:Sidles up to microphone:
Are auditions still open?..
I have done many things in my life. I have hunted asps in Asia, lions in Africa and sharks off the Australian coast. I have swum the English channel in winter and journeyed across the Sahara without food, water or shoes. I have seen the Wailing Wall, the Rosetta stone, and the Hope diamond. I once found the Garden of Eden in the Middle East, but have since forgotten the location.
I have written treatises on politics, religion and world peace. I once read the unabridged Les Miserables in a day, compiled a list of errata, and sent it to the publisher for correction. I have rejected commissions from the New York Times, the Washington Post and Life magazine to pursue my own interests. I have spoken at commencement ceremonies at Oxford.
I have dived for pearls and given them to the homeless. I have battled malaria, smallpox, bubonic plague and polio all at once, and triumphed. I once recorded with the Rolling Stones, but their talents underwhelmed me. I won the lottery and buried my winnings in the Marianas Trench. I breed Komodo dragons as pets.
I may have been on the grassy knoll, and I am definitely Don McLean’s jester.
I have won long-distance races in Kenya, endurance contests in north Russia and surfing competitions in Maui. Several African tribes believe I am the devil; I do not dissuade them. Several Vatican officials believe I am a prophet; I use this to my advantage.
I have piloted a gondola through the canals of Venice, and toured the vineyards of France. I have been an ambassador to far too many countries to count. In my spare time I translate classic literature into braille. I have spear-fished in Lake Victoria, hunted elephants in Africa with only a knife, and sucked the venom of adders from my own wounds.
I have studied transcendental meditation in Tibet. I have been through typhoons in India, earthquakes in Japan, volcanic eruptions in Indonesia, and locust plagues in Egypt. I have been guest to kings, and captive of the same. I have survived trips to the gallows and imprisonment in the Black Hole of Calcutta, where I amused myself by solving calculus equations using only my fingers and toes.
I have undergone two successful hemispherectomies, and performed a dozen times as many at my hospital in Fiji. I have carved my initials in the Taj Mahal for posterity. I found a previously-unknown da Vinci sketch, and made some improvements.
I am a direct descendant of Socrates.
I have worked in coal mines and on skyscrapers, for princes and for dictators. I have passed myself off as a member of the Black Panthers and the Ku Klux Klan. My vision is 20/10. I have personally verified Dante Alighieri’s theories, and exploited flaws in several fundamental physics theorems in my spare time.
I have started the ultra-popular (in my own mind) Movie Game, and have ripped off famous College Essay piece.
Am I in? 