VO-BB - 20 YEARS OLD!

[Dan-O]

...show up drunk for a session.

Yesterday, one of my fave directors shared a story from May 6, 2010. It seems the hired talent for the day had decided to lubricate his vocal c(h)ords/folds before his session; slurring his words and not being able to complete a sentence. Then, proclaims to the director, engineer and client he "guessed he went a bit too far at the Cinco De Mayo party."

Stay classy.

[bobsouer]

Um, wow!
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[anthonyVO]

He should've... stayed thirsty, my friend.

[Whit]

Oh no. Just no. We had a talent in a session once who complained about how long she'd been waiting when she got into the booth, and actually said "I've been f*cking waiting for over an hour blahblahblah". Needless to say, she'll never be invited back or submitted for anything ever again.

[BenWils]

I second the um, wow!
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[tackerman]

Maybe they wanted someone that sounded like WC Fields?

[JBarrett]

I'll third the "um, wow!" and add a "Zoinks!"
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[Donna]

The talent could very well have been fried. Or at least toasted.

Or have MS. I just happened to have read this post on Paul Strikwerda's blog:

http://nethervoice.com/nethervoice/2010/03/10/drunk-and-lazy/

You never know, y'know?

Just sayin'.
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[Frank F]

"eeegad, somebody put orange juice in my orange juice" W.C. Fields

FF
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[JTVG]

Hey what can I say? Their check still cleared.
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[Lee Gordon]

Way back when I was Production Director for a group of radio stations, one of our clients, a family owned jewelry store, insisted on doing their own commercials. For many years, the owner's wife did the spots. She had a voice as pleasant as a rake being dragged across a blackboard.

Then, when the two sons finished college they joined the business and mom and dad decided to hand over the commercial-doing reins to them. Oy. The better of the two brothers sounded as exuberant as Pat Paulsen on quaaludes. The other one spoke as if his tongue had been stung by an entire hive of hornets. Naturally, he was the one who was assigned the heavy lifting in the spots.

One morning -- yes, morning -- at 10, these two marble mouths show up at the radio station to cut that season's "masterpieces" and as they walk in, at least one (Mr. Fat-Tongue, and maybe his dullard brother, too -- I don't recall) tossed an empty 16 ounce beer can into the wastebasket and got ready to get down to business. As if either of them needed any help sounding like crap.
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[asnively]

Awesome.
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[Deirdre]

I got my biggest boost into doing traffic in Boston because someone was inebriated ON THE AIR.
I was hired to take her place.
I said sure, if I can do it via ISDN from home.
They were in the unenviable position of needing to please a rather huge client, so they said yes.
One thing, says I— I don't have ISDN yet.

So they had it installed and paid the line fee.

woo! I only recently took over the bill.
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[Whit]

Wow DB, that's badass.