Have you heard that Oprah is searching for a new personality to host a talk show on her new network, OWN? Well, as soon as I heard about it, I thought it would be fun to put together an audition video. The guidelines were fairly expansive: be creative, smart, and passionate and tell us a little about your show.
My family and I got to work, shooting a week’s worth of video, full of different skits, shorts, and scenes. We had a blast. The vast majority of footage ended up on our cutting room floor. But I didn’t want it to completely go to waste. So I’m putting together bits and pieces of it, hoping you’ll find it entertaining.
Take, for example, something that started out to be an example of a technology segment but ended up sounding more like a commercial for an Apple product. So…yeah…we nixed it. Here it is:
And the title of the show? “Let’s Talk About It”? Turns out it’s nearly identical to Greg Grunberg’s charity effort he co-founded a while back, called Talk About It. So…even though, my daughter did a great job designing that logo, we all thought we should just stay away from it. Thanks anyway, sweetheart! You did a great job!!
Then there’s this one – where I just couldn’t keep a straight face when I tried to defend my qualifications to speak about parenting:
More to come (about the iPad as well as our cutting room floor clippings, some of which are quite amusing).
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So wait a minute! You DID get an iPad? I thought you weren’t going to!
How do you like it?
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