I got back last night from L.A. I was at the taping of the Ellen Show. What a crazy day. It was me, my cousin Maria, her girlfriend Jamie and my really good friend Omar.

We ended up getting to the studio at around 3:00pm. That was a little too late. We only got to get into the RIFF RAFF room. Oh well. We though we would make the best of it. While waiting in line this lady in front of us passed out, twice. It scared the hell out of me. They ended up calling an ambulance. I felt soooo bad.

The guests were Jimmy Smits, Steve Zahn and Lisa Marie Presley. We were put in this giant, freezing room with lots of couches. As soon as the show started we danced our asses off. My cousin and I have danced together since we were kids so we're always in synch. Ellen came in to the Riff Raff room for a second. I wanted to get her attention so I just started shouting "Go Ellen, Go Ellen" while she boogied on down into the studio. Later on couple of the employees there came out and looked at us dancing and woo hoo'ing. One of them came up to us and looked us up on his list. He asked us to return for a taping on December 15th. We are sooo excited about returning. We don't know if they're going to give us the same amount of tickets or not. Another assistant in the studio came up to us and asked to dance with her. All three of us were up dancing on this giant ottoman. There were cameras in there but at one point they concentrated on this dorky(kinda sexy) guy that really wasn't dancing well. He was just flailing about. We were loud the entire time we were in that room. We made the best of it and had a really really great time.

Lisa Marie Presley had to perform her song twice. I guess she didn't like the first take. When she first came out she couldn't hear herself on the monitor so she stopped it right away. She performed the whole song, didn't like it. Tried it again and kept that one. What a perfectionist.

They had a woman play a game where she gets to keep a $5000 credit card thing or trade it for what's behind some curtain. At the very end of the show they have her decision. What they didn't show on the airing was that Ellen was doing all kinds of things so that she wouldn't give up the $5000. She kept it and Ellen gave her tickets to her New York show this month along with plane tix. Behind the curtain Ellen had lots of cans of Tuna.

I think everyone should be in a studio audience at least once. It's great fun.
If they use any footage from the room we were in we'll find out today. Ellen is on at 10am and 4pm Pacific Time, daily. I caught the last part of the 10am show. I PRAY that they used some of our 2 seconds of camera time. If not we are definately going to be on camera in December.


M

Cool! Glad to hear you had a good time!

I've only been to one live taping and that was for The Tonight Show! The guests that night were Tom Arnold (very funny), Amarosa (from the Apprentice) and some rock band (I can't remember their name)....

that sounds AWESOME!

I would love to go to an Ellen taping. I'm very jealous.

thats really cool

glad you had a good time


P.S.... i ellen !!!

(sorry, didn't read the rest of your story, Miguel...)

Lisa Marie Presley had to perform her song twice. I guess she didn't like the first take. When she first came out she couldn't hear herself on the monitor so she stopped it right away. She performed the whole song, didn't like it. Tried it again and kept that one. What a perfectionist.

That is MY GIRL!!!

Ellen and LMP are my two favorite women and you got to see them both at the same time. You lucky dog.

abierman said:

I love him. He's hilarious in a dumb way.

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abierman said:

I might have made a play for Lisa Marie if I had been there. I'm loving the new candy coated version of her

lovemachine said:

What do you mean, candy coated?

LOL I just watched it
I was hoping she would save the money
Lisa Marie did a good job. I love her lyrics.

I want to see Ellen!!

ThreadCula said:

Did you see miguel? He was the serial-killer-looking dude dancing his ass off.

ReturnOfDOOK said:

LOL no I didn't get to see Miguel

I did see some chick dancing off beat

aww!!

That's SO awesome!!

I once went to a taping of the Ricki Lake show. Ricki rocked, and I got on camera several times. But it doesn't sound nearly as fun of an experience as you had.

Soulofmysoul said:

A few extra deliciously candy coated pounds

I'm pissed!!!!!

They didn't show anything from the Riff Raff room. Oh well. At least on Dec. 15th we will definately get some air time. They better have gifts too.

I forgot to mention that we saw Magic Johnson having breakfast at Roscoe's Chicken and Waffles. He was there with some really loud skinny woman.


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MIGUELGOMEZ said:

next time you will have more luck

ThreadCula said:

What song did she sing?

sociopath said:

Some song about being an idiot and how she doesn't wish him well.


M

MIGUELGOMEZ said:

I'm confused then.
She sang this song already on Ellen's show....several months ago.

MIGUELGOMEZ said:

That's my guy!

sociopath said:

....exactly.....


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MIGUELGOMEZ said:

What do you mean? Am I missing something?

sociopath said:

Let's just say that I don't like her music very much and she's been plugging this album forever. She's beautiful and all but very monotone.

M