…until this summer at least. I’m officially in the “contestant pool”1 along with everyone else who showed up yesterday, but the only way I’ll know if I made it onto the show is if they call me sometime in the next 18 months and tell me to come down to the studio. They start shooting again in August, so the soonest I’d hear anything would be late July.
Rest of the story after the jump.
----I call this my “1980s Stand-Up Comedian.” Wish me luck!
I just realized that I never officially announced here that I’m auditioning for Jeopardy!1 Here’s proof:
What happened was I took the annual Jeopardy! online test in February. I don’t know how I scored, because you don’t see your results, but out of fifty questions I skipped only one and know of only one other that I definitely got wrong. (I can’t remember what either of those questions were, but sadly neither of them was the Real Housewives one that I answered correctly.) Several weeks later I got the above email. My living in Los Angeles must have worked in my favor — it’s easy for them to do LA auditions, and I’d imagine having a pool of local contestants to draw from makes the producers’ lives easier.
Among the items I have to bring with me to the audition — which include my official invitation, a privacy statement, a dozen Magnolia sno-cap cupcakes, and a viable platypus egg — is an information sheet with five facts about myself for Alex Trebek to ask me about in the event that I make it onto the show. Here’s the actual real one I’m bringing. Click it to read my “brief bits.”
Click the photo to read my brief bits
More as this story develops.
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