A question about the HBO broadcast of Your Welcome America
A question about the HBO broadcast of Your Welcome America
winston89
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/18/06
#1A question about the HBO broadcast of Your Welcome America
Posted: 3/14/09 at 8:27pmFor 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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#2re: A question about the HBO broadcast of Your Welcome America
Posted: 3/14/09 at 8:31pmIt's live tonight.
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BrodyFosse123
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#2re: 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'.
#3re: A question about the HBO broadcast of Your Welcome America
Posted: 3/14/09 at 8:41pm
From telecharge:
Dates & Times Exceptions
Time Change: Saturday - March 14 @ 9pm
No Performance: Saturday - March 14 @ 2pm
This is a live broadcast.
#4re: A question about the HBO broadcast of Your Welcome America
Posted: 3/14/09 at 8:43pmBrody I hate to ruin the illusion of your knowledge, but.... yeah Frogs just did.
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blaxx
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/28/05
#5re: A question about the HBO broadcast of Your Welcome America
Posted: 3/14/09 at 8:43pmYou're
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BrodyFosse123
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/27/06
#6re: A question about the HBO broadcast of Your Welcome America
Posted: 3/14/09 at 8:45pm
I stand corrected. A friend at HBO told me otherwise. So much for reliable sources. 
#7re: A question about the HBO broadcast of Your Welcome America
Posted: 3/14/09 at 8:50pmThe connection between the airing and the 9:00 start time was figured out when the showing was first announced.
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#8re: A question about the HBO broadcast of Your Welcome America
Posted: 3/14/09 at 8:58pmI love Dick Cheney giving the announcement.
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willep
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/20/08
#9re: A question about the HBO broadcast of Your Welcome America
Posted: 3/14/09 at 9:00pm
AHH man I don't have HBO 
I am so mad and sad
#10re: A question about the HBO broadcast of Your Welcome America
Posted: 3/14/09 at 10:10pmWow, I'm glad I didn't pay for this. Very dissapointing. One-note and just plain mean.
jakebloke
Broadway Star Joined: 5/29/03
#11re: A question about the HBO broadcast of Your Welcome America
Posted: 3/14/09 at 10:21pmThis isn't in the least bit funny. SOOOO glad I didn't spend $$$ on it.
#12re: A question about the HBO broadcast of Your Welcome America
Posted: 3/14/09 at 10:28pmI agree. I laughed 20% of the show. If I would have paid to see this, I'd have been PISSED.
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jakebloke
Broadway Star Joined: 5/29/03
#12re: A question about the HBO broadcast of Your Welcome America
Posted: 3/14/09 at 10:39pmTerrible. I'm actually a little upset at myself for even watching the whole thing. A complete waste of time.
#13re: A question about the HBO broadcast of Your Welcome America
Posted: 3/14/09 at 10:39pmI 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
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#14re: A question about the HBO broadcast of Your Welcome America
Posted: 3/14/09 at 10:39pmI 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.
wexy
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/19/05
#15re: A question about the HBO broadcast of Your Welcome America
Posted: 3/14/09 at 10:42pmI thought that it was really weak as well.
'Take me out tonight where's there's music and there's people and they're young and alive.'
#16re: A question about the HBO broadcast of Your Welcome America
Posted: 3/14/09 at 10:43pm
Whew... I thought I was going to be the only one that didnt think this was funny... at all.
I was totally bored. MIGHT have laughed twice.
Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#17re: 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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April Saul
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/17/06
#18re: A question about the HBO broadcast of Your Welcome America
Posted: 3/14/09 at 10:47pmI 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...
Yankeefan007
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/20/04
#19re: 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.
#20re: A question about the HBO broadcast of Your Welcome America
Posted: 3/14/09 at 10:55pm
The entire "nickname" sequence.... WTF was that !!!???
I should have watched the Bush-Rice phone video that made its way around the 'net a few years back-- now THAT was funny !!
#21re: A question about the HBO broadcast of Your Welcome America
Posted: 3/14/09 at 11:02pm
I was finished with this at 9:45. It was boring. Not very funny, definitely not his best.
I thought I recognized the theater. It looked very familiar from when I saw the 39 steps there!
#22re: 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. 
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
#23re: A question about the HBO broadcast of Your Welcome America
Posted: 3/14/09 at 11:17pmThe only time I actually laughed was during the end credits -- laughing at myself for being the fool and watching the whole damn thing.
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