A Job With A View

Maybe it was because Barbara Walters and her posse actually hired a Chinese girl once before, but now I sort of feel motivated to try out to be the fifth host on The View. The other day the Post reported The View has started looking again. Lisa Ling was pretty damn annoying, and I know I could be just as annoying...or at least hyper. My strengths: I can be straight or sassy at company parties. I know lots of stuff (not very well, but lots of stuff nonetheless). I'm just not married or engaged, which can be easily remedied (Choire - let's say it together: sham marriage and registry). I
Jen don't have on-camera experience, but I have worked off-camera in a newsroom. My ethnicity might be a strike against me, as they might be tired of Asians, but I've been told I'm rather Jewish...wait, Joy Behar is the Jewish one in the group. Curses!

When I was little, I used to emulate Dan Rather. It almost explains things now.

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By Jen Chung in Arts & Entertainment, Miscellaneous on June 14, 2003 1:05 AM

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Aserdaten

0x99: The problem is Anglicized Biblical first names and German (or Polish) last names. You put together two names like Aaron Hoffman, everybody thinks "Jewish", but probably 7 times out of ten you're looking at a Lutheran.

rion

i say, go for lisa's NEW job... it sounds perfect to me: travel-ling around the globe for national geographic on documentary-type assignments with interesting sociological, political, and environmental topics --- a huge step up to being one of those v scary View women hitting on all their male guests!

Jen

God, I score really low on alllooksame - that's what happens when you grow up in a suburb listed in the The Official Preppy Handbook. I'm such a Twinkie. Will you still have me, Choire, even though I'm a Twinkie?

jake

a lot of the people in the alllooksame quiz are designers from KSK and Oven- the hilarious thing is that I worked with a lot of them for like two years and still scored like 20% on the test.

0x99

totally. I'd definitely watch.

tangent:

isn't it crazy when you run into New Yorkers that come off so strong that you swear you've got them figured out? I lived in Staten Island for over ten years and I would always be impressed with certain people I met that blurred the lines between Italian, Puerto Rican, and Jewish (not that Puertotalians don't exist). I wish someone would make a quiz similar to the one on alllooksame.com -- for Italian, Puerto Rican, and Jewish people. they should add a level of difficulty though, by making the people pose with a plate of their favorite dish.

Choire

Yay! I shall be your big white beard! I'll do anything for your career! Whee!

Jen

Really? She has totally has the Jewish thing going on. I guess it's the New Yawk thing that becomes translated into Jewish.

albanian

Joy Behar is NOT jewish. She's Italian. Babs is jewish.

Allen

Go for it. Will be looking for you on TV. =) Saw Lisa Ling at an NYU event once. She was talking about how great it was to take advange of the "Model Minority Myth." Blah...