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in a nutshell. :>

Before Leno leaves the Tonight Show next year, in a rare example of daring, mom suggested she would like to see him in person at least once.

After some investigation, it turns out you write in for tickets asking for any of three choices of days, and two months later they send you one of those random days. I guess this rules out people knowing and scrambling for dates based on the guests of the show.

We got sorta lucky and were assigned today, so, we got to see David Spade, Jordana Spiro, and (d'oh!) ColdPlay :D

It was not Leno's funniest night, on camera anyway... asking about Spade's mom's house in Arizona. I hadn't known before that he did the audience warm-up too, and this is where he was funniest tonight. Melendez was fairly funny also, and the band was good. Nice to hear it play instead of commercials. I think I got the biggest laugh when set up a test to compare who would be the best at siphoning gas... a trombone player, or a smoker.

We got there around 11am, since we thought ColdPlay would fill the place up too fast (they overbook). There had been a number of people camped out overnight, but not enough to cause a huge problem. They let us in about 3:15 and kapow!... they really get the show going fast! Afterwards (since this was a "concert series" band) they took us outside to hear the band do two songs underneath butterfly shaped confetti. It was all wrapped up by 5:20pm.

I don't know if we got on camera, but chances are that my distinctive n fun laugh (so I'm told) will be sprinkled about the soundtrack ^v^ .

Fun day, but yes... pretty much a whole day! So come check it out tonight... ColdPlay is on Leno... wooot!!

Date: 2008-07-18 04:44 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] loveyouenola.livejournal.com
Ohhhh... Sounds fun! Glad your mum felt daring! :D

Date: 2008-07-18 04:57 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] genmaicha.livejournal.com
Eee, Coldplay! :D

Date: 2008-07-18 06:34 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] http://users.livejournal.com/snocat_/
haha small world... I was there too :) I took home a handfull of tissue paper butterflies ;)

Date: 2008-07-18 10:18 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] secret-wolver.livejournal.com
What a fun experience that must have been.

Date: 2008-07-18 01:29 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] taffypinkdino.livejournal.com
thats awesome!

Date: 2008-07-18 03:08 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] grrouth.livejournal.com
Sounds like fun times! :)

Date: 2008-07-19 06:06 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] c-eagle.livejournal.com
Holy Moley! Did you do the whole show or just the music part... ooo.. and did you get autographs when they came out to meet the fans at noon? (also have a pocket full of butterflies) ^v^ ... thanks for peekin' in!

Date: 2008-07-19 08:19 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] http://users.livejournal.com/snocat_/
We ended up being able to see both the show and the music. It was nice :) Nah, we missed the autographs... we had standby tickets, so we didn't get in line 'till 1:30ish. I saw a fan video on Youtube of the meet 'n greet, tho, so I can pretend that I was there ;)

Date: 2008-07-19 09:40 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] hastka.livejournal.com
hehe, cool :)

Date: 2008-07-24 09:36 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kaysho.livejournal.com
I missed it! Did you record it so you could test for your laugh? :)

Date: 2008-07-27 10:54 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] c-eagle.livejournal.com
heh yeah, we saw it indeed... but oddly-nuff I couldn't hear it, so maybe our section wasn't mic'd as sensitively.. ah well, was fun ennyway :9

Date: 2008-07-30 08:10 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] hegdish.livejournal.com
Glad to hear you got to see the Tonight Show! It was totally my dream to see Carson years ago but I never got to. :(
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