The Ellen Show
Posted on Friday, October 6th, 2006 at 9:49.
While in the hot tub, Arthur & I randomly met Kevin Leman. He works on The Ellen DeGeneres Show and offered tickets. We requested to attend a show while Adrienne would be visiting. Kevin worked his magic and we were VIP audience members at yesterday’s evening taping.
The guests included the three remaining teams on Dancing with the Stars, Leah Remini from King of Queens, Barry Watson from What About Brian, and Monica.
If you have ever watched The Ellen Show, you know that Ellen loves to dance and often gets the crowd dancing with her. I expected to do some dancing. However, I didn’t expect a half-hour dance-a-thon prior to the show taping. The women in the row in front of me were out of breath, older people were about to faint, and my ears were ringing from all the boom-boom music by the start of the show, but we were all pumped for Ellen’s grand entry.
Yesterday was my first experience being in a television studio audience outside of Emerson. The show reminded me of why I love live-to-tape TV. It’s been about six months since I have been on a studio shoot and I missed the adrenaline rush. I had just as much fun watching everything change during the commercial breaks as I did when the celebs were rambling. Ellen just has something magical about her and her show (with its 5 Emmys) is an experience.
I can record it on my Mac Mini + EyeTV 200 and put it on my home server which is accessible via DynDNS. EyeTV can export in most formats, including iPod Video.
I could TiVo it and send you a DVD of it if that would help.
Patrick