Does the Internet allow everyone to be famous?
If famous means “Google-able.” Tell me about your turns on two of my favorite shows: “Strangers with Candy” (TV) and “The Best Show on WFMU with Tom Scharpling” (radio). I worked on SWC as a casting assistant, when I was still in college back in 19… (mutter mutter). Rarely do you get to be a part of something that you’re totally obsessed with, and I was lucky enough to have a direct line of observation into the working lives of Amy [Sedaris], Stephen [Colbert] and Paul [Dinello], three of my heroes. So, I basically opened mail and answered phones and helped with location scouting, and the usual production stuff, but eventually I got to be a featured extra in one of the episodes, which was “Behind Blank Eyes” from Season 2, in which Jerri befriends a blind student. I played a cheerleader. If you look at the center back row after the cheer in the third act of the show, the butt that’s grinding around is mine. I didn’t know I was the only one doing it. As for TBSOWFMU, I am fortunate to c
