I've Made It!

Well, I don't like to toot my own horn or anything, but I managed to break into TV, and frankly I don't see why so many actors out here are having a problem. I mean, I did it, and I wasn't really even trying. I'm sure you'll see plenty more of me pretty soon, but if you watched "The Late Late Show With Craig Ferguson," at 12:35 AM, then you got to see my TV debut. I was playing "Audience Member # 86." Yep, I don't have an agent just yet, but I can imagine the offers for my own show will come rolling in once I do. It was actually quite funny. I was pulled in by being given the chance to see a taping of the show, and I would actually get to see Craig Ferguson live! Craig Ferguson, by the way, is probably best know as Mr. Wick from "The Drew Carey Show." So we in the audience get the whole lecture about clapping wildly when the show comes back from commercial, and not to shout out profanities, and not refer to him as "that guy from the Drew Carey show" and so on. The music starts, the applaud erupts, and Craig Ferguson comes bounding onto the stage! And they proceed to hold the cue cards right in front of him during his monologue. All I could see was his feet and the top of his hair. I have to assume it was Craig Ferguson, because they told me it was. Later, when he sat at his desk, the camera was right in front of him, so I watched the show from the overhead monitors. Basically I sat in the audience and watched the show on TV, only without commercials. But that mug on his desk does not hold coffee, it actually holds Perrier! But the experience, all in all, was pretty fun. His guest was Neil Patrick Harris, or "Doogie Howser" to the majority of the population, which was kind of neat.

A word about the blackout we had here: I knew nothing about it until well after it happened. I appreciate the concern, though! Los Angeles is roughly 12 times the size of St. Petersburg, so even though something has happened in LA, it hasn't necessarily happened in our neck of the woods.