Comedians Joe Mande and Noah Garfinkel appeared on The Pete Holmes Show recently to relate their experience of getting stoned out of their minds and joining the live audience for the Mike Huckabee show at the Fox News building.
What I found most interesting, not living in New York or California and never experiencing the magic behind the media, was that the set used mirrors to make the audience seem larger than it really is.
Reminds me of something I once heard, I think it may have been PT Barnum. In all things one is either a carney or a rube. Blue state Rube state.