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PeterMarshallFan:
[quote name=\'tvrandywest\' date=\'Oct 14 2003, 05:24 PM\'] [quote name=\'Skynet74\' date=\'Oct 14 2003, 03:27 PM\'] In a nutshell.... TV shows use you and throw you away. [/quote]
Thanks for the laugh, and welcome to show business!

While it doesn't take a ton more effort to have the illusion appear seamless by "staying in character" until the last audience member leaves, I suspect that you felt very much what the employees feel every day. It's a perfect example of the "trickle down theory"; and that has nothing to do with the host's prostate!!   ;-)

Randy
tvrandywest.com [/quote]
 Randy, if you ever decide to change careers, go into standup comedy. You'd make a fortune.

:-D

J.R.:
I'm sure when Contestant Cordinators "ignore" you at the end of show, they don't mean it in a negative way. It's just a dramatic way of telling you: "Hey, the show's over, we still have shows to tape and contestants to see, we can't just stay and chat with every person that passes by, thanks for coming, but your presence is no longer needed, enjoy your stuff but you have to leave"

As for this J! contestant:


--- Quote ---"Alex is very professional, but definitely not warm and fuzzy," said Champagne. "He only talks to the contestants on the air, what you see on TV, there was no interaction otherwise. But he wasn't arrogant or anything."
--- End quote ---

He's a few years removed from "Classic Concentration". Alex doesn't really have much of an excuse to be warm and loose anymore. Also, just like the coridnators and most hosts, he simply doesn't have the time to converse with some guy he's never met before. Though I hear, away from the studio and you just happen to run into them out in public, like in the supermarket, and if they reconize you, most hosts are very friendly and talkative (I know a former PYL Contestant got to converse with Tomarken this way). I could probably make a really lame joke here about a "Warm and Loose" Trebek and Intoxication, but I wont...
 
Only exception to this the UK "Millionaire" where after the taping, all 10 contetants are invited to a local pub where they get to drink and hang out with Chris Tarrant, who I've seen to be VERY friendly with players off camera. (No, I haven't met Mr. Tarrant myself, this is off a few docs. of the show that I've seen)

But this post has run on too long, so I'll just leave it at that !
-Joe R.

tvrandywest:
[quote name=\'PeterMarshallFan\' date=\'Oct 14 2003, 05:12 PM\']Randy, if you ever decide to change careers, go into standup comedy. You'd make a fortune.

[/quote]
So YOU'RE the one who finds me amusing.
I'll pay to have you cloned. 320 of YOU would be a warm-up's wet dream  ;-)

Stand-up is tough. I prefer Sit-down Comedy. It's low impact... easier on the knees. And on a really good night you get a squatting ovation!  

I have hours of this crap, and it's kept me out of the big time for years!


Randy
tvrandywest.com

HSquares2003:
Price is Right announcing isn't big time Randy? Damn!

(grin)

uncamark:
[quote name=\'JRaygor\' date=\'Oct 14 2003, 05:46 PM\']Only exception to this the UK "Millionaire" where after the taping, all 10 contetants are invited to a local pub where they get to drink and hang out with Chris Tarrant, who I've seen to be VERY friendly with players off camera. (No, I haven't met Mr. Tarrant myself, this is off a few docs. of the show that I've seen)[/quote]
I believe that's more of a British or European thing--the pub's right on the Elstree studio lot where the show is taped and it seems a more natural thing to do, particularly when there's no S&P squad to make sure that the host and the contestants are not in contact after the show.  But it seems to me that other British shows of all kinds may do the same thing.

Which makes me wonder if Anne Robinson kicks back with the people she's just insulted on "TWL" in the Pinewood Studios pub after the show.

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