Wow, you mean you can make them out, Clarissa? (Hi there, by the way!)
Some other cute things I forgot to tell about that you wouldn't have known otherwise...
Before the show starts a comedian comes out to warm up the audience (read: make fun of some of us, call people out on how they look, etc -- yikes!) and get us to see how LOUDLY we have to yell and cheer and clap for the cameras/mics (his name is Paul Mercurio -- but he's not the same Paul Mercurio as in Strictly Ballroom -- love that movie!). He then introduces Jon Stewart who comes out and takes questions from the audience. The first question was, "What does Jake Gyllenhaal look like with his shirt off?" Jon: Well, I can't tell you that, but he tastes like cinnamon."
Second question from a young woman: Is there any way I can meet Jake Gyllenhaal?
Jon: Sure, I guess...if you leap down here when he comes out, yeah, you could probably get close enough to meet him before the security guards hit you with the Taser gun..."
Another woman later held up a piece of folded paper and said: Can you give Jake my phone number?
Jon: Well sure, but why don't you just read it out loud, to all of us now?
We're all cracking up at each of these. Then a guy raises his hand and Jon goes, "Yes?" And as soon as he opens his mouth to speak, Jon cuts him off saying, "No, you can't have his number!" And the guy deadpans, "I've got it." This got big laughs and Jon said, "The audience members have better material than I do!"
Later I heard from one of my co-workers that he knows someone who works at the show and I was like, D'oh! I wish I'd known that before (not that it would be a shoo-in but ya never know...) and then I also found out that Jake was in the audience a few days ago at a new Broadway show called Spring Awakening sitting right in front of some guys who had been given the last few comp tickets for the show from where I work, and they talked to him. I went to the show in January, and John Gallagher also went and loved it so much he saw it again. Hi John, if you're out there!
