Article: Laughing all the way At `Drew Carey' taping, there's many a slip 'til they get to the quip

Here are some of the reasons it takes four hours and 10 minutes to sit through the taping of this week's half-hour episode of "The Drew Carey Show."

In Scene 1, actress Christa Miller goes up on her lines twice while her character, Kate, wrestles with an ornery massage chair; each time, everybody has to go back to where they were and start over.

In Scene 2, a monitor feed keeps falling over with a dramatic crash; each time, everybody has to go back to where they were and start over. In Scenes 3 through 11, Miller and virtually every other performer mess up their lines at least once, various pieces of scenery are discovered to be out of place, and an onstage iMac that should display a ...

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