Oprah! Let’s do Tiki Tiki Talk! for OWN. Si?
Please click the headline link to see Carrie pandering to Oprah Winfrey and her people.
So, Oprah Winfrey has put out a giant net and is casting for a talk show host for her new network, OWN. Her site has had a place where you can submit video auditions. Well, I am late. Como siempre. The deadline has passed, but thanks to shamelessness and YouTube, (with tongue planted firmly in cheek) I am submitting my idea for Tiki Tiki Talk! to you, dear reader. And maybe the gods of Google Alerts and Twitter will send the message to La Oprah.
OK, so you’ll see the ideas in the video, but don’t you think America is ready for a talk show with segments such as:
- Dicho del Dia, to dissect and crack up over things like “sana, sana colita de rana” and “mango bajito.”
- Chancletaso of the Day, to point out los descarados in our culture and set them on the right path, Abuelita Style.
- Cooking with Dulce Leche (My TV kitchen would just have a deep fryer, Cuban bread and dulce leche. Only. Guests, like Salma, Pene, Javier, Juanes, Ricky! would be required to come up with creative uses for dulce leche…)
- Ask the Gringo Husband/Ask the Gringa Wife, a special segment by expert panelists who have survived and thrived in marriages to Latinos to help non-Latinos cope with the oddities and challenges of being married to one of us and out 17,000 relatives. (I have been trying to get my own husband to write this column for Tiki Tiki for a year!)
As I was putting this together, I remembered that at the beginning of my career in print journalism, one of my Tias kept telling me I was crazy to work for a newspaper, that I needed to be on TV…just like Giselle Fernandez . Well, Tia….your dream for me has kinda come true. And, imagine if Oprah really went for it? Ay!
So, enjoy my spoof and fantasy and consider adding your own TV show and segment ideas.
Dream big, gente. It’s the Web. Anything is possible.
Un poquito mas:
Yay! Es muy bueno, mi amiga! Oprah, show Carrie the amor!!
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OWN to Carrie. I love the video and the concept. Good Luck!
Loved the video! Tiki Tiki Talks would be such a success. So Oprah, if you get to read this post Carrie would be the perfect fit for OWN to connect with the hottest segment of the market.
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Creative, talented and muy ambiciosa. Carrie has her own J.Lo “triple threat” going on!… When will you get to work on a perfume line? (I imagine it will smell like dulce de leche with slight a citrus undertone. Jijiji…)
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I’d watch Carrie tiki tiki on TV any day of the week!
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Oprah has NADA on you, Carrie!
I’m already a fan of your show. Dale, dale…let’s do it!
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Ju ate it!
Besos,
Martiki-tika ;-)
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Even if Oprah doesn’t pick this up, it’d be great as a web series. And you sure do love those Christians, ah? ;)
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Ah, you guys are kind and so bad for encouraging my loca-ness.
But, hmmm maybe, just maybe a Webisode series would be fun.
And Tracy, I would settle for my face plastered on a dulce leche bottle! Or I could be like the Aunt Jemima bottle. A bottle in the shape of me — Cuban hips and all. Or on a dulce leche scented perfume, Eau de Dulce Leche!
Deseandote mucha suerte!!
Carrie,
Yo estaria orgullosa de que te escojieran por tener a una cubanita
tan intelijente. Que represnta a las mujeres latinas que buscamos algo con la chispa tan rapida que tienes tu.
Hija, te la comistes, te pones cada dia mejor,so proud,de donde sacastes ese talento?hm!
Cómo siempre, me he matado de la risa!!! Y por favor dile a tu tía que tu eres muchísimo mejor que Giselle Fernandez – although, I must say I clearly remember my Dad being in love with her… qué risa!
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Go Carrie go!!! Love it!! Web series would be fantastic!!! I’ll bringing you some cajeta!!
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You guys are so nice to me…but you know, I don’t really want a talk show on TV, right? I would settle for being a YouTube phenom! LOL. Sponsored by Dulce Leche and Cajeta, of course!
And Roxana, wonder where Giselle is now? Off to Google!
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[...] watched the Oprah finale. It was pretty good. While she didn’t give the Tiki Tiki our own show on Own, we continue to be inspired by what she has done for others. A quote by Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor which [...]