December 8th 2016: episode 3.47
Teri Ruiz and I were both booked as Under-5 contract roles for The Late Late Show with James Corden, for a bit within (one of their first?) Were You Paying Attention? sketches.
The premise of the sketch is James asks audience members about details in the previous ten minutes of the show. If they answer correctly they are awarded a hundred dollar Starbucks card; if they answer wrong, they are banished, their seat taken by one of the stand-by audience members who had not originally been able to get in.
Teri and my bit were playing "hired actors" playing the parents of one of the Wrong Answerers, escorting her out, verbally berating her as would highly disappointed parents.
We had lines, but we were permitted to expound on them, ad lib where needed, et al. Origianlly we'd each had to self-submit video of us doing provided lines as the angry, disappointed parent. I loathe that new, online aspect of "auditioning," but for once it came through, and I was booked.
I arrived at CBS Television City early, as always, and was shown to the dressing rooms. Teri arrived shortly afterwards. We knew we had worked together previously on Something, but could not recall on what.
We were brought to the stage and rehearsed the bit a few times, more for camera and such than for us. Everyone was impressed with our performances. At one point host James Corden was in the same upper-level waiting area as we were sitting there, and he was gracious enough to take a selfie with the two of us.
During the show, James got distracted, engaging with two chatty audience members. The sketch began we set ourselves on our marks, our aspect arrived, and we went through our part to massive laughs and applause. While we could barely hear ourselves, we continued our part as best we could, escorting out a young woman out of the studio and up the corridor. We had been body-mic'd, so we were told all our lines had been heard by Sound. Production was thrilled with us, strongly implying we'd be Brought Back at some point.
My brother on the east coast texted me after watching it there, submitting the sad news that our aspect of the sketch was cut, not the chatty audience members who slowed down the show.

Monday April 08, 2017
Dance and Kiss Cam sketch, in episode 3.93
Now and then over the next few months, Teri and I would be placed On Hold, to be brought back to reprise our bit for the same sketch, but would be released at the last moment. Then we were called to see if we were open to a different sketch, and whether we would kiss the other. I was certainly up for it. Then we learned it'd be Featured Background (pay), and Teri opted out, then either somehow wrangling a line, or a line being provided her (not I), and her (quote rightly), insisting on an Under-5 contract.
Relying on the probability of being brought back (via non Boat-Rocking), I accepted the Background aspect, as it'd still be good screen time, and it was More Than Zero. I'd not had a gig in about two weeks, and I was hurting for work.
I arrived about an hour early, obviously, shortly thereafter joined by Anissa Eve, who one of the three Kissing Couples involved. As she and I were in the same Calling Service, we'd gotten the same emailed information. Teri was with a different service, so she got a different email, so for a day or so I thought it would be Anissa who I'd be kissing.
Teri arrived, and explained her info came from her own service. Soon Eric Allen, Melissa Whitley, and Paul Price arrived.
Eric and Melissa got lines (as did Paul), so they got upgraded (leaving Anissa and me paid two thirds less than the other four).
We were brought in and rehearsed so the cameras and boom mic people knew where to be when. As previously, rehearsals involved various crew members and writers and such. To lend credence that we were "just" audience members and not actors, the bit began with a Dance Cam. Camera-rehearsing this, we each got to dance, as well as various crew members on whom the cameras would be turned.
This time around tey had a nice catered dinner, not a walkaway as the previous time Teri and I were there.
As they had to wait to the end of the big basketball final game to end before taping could begin, instead of taping at 5:30pm, the show got started more around 8:30'ish. So for the time we were waiting, we learned Anissa and I were kindred spirits regarding various aspects of metaphysics, such as astrology, spirituality, et al.
Despite our being audience plants, unstead of our being brought in with the audience proper, we were brought in towards the end of the warm up comedian's set.
It went over really well, and shortly thereafter one of the crew lead Teri and I up the audience stairs to the upper waiting area where previously James had done the selfie with us. We went down and out, and later when the other four returned to the trailer holding room, we learned that during the commercial break, James had awesomely had the audience acknowledge we, the actors. teri and I had been long been since escorted out, so only the other four got the recognition. I don't know if James realized as he said that that Teri and I were already gone, or if he did, if he'd said anything about us.
We were out of there a few minutes before 10pm. which was our originally "warned" out time. Teri offered to drive me home, and later I watched the episode air. It aired at the proper time on the west coast; on the east coast my brother had to begrudingly stay up far later as the game pushed everything back over an hour or so.
In the morning, Anissa posted the video which it turnes out the show had already posted the sketch on YouTube, which Anissa posted, tagging each of us. I later learned Paul had provided Anissa with the link, which was surprised as he is not on Facebook or Twitter social media platforms, only Instagram.
I quickly posted it on my own Facebook page, my "fan" page, my public page, as well as on my Twitter feed.

Dance and Kiss Cam sketch/es