William H. Macy

Yeah.

Totally.

A lot of times they'll have a live audience, but they sweeten it.

And you don't know.

That ain't showbiz.

Mm-mm.

Aw.

It's the same gag at the end of the day.

TV's really fast, and I personally like it because you get to act all day and it's supposed to sit in your trailer waiting for the lighting to be finished.

And...

it was, you know, here's one of the coolest things that happened.

Um, we had two cameras and shameless was an hour, a real hour.

Sometimes we went to 63 and it was okay if we went to 57, but

they would write usually 65 pages for that hour.

And we had a minute to shoot it.

I think we shot, I think we had seven days to shoot one and then another half day for exteriors when we went to Chicago.

So it was run and gun.

And we had two camera crews always, and they'd just follow us around.

And the way John Wells liked to,

the way he designed it was we'd start in this room go into the hallway into the bathroom back into the hallway and right back without a cut we'd shoot the whole thing so for the actors you got to do the whole scene over and over not little bits of it yeah you know they'd come in for some close-ups every once in a while but i think it was the