I'm a Producer for the CBS television program 60 minutes. I've been a television producer for over ten years, six of those years have been at CBS. I've been recently moved to the position supporting Andy Rooney, the long serving editorial contributor to 60 Minutes. He was also in World War Two. In addition he is old as hell, crazy and I'm pretty sure that my boss hates me and that's why I'm producing for this old prick.
Last week was a fun one. I was surfing the internet looking for some poular interest stories for Andy to comment on when I heard him wheezing down the hall. When he appeared at my door ten minutes later he blurted out
"I need everything you've got on shoelaces!"
I've got nothing on shoelaces. Andy then slumped into the Herman Miller chair in my office and rolled himself back to his office which was carved out of a live tree one hunddred years ago.
The week before that I had to get three hours of b-roll on Dunk Tanks. He never even wrote a story, he instead did ten minutes of improvised riffs on olives.
I plan to kill andy Rooney if he isn't suffocated by his own eyebrows soon. All I will have to do is shoot him in the face when he comes to my office asking me if I can get some footage of Bigfoot for a dream he's planning on having that night.

This entry was posted by Brett Mobey, on Tuesday, January 22, 2008. You can leave your response.