I was on the Jerry Springer show a couple times. The first time was a KKK wedding. I got up at the end of the show and asked a question that got everyone riled up then Jerry gave his final thought. The second time was a Spring Break show. We all wore swim suits and watched chicks flash thier tits at the camera. The third time I was there while my 2 friends from high school were guests who were “Battling Roomates”. They were never even room mates, but it was funny as hell.
For those wondering:
Jerry is really funny in person.
The studio is really small
You really do sit in the studio for 2 minutes during commercial breaks and nothing happens during the break.
You don’t know the topic for the day until you show up for the show, so you can’t choose which shows to go to.
5)They are just cheap ass fold up chairs you sit on during the show
6)Potty breaks are forbidden during taping.
All in all alot of fun and I recommend people go to these shows if they are in Chicago. Free and fun. I almost went to see Jenny Jones, its in the same building, but once people started killing each other after being on there I decided not to.
Anyone else ever been on a nationally syndicated show? Gameshow or talkshow?
I was on “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire” for 2 whole seconds. I was never fastest in the fast finger round, so I never made it to the hot seat, never answered any questions, and never made a dime.
But for 2 seconds, I was a star (I still feel I’m owed another 14 minutes and 58 seconds).
For what it’s worth:
Regis Philbin is very short.
The studio is tiny, too.
If you don’t make it to the hot seat, you don’t get more than a handshake and a “Hi, nice to meet you,” from Regis.
Once was on the day the Gulf War started. My uncle and I went down to the White House and watched the pro/against protesters argue. A reporter asked me what I thought, and I remember saying something about the fact that my brother was there and I hoped it was over quickly.
I didn’t know about it until my mother called me. The first words out of her mouth were:
“So I’ve gotta watch TV to find out you’re alive?”
The second time was in 1998 in FL, during the fires. I was interviewed as one of the many volunteers who were helping out. I don’t think I was very coherent. I’d been up for 3 days driving my pickup truck around taking food, water, and firefighters everywhere on God green earth.
For any UK Dopers out there, I’m captain of my team on University Challenge this season. We make it to the playoffs, which is cool. And Jeremy Paxman is a pretty accessible guy in real life, or at least he was at the studio. (For everyone else out there, it’s a national quiz show for teams of college kids).
I was on that show “Kids say the Darndest Things” or whatever it was when I was a child.
Then later in elementary school I was on the pilot of the “Dr. Fad” show (with Ken Hakuta, the guy who invented waky wall walkers)
I was one of the “inventor presenters” who got special seats in the front row and got called on by Dr. Fad to stand up and present. My invention was also the one used in all the commercials for the show.
Speaking of which, I now see that someone has begin marketing and selling my invention, which was a pillow with a hollowed out channel so you could breath while sleeping on your side or face.
I was very slightly involved in the production of a CSPAN special, not this summer, but last summer. Due to time constraints, creative differences, the fact that no one else involved really knew me, and the fact that I had a major attitude problem, all I really did was a chunk of the storyboarding. Still, though… s’all I’ve got.
I did pottery for “Murder She Wrote”. I was filmed in a scene with Angela Lansbury, and the shot started with the camera doing a close-up of me throwing on the potter’s wheel.
Alas, my claim to fame ended up on the cutting room floor, but I still can see my colorful pottery in the background of some of the scenes in the episode. (Called “Bill and Jack” w/ Ken Howard.)
I was also in the audience of the Johnny Carson show, but I don’t believe my visage ever appeared on camera. I was also in a faceless crowd of people who watched slightly off-camera as a scene of Harrison Ford’s “Blade Runner” filmed at the Bradbury Building in downtown LA.
Many years ago I was selected as a finalist to be a contestant for the game show Tic Tac Dough. I sat in the front row and was on camera many times but was not selected to go on stage.
I was on Win Ben Stein’s Money a couple of years ago, right after they made the switch from Jimmy Kimmel to Nancy I’m-an-unfunny-bitch as Ben’s sidekick. I made it to the final round but didn’t win.
Ben had a great warm-up guy.
Ben gets incredibly nervous during taping, because he really wants to win! While the contestant is in the booth doing the final test, Ben is in his cubicle swigging stomache medicine for his worry-induced ulcer!
Ben also goes NOWHERE without his bodyguard, even on set. He was mugged and robbed at his home a few years back, and it freaked him out really badly.
It was fun, I would have done it again. And my episode gets rerun all the time.
I was on an episode of “Making the Band” I was in the front row at one of thier concerts, that footage was then added to a montage of concerts. Pretty cool , if i do say so myself
