# When were you last on TV? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [May 2, 2002, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-were-you-last-on-tv/106860 "2002-05-02T14:32:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![whitetho](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whitetho/32/1059_2.png) [@whitetho](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whitetho)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2002, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-were-you-last-on-tv/106860/21 "2002-05-02T21:39:28Z")
In the electonics section of the local Sears store, they have a camera pointed down the aisle which shows you as you walk by. I swear I must have been shown on that thing _hundreds of times_. Maybe I should ask for royalties… ---
**Author:** ![The\_Bad\_Astronomer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f05b48/32.png) [@The\_Bad\_Astronomer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Bad_Astronomer)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2002, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-were-you-last-on-tv/106860/22 "2002-05-02T22:33:53Z")
Last Friday. I was on [TechTV](http://www.techtv.com/callforhelp/features/story/0,24330,3359017,00.html). Do I win for Most Recent Appearance? ---
**Author:** ![Khadro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f07891/32.png) [@Khadro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadro)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2002, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-were-you-last-on-tv/106860/23 "2002-05-03T01:14:45Z")
oooh, I don’t know Mr Bad Astronomer. I am currently on Australian TV walking by the background of a “vox pop” scratch lotteries commercial. That could be on at any time. They originally asked me if I had ever won (or known anyone who had won) a substantial amount of money playing the scratchies. I did not, so they moved to the next person. By the time I came out of the bookstore they were filming, and I made a point of walking behind the person. I hope that is not included in my “15 minutes”. Apart from that, it was about 12 years ago, when I was asked my opinion of an exhbition we’d been to as part of a school excursion. ---
**Author:** ![Big\_Kahuna\_Burger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Big\_Kahuna\_Burger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Big_Kahuna_Burger)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2002, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-were-you-last-on-tv/106860/24 "2002-05-03T02:16:27Z")
1996 I was on TNT because I was the Connecticut Geography Bee championn. I didn’t make the final 10, which was the televised part, but they showed the national preliminary rounds and what we did all week and I was in those. The prelim coverage was funny because the kid next to me had just cried his eyes out after missing his second question and looked like a nervous wreck. As compared to me, also with 2 wrong and looking like I didn’t have a care in the world in my New York Giants hat. ---
**Author:** ![Qwisp](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qwisp/32/397_2.png) [@Qwisp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qwisp)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2002, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-were-you-last-on-tv/106860/25 "2002-05-03T04:22:34Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by whitetho \* > \*\*In the electonics section of the local Sears store, they have a camera pointed down the aisle which shows you as you walk by. I swear I must have been shown on that thing _hundreds of times_. Maybe I should ask for royalties… \*\* Why does someone always beat me to the smart ass remarks??Of course in my case it wasn’t Sears, but Sams Club ---
**Author:** ![sturmhauke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47c2d/32.png) [@sturmhauke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sturmhauke)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2002, 7:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-were-you-last-on-tv/106860/26 "2002-05-03T07:09:21Z")
In 10th grade, I was riding my bike alongside the Homecoming game parade, doing wheelies and taunting the other grades. One of my friends saw me on a local access channel. Another time I was in the local paper in the man-in-the-street section. The reporter asked me what I thought about gays in the military. I said I didn’t care as long as they could do their job. Now I would have said something more smartass, like “You don’t have to be straight to shoot straight.” ---
**Author:** ![Joyfulgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f04885/32.png) [@Joyfulgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joyfulgirl)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2002, 8:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-were-you-last-on-tv/106860/27 "2002-05-03T08:09:01Z")
When I was 6 or so I was dared by a neighborhood boy to pick up a “mouse” he’d found under a car. Turns out it was a bat and potentially rabid. The airtime I got on the local news partially made up for the shots. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2002, 9:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-were-you-last-on-tv/106860/28 "2002-05-03T09:45:47Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by The Bad Astronomer \* > \*\*Last Friday. I was on [TechTV](http://www.techtv.com/callforhelp/features/story/0,24330,3359017,00.html). > > Do I win for Most Recent Appearance? \*\* 'Fraid not: Last Sunday, local TV, Tenerife, doing that singing thing again. OTOH, **TBA** , your appearance was presumably of significantly longer duration and larger prominence than mine. ---
**Author:** ![dono](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e0b2c6/32.png) [@dono](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dono)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2002, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-were-you-last-on-tv/106860/29 "2002-05-03T14:05:06Z")
1996: Interviewed for the local news following a public meeting on an environmental impact statement for which I was Project Manager. Yes, I _do_ still have the videotape! ---
**Author:** ![Stanislaus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stanislaus/32/3391_2.png) [@Stanislaus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stanislaus)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2002, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-were-you-last-on-tv/106860/30 "2002-05-03T14:06:19Z")
I was on CNN Europe two weeks ago, being interviewed about our most recent report. My family recorded it and were able to give me feedback. Apparently I look older than I am and have, unless it was the lights, a bald patch. They didn’t really pass any comment on what I actually said - it’s not like I was on radio, for Christ’s sake. It was the lights. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2002, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-were-you-last-on-tv/106860/31 "2002-05-03T14:16:26Z")
About two years ago. A local news reported interviewed me about the opening of some renovations at our local high school. Back in the 70s, I was host of a local TV sports call-in show, an hour and a half a day, five days a week, for a year or two. It was cable, but not public access, and I got paid for it. So if that counts, I probably have the most total airtime. ---
**Author:** ![nineiron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/e56c9b/32.png) [@nineiron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nineiron)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2002, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-were-you-last-on-tv/106860/32 "2002-05-03T14:18:19Z")
Other than very brief camera time on the quiz show for which I coach a team (the end-of-the-show handshake is a tradition and gets on the air), there was the time that I was on the local news back in 1997 or so. My part-time job involves working in a freezer, and there was a huge heat wave going on, so the local TV station was doing a fluff piece about keeping cool vs. having to work outside in the heat. I looked like a fool in my ski mask and with frost all over my beard, but it was fun. ---
**Author:** ![Arken](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dfb087/32.png) [@Arken](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arken)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2002, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-were-you-last-on-tv/106860/33 "2002-05-03T14:47:23Z")
This morning… at least, my voice was. But then I partially make my living as a professional voice actor. [blatant self-promotion][Take a listen.](http://www.minervamedia.net/djgdemo.mp3)[/blatant self-promotion] ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2002, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-were-you-last-on-tv/106860/34 "2002-05-03T15:16:30Z")
Last face time on TV was 1989 when I was interviewed by a local TV station in Sudbury. Interestingly enough, I never saw the show. I had my name mentioned on a HNIC broadcast about a year later. ---
**Author:** ![EchoKitty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f4b2a3/32.png) [@EchoKitty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EchoKitty)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2002, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-were-you-last-on-tv/106860/35 "2002-05-03T15:24:35Z")
1974 - Love’s Park, CO. Man-on-the-street interview. Never saw it. Probably cut due to the public drunkenness factor. But…my son and I were extras in Ferris Buehler’s Day Off. It makes me smile just thinking about it! ---
**Author:** ![meezer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9c0ed/32.png) [@meezer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/meezer)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2002, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-were-you-last-on-tv/106860/36 "2002-05-03T16:07:31Z")
When I was really young, I was on the Happy the Clown Show.:rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![lolagranola](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ea5d25/32.png) [@lolagranola](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lolagranola)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2002, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-were-you-last-on-tv/106860/37 "2002-05-03T17:03:48Z")
Miss Teen Red Deer Pageant, 1987. _hangs head_ I was interviewed in the Edmonton Sun newspaper a few years ago, but sadly, no TV appearance there. ---
**Author:** ![SpartanDC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b2d939/32.png) [@SpartanDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SpartanDC)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2002, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-were-you-last-on-tv/106860/38 "2002-05-03T19:14:13Z")
Summer 2000… MSNBC’s “Hardball with Chris Matthews” did a live episode from the auditorium of Michigan State University. I was going there at the time, and worked for the school paper, which co-sponsored the event. So, I got to be part of the crowd sitting behind Chris and John McCain. I was visible if Chris moved his head in the right direction, since I spent most of the episode being obscured by it. Also, they used clips from that show in promo ads for a good six months afterward. You can see my shoulder in every one of them. 🙂 I could also be seen through the window on the Today Show once, in 1997. No Al Roker interview though. When I was a kid I won a contest to do one of those “Kid newsbreak” things for one of the local non-network-affiliated stations (WKBD, I think). It was about Mother’s Day. ---
**Author:** ![Duke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e8c25b/32.png) [@Duke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2002, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-were-you-last-on-tv/106860/39 "2002-05-03T19:22:22Z")
I’ve now appeared on the local news in three countries. The third and last was for BBC South-East in 1998 to discuss, of all things, how Oxford United FC’s impending move would affect my standard of living. (They still haven’t moved, BTW.) ---
**Author:** ![LunaMoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f4b2a3/32.png) [@LunaMoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LunaMoth)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2002, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-were-you-last-on-tv/106860/40 "2002-05-03T19:30:54Z")
When I was about 12, I was on Hockey Night in Canada!! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-were-you-last-on-tv/106860.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-were-you-last-on-tv/106860.md?page=3)