Issue date: 4/24/08 Section: A & E

Media Credit: CATHY YUNGMANN/ SUBMITTED PHOTO Liz Lavin has been interning at NBC's "The 10! Show" this semester. The opportunity has allowed Lavin to make some great connections and meet celebrities such as Lifehouse and the Harlem Glober Trotters.

This semester I took an internship at The 10! Show on NBC10. To clarify a couple points; if you've never heard of it, it's like a local Regis and Kelly.

And no, it's not named The 10! Show so it can air at 10 - which it doesn't. The network is NBC10, hence, The 10! Show.

A typical day at The 10! Show looks something like this: show up by 8 a.m. and start setting up the green room and making the coffee.

The coffeepot has been broken for about three months, so the coffee making involves an intricate set up of bowls and spoons and measuring cups - just to give you an idea of how the day starts.

Next up is making the host's note cards. Sounds easy but this is the deciding factor of your day. If the note cards take you no more than 45 minutes, you know the morning will be fairly easy.

Depending on how many events are being covered and how many guests are on the show that day, the script is constantly changing. So if the note cards take you closer to two hours, you know you're in for a morning of chaos.

While the note cards are being made, the guests and audience start trickling in. Walking the guests in is never a big deal, unless you have no idea who they are, therefore the walk alternates between awkward conversation and awkward silence, or they are a regular guest and you already know they're not nice.

Other than those rarities, you get to meet really great people who do really interesting things. You also lose any star struck you may have had when meeting celebrities because you realize that they really are normal people and, for the most part, are genuinely nice. Many times, it's the D-list celebrities (if they're on a list at all) that are high maintenance. The big names usually just go with the flow.

If a big name is booked for the show, a large part of the morning is devoted to wondering whether or not they'll show up. One celeb canceled less than an hour before taping claiming he had laryngitis. It was the same excuse he had used the first time he canceled.

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