Hour 2: Biden was never asked the tough question during his Meyers interview.
The Mark Simone Show
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🗓️ 27 February 2024
⏱️ 38 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, well, we got a lot to get to this hour. |
| 0:03.8 | More and more people are going over the Seth Myers appearance last night by Joe Biden, |
| 0:09.8 | and it's looking more and more scripted, rigged, scripted. |
| 0:16.3 | There are moments in there that are pretty obvious. |
| 0:18.9 | There's a lot of moments where he's asked a question, or it's not even really a question, |
| 0:23.5 | where Seth Myers just says something, and Biden quickly replies with a great punchline. |
| 0:28.9 | Those moments look very scripted. |
| 0:30.9 | Then there's another one where Seth Myers asked him about Taylor Swift, and suddenly Biden pulls a prop out that he had made up just for the Taylor Swift question. |
| 0:43.5 | Now, that's not scripted. |
| 0:45.6 | You're the president of the United States. |
| 0:47.3 | First of all, you wouldn't assume you're going to be asked about Taylor Swift, |
| 0:51.1 | but he's got this prop ready. |
| 0:57.9 | So pretty scripted. Now, that's not unusual in late-night talk shows. They do, 99% of the time, whether it's Letterman or Carson or any of those |
| 1:04.4 | shows or the current shows. There's a talent coordinator who books you on the show. Then they have what's called a segment |
| 1:12.6 | producer, and the segment producer will call the guest ahead of time, and they'll do a little |
| 1:18.3 | phone interview where they'll set up some stuff, they'll plan what you're going to do on the |
| 1:24.9 | interview, and then they'll write that out for the host. |
| 1:29.2 | Now, a lot of times it's just, especially when you got an actor or an actress, they're very boring, these actors and actors. |
| 1:36.2 | And they've got nothing to say. |
| 1:37.5 | I mean, you know, even if it's a big star actor, what are they going to say? |
| 1:42.5 | I'm really excited about my new film, and I love this character, because... do that one. And, you know, so he's got a really funny story about when he was in Rome. |
| 2:02.4 | He's got a really funny story about backstage at the Oscars. And they'll put that on the notes |
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