One of my first jobs out of school was playing a rotating succession of floozies—some dumb, some angry, all crazy—on MTV’s first-ever nonmusical program,
Remote Control. The parts were tiny, but
Remote Control, the cultish late ’80s game show in which three college kids confined to EZ-Chairs answered trivia questions about television and pop culture, was a big deal. Often presented in mini-sketch format, the questions were posed by comics, who’d pop out in different characters when their “channel” was selected.
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