The Story: Carrie Prejean became extremely flustered while on-air with Larry King. OneRiot breaks down her interviewing tactics, and helps her further her public speaking skills.
The Search: Larry King & Carrie Prejean
With all the pseudo-celebrities emerging over the past decade or so, we at OneRiot have grown increasingly concerned that people are getting famous for being stupid, as opposed to the days of yore when they became famous for having skill or talent. Because most people try to avoid doing or saying stupid things for the sake of an antiquated concept that our forefathers called ‘dignity’, we rely on live TV to hand us these candid moments. Former pageant winner Carrie Prejean has had several of these opportunities, the most recent of which occurred when she walked off the Larry King show.
Prejean was clearly wary of falling face first into yet another of her now famous ‘incidents’, refusing to answer King’s questions and repeatedly calling the man ‘inappropriate’. While we agree that wearing suspenders during prime-time is extremely inappropriate, that still didn’t take away from Prejean’s knack for making a scene. It became clear to us in this most recent incident, the seemingly simple Prejean may actually be a genius taking cues from the greats of live TV blooper-makers, and not just the old lady who makes a sexual reference on a game show, or a swear word that made it past the censors. We’ve broken down her tactics by influence. (more…)







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