On Thursday, September 17, 2015 at 10:52:16 AM UTC-4, Bob Jersey wrote: > > > M-D November, in part: >> >> - Audience warm up duties were handled by Paul Mucurio, a veteran of >> several Comedy Central specials and, at one time, the TDS warmup comic. >> His warmup got somewhat hijacked by an elderly Chinese woman. >> >> > Paul *Mercurio* is a good-looking Australian-born actor/dancer who was in > Baz Luhrmann's *Strictly Ballroom*, and a former judge on the Aussie and > NZ versions of *DWTS*. Paul *Mecurio* (his family originally spelled it > like the Aussie guy) is a Rhode Island native who (ostensibly unlike the > guy from *The League* in another post?) worked in investment banking and > corporate law before switching to comedy. >
The second guy. He actually hinted at his career in law while doing some crowd work during the warmup. > > - After about 15 min, Stephen goes off stage to set himself for the top of >> the show, and Stay Human performs another song, which transitions into the >> opening sequence - that's why Jon Batiste is never on the bandstand when >> the show starts - he likes working the room, and usually ends up stage >> right when taping starts. >> > > Someone (camera-op? sound guy?) is seen scrambling along the upper walkway > above the band just as one of the main cams is panning from near there > towards the big Late Show sign above the 'garage door'. You can always just > see him for a split second at the opening. > I was really surprised that the wasn't a more obvious transition into the taping. The band was just playing like normal, then all of a sudden they counted off the start of Stephen's play-on music and the stage manager made the "whoop it up" signal at us with his script. > > - At the end of the show, the band (who were not on the bandstand during >> the musical guest performance) migrated to the front of the stage to >> perform the end credit song (which I think is called "Humanism") - Stephen >> comes down center and sings the chorus with Jon & the band, and the band >> essentially second-lines out through the audience into the lobby. End of >> taping. >> > > Whatever visual credits for the band only mention "Humanism", which is > also over the opening titles/animation/Stephen-as-his-own-announcer... I > wonder where SC's entrance song is from. > > Ah. I had assumed "Humanism" was the end title, but it turns out to be "I'm From Kenner" (off Batiste's "My N.Y." album). Not sure about the play-on music - I'm still searching for that one. Batiste likes to work the room, since the Harmoniboard gives him the >> freedom to roam, and he'll do a full lap of the orchestra and end up in the >> balcony by the end of the break, but don't be fooled - he's an amazing >> keyboardist and showed it on a number of occasions. >> >> >> > I never did have the time to look up the name of the instrument. As mother > would say, *sanks*. > My wife managed to sneak in the question as we were walking out. She'd actually seen Batiste play with Bonerama a few years back, and I think she'd met him at that point, but I don't think he remembered her. -- -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
