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The Tonight Show Taping

March 24, 2014 Mandy1 Comment

Thanks to the brief moment of my life where I was in the right place (on Twitter) at the right time, I scored some tickets to The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon for last Thursday’s show. Couldn’t have been more thrilled with the guests: Chelsea Clinton and Billy Joel.

From waiting in the lines, to sitting through the taping, it was all so much fun and very seamless (shocker: NBC is organized). They try to keep taping in real-time as much as possible, so we weren’t sitting in the audience for much longer than 90 minutes. And when they weren’t shooting, we were typically being entertained by staff members or The Roots. Being in a studio audience, especially for a show I actually enjoy, was an awesome (and free!) experience that I would highly recommend to anyone who has the opportunity! They wouldn’t let us bring in cameras or take photos, but here’s a few [not at all edited] screenshots from the show as well as a killer segment with BJ you can’t miss.

Lists, Loves & Links: Entertainment Edition

January 8, 2014 MandyLeave a comment

It’s Wednesday! Which is actually the Friday of my workweek and I’m very much looking forward to utilizing my “weekend” now that I’m finally starting to feel like a mostly formed human again *knocks on wood*. Anyways, today’s list of mid-week links I love all share one popular theme. Any guesses?

These thirteen TV shows that were originally titled something else.
Mindy Kaling’s reaction to all of the uproar on her Elle photo shoot is soooo Mindy Kaling (perfect).
As the most predictable move ever, Sasheer Zamata gets cast on SNL. Do yourself a favor; only read the comment section if you want to drown yourself later. And then don’t do that either.
What Carrie Bradshaw is to fashionistas, Carrie Brownstein is to…a lot of different things.
Annnnnd last but not least, OF COURSE Tina and a feisty Amy address the usual interviewer BS and answer some pre-Golden Globes questions. Love.

WHO ELSE IS PUMPED FOR SUNDAY AT 8PM ON NBC? I CANNOT SUPPRESS MY ELATION.

Museum of the Moving Image Visit

November 11, 2013 MandyLeave a comment

Happy Monday!

This past week I made the trek out to Astoria to visit the Museum of the Moving Image. I got so caught up in the amazing Yelp reviews, I forgot that I’m not really too much of a movie buff [read: I don’t know the difference between Clint Eastwood and Sean Connery]. Thankfully, I was accompanied by the textbook definition of a media connoisseur, so luckily he was able to break down for me everything from details of film projector extinction to why I need to add Being John Malkovich to my ever-growing “Stuff I need to watch” list.

Some of my favorite parts of the museum were seeing some of the costumes used in movies/television (pictured above is an actual Cosby sweater), this really sick thing called a strobeatrope which I can’t even accurately explain, and the text message translating game by the museum’s entry. Overall, the museum was a pretty good experience, and on Fridays after 4pm it’s donation-based (i.e. free, unless you get the mean man working the desk who basically threatens to melon-ball out your eyeballs if you don’t donate). I would especially recommend it for normal people who have an average or beyond knowledge of movies/the film industry, unlike myself. I guess I just spend my spare time surfing Buzzfeed and watching reruns of The O.C.? My poor underdeveloped brain cells.

Paley Center Visit

October 29, 2013 MandyLeave a comment

Due largely in part to some technical, internet-related glitches (and not at all due to busyness or laziness on my part), I missed a few posting days. Sorry about that. The following was intended to be my first “Museum Monday” post (a little something I’m trying out), but it’s Tuesday… so I guess Touristy Tuesday it is?

Ever since I began my new commute [from hell], I pass the subway station advertisement for the Museum of Television and Radio twice per day. Since it sounded like something up my alley, I did a little research and found that it was renamed the Paley Center for Media a few years back, but I wanted to check it out nonetheless.

Unless you’re attending a specific speaker or screening at the building, you go up to a room and basically watch TV for 90 minutes. They have a bunch of old (and new) programs and clips archived and easily accessible through their computers. I’d imagine this would have been a lot more unique in the days before YouTube, but I was still able to surface some cool footage I would never have otherwise searched for on the web. Conan O’Brien’s first monologue, old footage of Elaine May and Mike Nichols, a feature on Lucille Ball and an interview with Jerry Seinfeld from the 80’s were some of my picks.