I watched The Intruder, The Brothers Karamazovand “Studio One”. I started actively consuming his early work before he was typecast as a Starship Commander. Many decades later, I read some of his books on acting, including Up Till Now, and learned that his views on acting, and life (if I may get a bit hyperbolic) were incredibly in sync with my own. Long before “Star Trek”, William Shatner was a celebrated stage actor in Montreal and the Stratford Shakespeare Festival, even receiving praise for his lead in Henry V in 1956. I could plunk down $20 and go to Comic Con for that (and in fairness, I have.) It was to see Mr. It wasn’t fanboyism to see William Shatner in person.
It certainly wasn’t the worst television show on in 2010, but it was far from the best. So, the first question is: “Why ‘$#*! My Dad Says’?” Good question. It’s a long road the studio goes through to get that very odd, very forced creature known as an audience laugh track. The most common question is “Does the audience really laugh that hysterically and constantly and the slightest whims of comedy?” Well, yes.
A lot of people have asked me questions about how that process goes down. My day watching a sitcom being created was filled with very surprising ways of doing things some reasonable, some very odd. My sitcom trip on the other hand, was anything but expected. But quality aside, the logistics of our visit were pretty much exactly what I expected them to be. Conan is a hell of a showman and the quality of the show from before the cameras ran until we went home was the kind of spectacle usually only imagined by eight-year-olds when imagining what Hollywood is really like. I had the pleasure of seeing Conan O’Brien‘s short-lived tenure on “The Tonight Show” with two very good friends. It wasn’t the first time I’d been a television audience. In my case, I was going to see the CBS sitcom “ $#*! My Dad Says.” Sitcoms in front of an audience are becoming a rarity as networks move into the slightly more polished feel they can get from a more cinematic setup, so the idea of watching a live scripted television program may soon be a thing of the past. You know, the kind that “Happy Days” was filmed in front of. A year ago, in fact almost exactly a year ago on January 11th, 2011, I was a member of that elite few known as a live studio audience.
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