(Some things happened and I don’t have my regular grilling post this week, I’ll be back on the grill next week, I promise! Till then here’s a quickety-blickety blog for today.)
In 1986 I was on The Today Show with my friend Greg Owens. We had written and produced a satire of Trivial Pursuit called Trivial Trivia - The Idiot Edition. The game got local press, then the U.P.I. Wire Service put the story on a national wire and things blew up for us. We were written up in newspapers, did hundreds of “morning zoo” radio programs and ultimately got flown out to New York and we were interviewed by Jane Pauley on The Today Show!
I continued to do weird projects and writing and 24 years later I was living in New York City and did a blog about going to 365 bars in 365 days. I got written up in the NY Daily News and once again my old friend the U.P.I. wire service picked the story up and put it on an international wire and I ended up on The Australian version of The Today Show, The Morning Show.
Below are both videos, but note, The Morning Show is black the first 16 seconds.
Enjoy watching my two fifteen minutes of fame!
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The Today Show
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The Morning Show (starts at 16 seconds in)
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