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#1

A question about the HBO broadcast of Your Welcome America

Posted: 3/14/09 at 8:27pm

For the HBO broadcast of Your Welcome America, did they change the start time so that it can be filmed live, or did they already film it with an audience at an earlier date and are they just airing it tonight?
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#3

re: A question about the HBO broadcast of Your Welcome America

Posted: 3/14/09 at 8:38pm

Don't mean to ruin the illusion of a 'live' broadcast but tonight's 8pm performance went on as normal. Yes, tonight's HBO 'live' broadcast is from tonight's performance, but with that one-hour delay. This one-hour delay allows for the director and editors to edit what was filmed earlier, etc.

This is always the case for 'live' broadcasts of numerous musical performances (concerts on HBO, Showtime, etc., LIVE FROM LINCOLN CENTER broadcasts, etc.).

NOTE: today's 2pm matinee was cancelled so it obvious filming took place as well this afternoon. Elements of this afternoon's filming will be combined with tonight's performance footage. Remember... all this filming took place today so it is somewhat 'live'.
#13

re: A question about the HBO broadcast of Your Welcome America

Posted: 3/14/09 at 10:28pm

I agree. I laughed 20% of the show. If I would have paid to see this, I'd have been PISSED.
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#15

re: A question about the HBO broadcast of Your Welcome America

Posted: 3/14/09 at 10:39pm

I agree. I laughed 20% of the show. If I would have paid to see this, I'd have been PISSED.
"The Spectacle has, indeed, an emotional attraction of its own, but, of all the parts, it is the least artistic, and connected least with the art of poetry. For the power of Tragedy, we may be sure, is felt even apart from representation and actors. Besides, the production of spectacular effects depends more on the art of the stage machinist than on that of the poet."
--Aristotle
#16

re: A question about the HBO broadcast of Your Welcome America

Posted: 3/14/09 at 10:39pm

I realize after watching the broadcast, that the only reason I enjoyed this show live was because I went to the first preview on Inauguration Day and the show provided the right amount of catharsis to bookend the eight year chapter that had literally just ended.
#19

re: A question about the HBO broadcast of Your Welcome America

Posted: 3/14/09 at 10:46pm

LAME beyond belief.

When those on this board do not think its funny it really is not. I am glad we did not spend a dime to see this. Obviously when he did this schtick on SNL his writers put funny lines in his mouth. He had no one to blame for this fiasco but himself.

The dancing Secret Service man was one of the worst parts of the show.
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#20

re: A question about the HBO broadcast of Your Welcome America

Posted: 3/14/09 at 10:47pm

I just saw it and it was definitely fun--I laughed a lot more than twice--but I'm still glad I didn't pay huge money for it...I really think that the energy of being there would've really improved it from seeing it on the small screen, though. Standup comedy is always more electric in person...
#21

re: A question about the HBO broadcast of Your Welcome America

Posted: 3/14/09 at 10:49pm

But this wasn't standup. The only part that was standup was the very end.

This was UNWATCHABLE.

But kudos to Ferrell for managing to sell out the Cort and becoming the hit of Broadway. Gotta give the man credit.
#24

re: A question about the HBO broadcast of Your Welcome America

Posted: 3/14/09 at 11:05pm

I didn't love it AT ALL, but I thought it was okay. Some parts, especially the beginning, were completely and so unnecessarily crude and rude, but I laughed at other parts. Yes, because some of it was unbelievably stupid, but other things I thought were genuinely funny.

And I LOVED the Secret Service guy, the nickname part, and Condi Rice, his San Francisco Treat. re: A question about the HBO broadcast of Your Welcome America

But taste is taste, and I guess I have bad taste, because I liked it.
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Updated On: 3/14/09 at 11:05 PM

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