Her stage chat is uproariously self-deprecating: "Ooh get me, I've read a book," she begins.
Adele herself seems genuinely and rather touchingly overwhelmed; she lets out a squawk of "fuckin' 'ell" midway through the opener, Hello – its lyrics amended to mention the festival – and, for the first few songs at least, she confines her on stage chat to mutters of "this is mad", before announcing that it's "the best fuckin' moment of my life".
A semi-legendary source of off-the-cuff (and sometimes off-color) stage chat, Mayer was putting some distance between himself and the guy who set off a spasm of negative publicity in 2010 with comments he made about his famous ex-lovers and his taste for pornography, among other topics.
We stroll to the sound stage, chatting amiably about everything except the movies we're about to critique.
"We use the pan pots a lot in the Act II cocktail-party scene, where Mandy moves around the stage chatting with groups of art patrons," Mr. Shepard said.
On one chilly night at Jones Beach on Long Island, he skipped and shimmied tirelessly around the big stage, chatting amiably with the crowd and hitting just the right combination of modesty and bravado.
(This, by the way, is an example of Keys being the "people person" she says she is on Twitter; she's in her element on stage, chatting and acknowledging the "real men" and "phenomenal, brilliant, beautiful women" in the house, who return the compliment by cheering the place down).
The second target's near the stage, chatting to a stripper – you can't shoot him without causing a massive ruckus.
At a dinner in a London restaurant named Granita, in what has since become the best-known coffee-stage chat in British history, Blair made a proposal to Gordon Brown, his rival for the leadership.
When making a rare appearance (perhaps even his debut) at ITV's glitzy showcase for next year's programming at London's Palladium on Thursday, Simon Cowell ended an on-stage chat by asking if he might say a word to the 2,000-plus 2,000-plusn adtexecsce, and effusinely thattendance for their support and stuffing Theffusively full of commercials.
During one of a number of rather stilted on-stage chats, Bussell produces a top hat which her father bought on the Portobello Road and reminisces about "the fab Hollywood routines I used to do in my bedroom"; yet while most girls manage to leave them there, she and Jenkins have opted to re-enact their fantasies in the nation's arenas.
