Lmao it really took this long for you all to figure out that the jokes were written ahead of time? At the end of the day who cares? It's still a great show :)
Why do a gameshow if you know the questions /topics ahead of time? I thought the show was supposed to be improvised. These are professional comedians after all.
Chris Hardwick has said before that the point of the show is to get the comedians in a fun and creative "space" with each other and thats when funny moments like this, and all the ones that air in the episodes, can happen. For the record, I also thought it was improvised to begin with but I listen to the Nerdist podcast occasionally where hes mentioned it.
You have no idea how many times I have flubbed a bit on stage and had to live with it, This is basically improv, Paul does not get everything before hand. Have you ever fucked up while talking???? Oh no? YEEEEESSSSSS You are the perfect public speaker Kevin King!!!! Let US ALLLLLL Learn from you!!!!! Us comedians will quit, until you teach us our art! Thank you for being a gentleman!!!! Please, let me get your information so you can come on stage!!! I bet you are perfect every time!
At the beginning of everyshow Chris asks the comedians "Who are you playing for?" and then the comedians say a random twitter address. I don't get what this means? are they playing just to give that twitter address publicity or is there something more? how do you get sponsored by a comedian?
It was just the flimsy loose way they tied the show to the internet somehow. And a few random people got to feel all special and validated because they got mentioned on TV.
It's common knowledge that comedy panel shows like this (which are more of a tradition in the UK, but have also been adapted to other places like Australia and Sweden) usually involve some level of preparation. Usually, how they tend to work is the comedians/guests find out in advance what the subjects will be, and they get to write or think up some material in advance (there may have been some shows where the writers will provide them with some additional jokes, but I'm not sure how common that is or whether that's ever been done on @midnight), and then they get in the studio and what comes out is usually a mix of prepared material and improvisation (in fact, this clip alone has a lot of improv in it, such as Chris pretending to play the harmonica while Paul writes a letter, and the whole bit about wishing the audience dead and the origin of podcasts). The details may vary between different panel shows, obviously, but this is vaguely how it usually goes.
