So You Want To Be An Actor

Last night we met a friend for dinner at Malo. She brought along some friends that were visiting from New York. They brought a friend who has been in L.A. for 5 months. We did an informal around-the-table canvas of what everyone does: tv producer, publicist, internet developer, fund-raiser, etc. When we got to the gentleman on my left, the one who has been in L.A. for 5 months, he said, "Oh, I'm in a sitcom."

My brilliant girlfriend replied, "So you want to be an actor."

He was a bit taken aback, and said, "Well I thought I was one."

She said, "No honey, so many people come out to Los Angeles from New York and I can't tell you how many people I talk to who haven't made it."

At the end of the evening, coming home from the bar down the street, my girlfriend said, "I guess he actually is on a television show, because everyone at the bar knew his name and said hello. But I've never heard of this show, have you? The Class?"

"Isn't that the new sitcom started by the producers of Friends?" I ask.

"Whoa, that's major!"