#31

Booooooo

#32

Well, actually, as it happens…

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#33

Just throwing it out there, I’m the best audience member Countdown has ever seen. When I’ve gone to support my friends I’ve got the lads chanting and getting rowdy, I’ve organised signs to be held up in the audience and brought my gold pom poms.

The first time I ever sat in the audience I was wearing a knitted hat with two penises on and Nick Hewer saw me in the car park and did not look impressed.

They’re actually stopping the audience post COVID which is genuinely devastating. No more chanting :frowning:

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#34

And so did I.

Have been in the audience of many TV shows, including Have I Got News For You, The Last Leg and Pointless Celebrities. Once you’re on the list you get invited to all kinds of shows.

Live to air shows are much preferable to attend than recordings for a later date.

#35

Look, you can’t just post things like this without showing us all the hat

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#36

Went with my School to see Finders Keepers being filmed and have been in the audience for Nevermind the Buzzcocks and a Shooting Stars episode.

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#37

oh fuck, Finders Keepers! always wanted to go on that as a kid, bet it was insanely fun to do

#38

It was great fun to watch, we got there and the audience is arbitrarily divided in half and we had green cardboard hats to wear to support the green team. It was pretty manic and you could see random people in the shadows resetting some of the rooms as they fillmed on different parts of the set.

#39

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#40

Outstanding

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#41

Relevant to the thread. This astonishing allegory

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All my pals (including the Christian ones) have to do is say HAVE YOU EVER BEEN TO THE RECORDING OF A LIVE TV SHOW and we’re all gone

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#42

Think the closest I’ve got is two or three times where I’ve attended recordings that have been over-subscribed and sacked it off cos of the queue and/or likelihood of getting in.

#43

Went to a recording of one of the episodes for Vic & Bobs big night out. Bob asked my son if he’d ‘done it yet’ when the warm up fella pointed him out.

Pub Quiz - A welsh comedy quiz thing hosted by John Sparkes that some mates were on.

A episode of Scrum V with other parents involved in running mini and juniors section of the rugby club.

#44

Sounds tedious to me, my brother in law at the BBC keeps offering to hook me up with tickets and I don’t think he believes me when I tell him it doesn’t appeal to me at all.

Would’ve killed to be in the audience for Robot Wars though. Absolutely furious I never looked into how to get on.

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#45

I went and watched two episodes of Kilroy being recorded back in 1997, and was in the audience for one of them. Unfortunately the topic was ‘Men falsely accused of rape’ so that wasn’t embarrassing at all.

#46

There was a scandal at the BBC where someone had filed the wrong insurance paperwork and audience members for years hadn’t been properly insured. So while that was being sorted out, every show with an audience had to be made up of BBC staff. So I got to see Paul O’Grady, Wossy, Jools Holland. The best was the Culture Show though, I took a day off to go be one of the people in the bar while Jarvis Cocker played. You could bring friends to that one so I brought a pal who adored him and she made herself say something to him as he walked past - and he came and sat with us for a chat!!! Well, they chatted while I sat looking like Troy in Community when he meets Levar Burton

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#47

Stewert Lee

#48

My parents’ Christian neighbour was once on Songs Of Praise, a full close-up shot while belting out a hymn, which inspired the biggest Scooby-Doo double take. Stuff of legend in our family T.V. viewing history.

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#49

Been to see Taskmaster recorded a few times which has been a delight without fail; there’s so much good stuff left on the cutting room floor because the jokes get too spicy for broadcast and Greg, Alex and the guests always seem to have a genuinely great camaraderie. Plus I can always tell which episodes I was there for because my flatmate’s insane foghorn laughter gets picked up by the mics.

Worst part about it is generally having to wait in a tent for a couple of hours prior to filming (got to get there early if you want in).

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#50

went to see ninja warrior uk being filmed, that was good fun. got a bit beered up and rowdy, yelling all the stuff they tell you to yell and scaring the kids in front of us. mint

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