How do you Attend a Taping of The Soup?
Thu., May. 1, 2008 5:32 PM PDT
E! Networks
JOKE ANSWER:
So, you think you have what it takes to be an audience member at The Soup? Well, maybe you do and maybe you don’t and, then again, maybe you do. Or...don’t. We really can’t make up our minds on this.
Let’s put it to a quiz: If you can respond in the affirmative (i.e., answer yes) to any of the following three questions, then we’re afraid you are decidedly not The Soup audience material.
1. Are you legally bound to remain a minimum of 500 feet from any member of The Soup cast or crew, excluding certain production assistants who are desperate for any form of human contact?
2. When watching a film or play in a theater environment are you prone to a lot of shouting and carrying on? Specifically, we’re referring to joshing around or horsing off with friends while others are trying to enjoy the show around you. Also, not welcome: any form of rumpusry, ballyhoo, hubbub or ruckussing.
3. Are you now or have you ever been a member of taxonomic classification Ursus arctos horribilis?
If you were legitimately able to answer no to all three of the above questions—we’ll know if you are lying, bears—then you might just be the kind of person we’re after!Well, except for the following:
REAL ANSWER:
Tapings of The Soup are currently not open to the general public due to a few annoying but ultimately impenetrable legal restrictions. The audience that you hear in the background is typically made up of a handful of E! employees and their guests. Yes, as you so rightly claim, that is mass lame, and we hope to conquer it some day, but as of now you are only able to enjoy the show from the comfort of your homes and not on a hard plastic chair in a strange, lonely television studio that frequently smells of tar. (No, really, it does.)
8 Comments
unknown Thu, May 1, 2008 6:02 PM
we're the Soup's BIGGEST fans and only 13. We know.. "You're 13 and shouldn't be watching this stuff"...who gives a ***** OK so we're scared to write the "s" word. Anyway bring back the chiwawa!!
Reportthegirlbehindthemankini Thu, May 1, 2008 6:30 PM
Okay, so there are rules. Rules schmules. Just alternate filming in our living rooms. You guys work on a 2 x 2 stage anyway, how difficult can it be, right? Eh, what if we just swarmed the place????
Reportgreatsarcasma Fri, May 2, 2008 9:43 AM
I love The Soup and Joel is my hero! Cant you do a contest or something and have a few people at a time in the studio? You can make fun of them for being losers that have nothing better to do than go to a tapping of The Soup?
ReportClog Narter Fri, May 2, 2008 12:22 PM
I think "swarm(ing) the place" is exactly the kind of thing they are trying to prevent here, TGBTM. However, I'll definitely run this living room idea of yours by the crew. I mean Mankini is aleady making nightly appearances in your dreams, right?
Reportthegirlbehindthemankini Fri, May 2, 2008 1:38 PM
Dearest Clog: I wouldn't call them "nightly appearances in my dreams" per se. They're more like "wine fog" visions 'round 9:00 every night... PS) Of what origin is 'Clog Narter'? Greekaneese? I envision you as an Irish man chowing down on haggis and turkey legs while downing a few Paulie Girls... I'm swarming! I'm swarming!
ReportJoel Fans! Fri, May 2, 2008 3:27 PM
Hey Joel and Co.! I'm 13 and my sister is 17, and we absolutely LOVE The Soup! My friends and I even idolize Pickle Girl...so creepy! My sister and I found Mashed Potatoe Lad! On the credits of Wife Swap, this boy was complaining about mashed potatoes and...you just had to be there! Well, I hope you know that we love you (seriously) and that you are hanging up in my locker right now...along with Adam Brody (so meaty!)
Reportjessyjane Sun, May 4, 2008 11:11 PM
It's not who you know it's who you blow... Maybe you could infiltrate via Joel's chihuahua trainer...
ReportMelissa Sun, May 4, 2008 11:16 PM
What if Joel himself told you that you should come!!! Does that count as an invitation? (even though it was probably a year ago when I last saw him)
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