What television shows have you appeared on?

[Fuzz]

[poiuytsister]

1. I had my 8th birthday party on tv

The local kids show "Col. Caboose on WBAY in WI. Way cool.

[Poiuyt]

18. I seem to recall seeing you in a PSA for the local library a few years ago

[Zomby Woof]

2. Live in-studio interview on local news

When I lived in AZ, I was interviewed on the morning newscast to promote a play I was in.

[WCGreen]

3. On every local news outlet....

Mostly for political stuff but the last time because I went through an extreme haircut and they showed me on local TV...

[dysfunctional press]

4. i was on Oprah...up on the stage, not in the audience.

the topic of the show was: men who date married women (this was back in the late 80's, when oprah was much more sally jesse raphaelish)

the funny part of the story is that my family didn't know that i'd be on(at the time, it was shown live in chicago at 9am) and my mother was talking to my sister on the phone...both had oprah on...and all of a sudden, my sister yells out Oh my god- questionall is on oprah!...and my mother does a coffe spit-take all over the dog. at least that's how i heard it.

[Nicole]

5. I was on a local show

to promote 4-H back in the 70's.

[bigwillq]

6. I've been on the local news many times

as part of my job.

[femmocrat]

7. Local TV (twice) when I was a kid.

The first show was called "Quizdown." They asked elementary school contestants questions (something like that show with 5th graders but way more basic).

The second show was a local version of "American Bandstand" with kids dancing in a teeny-tiny little studio. I was in junior high.

[Deja Q]

8. I'm not an actor, but I play one on every closed circuit surveillance camera in stores.

I'm not a thief, but I sure do feel safer when the bad guy wants to rob people at the checkout counter...

[rug]

9. Candid Camera.

[Fuzz]

10. I've been seen in the audience of several shows

some of which I'm not proud of, but I had friends that worked at the studios, so what the hell.

Last week of Letterman at NBC and first week of Letterman at CBS, that was cool. Conan O'Brien, Geraldo, Regis and Kathy Lee.

I was also on a local news show in fourth grade, some library story, can't remember anymore. We were just told to look like we were doing library stuff.

One of my friends was on Wheel of Fortune and won 8,000, that was cool.

A friend of mine also walked us into the CBS Evening News studio just as Dan Rather was about to go on the air and we were like right there, about 40 feet to his right.

He also took us into Lettermen's CBS studio on a Saturday when we were going to a Yankee game and we got to explore a bit and pretend to do a monologue. :)

[TommyO]

11. I was an extra "coaster rider" in a Dorney Park commercial

many years ago, does that count?

[Pithlet]

12. I was in a commercial for Towson Town Center, a mall outside of Baltimore.

Speaking line and everything. For months I kept getting "Hey, I saw you in that commercial the other night!" My 15 minutes of fame.
ETA I forgot, I've been on the local news a couple of times, and I was pictured in a hospital brochure when I was 6. My mom kept a copy and still has it somewhere.

[pepperbear]

13. xtra in a "busch gardens: the old country" commercial...

playing in the Colonial Williamsburg fife and drum corps in a perry como special when I was a kid.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

14. I was a "woman on the street" interviewee twice on local news in Portland,

and back in my younger days, I was in a concert that was broadcast on Connecticut Public Television.

[Wapsie B]

15. I was in two local TV shows.

One was a show with the Job Service of Iowa. The local TV station did a show with people being interviewed on the air about what job they were looking for and their training and background. It was a verbal resume. This was in the early 80's after the bottom had dropped out of the economy and factories were closing.

The other show was when another station was broadcasting from the National Dairy Cattle Congress. The weather guy was showing the crowd around him and I happened to be there.

[Left Is Write]

16. I try not to appear on television shows.

[Qanisqineq]

17. Maury -- "Who's your baby's daddy?"

I was the one that brought 16 guys in on my first appearance to all get paternity tests. None of them were the father. On my second appearance I brought in 7 more.

We are still looking for the father...

:P

[Oeditpus Rex]

19. Local news three times

Once for minor league fans' reaction to the 1985 MLB strike, once to promote the Jaycees' Haunted House and once in a feature on the Bleacher Creatures, a group of minor league baseball fans a friend and I started in the vein of the Cubs' Bleacher Bums. They did it "Twilight Zone" style, first showing us as normal people — my friend singing the national anthem, me on the field shooting pictures — then went to us doing all this weird cheerleading stuff. :D

And once working the phones at the Jerry Lewis Telethon. I was wearing a rather hideous tie, and they cut it in half for a pledge. x(

[Ilsa]

20. Locally produced news show on the Texas coast. I modeled a

bathing suit from early 20th sentury that looked like a halter dress. This was back when I was 110 pounds with a nice figure and legs.

[Pushed To The Left]

21. Hotseat with Wally George when I was 16!

They had a guest on discussing melathian (not sure about the spelling) and he had very wild hair. A 16-year-old Pushed asked him "How much melathian do you put in your hair?" and then giggled like Beavis and Butthead. A lot of people in the audience didn't agree with Wally George, but sort of went along with it for fun. I really wasn't all that political back then.

[grannylib]

22. I was on the news when I was a kid because I got to meet and give flowers

to the King of Norway when he visited our little Iowa town (local, regional and national news, it was pretty cool, I was about 8 or 9) and once on the local station here being interviewed about a fund-raiser for hunger relief being sponsored by my church youth group.

[ironflange]

23. Romper Room!!

On the very day JFK was shot, no less!

[Roon]

24. Blinky!

It was a kids' clown show we had here in Denver. I appeared on my birthday. My sister was with me and she put her dress over her head on TV. LOL

[u4ic]

25. A speaking role in a local show

it was a silly cooking/dating show; it was only the host and I for the whole show. The series got sold to such exotic locales as South Africa and the Phillipines, probably because it was 1. cheap and 2. they didn't realize how terrible it really was. :rofl:


I was also asked for my opinion on "The Great Debate" show back in grade 9...when I made a complete ahsss of myself. I had no idea Pierre Berton would roam the audience asking for their opinion on the debate questions.

[Drum]

26. Other

Dance in America (PBS) in a few films,
American Playhouse (also PBS) in a Julie Taymore film "Fool's Fire"
and
The Kennedy Center Honors (1992, when my boss was an honoree.)

:shrug:

[Cobalt-60]

27. Other

A drive through cameo on the local news, way back in the 70s.
They were doing a story on the dangers of the Monsanto plant where I had a summer job.
My VW with me visibly at the helm motored through the frame as the spoke of the horrors of Chloro Acetyl Chloride - that active ingredient in Roundup.

[eyesroll]

28. I got to say "let's have a good laugh for this cartoon" on the Bozo Show when I was 7.

Other than that...been interviewed but cut from the nightly news for a segment on Drinking Liberally. Appeared a couple of times on community TV (broadcasted meetings and such). Perhaps some incidental B-roll footage of me at a protest exists somewhere. Not much else.

[LaraMN]

29. Just the local news and some local cable-access show.

As far as I know.

[RebelOne]

30. Sally Jesse Show

[One_Life_To_Give]

31. Ranger Station

Most everyone I grew up with was on the Ranger Station at one time or another.

[maveric]

32. Boston Channel 5 News. 1974.

While I was chained and shackled together with others who got hit by the "sting".

[Shakespeare]

33. Jeopardy, and a regional PBS current events show. n/t

[NewWaveChick1981]

34. A few....

...When I was a kid, I was on every kids' show in the Atlanta area. Mr. Pix, Officer Don, Tubby & Lester, and whatever other kids' drivel on at the time. :rofl: I was madly in love with Officer Don and got his autograph, and you'd think I'd just met a rock star the way I acted! :rofl: I won an el-cheapo sewing machine for little girls when I was on Tubby & Lester (silly Laurel & Hardy ripoff characters, who acted kinda like Krusty the Klown)...:rofl: That damn sewing machine never worked at all. :eyes:

When I was a little older (about 11 at the time), I was on In the News with Charles Kuralt. I had written to him about the war on Cyprus and asked how the children there were holding up, and he read my letter and showed my picture on Saturday morning CBS...:bounce: :woohoo: I wasn't physically on TV, but my picture ended up in households across the country. :D

Most recently, I was interviewed by the local NBC affiliate's morning program a couple of years ago on financial aid matters, and it was about a ten-minute spot. :) Of course, it was on live TV at 6:10 AM, so I doubt that many people actually saw it. :rofl: :hi:

[bertha katzenengel]

35. news - Soulforce protest. n/t

[Lautremont]

36. I co-hosted a national (Canadian) show for oh, six episodes.

I was the writer, and they canned the host and upgraded me. This was for the CBC, and a friend made the very insensitive (but still funny) comment that I would "prbably be replaced by a gay Indian." They let me go after a half-dozen episodes and I was replaced by a gay Indian. I'm not even kidding. But his gay Indian-ness wasn't a factor, or even if it was it didn't matter, 'cause he was way better at it than me.

[Mutley]

37. I think my picture was on the local news once when I was a kid

They were doing a story on the record heat wave or something, and someone got a shot of my family and me at the park.

[av8rdave]

38. back of my head was on CNN once...shot from a Jesse Jackson speech

and I was once on a local talk show in western NY in the 60s. They were doing a show about cub scouts. Still can't figure out why that one didn't go national!

I was once on a PBS telethon in Phoenix. (one of those many callers trying to raise money).

[bearfan454]

39. Bozo's Circus

on WGN. My Mom sent off for tickets when we were kids, The waiting list was so long that by the time we got the tickets we were parents with our own kids.

[bbernardini]

40. "Double Dare," Philly New Year's Day parade, local Fox News.

Some kids from my school were contestants on "Double Dare," so the rest of us got to be in the audience.

The second appearance was in college, when we put a band together to play on a flatbed truck in front of one of the Fancy Division Mummers groups. As we turned the corner before the group performed, you could see me and the others trying to get the crowd riled up.

The Fox News appearance (and I can't believe I almost forgot this) was when my wife and I first moved to our current home, and the post office wouldn't deliver our mail because our street wasn't done yet. I contacted the Philadelphia Fox News "What's Buggin' You" people, they did a story, my mail got delivered.

[Aristus]

41. I've appeared on "Jeopardy!". And I appeared on a local San Antonio kid's show

called "Captain Gus and Friends" when I was a little kid.

And I've shown up here and there on local news broadcasts.

[Javaman]

42. Opening segment of MTV's headbangers ball. nt

[soleft]

43. My DU Bumper Sticker made it on the Today Show

And once I was on Sally Jessie Rafael.

[Dervill Crow]

44. Good Day Oregon, Heck Harper, Ramblin' Rod, and Rusty Nails.

I got almost no screen time myself, but there was a closeup of my lovely tofu scramble and pancakes in the On the Go with Joe segment of Good Day Oregon at Pirates Tavern about a month ago. Joe's time was cut short because it had to fuckin' SNOW that morning, so school closures and road conditions were deemed more newsworthy than vegan pirate food.

AAARRRRRR. :grr:

[KamaAina]

45. Commercial for a long-defunct fast food chain, and an HBO doco film.

MD and PA people will surely remember Gino's. Mom worked at corporate, and the opportunity came up to do a Gino's commercial up in Hanover, PA. We were just extras, and the commercial only aired on PA stations, none of which we could pick up. :shrug:

The heavyset fellow with the blue blazer being interviewed about autism in the middle of the HBO Films prodction "George" is in fact yours truly.

I may also have appeared on New Orleans local news at various times while trying to keep the clinics open despite attacks from vengeful, misogynistic anti's.