Your 15 minutes of fame

iamstop

"In the future, everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes."
- Andy Warhol

Have you have your 15 minutes of fame yet?

Were you ever on TV? Ever in a movie as an extra? Ever been in the paper? Any videos gone viral? Ever on the radio?

Tell us here at AH!

KungPao

I’m occasionally on TV, kinda. I fade into the background though, once I do my job properly. So thankfully no 15 minutes yet.

You know, with YouTube and social media, old Warhol wasn't far off.

Gregor Samsa

I was on Anything Goes on RTE in the 80s when I was about 10. A nature slot looking at plants and insects in Dublin inner city, then an interview in the studio. The following Monday a younger kid asked me for my autograph on the way home from school. I then got Aonghus McAnally‘a autograph at a book launch a few months later, and he wrote “to my TV co-star”.

I got cancelled then for disparaging comments I made against the Swiss while on a cocaine binge, and haven’t been on TV since.

Potential-Monke

I was in a couple of scenes of the last year released I Am Patrick: The Patron Saint of Ireland. Front and centre for one. Some buzz in fairness. I can claim to have been on Netflix! I'd love to do more, but my look isn't really sought after that much, plus with having to have a job I can't commit to bigger productions. Always wanted to be an actor.

The Mighty Quinn

iamstop wrote: »

"In the future, everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes."
- Andy Warhol

Have you have your 15 minutes of fame yet?

Were you ever on TV? Ever in a movie as an extra? Ever been in the paper? Any videos gone viral? Ever on the radio?

Tell us here at AH!

I've been on todayfm as a caller on quizzes no less than 4 times and won each time, and was in todayfm one time in studio as a guest on the Ray D'Arcy show.

That's about the height of it. Some legacy

ILoveYourVibes

I would hate to be famous.

LimeFruitGum

I was on Scratch Saturday fadó and won a pop quiz. Kevo handed me a paper bag of cassettes afterwards ��
Mam and I were basically wandering around RTE the rest of the day, posing on the Lotto lectern and watching a musician rehearse in the Kenny Live studio.
I remember a boy from the quiz was on the same train home from Dublin, and THE GLARES I was getting off him were something else!
I was ambushed for autographs that Monday in school, and it was old news by Wednesday

iamstop

I lived in Chicago for a while and was in the audience for an episode of Jenny Jones. I made a comment and it ended up on the show. I'd forgotten about it but was DJing at a bar over there and the bartender saw me on the show! Got a free drink.

SEPT 23 1989

KungPao wrote: »

I’m occasionally on TV, kinda. I fade into the background though, once I do my job properly. So thankfully no 15 minutes yet.

Crimeline?

trashcan

I was on one of those hidden camera tv shows a few years ago. Nothing too embarrassing thank god.

humberklog

I made a 7 second Youtube thingy for fun for my daughter. It went mildly viral but caught the attention on Storyful and they in turn let it go to 4 different TV shows (2 in Malaysia).

I got €500 in total. The first €250 of that came whilst I was sitting at a beach bar in Tenerife in February a few months after posting it.

Sweetest few bob I ever made.

Feisar

ILoveYourVibes wrote: »

I would hate to be famous.

Yea, gimme the cash, you can keep the fame.

Northernlily

I was captured on TG4 walking across the goals in the pissing rain at Dr Hyde Park with my uncle after Galway v Roscommon in the early 00s.

A couple of years I cropped up again on tv acting the bollix on some boat party off the coast of Greece.

There, that's it. That's the claim to fame.

I saw my foot in the background of a report by Jim Fahy, RTE News.

RichT

I was minding my own business, walking down an icy Dublin Street in 2010........

ILoveYourVibes

RichT wrote: »

I was minding my own business, walking down an icy Dublin Street in 2010........

NO WAAAY! :eek:


Sign my post!

Im one of the gawkers that crowd around when their local TD gets reelected.

namenotavailablE

I'm told by my friend via an excitable phone call that I featured for maybe 10 seconds on an RTE news report about a St. Patrick's Day parade back in the early 80's. I was clutching my scraped knee, hopping on the spot after tripping. Never got to see it myself.

French Toast

I've got a YouTube channel with 400,000 views - pennys in today's money but still.

Going to spend the summer being filmed as part of a production being made for TG4. Expected to air in October.

Have had my face in a few local papers over the years. I think if you make any effort at all or do anything remotely interesting you'll have your 15 minutes.

ILoveYourVibes

French Toast wrote: »

I've got a YouTube channel with 400,000 views - pennys in today's money but still.

Going to spend the summer being filmed as part of a production being made for TG4. Expected to air in October.

Have had my face in a few local papers over the years. I think if you make any effort at all or do anything remotely interesting you'll have your 15 minutes.

what is boring and can make me a lot of money?

Clareman

I ended up being an extra in the background in Ros na Run, just happened to be in Spiddal on a random day and asked if I'd mind in the background of the bar, no problem, I was drinking beer and the girl I was with was drinking wine, they kept filling our drinks between takes, ended up quite drunk by the end of it.

cena

I made it onto google street view while I was visiting cousins in Brooklyn new york. I was on it for a year.

trashcan

RichT wrote: »

I was minding my own business, walking down an icy Dublin Street in 2010........

How’s your head ?

Leg End Reject

RichT wrote: »

I was minding my own business, walking down an icy Dublin Street in 2010........

Never gets old!

Surreptitious

On Nationwide with an Art group years ago. I never got to see it though what with being busy with the group

Ubbquittious

I wonder does the fella who took down the Anglo sign have a boards account. The unsung hero of our time

The Princess Bride

I've been interviewed a fair few times over the years, for the national newspapers mostly.
Had a photo op with Leo Varadkar, he was probably one of the most significant people I've met.
All work related, nothing remotely scandalous at all!

Also, I was interviewed on Matt Cooper's radio show about 2 years ago. It was recorded the day before it was broadcasted.
Strange listening to my voice on the radio

Burt Renaults

TheRealRuu wrote: »

Im one of the gawkers that crowd around when their local TD gets reelected.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3elLmrCmOqo

iamstop

I was an extra in a B&W budget Irish film called 'How to cheat the Leaving Cert.' It's up on YouTube now too.

the beer revolu

iamstop wrote: »

I was an extra in a B&W budget Irish film called 'How to cheat the Leaving Cert.' It's up on YouTube now too.

I saw that in the cinema!!