The Talk

What was once a fun day has become a boring snooze fest. My friend and I loved going to The Talk. That was then, this is now.
One boring C list celebrity after another. Their audience prizes are a joke compared to other talk shows. The worst one we received was a coupon for a frozen dinner.
Where it was once very hard to get tickets, now the staff calls and sends email asking (begging) for audience members.

This is following my experience on 5÷17÷16 at the Talk live taping. One of the first encounters I witnessed with a «The Talk» staff member was with ladies that were ahead of us in line. The staff member was extremely annoyed at them for some reason and I caught her talking to them very sharply and in a patronizing voice about them taking too long. I should say that I am very pregnant and found the way staff was ushering us around felt very impersonal and cold and I was also surprised that I wasn’t able to use the restroom while we were waiting to walk to the studio. It was very painful for me to wait and after walking ¼ mile (or whatever it was) I had to wait yet again for a staff member to escort me over to the bathroom down the road. It was totally unnecessary to have a male member of the staff wait for me while I was in the restroom and almost made me feel like a criminal as if I was going to run off somewhere. The fact that we’re herded around and waiting on our feet in order of our number made the experience cold and my mom remarked at one point that it felt like we’re props to fill some seats and get in and out. This was supposed to be a nice belated mothers day surprise for my mom and it felt contrived and fake especially when we were seated and moved at the whim of very curt staff that hardly took the time to talk to us. The gentleman that gets the audience excited said some pretty sexist and ageist remarks but at least he was talking to us and got a few laughs — his comments didn’t really bother me but there were a few older ladies around us that said they were offended after he referred to 50 year olds belonging in an old age home. I realize it was said in jest but they took in personally.
What was most awkward was the interaction or lack thereof with the hosts of the show. No one but Sheryl acknowledged our existence. Sheryl was the highlight of the show — she was funny and smart exactly as she is on air. During commercial breaks a very imposing security guard stood over our aisle without smiling and glaring at us. It’s ironic that the show is called the Talk yet nobody on staff or the hosts even deigned to talk to us. We just had orders barked — spread out, move here, wait till we tell you to use the bathroom. There were people that came from all over the country and state and they were treated as second class citizens. These people take time out of their lives to participate (laugh on cue, stand up and applaud, and be punctual to the live taping) and are treated like an inconvenience. It was unfair and demeaning.
This is not our first time as live audience members — we’ve been to the Ellen show countless times and each time is lively and fun. They encourage us to get up to dance and make us feel appreciated and loved by providing us with seats and entertainment (shopping etc.) whenever we have to wait. It’s worth the traffic driving down to Burbank and back and after visiting the Ellen show we just become bigger fans. I’m sad to say that our experience with The Talk was just the polar opposite. I removed the show from my DVR and hope that my feedback will help remedy the situation for future live audience members.

Super fun day today! The staff allowed us to take selfies in the studio, which they haven’t allowed in I don’t know how long, if ever, that I can remember. They not only helped us take pictures but they even jumped in a few (The warm up guy Bill did literally — I love this hilarious dude — the best in the business I think). Once we were done, we had to turn them off which is the norm. It was hot and you have to walk about a quarter mile to the studio and they took us through shady spots and allowed us to stand in the shade until we got inside the studio. They also gave us plenty of water during the break along with our snack of a banana and granola bar. We saw Garry Marshall today which was a treat — this guy is a legend, in the business for 60 years! Sheryl Underwood gave away two more pair of shoes to the audience from her personal closet — she’s the funniest and sweetest! If you want tickets to the show, go online — you can google «the talk tickets» and it will take you to
and straight to the ticket calendar. It’s that simple. They also surprised us with a giveaway — fantastic finds! It was another good day at the Talk!

Thank you The Talk !
What a fun and enjoyable day we had today at The Talk, seeing it in person was awesome as can be! We would love to return for more visits anytime.
Kimberley

My friend and myself attended the December 8, 2015 taping in NYC. We were on the line at 12:30 pm but didn’t go inside until after 2:30. We were the 7^th and 8^th in line. It was a very cold day to say the least. The studio in NYC is right off the Hudson River. After we finally went inside we were hold up in a room where our pictures were taken and than finally taken into the studio about 4:30. We thought that since we were there first we would at least get to be seated down on he floor near the hosts. But no, we were seated all the way up top and the folks who got to the studio later were given the best seats. This was the holiday week shows so some audiences during the week received great gifts but the taping we attended got nothing but a voucher to see the play Matilda. There were so many blackout date restrictions that it didn’t make sense to even try to get tickets. The hosts never interacted with the audience before or after the taping. They were very impersonal. They give off a difference appearance while on camera. Sheryl did shake hands with some folks seated on the floor. I was very disappointed at the way we were treated. It seemed that we were just a fill in audience. I still watch the show but don’t feel the same way about the hosts as before.

My two sisters and I attended a taping of The Talk on 11÷11÷15. The parking was great, nice to ride a shuttle to the studio. The waiting time was not bad, it was fun to take the pictures in the picture booth. But… Danny the one that seats the guests was so RUDE! We were # 27, 28 and 29 in line, so we thought we would get pretty decent seats. He put us up in the balcony. When we questioned him about having to sit in the balcony, he told us it was his job to put the most enthusiastic guests in the front. As we were walking toward the balcony he actually yelled at us «ATTITUDE DOES NOT WORK HERE!» I truly have never been yelled at by someone like that before, I cannot believe he is even employed by the The Talk. Rude. Rude. Rude. When we sat down, we thought we actually did have pretty good seats… until the show started, cameras blocked our view, we had to pretty much watch the monitors to see anything. Sheryl Underwood is the nicest of the all of the women, she talks to the audience during the commercial breaks. None of the others even look up from their phones during the breaks. Antonio Banderas was scheduled to be there, but they had actually taped him a few days before, so we just watched on screen. Not the best experience. Maybe we were just there on an off day!

Love it! Love ! Love !
Intelligent, informative women with a great sense of humor!
Love Julie in this role and her versatility with Bug Brother. Not to mention she is very attractive. All of the women seem to mesh and compliment each other. What a great show with integrity !

I was recently on your show, thrilled to, be there, when I suddenly hear a man named Danny make an offensive and derogatory comment about people’s physical appearance. He made unnecessary discriminatory and humiliating comments for example «if we hadn’t had so many big women in the audience we would have had more room for all of you»! He said this while he was standing directly in front of a an obese woman”. I couldn’t believe how he was ridiculing these women and how insensitive, unkind, and rude he was. In fact, he’s obese himself! The women I spoke with were too intimidated to say anything for they feared that they would be retaliated against by him putting them on his «BLACKLIST». It’s ironic that the show is called“The Talk”, yet these women can’t feel that it’s safe to reach out to the cast members to share what’s happening to them. I’d add that this is nothing short of bullying and unnacceptable!!! I will never attend this show ever again!

I was so excited to go to the taping because I watch it everyday. We (4 of us) even drove from another state for 11 hours and spent the night close by. I’ve got to admit it was not a good experience. For all the waiting and what you have to go through, the staff could be much nicer. The Talk ladies never once even smile or say anything to the audience. They act like you are not even there, and there were a lot of breaks. Two other talk shows I went to at least say ‘thanks for your attendance’. Once it’s over they just send you on your way… no kind words. After all, they are the ones that need the cheers and clapping, and should at least act like they care.
To say the least, I have a bad taste in my mouth and no longer watch The Talk.

I LOVE LOVE the TALK! I had no clue there was an actual official Unilocal review section for the show itself or I would’ve submitted this much sooner. Anyways, I’m a TALk regular you could say haha been there many a times and remember my very first time having gone in May 2012 for an amazing afternoon Mothers Day taping. My mom Dawn, best family friend Nadejda and I have been going since then and we can’t get enough. It always gives us something fun to look forward to. I’ve met so many amazing people from attending the show as an audience member, gotten cool prizes and even been able to participate in other unique once in a lifetime experiences such as new pilot show tapings etc. My mom remembers a few years back attending an amazing episode that featured only breast cancer survivors (which she is herself) and it was a touching and awesome time for her to be surrounded by other women who shared in the same experience. It made her feel a lot stronger and not as alone with the disease. This show has offered us each the best medicine at different times for each one of my friends and family through laughter. I love so much that I live close enough to be able to go to live tapings. It’s a true privilege to me.
I’m a stay at home mother of a beautiful 5 year old girl so Im fortunate to have the extra free time occasionally to come spend the day at the TALK and the TALK has been like a second home to me. Me and my ladies are always looking forward to spending time with the amazing, kind and hilarious staff at the studio. Each and every one of them individually brings something special to the show. They bust their butts off and we are always grateful for all that they do! I remember the early days with CJ and Shannon and Zane and Stacy have been there for many years and now the amazing Tawny and Ethan. Always a pleasure to see the fun loving, whip smart, quick witted and hilarious Danny! He’s an amazing man with a huge heart and even bigger smile. I don’t know how this show would survive without these people and how they deal with some of the rude audience members. I know first hand from my years of coming to the show how rude, greedy and inappropriate some of the audience members can be. So many downers and complainers. I’ve even had a couple of them in the past sit next to me and ask me not to clap so loud or be so enthusiastic? Umm haha our job is to be the loudest and enthusiastic audience in day time tv. Some women just don’t get it.
Yes, the show has changed over the years with dress code and what not but how difficult is it really to comply to those standards? If ‘guests’ yes you are an invited guest, don’t like that than they don’t have to come. Save room for the ones that thoroughly enjoy coming to the show and dressing their best with a genuine smile on their faces while doing it. This show is pretty generous when it comes to gifts if they told me I had to come dressed in a trash bag I would do it with a smile on my face haha it’s a privilege in my opinion to be an invited guest of the show and I’m happy some of these people have decided to show their true colors because it’s gonna be more enjoyable for me to be surrounded by other happy women like myself who want to be there. I mean how hard is it to dress nice, follow the rules, turn your phone off for a few hours and smile and clap for these awesome hosts and help make the staffs job easier? And if you do leave with a gift is a ‘thank you’ to the staff or even the company who sponsored it so you cold receive it so hard? Im even sure to do that from time to time letting the company know how thankful I was to receive the gift at the show.
I can’t even believe some of these reviews on here but I’m not surprised. Keep up the good work Talk staff, and that goes for camera men and everyone on the set as well and even the security and all the red jacket cbs employees I’ve met over the years as well. And of course we can’t forget Bill! But that’s obvious! He’s always a pleasure and he’s a rare gem that’s for sure. Whenever I bring someone new it’s always fun to see how mesmerized they are by his natural energy and talent. There’s no one like him that’s for sure and I couldn’t imagine a better job for him. Thank you! And if you’re looking for a fun day out amongst friends this is it! But be warned if you are outgoing, like to laugh and have fun you may become addicted because I am now 3 years in and can’t get enough of the show. I’ve only ever noticed the show and staff has become more organized and keeps getting better and better everyday! Thanks for the most fun last 3 years of my life! Love this show! Each of the hosts has gone out of their way to personally thank me for being there at different times through the years and they are completely genuine and sincere women. Love them all!

Spent the day with the ladies of The Talk yesterday and they didn’t disappoint. Happy Birthday Sharon!!! We have been going off and on since the pilot show and have seen it evolve to what it is today. The ladies always treat one another with respect and seem to genuinely love each other. Great chemistry. The staff is always fair and accommodating. Thanks Danny! The energy is off the charts. Thanks Bill!
Look forward to many more seasons.

You guys are crazy talking about Danny, I haven’t seen not one of you guys in the audience teeth whiter than his.

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Love going to The Talk. Love the staff always so sweet. Was at the very first show. Now it’s nice to get out. When your sick and stuck in bed nice to know your gonna laugh with Bill. Knowing Tawny, Danny, and the other make you feel welcome. You forget what your going through for awhile. Don’t get tickets a lot but when I do love it. Thank you for making forget things at home.

Went to the taping of the talk last week and it was super fun! Followed the directions on the paper they sent me and it was smooth sailing. Tips. Give yourself enough time to get from the parking structure to the taping because it takes awhile for the shuttle to leave and drive over there. Don’t be overwhelmed by the new business chic dress code. It’s as simple as throwing on a cute necklace and earrings and your good to go. It’s about looking cute! I will definitely be going back.

Wanted to see The Talk with my friend. We received email letting us know that the dress code had changed. I asked what the dress code before was just wanted to get an idea they wrote back «like I said in previous email I will send it when we get the updated one».
RUDE TO SAY THE LEAST. Then a 3 page «rules and regulations» list comes. OMG! With all the rules you’d think your going to the White House!
Dress: Upscale Business Chic… I’m retired those words are not in my vocabulary let alone in my closet. We are told park ¼ mile down the street however parking is NOT guaranteed.
Substantial standing in line and no going to bathroom while standing in line. Also the bus is not affiliated with the show so it may or not be there so walk. It was sad to read that the host’s of the show do not acknowledge the audience with a thank you for coming.
After rereading the rules we declined because we think CBS/​the production staff are rude and SNOBS.
I was so fed up with questions from them. They do not care that we are driving from over 50 miles one-​way. The privilege is NOT ours… the privilege is theirs to have us there but they’ve seemed to forgotten that.
I stopped watching the show too.
I do agree that Sheryl is the best one on the show!

The Talk is my favorite talk show!!! Bill the «warmup man» is SOOOO funny he loves audience participation so don’t come to The Talk and sleep on Bill he will call you out and possibly throw his mike at you I started coming to the show when Sheryl Underwood joined the cast, she’s funny and real, Mrs. O is funny as well I love to hear her talk «Old ass Jay Z» «Fiddy», Sara is super healthy and loves her some Linda Julie is always poised and picture perfect awesome shoes Aisha is very witty she has a sharp tongue with a sense of humor.
With that said they have chemistry you can tell the ladies really love each other Keep up the good work, cya next week

I go to the talk once in a while when I get a call back. I love going there it’s always a lot of fun and you always leave energized thanks to Billy he’s awesome he’s the «crowd entertainer» I guess you would call him. the staff is friendly bubbly up beat and helpful. It’s always super organized they have almost perfected the system so you don’t spend all day there I don’t really care for the highschool twerps in the red coats they don’t really know what’s going on and have nasty little attitudes lol so I would suggest just avoiding them. the main staff are awesome I don’t know their names though :/​. sometimes they give away gifts to the audience. it’s pretty easy to get in security has been beefed up and its more of a hassle compared to the way it was before unfortunately. You never really know what you are going to get. All in all it’s worth it I absolutely love Sarah Gilbert (Darlene Conner) and Aisha Tyler (Lana Kane & Andrea Marino) :). Definitely try it out go online to book tickets! Can’t wait to go again I’ve been to many other shows and this by far is the winner in my opinion

Today I went to my FIRST ever live taping of a talk show and honestly I don’t really know how to feel about it. It had it’s highs and lows.
Highs:
The parking was super easy. We got a great spot and got on the bus right away. The bus staff were very friendly.
The CBS studio people were very friendly. Some of The Talk’s staff was nice (please see lows).
The process is very easy. They give you a number.
The actual show was a lot of fun! My grandma had a great time.
Sheryl Underwood! She was so nice and welcoming. She really needs her own show.
Lows:
Most of the staff was RUDE. So rude! I don’t know if it’s because this is their job and they do it every single day so they’re bored or what but boy were they rude.
You are treated like a prop. You are not a living, breathing human being. NONE of the hosts actually acknowledge your presence except one. Sheryl Underwood was the only one interacting with the audience. I understand that since the audience is pretty large it’s physically impossible to greet every guest individually but they could at least say a general hello and thank you for coming or something! Not once did someone say thanks for coming. But then again you are a prop so why should they give you any time of day?
Overall it was an okay experience. Like I said this was my first visit so I really didn’t know what to expect. I don’t have anything to compare it to. I suggest you set your expectations very low. I MIGHT go to a second taping just to see if I have a different experience. Maybe know that I now all the details it’ll go better.

Starting from this season, the new parking location will be at Studio City Public Parking lot.
CBS studio shuttle bus will come to this location & pick up audience. If the wait time is too long, you can walk to CBS studio (15 minutes walk). Actually is a good exercise in the morning!

We came here on Wednesday morning taping which you had to be at The Talk by 930 at the latest. We took Über to The Talk because we haven’t rented a car yet and it was the best decision ever!
We left the hotel (Hilton Garden Inn in Hollywood) at about 750 and got to The Talk around 815? Traffic was fine but when we passed over a highway we saw some HORRIBLE bumper to bumper traffic that looked awful. Anyways, Über dropped us off right at Gate A and we were so confused because we couldn’t find a huge line of people! Little did we know we were the 5^th, 6^th, and 7^th people to show up! Everyone else was stuck in the parking lot that was about a half mile away waiting on the bus. We started getting nervous because no one was showing up and it was almost 9 am! Well, the bus came and everyone got off the bus and BOY WERE THEY MAD to see about 15 people in line ahead of them — some of them had been waiting since 8 am!
So they collected all of our drivers license to scan, handed them all back, then you signed some form, took a photo with the form, had your bag checked, went through the metal detector and had one of two options — go uphill to use the bathroom (not that far of a walk) or go straight into the waiting area. In the waiting area you can tweet/​Instagram etc The Talk and take a photo with their cut outs.
Around 10 am we went down to the studio which is a very far walk — if you have a walking disability make sure to request disability seating so you can take the golf cart to the studio. They tell you you have to walk ‘about the length of a football field’ before you are in a studio.
The hype guy was fun, and it seemed like everyone knew who he was (we met a lot of people who were retired and do this weekly!).
Like everyone else said the hosts are very cold to the audience. We were taping the Friday show on Wednesday so I wasn’t sure why they HAD to film in one hour. They easily could have filmed in 2 or whatever.
Julie Chen — played on her phone and was doted on during the commercial breaks.
Sara Gilbert — waved back at me and said hi when she passed me (twice!) she looked like she wasn’t feeling well
Sharon Osbourne — omg how much plastic surgery have you had done? She looks worse in person than on TV. So sad
Aisha Tyler — played on her phone during the commercials
Sheryl Underwood — waved to her fans, would talk to the audience, and my mom even got a hug and air kiss from her after the show!
One neat tid-​bit is that when they get a guest they bring out a a bigger table top! haha I thought that was hilarious.
I think that the women texting on the phone is just an act. I can only compare this to Steve Harvey who would talk to use during the ‘commercial’ break and the audience could ask him questions.
Unlike some other people we did not get any free gifts from The Talk Even though it was Aisha’s birthday week.