Preshow

We had been invited to our first VMAs at Radio City Music Hall in New York, where we gave a preshow performance of “Where Is the Love?” on an outdoor stage before the ceremony began, marking the twentieth anniversary of MTV. ❋ Steve Dennis (2011)

"God, it goes on too long," he told us in the theater lobby preshow. ❋ Vulture (2010)

“I resisted it,” he explains over a preshow plate of pad Thai. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The problem with a preshow slot was that it gave me plenty of drinking time at the main bar before we took our seats. ❋ Steve Dennis (2011)

After sound check at the Herbst Theater last month, Ryan Adams hurried to a nearby restaurant for a quick preshow dinner. ❋ Jim Fusilli (2011)

We repeated that joke so much that we ended up liking its simplicity, and, through repetition, it was adopted as our preshow anthem. ❋ Steve Dennis (2011)

The Kentucky Derby, the first leg in the race for the Triple Crown, will be broadcast live from Churchill Downs on Saturday starting at 4 pm/ET/1 pm/PT on NBC with a preshow and red carpet special. ❋ Unknown (2011)

The Germans are inclined to overreach: At the annual preshow media gathering at Detroit's "Firehouse" on Sunday, Volkswagen Chairman Martin Winterkorn was introduced as "Dr. Professor," as if anyone would doubt he's quite clever. ❋ Dan Neil (2011)

A preshow supper at Mamma Leone's on 48th Street seemed theater enough in and of itself. ❋ David Rakoff (2010)

At 7/6c, the Golden Globes red-carpet preshow on NBC had 7.4 million people watching; a rerun of America's Funniest Home Videos had an audience of 5.3 million, and a Simpsons repeat 2.6 million. ❋ Unknown (2011)

In 2008, the MTV News preshow brought you the first sneak peek at a scene from the original vampire flick. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I hosted the preshow for CNN Heroes for Showbiz Tonight and really enjoyed it. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Hey [lets] [got over] to [my place] and preshow before acidophiles! ❋ Webster_II (2010)