I don't normally watch the show because I loathe Elisabeth Hasselbeck and think Sherri Shepherd is a giant waste of space. Sweet, but utterly useless. Still, I thought it would be fun to go to a live studio taping as I hadn't been to one before. We lucked out as far as guests. Both Bill Maher and Dr. Drew Pinski were on the show. So was Kevin Farley, hawking his new right-wing Michael Moore parody An American Carol, but we won't discuss him.
Bill was ruthless in his assessment of Sara Palin (I laughed so hard I almost thought I was going into labor). When the conversation turned to religion, things got even more interesting and not a little heated between Bill, Elisabeth and Sherri. See for yourself.
Mr. T beat me relentlessly the entire episode. I'd like to think he was trying to bust out of my gut so he could choke the living shit out of Sherri and Elisabeth.
Dr. Drew was dreamy. Kayly and I both remarked on how tall he is. Not that he appears short on TV, but he's really, really tall! He's a tall drink of Jewish water. Mm mm mm. He was on with a woman who's a recovering sex addict.
There was a wonderful moment where Joy jokingly asked how she, too, could become a sex addict. She stopped laughing when Dr. Drew answered that she'd first need to be sexually abused in childhood. Honestly--do these people not do any research? Even the warm-up guy who keeps the crowd going between segments was cracking jokes about it. Kayly and I just cringed.
Ethan taped the episode for me, but we're barely visible in the audience, small as it is. There's one frame where you can kind of make out the back of my head and part of Kayly's and another frame where I can pick out fuzzy lumps that I know are the 4 of us, only because I know where we were sitting and what colors we were wearing.
There was an awkward moment during Bill's appearance (the first segment on Palin--below) where an audience member with a medical condition (not sure what it might have been, perhaps Tourette's or something similar?) emitted a loud squeal. She had been making similar sounds periodically while waiting in line to be seated. She was escorted out during the following commercial break. It was handled very respectfully by The View staff and her chaperone seemed to be very understanding. I felt badly for her that she wasn't able to see the remainder of the show after waiting in line so long.
However, the girls and Bill had no idea what the source of the noise was, so their reactions are actually quite funny taken in context. It happens around 4:21 seconds into the clip, so feel free to fast forward to that point.
Joy sits bolt upright. Sherri's eyes bug out of her head and Bill just tosses a casual glance in the direction of the noise (he's used to disruptions from the audience).
All in all, it was loads of fun. Thanks again to Kayly for the ticket and experience!
Ethan met me at the train station and we had a lovely lunch al fresco at From Scratch where I regaled him with my tales of the day. Then we went home and took a gigantic nap and snuggled in front of the TV to catch up on episodes of Fringe and watch the beginning of The House on Garibaldi Street about the capture of Adolf Eichmann in Argentina by Mossad Agents. Mossad is hebrew for "badass." OK, not really, but it should be...We started dozing off in the middle so we taped the rest of it for tonight.
I had a fantastic day. Between being too tired to go anywhere or do anything and the crappy weather we'd been having for days, it was so good to get out of the house and soak up some sunshine. I didn't realize until yesterday what a horrendous case of cabin fever I had been nursing.
I have a coffee date with my friend Abi tomorrow, so that will get me out of the house once again. Looking forward to it.
And onto my 2 favorite subjects--Casey Anthony and Sara Palin.
- If you go to the Orlando Sentinel Web site for the case, you can read a great article on the contents of the recent court documents that were released as well as see photos taken from Casey's Photobucket site. What will you learn from these 2 things? 1) Her parents were extremely suspicious for quite some time before the police were even involved, and 2) Casey is a shameless party girl and, apparently, a proud patriot as evidenced by several shots of her wrapped in nothin' but Ol' Glory!!
- I giddily anticipate tomorrow night's Veep debate. I hope it turns out to be just as much of a train wreck for Ms. Palin as I've fantasized it will be. If I weren't preggers, I'd make a game out of drinking every time she drops a G or stops mid-sentence when she realizes that what she's saying makes absolutely no sense and she just sounds idiotic.
