12/20/08
Sometimes giant companies reach out to random people for TV show ideas. A long time ago I got an e-mail (along with millions of other Americans) asking me to submit reality television show ideas to some stupid contest. The prize? $5000 and a chance to talk to someone! The contest got canceled because not enough people submitted. Still, enjoy my correspondence with them and the resulting video I made. Here were the rules of the contest:

Then I added this as the attachment they requested, but it was not the show I described. It was a totally different show:

Here’s what they wrote me back:

Here’s what I wrote them back:

And here’s the video I made from our correspondences — Document Prank Party:


I haven’t laughed that hard since I saw you a few weeks ago opening for Stella. You are the funniest human ever. Thanks for updating your website so often nowadays! Come back to Philly soon (for your book tour??)
December 23rd, 2008 at 12:34 am (#)
Very nice! But zoiks, do you really have 10K+ emails in your Inbox?!
December 29th, 2008 at 5:11 pm (#)
Kathy Griffin is a man? Ugh.
January 2nd, 2009 at 1:15 pm (#)