U2Girl1978
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I love the cynical trolls that come out and play.
Not really. I've been to Letterman before and we were told not to cheer in a certain way for TV purposes. No screaming "woooooo!!" and no whistling but as far as coaching and when to cheer and applaud. NO.Actually, the producers coach the audience beforehand how to react at these kinds of shows. They usually cue the audience on when to applause and when to applause even louder. It's not exactly fakery, but the audience does need encouragement sometimes, because not everyone there is a fan of the band but perhaps a fan of a guest or just the show in general. I've been in the audience of a few talk shows and late night shows myself and that's always been the norm for me.
This is just a suspicion on my part. But after watching the Beautiful Day performance I find it hard to believe that every single person in Letterman's audience would be on their feet and clapping (and instantly rise up when Bono tells them to). Of course, U2 has a vested interest in this week-long stint appearing successful. I wonder if they would stoop to filling the audience with paid shills ala Michael Jackson? Something seems fishy to me.
i was there on tuesday. no fans were paid. in fact we were told to sit down by lettermans people during the performance. so actually, if you tried to be more wrong, you couldnt!
Did they smile more or move???
I thought the whole "fan" thing looked a bit odd myself. Everyone had to be SO restrained but they were bopping up and down in their seats in unison...weird (not your fault). It looked a bit ridiculous...until Bono gave everyone the "okay" to get up. Why did they do that to you? They said they wanted energy, didn't they?
This is just a suspicion on my part. But after watching the Beautiful Day performance I find it hard to believe that every single person in Letterman's audience would be on their feet and clapping (and instantly rise up when Bono tells them to). Of course, U2 has a vested interest in this week-long stint appearing successful. I wonder if they would stoop to filling the audience with paid shills ala Michael Jackson? Something seems fishy to me.
honestly, i live in LA and have in the last 6 months been to kimmel, leno, and ferguson tapings. i was at letterman on wednesday and have to say the way his people run things was REALLY dissapointing being a letterman fan.
before you go in they give you a whole song and dance speech about clapping for dave and paul etc. but then tell you not to hoot/holler/scream shout or yell or woo for anything at ANY time. if you do any of these things you may be "escorted" out of the theatre. now, maybe if you are seated in the lower level this doesn't happen, but i and some others were seated in the balcony and when u2 came out to do the top ten list we started applauding, standing-up, and "wooing." an intern came over and gave me one warning, and the next time i was to "woo" i would be kicked out. well, since i flew from LA for this f@#$ing taping, i kept my mouth shut the rest of the time. including when i was supposed to laugh at dave.
as i said, i've been to see the other late night tapings recently and each of the other shows BEG you to hoot/holler/scream/shout/yell/woo the ENTIRE time, for the host, the band, the guests, the jokes....EVERYTHING!! lettermans people claimed we couldn't "woo" because of their "sensitvie sound equipment." let me ask you something....if i can scream at ALL the other late night tapings and not lettermans, and it's because of the sound equipment....doesn't that mean that mean the equipment is SHIT and it's time to join 2009????!!!! just a thought.
anyway, that's why bono had to encourage everyone to standup...because we were all scared shitless by thugy interns that we'd be booted.
where did the OP go...
i was in the front row there, and i think we were all itching to stand up from the beginning but didnt want to piss off the letterman people. but once bono signaled for us to stand up, we got up pretty quickly, obviously
He was a paid "poster" hired to stir up shit by an an anti-U2 faction.
He was a paid "poster" hired to stir up shit by an an anti-U2 faction.