While I’m sitting in my squeaky jury chair, you all get to read a recycled post from Jessica Bern of Bern This. She claims it’s from a time when she didn’t have any readers, but somehow I have a hard time believing such a time existed. When Jessica’s not busy spreading joy at her local ER, she’s filming hilarious webisodes of Bern This. If you haven’t already, head on over to check her out – but not before leaving a comment! Maybe reading them will stop me from stealing all the donuts during court recess. Maybe.
WHAT DID I DO TODAY? I CHOOSE NOT TO REMEMBER
Today, I was a contestant on a game show called “21” which I can only hope and pray will never, EVER air. It involved “knowledge” of Blackjack as in “I “know” I’m going to draw a crappy card” and pop culture.
There were three contestants per show. The other two in my group consisted of a former Iranian who regaled us all with a story of his growing up with a pet COW who he found out seemed to produce the most milk when listening to the sounds of a flute which is how this guy ended up becoming, yes, that’s right, a professional flute player, amongst other things.
Now, before I tell you about the other guy, I need to draw you a picture. He had the face of a marshmallow, mushy and of similar color only WHITER and he was built like a bird to the point where I kept waiting for him to burp and cough up a worm. To match his extraordinary good looks, he was one of the most arrogant people I have ever met and on top of it all that has been on Jeopardy (and WON) Millionaire (and WON) and several other shows that I can’t remember because after I heard about the first two I couldn’t stop thinking, “THIS GUY IS GOING TO KICK MY ASS!”
By the time we hit the stage my only goal in life was to make sure that “birdman” lost. How I was going to go about doing that, I had no idea, but I was determined. That was until the host asked us…
HOST: Who are Jaimie Oliver, Gordon Ramsay….
and before he could finish “birdman”‘s already yelling out the correct answer,
BIRDMAN: “CHEFS!”
while in my mind the closest I could get was to think, “God those names sound familiar.”
The only good news was that although “birdman” possessed an uncanny ability to remember completely useless information, he had no control over the cards he was dealt both in life and on this show.
Now, I cannot tell you who won or lost but I can tell you that the host was Alfonso Ribiero. Yes, that would be the Alfonso Ribiero who used to star with Will Smith on the “Prince of Bel-Air” but is now the host of a cable based game show while Will is, at this very moment, one of the most famous and highest paid actors on the face of the earth.
Needless to say, every time I got down on myself and started to feel hopeless, I just had to take one look at Alfonso, standing there, yelling
ALFONSO: “So, who wants to win $25,000?!!!”
to know that if a person’s CAREER could crash and burn like that then so could “birdman”‘s winning streak.
Next question please.
Come back on Friday for an anonymous bitch fest, and bring your dirty laundry!
23 replies on “What Did I Do Today? I Choose Not to Remember”
I’m always 10 seconds (15, 20, 30?) behind on the answers too. My hubby? He’s birdman. Really cool that you got to play though.
J. Bern is flippin’ awesome!
What a genius way of putting careers into perspective. Did he do “that dance” whenever someone got an answer right? Tell me yes and I’ll love you forever.
I have no words for someone who looks like they could actually burb up a worm. But, you have ruined breakfast with that visual. LOL!
Did it ever air?
I’m wondering if the show ever aired, too, and if Jessica won anything!
I blame Alfonso’s career crashing and burning on Michael Jackson. I could never get the image of those two dancing together in that Pepsi commercial out of my head.
There is a special place in Hell for people like Birdman. It comes complete with buzzer.
So funny…curious as to how far you made it! Also, if I were Alfonso, I think I’d be weeping openly as I read the questions. Tragic career turn…
Bloody Hilarious.
Now I MUST know what happened.
I came here via the lovley Jessica! Now I will scroll down to see more!
I think it is very brave to even go on a game show in the first place. I can do a lot of things in front of an audience, but testing my ability to answer random quiz questions, would not be one of them.
Give me a guitar and a microphone anyday, I will eat it up. Give me a skill testing question, and I will forget how to speak…..
HILARIOUS!
I hate birdman. I think I once dated him, er, I mean lived with him for 10 years.
A quiz show. With my memory that would be a nightmare. I can’t even get my childrens’ names straight, some days.
are you giving away a dvd of this show?
I have a friend who is slated to tape an episode of Jeopardy this very month. I’m wondering if he’ll be watching Alex Trebek that closely. Of course, Alex never starred with Will Smith.
You have to feel bad for Alfonso. Aside from the Carlton dance, he really has nothing going for him, huh?
Birdman is probably the one who brought the bird flu to this country. 🙂
oh, alfonso! did you ask him to do the dance?
I also produce the most milk when listening to the sounds of a flute. Isn’t that normal?
Poor Alfonso. Even back in the day, though, he never looked like he was destined for greatness. You have to tell us when this airs so we can host a viewing party in the blogosphere and cheer you on (and laugh at poor Alfonso).
That is too funny- my daughter is watching “21” right now. We have never seen it b-4, she just happened to find it!
You’re a brave woman to go on a game show. I would have peed my pants before I even got on stage. Plus, I’m dumb.
Oh surely you beat birdman in the game called REAL LIFE, say, with your exciting sex life or friendship circle.
Great. Now i can say thank you!.
I am from Saudi and now study English, give please true I wrote the following sentence: “Replacing paper tickets with electronic ticketing will save airlines billion annually on the roughly million tickets sold outside of.”
THX ;-), Addie.