Now here's the thing we discovered about the filming of a talk show-- there's a lot of standing around. A lot. The show isn't filmed continuously and then edited to make it look like there's a commercial break; they film it with breaks as if there are commercial breaks. During that time, the band plays, a few crewmembers take the stage, and a makeup person or director talks to Conan. A few times Conan turned to the crowd and tried to get the crowd to cheer, but for the most part, everyone just stood around.
Actually, Conan probably spends more time standing around than actually performing. If you include all the times Conan just came out to introduce somebody and the one video segment they ran, the amount of work Conan did during that hour was, what? Ten? Fifteen minutes? Not a bad days worth of work.
Not that we didn't have fun or it wasn't a great experience because it was, it was just something we were surprised about. We were so into it and there was so much standing around that we didn’t want to see it end when it did. We would have loved two hours of show or a comedy routine from Conan or sneak peaks at what he was going to do for the next couple of nights, but that was it.
Wait, we did say it was fun. The reasons why after the jump