Mojo Jojo

Well, at last the phone call has come, and I can tell my story. Now, you can know where all your mojo has been going the last 2 weeks.
Before I get into the details, I have to say that, whether it is placebo or not, I felt more confident than I have ever felt, as I went through this audition process, and I know that it helped me relax, and do my best work.
One of the coolest things, ever, came from Susie, who takes care of kids in a daycare here in SoCal. On the day of Mojo-needing, Susie had her kids draw me good luck pictures. She said to me, is there any better mojo than the mojo of a child?
I think not.
She scanned and emailed the drawings to me. I was going to put them all up, but I’ve decided that I’m going to keep them just for me. I’m giving too damn much of myself away on this site as it is, anyway.
So here’s the shortened version of the story: I was auditioning to be the new co-host of the Comedy Central show, “Win Ben Stein’s Money”. It was a long process, and it was the most fun I have ever had, ever, auditioning for any show. The producers, and everyone who works on that show are so fucking cool, I can’t even begin to describe it.
Oh, if you haven’t figured it out by now, I didn’t get it. It came down to me and one other guy, and, everyone say it with me, “They took the other guy.”
Something that is really shitty for me right now, as an actor, is that I have don’t have enough of a “name” and enough recognizability to put me “over the top” for shows, but I do have enough to take me out of shows. I can’t even do commercials, because I’m not a big enough celebrity to be an endoresement guy, and I’m too well known to be an average joe. I wonder if that came into play on this job? I don’t know.
The challenge for me right now is to get producers to see me in a different way. To see past their pre-conception of me, and let me show them something that they weren’t expecting.
Like this website. How many people came here expecting some jackass celebrity site, where the celebrity has nothing to do with it? How many people came here expecting me to be a complete ass?
Did I give them what they expected? I certainly hope not.
So this news has devastated me. I really wanted to work with the crew over there, because they are all so cool.
Get this: The producer of the show, the EXECUTIVE FUCKING PRODUCER, actually called me, to tell me how sorry he was that I didn’t make it, and how he really liked me, and how he called other producers, to let them know about me. That just doesn’t happen, and I am floored by that. He is, truly, one of the coolest people I have ever met.
A sincere “thank you” to everyone who sent me mojo, and kept me in their thoughts. That was very cool, and I think I’ll be calling on you all again. I didn’t get this one, but I’ll get one soon, I can feel it.
Oh, one last thing: can we cool it with the “I’m first” thing? It’s really lame.