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Friday, May 19, 2006
Letterman Wants You! And Your Little Dog, Too
Tomorrow in Chalfont, Bucks County, Late Night With David Letterman isn't just looking for Stupid Pet Tricks, but Stupid Human Tricks, too. The creature feature has been part of the CBS show for 20 years, and both pets and people have to voluntarily put on a pretty eye-popping stunt, says talent coor
 dinator Brian Teta. (No actual eye-popping, please.) It's not enough to just be double-jointed, that gift should be part of an act, like juggling behind your back while handcuffed. His favorite: The guy who could fit a cue ball in his mouth, then fire it out to perform pool-table trick shots.Left: Nostril- and earlobe-clutching lizards: Stupid Human Trick? Stupid Pet Trick? Or just stupid? What if this shtick involved a pogo stick? I say to him I think Pet Tricks should have an American Idol-like special. Judges ripping awful acts, followed by America voting for Pet Idol. Teta says it's possible even to have all singing pets. And he's seen plenty of pathetic routines, from the giant racoon and albino bunny that were refused to wrestle, or the woman who tried for a half-hour to hypnotize a rabbit. (How could she tell?) The largest animals to do tricks have been horses, like one that recently did the Hokey-Pokey (put its left hoof in, put its right hoof in). Teta also manages the sports guests, so it was his job to arrange the gag where Terrell Owens seemed to get hit by a car last fall. "He was very great about that. He had a great sense of humor. He's been on twice now, and he's always a lot of fun," said Teta, who went to Muhlenberg near Allentown and got his chocolate lab in Philly, during last year's shoot at a pet store here. Tomorrow's 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. auditions will be held at the Cutter's Mill Natural Pet Store in the New Britain Shopping Center on County Line Road. If you miss that, there's another tryout 1 to 3 p.m. Sunday in North Jersey, at the Bark Fest on Giralda Farms, Route 124 (Madison Avenue) in Madison. More details at cbs.com. Or try to be on "Wife Swap" Tonight and tomorrow morning, the ABC show will be holding contestant interviews in Atlantic City. That's a whole 'nother kind of stupid human tricks. At 6 to 10 tonight, producers will be at Resorts Atlantic City's Boardwalk Lobby. From 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. tomorrow, they'll be on the Boardwalk outside Atlantic City Hilton Casino Resort. Families must consist of two parents and at least one child above the age of 5 at home. Call 1-800-509-5638 for details.
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