I think those people work a lot. In my opinion doing mostly stupid, vapid stuff, but they have to learn to shoot and edit videos, maximize advertising, a lot of them write their own material. It’s running a business. I wouldn’t want to do it.
Pat and Vanna hunker down for four days a month (every other Thursday and Friday) to film six shows each day. Taping one episode takes about 30 minutes thanks to the puzzle board changing from analog to digital in Feb. 1997.