I lucked into some free tickets to a live recording of a local public radio show, 'Sound Opinions', which included a live performance by Death Cab for Cutie. So, I ended up, in the middle of the day, in the third row in an intimate little auditorium in the Chicago Cultural Center, watching the band play and be interviewed. Really... more being interviewed than playing, they only did five songs, but the interview was pretty interesting and lively.

At the end, the hosts realized they needed to record some fake song introductions "in the space" so they could be edited in later, to smoothly transition from interview segment to music segment.

So, everyone would go quiet and one of the hosts would pause to collect themselves and then say into the mic, "Hey guys, why don't you play another song." Then everyone would laugh and the band would tease them.

Ben Gibbard: [laughing] That was so unconvincing. You couldn't have sounded less like you wanted to hear us play a song.
Chris Walla: Garrison Keillor is going to issue you a radio ticket.

Walla, by the way, at one point early on made a throw-away comment about not really liking comedy, and then went on to crack more jokes than anyone else.