"You’d think that hundreds of people would have better things to do on a Friday night than go to a panel discussion at a museum. But the auditorium at the Paley Center for Media was packed elbow-to-elbow for the panel discussion “Writers Speak: A Potentially Regrettable Evening with the Writers of ‘The Daily Show,’” part of the fifth annual New York Comedy Festival last week."
-- from today's "City Room" blog, 12:06 p.m., by Sewell Chan & Jennifer 8. Lee.
Elbow to elbow? Poetic image. Anyway, kids, don't apologize for being at a panel discussion at a museum on a Friday night. It sounds like you had a really good time! Thanks for filling us in with your City Room post, "Deep Secrets of the Daily Show," a 2,399-word notebook dump that even the most bored office temp won't have time to finish.
Another highlight:
"This was no dry forum, though. The panelists were grown-up versions of those guys who sat in the back of class making wisecracks, and the discussion was a Ping-Pong exchange of zingers, quips, one-upping and wry understatement."
Zingers and quips! Wry understatement! Was there no knee-slapping? Guffawing? Or did you cut for space to make room for the minute-by-minute account of a typical day at the Daily Show? (The most memorable moment of that sequence: "10 to 11:30 a.m.: The writers write, using the themes and ideas discussed." )
And this meta-moment:
At one point during the discussion, ["Daily Show" writer Sal] Albanese looked at City Room’s reporters and asked if we were transcribing everything they were saying (almost) and whether we were live-blogging (no, not on a Friday night).
One can only hope that Chan and Lee continue their comprehensive coverage of the comedy festival, and don't find themselves distracted by any actual news events.
Monday, November 10, 2008
Sewell Chan and Jennifer 8. Lee Go On A Date!
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