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Originally Posted by jayswin
What I find fascinating is that despite all these talk shows looking like well oiled, smooth running nightly occurrences is that the one constant you get from hearing candidly from hosts is that they are daily chaotic experiences, with hundreds of people desperately trying to put everything together until the last minute, even years into a show.
Also that the hosts are often in a blurry, secluded world inside the eye of a talk show and don't really know how it comes off on camera or how things are going other than when they find out through the media.
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It goes to show how on the nose The Larry Sanders Show was.
The Inside Conan podcast is also worth checking out. It's hosted by a couple of writers and they have various guests and behind the scenes people on. I like the recent episode with Jimmy Pardo, who used to do warmup for the show.