October 19
...serving up your daily dish.
What some people will do for a laugh.
A reader tells us that the Top 10 gag on Letterman last night was to have a woman named Martha Stewart, from Montclair, NJ, present a list of the top 10 bad things about being named Martha Stewart. We caught up with the local Ms. Stewart, who's listed in the phone book, and who actually works in the food business herself, as a hospital dietician. Like the "other" Martha, this one likes to cook and bake. She makes red velvet cakes for a local soul food restaurant and even made one for the crew of the Late Show.
Here, then, from the Late Show website, are the top ten reason it sucks to be named Martha Stewart:
10. Everybody expects you to be able to make crazy stuff out of pine cones.
9. When people ask for your favorite stuffing recipe, they get mad when you hand them a box of Stove Top.8. If someone says, "It's a good thing" to me one more time I'm gonna break his leg.
7. Every day at my house it's subpoenas, subpoenas, subpoenas.
5. Everybody thinks you should smell like lilac.
4. I once got a $12,000 bill for tarragon.
3. People keep asking me if I've shivved my first snitch yet.
2. When it comes to making oatmeal raisin cookies, the bar is set pretty high.
1. The drunken 4 am calls from Letterman.
