metal) in around 2:15, but the line to start going through the metal detector didn't start moving until around 2:40. They finally started seating people in the studio a little after 3:00, and then after the requisite warm-up by the warm-up comedian, they started the show/taping around 3:20. And since it basically ran in real time, we were done a little before 4:00.
It really is/was a small studio - only 85 people were let in for the taping. i was being "good" and left my camera in the car as the tickets/website instructed, but, of course, as soon as we got in there it seemed that everyone else started taking out their cameras and camera phones and started snapping away. Ah, well...
Her panelists for the first part of show were comedians Brad Wollack, Finesse Mitchell and Bob Marley (not
that Bob Marley), and her special guest today was Poppy Montgomery from "Without A Trace".
We ended up getting seated in the third row, and if all the audience shots are kept, we should be easily spotted a few times during the show. "Chelsea Lately" airs tonight at 11:30 on E! Needless to say, there are at least four DVRs/TiVos on stand-by for tonight's airing.
