Or maybe even in the single most entertaining diversion in the entire world, The Axis of Weevil Thursday Three--Entertainment Edition!
Our questions this week were closely guarded as they made their way from the university research facility in Greenville, East Carolina, and the results were tabulated for us by the esteemed accounting firm of PriceyOuthouseScoopers.
We remind viewers and participants that being asked to participate is an honor in itself, and that the acclaim of your peers should be sufficient for you without you getting all huffy if you don’t get some crappy statue or whatever.
THE ENVELOPE, PLEASE!
And the questions are…
1) In the field of television, what job would you most want and why? This includes entertainment, news and sports.
2) If you had to make a living performing live--that’s right, live on stage--what would you want to do?
3) If you worked in the movies, what job would you most want and why?
As you all recall from previous shows, you are asked to either answer the questions in the comments section, or, in a move guaranteed to add useless fodder to your online journal, post your answers on your blog and leave a link in the comments.
NOW, let the show begin! Go off and write your answers, and let us know when you’re done.
As for my answers…
1) If I was going to be on television, I’d like to have my own silly hour-long Friday night variety show, something like what I keep talking about for PossumblogLIVE! It would be something of a cross between the Grand Ole Opry, The Joe Franklin Show, Manimal, Monster Chiller Horror Theater, Firing Line, and that BBC2 special I saw in 1986 on cheese. OH! And I would have Sophia Loren as a frequent guest.
2) Live, eh? Well, I think Number One above would work best with a live audience, so that. Failing finding anyone willing to sit for something like that, I suppose I’d like to perform the one-man show I’ve been working on for several years, “JUNIOR! The Life and Times of Junior Samples.”
3) I think either Foley operator, or key grip. Or maybe dolly grip. Then again, best boy would probably be okay, too. Or craft services quality assurance technician. Or a stunt driver.
But really, I want to direct.
Posted by Terry Oglesby at October 13, 2005 08:07 AMMy comments are up:
http://www.ccomfort.com/blog/2005/10/13/thursday-three-its-back/
http://www.ccomfort.com/blog/2005/10/13/thursday-three-its-back/
Posted by: Hemisphere Dancer at October 13, 2005 08:31 AMWow that was fast! Someone's been thinking about this before, I think.
Posted by: Terry Oglesby at October 13, 2005 08:39 AMI'm up.
Posted by: Larry Anderson at October 13, 2005 09:55 AMI'm up.We ahve got to get better questions.
Posted by: jim at October 13, 2005 10:01 AMIt's not the questions as much as we need better answers. Maybe next week Terry can porvide the answers and we can do the questions. i.e., Ted Kennedy. Who could be President today if he had only been driving a Volkswagon?
Posted by: Larry Anderson at October 13, 2005 10:13 AMSorry about that "porvide". I guess "por"k just naturally slips in when I think of old Ted. I once saw him in hallway fo the Capital. He is only about 4 feet tall (my guess) so the weight goes a long way.
Posted by: Larry Anderson at October 13, 2005 10:19 AMI'm up with my answers! The password is
horsefeathers...
ah- horsefeathers
Posted by: Nate at October 13, 2005 10:35 AMTerry, more like Penn and Teller.
Posted by: Hemisphere Dancer at October 13, 2005 10:58 AMIn a not so sly trick to increase my readership numbers, I added an update to my post. Just to make everybody go back and re-look...
Hah!
Posted by: Nate at October 13, 2005 11:58 AMThat one's easy. I want nothing to do with any of them -- no ifs, ands or buts.
Posted by: Janis at October 13, 2005 12:21 PMWait, Janis--does this mean I won't be able to book you for the pilot of PossumblogLIVE! ?
Posted by: Terry Oglesby at October 13, 2005 12:26 PMThat is correct, Mr. Oglesby. But I'll be glad to emntion your show on my blogs. Might get 2-3 viewers that way.
Posted by: Janis at October 13, 2005 12:45 PMZephyr
Posted by: Terry Oglesby at October 13, 2005 12:52 PMOink, to you.
Posted by: Janis at October 13, 2005 12:58 PMSEE!? Anyone who can do animal noises is PURE GOLD, and I know it would quickly become a weekly favorite! I'll have my people call your people.
[Note to self: Get some people.]
My answers are up.
Posted by: Chez at October 13, 2005 02:01 PMI'm up. (Better late than never.)
http://yorkieblog.blogspot.com/2005/10/axis-of-weevil-thursday-threeits-that.html
Posted by: Grouchy Old Yorkie Lady at October 13, 2005 04:05 PMCan I call up BR-549 for a used Volvo in good condition? That would be interesting to hear your "interpretation" of Junior's Swedish accent selling Volvo's.
Too late to the party to play the whole game, but if I could do anything performing live it would probably be a bass player in a band, kind of a cross between Charles Mingus and Terry "Geezer" Butler.
Posted by: MarcV at October 14, 2005 08:15 AMIt's NEVER too late to play, Marc!
As for Junior, sadly, there is no Swedish version. I do think it's a shame Ingmar Bergman never used him in one of his films.
Posted by: Terry Oglesby at October 14, 2005 08:33 AM