Have you ever been on television?

[Vendikarr]

When I was in 6th grade, I did a commercial for Maurice Lennel cookies here in Chicago. I also had friends tell me the spotted me walking past a tv reporter doing an interview on the streets, but I never saw it.

Anyone else have their fifteen minutes (or less) on TV?

 

[thestrangequark]

When I was 9 a documentary was made about my mother and family. I remember the film crew following us around for a few weeks, coming to my recorder recital and everything. I remember seeing the previews on TV, which included a slow-mo segment of my little sister and I running into our mom's open arms. I didn't watch the documentary until I was much older, and didn't learn until just last year that it was produced by Gloria Steinem and won a bunch of awards.

 

[Neeka Keet]

I was on TV twice, once a close up shot of me watching a sporting event and the other I was interviewed outside the stadium before a concert.

 

[Miss Chicken]

I was interviewed over changes that were going to be made to to the early intervention program that my son attended. I think I did a good job but my son, who was normally a very quiet child, squirmed and whinged in my arms right through the interview.

 

[the 4th hanson bro]

Three summers ago, my family was part of a news story on the "dangers of hand sanitizer", comparing the relative alcohol content of hand sanitizer and beer and vodka.

The news crew came to our house, took shots of the kids playing in the yard, the reporter interviewed my wife, and then showed the kids coming inside and using sanitizer to clean their hands. It was mixed with an interview with a physician talking about just how much sanitizer a kid would have to ingest to show any effects.

It was fun and the kids liked seeing themselves on TV.

When Mile High Stadium in Denver closed, my brother in law and I went to the last game, and we were sitting there after the game soaking it in. We ended up being the last ones in the section so we ended up on the news, sitting there in the stands with the voiceover of "fans couldn't bear to leave the stadium". Truth be told, we were waiting out traffic.

 

[tharpdevenport]

No, but I recall thinking one time about a news program that did a filmed interview about something and realizing -- hey -- I might have been in the background during that.

 

[McCoy]

I've been on TV a number of times. The earliest was as part of the panel (if that's what you'd call it) of a kiddie show. Then a couple more times as part of the school choir in local news segments. Most recently, as an adult, one of a few people interviewed after a murder happened near my home.

 

[Lord Garth]

I've been on public access TV three times:

When I got my High School Diploma.
When I got my Associate's Degree.
When I got my Bachelor's Degree.

Anyone noticing a pattern?

 

[Trippy]

I was on the Canadian version of MTV (MuchMusic) in the late 80s waiting outside to meet Bon Jovi while they were on their way into the station. They stopped and shook hands with the crowds, and Jon turned and shook my hand and dipped his head to mine while I said something elequent like "hi"

It wound up on rotation for the rest of the day I had a video clip of it, but it's long gone.

 

[tomalak301]

I was on the News once in the background. That counts doesn't it?

 

[Small White Car]

I had a public access TV show once. I never got recognized but my co-stars each got asked 2 or 3 times each in public if they were "that guy from the TV show."

So apparently someone was watching! They re-ran those things a bunch so I'm assuming that's how people ended up seeing them.

I also hosted a fundraising telethon on the same station. I think I have a tape of that somewhere but I'm afraid to watch it.

 

[comsol]

I got caught on camera when I was voting a year or two ago. I have never looked up the clip myself, but I did have a few people who would stop me when I was out running errands and tell me that they saw me on TV. For the most part, however, I've been able to avoid the news cameras - my luck just ran out in that instance.

 

[Goliath]

Wow. This is a really strange coincidence.

When I was in Grade 9, I was part of a team that competed on a quiz-show for local-area junior high-school students, Hi-Q.

We did pretty well. In fact, we scored the highest and second-highest scores in the history of the show, to that date. In the end, we made it to the finals, but came in second overall.

Some guy who was competing on that show for another school that same year has posted a video of himself on YouTube, here. So you can see roughly what we looked like, in all our nerdy, early-adolescent, early-80s glory.

 

[od0_ital]

A few years back, when there was a riot on Sixth Street durin' Mardi Gras, someone shot some footage near the hotel where I worked. Learned later from a co-worker that he saw me on CNN.

A couple of years ago, I was an extra in the next to last episode of the third season of Friday Night Lights. I can see me in the screencaps.

As far as I know, that's about it.

 

[Jono]

Twice in the background during news stories. One during a story on the news about the rugby camp I was at there was a shot of me doing one of the drills probably because I was the only not white guy there.

I was 11 at the time. The second time it was just my back as I slipped past a group protesting outside a nightclub I was going into with friends. That one you wouldn't know it was me unless you knew I was there at the time and knew what the back of my shirt looked like.

 

[Small White Car]

I found a clip and put it online. This is fairly typical of the kind of stuff we did. (This is May, 2002.)

It's somewhat long but we had to fill a half-hour, so that's how it goes! I'm somewhat sympathetic to Saturday Night Live because of this, actually.

Well, it still makes me laugh, anyway, and I don't think I'm too terrible!

Coloring Outside the Lines: The Game Show

(This is based on how I always thought Jeopardy! SHOULD have worked!)

 

[Vulcan Princess]

I was in a speech competition when I was in high school, and it was televised on some local public station. My mom taped it, but I haven't been able to bring myself to watch it.

When I was in college, I was captain of my ROTC unit's color guard, so you might see a short little redhead doing flag ceremonies before Stanford football/basketball games if you're inclined to watch ones from 2001-2002 or so. (I'm not sure if that part ever got televised, though.)

 

[ed629]

A few times, been interviewed a couple times by news stations once about a guy I worked with, another time about my home builder (and on one ocassion, while live answered "I don't really give a fuck"). Also saw my truck on "Wildest Police Chases" when the car they were pursuing passed me, you've probably seen it, it's the one where the police were chasing a white limo in Westchester County, and ends with the limo driver going in reverse while being chased. And you'll also see me in the upcoming Billy Murray/Robert Duvall movie.

 

[Captain Ice]

A few times. The first was when the local news covered a church choir I was in. My senior year in high school, I served as one of the city council members in a mock city council meeting and grilled one of the presenters for a good 15 minutes.

The third time, I managed to be on both NBC and CBS (may also have been Fox) at the same time. I was marching in the Fiesta Bowl parade. I knew NBC would be right there covering the route, so I taped that. Found out about the other feed (which actually had a better shot of me) when relatives from out of state called and told us about it. Taped the repeat of that one...

 

[marillion]

All the damn time.. It's part of my job as State Fire Information Officer.. Here's one of the most recent, if anyone cares.

http://www.koat.com/news/23113834/detail.html