Wednesday, July 23, 2014

The Wil Wheaton Project

I made it!  I *may* have taken a wrong freeway at one point, but Siri eventually forgave me and got me to the studios.

Not going to lie, the process of being in the audience was fairly boring.  The ticket said don't bring your cell phone, so I didn't.  I'm glad I didn't because it was good to have a break from it (the addiction hasn't broken yet), but it would have made the time go a little quicker.  I think I got inside the building about 10:45.  The ticket said to arrive by 11 so I was good.  I asked the front desk where to go and then found the lobby of where I was supposed to be.  I gave them my ID and a lady checked my ticket.  Then I waited.

And waited.

And waited.

It probably felt longer because I had nothing to do except watch muted E! shows.  I don't miss cable.  I think about 11:45, we got in line and got bag checked and wanded.  Then we waited some more.

The audience attendant lady told us at 11:30 that it was our last chance to use the bathroom, so of course after everyone had been screened, at least three people left to go to the bathroom.  Good listening, people.  Not a huge deal. They just had to be rescreened when they came back.  Still annoying because they didn't follow directions.

Sometime after 12:15, we finally got in line to go to the studio.  Then we got to wait in a hallway and I realized that so far that day I had had a medium mocha and about six Ritz crackers.  Crap.  We finally got into the studio and sat down.  There were maybe 25-30 people total in the audience.  They kind of told us about how it was going to go and then got started.  They first had us do different reactions.  Oh my god, that was lame.  I didn't participate in most of them.  If you think pre-recorded laughter on TV shows sounds fake, it's because it is.  "Now laugh."  Ughhhh.

Wil came out and did the show.  There are three acts and I think out of the three, he only had to redo two jokes total.  It seemed like he was very nervous when he first came out, but he relaxed throughout.  He's fairly quiet in front of the audience, like he wasn't exactly sure what to say.  The show was really funny and I know I didn't get all the jokes.  After the show was done, he did promos for this week. Then he changed clothes and did promos for next week.  Then he changed clothes and he filmed something (no idea what it's called) that is like hosting one of the movies for SyFy.  He did it for Mega Shark vs Mecha Shark, which sounds like a terribly awesome movie.

Then it was over.  He stood by the door as we walked out and gave everyone a high-five.  I got my parking validated and then left.  I was STARVING.  I think it was only like 2:30 at this point, but I couldn't think of anything else.  So hungry.  I called Kendra on my way home to make her jealous cause I'm a nice sister like that.  It worked.  :-D


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