Three strikes....
...I'm out. This past Tuesday will most likely be my last game show. I think I'll just start going to judge shows from now on. I had much more fun at Judge Judy than I did during any game show experence that I've ever had. One nice thing...no one in Judge Judy told me that I "failed a test" or didn't do so well on an interview.
Of course, the interview that I failed was during a try-out for fools. I can't feel TOO badly for failing that test. The chick who ultimately won BOTH showcases behaved like a nut in line. I guess that helped. She sure did get picked. And I remember thinking, "She's acting TOO much like a fool." when we were in the line.
If you want to get picked, it helps if you're with a group...you have a built in cheering section and that's what they want. But my little smile and sweet answer of, "Gogia." to the question, "Where do you live?" didn't do a thing to impress my judges.
I got to sit right behind the contestants...finally assuring my chances to be on television...but once again, I failed to actually become a contestant. This is the last in a run of three failed appearance attempts on game shows.
First, I tried the toughest game show of them all...Jeopardy. That audition was held in some swanky hotel in downtown Atlanta. Now, when I'm at home, I can answer those Jeopardy questions like nobodies business. But the test itself..nothing but $800 and $1000 questions. For some reason, I only knew 4 of them You needed to answer more than that correctly to be on the show...I didn't. I was so assured that I didn't that I left immediately after finishing the test without even trying to win them over with my sparkling personality. (I count on that for quite a bit. It got me into the Judge Judy Show the day of a taping just because the people at the door were so amazingly sweet and couldn't say no to me. They went WAY out of their way to get me in the audience of that show...and I truly appreciate that!) Anyway...I took my bubbly self and walked out of the rented room and out on Alex who had come into the room by way of a huge television screen.
Next was my whirlwhind trip to New York City to try out for, "Who Wants to be a Millionaire". I had no doubt that I would pass THAT test...have you seen some of those morons? Well, I'm dumber than they are and I didn't have a clue. They did give me a pencil and a refridgerator magnet...but I left my pencil back in my hotel room in New York.
After that miserable failure...I finally decided that I could act like an idiot pretty well so I went for that...The Price is Right. My daughter and I made stupid t-shirts and wore them all around the CBS Studio. We stood there dressed like fools and beautiful, well dressed actresses from The Young and the Restless walked past us standing in the line. I acted all energetic after waking up at 4:30 am to get to the studio in time for a 4 PM taping of the show. I had no energy...I was just making it up as I went along.
Had I known that I wouldn't leave with A NEW CAR...I wouldn't have ever tried to summon such energy for a show that didn't find me foolish enough to have me "Come on down!"
Oh well. That's it. As I said, it's judge shows from now on. Oh, and movies made in the Atlanta area. I saw billboards for "Why did I Get Married" all over LA. They even had them in Grauman's Chinese. So, if they didn't cut my scene in that movie...it might get seen! It's getting good reviews...that's a good sign!
Meg
...I'm out. This past Tuesday will most likely be my last game show. I think I'll just start going to judge shows from now on. I had much more fun at Judge Judy than I did during any game show experence that I've ever had. One nice thing...no one in Judge Judy told me that I "failed a test" or didn't do so well on an interview.
Of course, the interview that I failed was during a try-out for fools. I can't feel TOO badly for failing that test. The chick who ultimately won BOTH showcases behaved like a nut in line. I guess that helped. She sure did get picked. And I remember thinking, "She's acting TOO much like a fool." when we were in the line.
If you want to get picked, it helps if you're with a group...you have a built in cheering section and that's what they want. But my little smile and sweet answer of, "Gogia." to the question, "Where do you live?" didn't do a thing to impress my judges.
I got to sit right behind the contestants...finally assuring my chances to be on television...but once again, I failed to actually become a contestant. This is the last in a run of three failed appearance attempts on game shows.
First, I tried the toughest game show of them all...Jeopardy. That audition was held in some swanky hotel in downtown Atlanta. Now, when I'm at home, I can answer those Jeopardy questions like nobodies business. But the test itself..nothing but $800 and $1000 questions. For some reason, I only knew 4 of them You needed to answer more than that correctly to be on the show...I didn't. I was so assured that I didn't that I left immediately after finishing the test without even trying to win them over with my sparkling personality. (I count on that for quite a bit. It got me into the Judge Judy Show the day of a taping just because the people at the door were so amazingly sweet and couldn't say no to me. They went WAY out of their way to get me in the audience of that show...and I truly appreciate that!) Anyway...I took my bubbly self and walked out of the rented room and out on Alex who had come into the room by way of a huge television screen.
Next was my whirlwhind trip to New York City to try out for, "Who Wants to be a Millionaire". I had no doubt that I would pass THAT test...have you seen some of those morons? Well, I'm dumber than they are and I didn't have a clue. They did give me a pencil and a refridgerator magnet...but I left my pencil back in my hotel room in New York.
After that miserable failure...I finally decided that I could act like an idiot pretty well so I went for that...The Price is Right. My daughter and I made stupid t-shirts and wore them all around the CBS Studio. We stood there dressed like fools and beautiful, well dressed actresses from The Young and the Restless walked past us standing in the line. I acted all energetic after waking up at 4:30 am to get to the studio in time for a 4 PM taping of the show. I had no energy...I was just making it up as I went along.
Had I known that I wouldn't leave with A NEW CAR...I wouldn't have ever tried to summon such energy for a show that didn't find me foolish enough to have me "Come on down!"
Oh well. That's it. As I said, it's judge shows from now on. Oh, and movies made in the Atlanta area. I saw billboards for "Why did I Get Married" all over LA. They even had them in Grauman's Chinese. So, if they didn't cut my scene in that movie...it might get seen! It's getting good reviews...that's a good sign!
Meg
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