The daytime… of the night

Even though I’m a tremendous fan of David Letterman… he’s so much better than Leno… I’ve never attended a taping of his show. Well, that all changed on Monday! I submitted a ticket request several weeks ago when we planned our trip, but because of the Late Show’s taping schedule, the only day we could see the show was Monday. Not very hopefully, I submitted that as our only available date.

But they called… last Thursday the day before we left. So we showed up Monday, got our tickets, and watched the master run his show. It’s all very choreographed… we were reminded several times that our laughter was the soundtrack of the show… which was not really a problem because Dave was funny as was his first guest Riann Wilson (from The Office). The best line from one of the production assistants was {paraphrasing}, “If you find yourself on the fence thinking… ‘was that funny?’, go ahead and laugh your head off. You have the entire ride home to figure out if it was actually funny.”

The infamously cold theatre lived up to it’s reputation. Paul Shaffer and the band are fantastic. And you can tell that at his core, Letterman really is a bit of a curmudgeon! Which is probably what makes him so funny. He also seemed genuinely pleased and grateful to have the life and job that he has. And while there are many parameters/restrictions on the audience, I didn’t get the feeling that we were the burden for his stardom, but that as long as his crazy showbiz ride continues, we were welcome to come along.

Speaking of stardom… here’s a video of the monologue from Monday night. I make a very brief appearance in the audience shot after his joke about the women wearing “Kiss Me I’m $4000″ buttons (about 40 seconds from the start). I’m in the lower right hand side of the shot.
enjoy.

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This video was posted on Gizmodo today… every single commenter LOVED it!
The post was titled, “How to mod your parent’s house into a 60 foot slip and slide,” and everyone expected the same thing: a bunch of drunk morons falling off the top of the house and hurting themselves. Instead, we are treated to this great little video of a well-constructed (although freakin’ scary looking!) water slide that runs from the roof and ends in a pool. Nearly everyone has a safe landing and it looks as though they just constructed it to have a good time.

That’s just good clean fun! And while no parent in their right mind would green light this kind of a project if asked for their permission, it makes me feel pretty good inside to see these guys pull it off.

Cara surprised me last Saturday with a birthday trip on the Ski Train to Winter Park. Not only that, but that, but Dave, Nat, Russ, and Jeanne met us at Union Station and then Craiger met us up at Winter Park. It was awesome.

Craig and I took one final turn on the Alpine Slide before the train departed. All you really need to know it that we had a quick lesson about inertia with the two little kids in front of us when we got to the bottom of the hill.

And yes, that’s pure joy you see on my face!

But someday I’ll need a big time collegiate drumline. Does anyone know anyone?

This is just good times… just try to stay in your chair while this is playing.