From the Laboratory

Take a peak behind the curtain and watch as our leading scientist, Kristen Rogers, reveals some of the high-tech equipment we utilize every day in our quest for perfection!

Remember to keep checking in, because it's getting close to the zero hour, but we have more behind the scenes footage on the way!

Adios,
Will

Technical housecleaning and a new video

Our goal with Up Late is to have a good time and while hopefully that comes across, the way we film is more than clumsy due to limited resources. For episode one, Allie Palmer was running a hand held camera, while a second camera remained stationary, and my iPod filmed the audience. This, I believe, will be the structure of filming for a long time.  So while the style may not be as visually stunning as say, that of a Carson Daly, we think that the content will make up for it.  The plan is to film a new episode every Tuesday, which will be aired the following week on Wednesday.

I know that was a clumsy sentence, try to keep up. SO, due to this week-long gap, we are forced to get creative with our monologues. For example: we filmed episode one on Tuesday, January 25th. If we were to air that monologue on February 2nd, all the news items would be a week late and therefore completely irrelevant. For that reason, each episode will air with a more recently filmed monologue.  Because of this splicing you may have to roll with minor discrepancies in outfit, Kristen's hair color or my aforementioned hair density. Confused?  So am I. Deal with it.

In a nutshell: the most recently aired episode will have the most recently filmed monologue. The monologue just has to be fresh, you know?

All this essentially leaves the monologue we filmed last week in limbo, so I'm posting a cut of it here as a taste of what the show will be like.  Consider it a prototype.  Enjoy! And look forward to more behind the scenes footage today and tomorrow, leading up to Wednesday's premiere!

Again I remind you, email us at UpLateWithWillRogers@gmail.com with any ideas, jokes, sketch ideas and suggestions that you have, and we'll absolutely include them!

I'm looking forward to Wednesday, and I hope you are too!

-Will

Better late than never

The Up Late YouTube channel is finally up and running. To make up for lost time, we've uploaded not just one, but TWO new videos of our show, coming next Wednesday, February 2nd!

Visit the new home of the show at www.YouTube.com/user/UpLateWithWillRogers

Check in soon for more behind the scenes footage leading up to the big premiere next Wednesday!

-Will

Look alive, folks!

Well, it's just over 2 weeks until our little dog-and-pony show becomes a reality and it's high time you fine people starting pitching in.  We're accepting anything that you'd like to throw our way - suggestions for segment topics, jokes you'd like us to read on the air and, especially, a theme song.  Just e-mail us at UpLateWithWillRogers@gmail.com ... Any content you send in is guaranteed to end up in the show, so have at.  You'll be credited on the show, meaning if you send in something funny everyone will know how funny you are, and if you send in something insane everyone will know you're insane.  We're also open to anyone who wants to come onto the show as a guest so if you feel like you have something to say, be it about how interesting your job is or how boring your job is our how you saw this guy with the weirdest shoes the other day, let us know.  We'll be filming every Tuesday night and you're cordially invited to come sit on our couch if you don't mind being that close to Will.

Don't forget to keep checking this space!  Starting this Wednesday night we'll be posting little teaser trailers leading up to the first episode on February 2nd.  Spoiler alert: we're hilarious.

Enjoy the fact that the blog doesn't look like it was made at the advent of the internet anymore!

-Kristen

p.s. If you want to read things I've written that aren't about stuff I do in my parent's basement, go to kristenrogers.blogspot.com.

Eyes/Ears Open!

I'm excited to announce the creation of my upcoming YouTube talk show "Up Late with Will Rogers!"

For a long time now, I've been struggling to come up with a light-hearted, fun way to ultimately find out which will happen first: my hair falling out or it turning completely grey. Unfortunately, to truly document the entirety of this grim race, I would have had to start filming two years ago.

NEVERTHELESS, I like this show for other reasons too.

In addition to documenting the horrific changes in my appearance, the primary function of the show will be as a platform from which to tell topical jokes and engage family, friends and casual acquaintances in conversations about a range of subjects. Any topic is fair game, from our favorite type of cookies to the most earth-shattering, mind altering, metaphysical quandaries. Expect mostly things along the lines of the cookies though.

So there you have it. Bookmark this page if you haven't already, because this blog will be constantly updated in the coming weeks by not only myself, but by more talented people than I, who are helping me make this show a reality. We will be discussing our progress in making the show, including the pitfalls of learning what we simply can't accomplish.  Don’t like to read? Well we’ll be also be uploading behind the scene’s footage  in mind-blowing 2D  from our grainy camcorders!

“Up Late with Will Rogers”, coming every Wednesday night, starting in February!

And starting next week, you can look forward to footage from our attempts to get this show going!

If you would like to be featured as a guest, attend a filming of an episode, or even if you have suggestions as to what you'd like to see from the show, feel free to e-mail us at UpLateWithWillRogers@gmail.com