Missed opportunity

To set up this post, I must first insist that you be familiar with the comedic stylings of the movie "Super Troopers." There's a scene in which two state troopers pull over a driver (played by comedian Jim Gaffigan, a.k.a. the guy with Conan O'Brien in the Pale Force shorts), and one of the cops tries to say "meow" ten times as he writes the ticket.

So this Gaffigan fellow is performing an upcoming show near Palm Springs, and one of the features writers has set up a phone interview. Yesterday afternoon, when Mr. Gaffigan calls at the appointed time, the phone is answered by... Deborah, who transfers the comedian over WITHOUT saying, "Please hold; I will transfer you right meow."

Very few people will get this opportunity, and those lucky few surely only get that one crack at it. Deborah failed to capitalize, and I'm pretty sure she'll experience many sleepless nights in tormented agony.

Maybe she'll feel better knowing that Super Troopers II comes out in 2010.

• Posted by Brian at 1:16 PM
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