It was pretty interesting and cool tonight to view both the Letterman show (CBS) and Jimmy Fallon (NBC) without any audience tonight! Both of the New-York-City-based shows essentially sent their respective audiences home due to what they're now calling "SuperStorm" Sandy.
It was a true "insert-your-own-laughs-here" experience. Dave chose to basically talk to Paul instead of doing a monologue, and Jimmy stuck to his usual format sans audience.
But I'm a bit pissed at Jimmy's band "The Roots". Sometime between Fallon's show taping, and the show actually airing, I came up with the idea of re-writing the lyrics to Barry Manilow's "Mandy" with more apropos lyrics regarding hurricane Sandy. Alas, The Roots pre-stole my idea before I had ever thought of it, and played/sang "{SM}andy" during the intro to one of the guests or some other post-commercial ex-tro. SHIT! *I* wanted to do that! Dammit!
At any rate, unique shows like this in late night don't come around too often, maybe once a decade, and they generally don't get repeated either. So it was fun to be a small part of this phenomenon, if only as a passive viewer!
--SDP
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