I haven't been to a taping since 2014, but of the ones I saw in this decade - 1 Kimmel, 1 Conan, 3 Ferguson, 1 @midnight and 1 Pete Holmes - most taped straight through. There may have been longer (or shorter) breaks than there would be during the broadcast.
Kimmel (2011) did a set change between the monologue and the following act. They also kept us penned between the end of the taping and the outdoor concert by the musical guest (by which time I think Kimmel was in the air flying somewhere). Ferguson (2011, 2014), as is well known, did a lot of back-to-back tapings, often doing shorter breaks than the commercials to make up time. He would also tape the cold open *after* the monologue. But otherwise things would be in sequence. One of the tapings did involve a musical guest that was pre-taped many moons previously. An exception to this was his last day of taping. It was a back-to-back, but the live portion of the open for the last episode (https://vimeo.com/115130249) was taped first. This was probably due to the logistics involved, and there was a live band, a choir and dancing. (This was the second take, FWIW) While the musical guest at the Conan taping I attended (2013) was in studio, Conan often has musical guests who were not taped at the same time as the rest of the show. The usual tell is whether or not he greets them on their stage after the perfomance. Same basic deal with the half-hours. Both @midnight and Pete Holmes taped straight through, though a sketch in the Pete Holmes episode had to be reshot, which they did before continuing. The whole episode was also taped a week or so before actually airing. David On Friday, December 1, 2017, 11:06:17 AM EST, Diner <[email protected]> wrote: I haven't been to many TV tapings in my life, but in the nineties I went to one Letterman, one Leno, and two Conans. When I told my brother-in-law that the shows I witnessed were complete shows that just taped all the way through from start to finish, he was shocked. On Thursday, November 30, 2017 at 5:32:07 PM UTC-5, Jon Delfin wrote: Colbert said nothing about his absence on Monday and Tuesday last night. Also a mystery, why Jon Batiste was dressed completely differently during the second act (SC and JT asking "big questions") than he was during the rest of the show. -- -- 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.
