He absolutely tapes the cold open after the monologue. While Craig could go off stage after the cold open and back in for the monologue, I think it would be really hard to get the audience applause they do if it was the second time they saw Craig.
Also, they move the desk out after the monologue (you may have seen show promos with Craig on the desk as it moves into place), and it's the rare cold open where you don't see the desk. AFAIK, when Letterman does cold opens, they've always been off the set (and probably pre-taped). As for the full theme, I don't know about an MP3 file, but there's a video of the full theme on YouTube. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36_9eUt4blQ The video poster link to the Television Production Music Museum http://tvpmm.com/documents/115.html David ________________________________ From: M-D November <[email protected]> On Jan 21, 8:32 am, Joe Hass <[email protected]> wrote: > As a baseline to compare it to, Scottish Conan did a joke two nights > ago on Mackenzie Phillips that absolutely bombed, and he reacted and > turned it around. I've been meaning to ask about that - does Craig actually tape the cold open AFTER the actual monologue? Or did he just KNOW the joke was going to bomb? M-D Also wondering if anyone has a good quality MP3/AAC file of the full LLS theme... -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en
