Nancy Pelosi was being interviewed on Colbert last night live from Chicago's 4,000-seat Auditorium Theatre, where the upper balcony gives you the view of dots on the stage, when some Gaza war protester starts screaming at her while she's talking--Colbert stops the interview and tosses to a commercial, where i assume security escorted the protester out of the theater--when they come back more protesters are screaming at her, causing presumably bleeps (on delay, of course), Colbert pleading to let her speak and finally wrapping up the interview when it's obvious it's not going to stop--they kept quiet for his other guest, Hakeem Jeffries (no relation)--clip in link:
https://chicago.suntimes.com/movies-and-tv/2024/08/21/stephen-colbert-protest-nancy-pelosi-chicago-dnc-late-show-jb-pritzker-hakeem-jeffries?utm_medium=sms&utm_source=subtext&utm_campaign=DNC-group-chat All of this is why all I could think of was "Get her, Dave!" at the Chicago Theatre when Letterman was there and Oprah was the guest. As much as it's great to have 4,000 people chanting "STEE-PHEN! STEE-PHEN!", theaters that size are harder to control the crowd, especially considering that we know that protesters are in town for the DNC. Now I realize that "TDS" is using the Athenaeum Theatre (a surprise to me, considering that since Noah was there in 2016 the church that owns the theater has changed the management team to one headed by a rightwinger who wants the theater's programming to reflect "traditional Catholic values" and supposedly told someone that he did not want "homosexuals" in the building), but the Studebaker around the corner from the Auditorium is available, the two Goodman spaces are available, the theater at Water Tower Place is available and the Steppenwolf Ensemble Theatre is available (it's a theater-in-the-round, but they can work around that--the mainstage there has Rachel Bloom's one-woman show right now). All of them smaller and easier to stop possible audience disruption. -- 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]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/8473f874-b5ae-436d-8b8b-af162b88c045n%40googlegroups.com.
