Fire Up Your VCRs! We're on The Tonight Show!

Photo courtesy NBC

We were seated on the main floor of the Tonight Show this afternoon, so we got to rush the stage and high-five Jay Leno during the opening monologue, and sat close to his guests, Bill Maher and Ali Wentworth. Lots of laughs. Great time.
Photos inside the studio are forbidden, but the photo above is a tiny poloroid souvenir shot taken by an NBC staffer. That came about when Kathleen got invited to the stage and dragged along her husband for a brief interview during the warmup before the show. We discussed snow, the Market Barbeque and Schinder's dirty bookstore. . . and when Jay learned that Stan had retired from the newspaper business, he had to remark "Phew, you got out just in time," which got a laugh from the audience and a raised eyebrow from Stan.
Ironically, Jay did his popular Headlines feature tonight.
The guests selected for the main floor audience appeared to be mostly youthful and good-looking; obviously they want the young demographic to boost the marketing of the show. We're not exactly sure how we got mixed into that batch of 30somethings, we were clearly the only grandparents in our front section.
Show is on in Minneapolis at 10:30 tonight on Channel 11. Don't miss the introduction!