After coming across the brutal Financial Bailout Video, MTV asked me to say a few words about the crisis on a program called “Indebted.”
Because I am so ugly, they put me toward the end of the segment (minute 21). They provided me with a beautifully cheesy script as well as a placard indicating that I’m indebt $15,000. Because people who watch mtvU have the attention span of 6-month-old children, they edit the segment into 3 second cuts and include pop-up phrases like those often featured on Sesame Street. Finally, I have the honor of introducing a pop-up music video–Lily Allen’s “The Fear”:
