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So yesterday we went to the recording of the Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson. They filmed most of the night's show (I believe they had already recorded a third guest whom we did not see). For some reason they also filmed much of August 12th's show, including the guest segment. And who is August 12th's guest? ERIC BANA! [insert happy dance] He was there promoting The Time Traveler's Wife, which apparently comes out on August 14.

Before the show we wandered around the Farmer's Market, which is celebrating its 75th anniversary. We got to the studio (in Hollywood) about an hour and a half early, so we were the second group in line. Thankfully we were in the shade and there was a nice breeze. We also had books that we got at a Barns & Noble in the market, so we had something with which to entertain ourselves while we waited. Amazingly, we were not the only people who brought books; we saw someone with a copy of Hitchhiker's Guide.

They lined us up on benches, and then a warm-up comedian came to make sure that we would be good enough "show enhancers." Actually, there was a warm-up guy for the warm-up guy. The main guy made lots of lewd jokes to make sure we wouldn't make shocked noises when Craig Ferguson made his jokes. Then we got into the studio and he warmed us up more, having us practice our "loud and natural-sounding laughter." Alec got special recognition for his laugh.

Finally, the show started, with all its usual silly weirdness. Surprisingly, he only redid one segment, and that was a short one. Parts of it were scripted (such as his opening stand-up thing), but most of it seemed to be completely spontaneous. When he was supposed to be done with a segment (he ran over-time frequently), the teleprompter turned away and we could see the words on it, and they seemed fairly sparse. For instance, the screen for the emails segment just said "emails' and then "we'll be right back."

Anyhoo, like I said, ERIC BANA was there. Margaret Cho (a comedienne) and Michael Lewis (an author) were also there for the night's show. I haven't found a copy of the night's show online yet, but you can see the back of Alec's head in the bottom right corner of the screen in shots of the audience!

Here's a picture of Eric Bana and Craig Ferguson on a previous show:
Today we plan on going to the La Brae Tar Pits and the Musiem of Modern Art. After that we'll drive down to San Diego. Now, if only I can get the others to get up. Maybe I'll go out the front door and come back in, so Georgie barks loudly at me...