"Why British?" Mr. Colbert demanded in the opening interview, sitting under a Dr. Pepper ad while the six band members sat on stools, trying to suppress giggles.
The athletes will come in earlier than during the Olympics opening ceremony, sitting on the track to form part of the audience.
I used to mimic the film's opening shot, sitting with my knees bent in the windowsill of my own little shadowy orphanage, directing myself to appear as "orphanly and determined" as possible before bursting into a pensive version of "Maybe".
In the opening photo, Sally Hawkins is sitting on a sculpture of a moon.
"You might as well leave, go on!" Gary Wilmot announces before things have even begun, his opening gag about a "sitting ovation" a tip to the meta-theatricality in which Ian Talbot's entire production is steeped.
His opening riffs are delivered sitting down rather than standing up, and he uses video clips to sharpen his points, but they are formally similar to (though far more acute than) the monologues delivered by Letterman and Leno and the rest, all the way back to Carson and Paar and Steve Allen.
And the first one crept deep into the muscles of my back during the opening 20 minutes of sitting meditation.
His especially effective opening moment has him sitting in front of a piano and musing, "Sometimes it scares me to think about where the music comes from.
"They used to have three columns of job openings," he said recently, sitting on a worn living room couch and holding up the classified listings in El Diario.
WorkDigital's Real-Time Jobs application, for instance, lets you search the 50 million tweets-per-day (or TPD, as Twitter has so cutely coined it) for current job openings, whether you're sitting at your desktop or tapping away at your iPhone.
