Nightline
Regretsy regular Niki in the Facebook group made this video off the TV last night, and it actually came out pretty good!
Click on the picture to go to YouTube and see the segment.
UPDATE: The official ABC version is here
Also – some of you may know that I’ve started writing a column for Brides.com. Why not? I already ruined handcrafting; I might as well ruin your wedding.
The second installment went live yesterday, and you can read it here.
July 28, 2010 at 9:34 am
Oh thank goodness! We had a massive brownouts and blackouts last night and all I caught was 3 second of Creepy Dolls Christie talking.
July 28, 2010 at 9:38 am
Oh wait. that was Raven. I’m glad I watched the video. I saw dolls and thought she’s be talking.
July 28, 2010 at 9:44 am
Awesome, congrats to April & RavenofSkys!
: )
July 28, 2010 at 9:46 am
I was gonna say, I was not talking! LOL
Here is the “official” clip from the Nightline site.
http://abcnews.go.com/Nightline/video/human-failure-makes-online-laughs-11265391
July 28, 2010 at 9:46 am
Woot!
I missed it because I was busy reading everyone talking about watching it. D’oh!
That was nifty little segment there!
Also it’s about time someone stopped taking weddings so seriously. I did a lot of laughing when I was planning my own wedding.
July 28, 2010 at 9:48 am
Next stop: The World!
(Really loved the bits with Raven dressed all gothly, in her spooky spooky house)
July 28, 2010 at 9:49 am
http://abcnews.go.com/Nightline/video/human-failure-makes-online-laughs-11265391
another linky
July 28, 2010 at 9:55 am
Loooove it! Sharing and urging all my friends to become regretsy addicts just like me! Can’t wait to find the book
July 28, 2010 at 10:03 am
i note that anytime you are asked to really articulate why you do what you do, you’re incredibly succinct and elegant, and serious. it really is important, laughing. really very. many thanks for tilting at merkins, April.
July 28, 2010 at 10:22 am
I can’t watch the video at work, unfortunately, but I can read the brides.com article and I just wanted to say that your writing reminds me of S. J. Perelman. With lady bits instead of that penis-y thing he had.
July 28, 2010 at 10:22 am
AWESOMESAUCE
July 28, 2010 at 10:38 am
i finally got a regretsy account! i’m glad everyone is able to see the video. congrats april and raven! and i still think that guy’s eyes are too close together.
July 28, 2010 at 10:44 am
haha – just the way he says, “her PYTHon died…”
July 28, 2010 at 11:13 am
After the chaos of sound and video bites, it was a joy to read your neatly-structured brides column. There’s a another book in your future. Even though I’m as far from being a bride as could be, I’ll buy it.
If you get bored, look into the Pittsburgh woman who has sponsored several shows for brides where nothing happened – no venue booked, no displays put up, no brides, just lots of exhibitor and attendee money going into her pockets… ultimate expression of the bridal industry.
July 28, 2010 at 11:37 am
#4 creepydolls : I know! I’m so sorry! Once I watched the video I knew I was wrong ass wrong. I had about 7 brown outs during nightline and trying to figure out what was what on my DVR was like putting together a puzzle on acid
July 28, 2010 at 11:49 am
“As I sat there, gorging on free chocolate-covered strawberries, I realized that I was surrounded by starving models in bridal gowns staring at me with resentment. I put my feet up on a Pilates display and finished my marshmallows.”
Amen girlfriend!!
…and I applaud you on your brides.com column. So many women want a wedding, but none of them are really prepared for the marriage that follows. You dish up dose of reality that is sorely needed in the wedding business!
July 28, 2010 at 11:56 am
April, where were you when i was getting married? And just as a weird aside, one of my friends who was a psychic did tell me the marriage wouldn’t last. (of course, he was right)
It was awesome to see you on the news! Regretsy is the best!
The spooky house made me all nostalgic for my misspent youth. *sniff*
July 28, 2010 at 12:16 pm
Your brides.com article was absolutely hilarious. You can ruin my wedding any day.
oh and btw… “April Winchell has been…the voice of hundreds of animated Disney characters.”
Uh, you’re awesome. Whether that’s true or not.
It is actually is true. That’s my day job. I don’t make any money on Regretsy. – HK
July 28, 2010 at 12:24 pm
You don’t want rhinestones on your vagina for your Special Day?! Philistine. You’re turning down what could end up truly being The Most Creative Wedding on Earth™.
“I’m Your Boogie Man” = Best Wedding Music Ever.
July 28, 2010 at 12:55 pm
I fought the effects of Vicodin and muscle relaxers to stay up and watch “Nightline”. I braved watching that food guy eat testicles and intestines from around the world.
I’m glad I did.
Now, about this psychic charging $20 to test her husband and sigh… where do I sign up for that gig?
July 28, 2010 at 1:21 pm
I saw the segment. April you and Raven looked mahhhhvelous!!!!!
Congratulations!!!
July 28, 2010 at 1:31 pm
A random person at the craft store today recognized me from Nightline. Crazy!
July 28, 2010 at 1:57 pm
LOL @ #17 knittin-kitten
I went to a tarot/palm reader as a lark with my Mum when I was 17 or 18… she told me that I would have one serious relationship in my life and it would end in absolute disaster. …she was right!
Here I am, 15 years later with a soon-to-be ex-husband that has defrauded me of tens of thousands of dollars.
I often laugh at the the sixth sense of others, yet oddly enough I’m compelled to believe them. o.O
July 28, 2010 at 2:06 pm
@#23-AYGTETP – sorry to hear the ex was such an a*****e hope everything turns out good for you.
Here’s the scary thing about this tarot reader, he was ALWAYS right! And the even scarier thing was that he said I would get married again.
July 28, 2010 at 2:37 pm
Re: the Wedding article.
My prom was at the Universal Sheraton. The dip shits who organized the thing passed out gifts at the end to remind us of High school. They gave us lovely blue candles- the girls got candles in wine glasses and the boys got candles in shot glasses. Way to promote under aged drinking!
July 28, 2010 at 3:08 pm
23, 24, et al:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_reading
That is all.
July 28, 2010 at 3:34 pm
@ #17 knittin-kitten:
There’s no sense in dwelling on the past, especially considering how great everything is right now. …what, with me seeing a blue eyed, blonde firefighter and all! ;P Perhaps I should post an alchemy request for a remedy that cures his allergies to my dogs so he can sleep over (in my ex-husbands house) more often?
Maybe eventually your psychic friend will be wrong, and it will start with you not getting married again!
July 28, 2010 at 3:35 pm
@ #26 Mistletoe:
I’ve read about that before – John Edwards is a prime example of a cold reader. I’m definately a skeptic, but find it fascinating none-the-less!
July 28, 2010 at 6:31 pm
Great spot on Nightline!
Raven – your roadkill deer is still my favorite posting on Regretsy. The VIIAR was the best ever.
April – nice comment from your future mother-in-law on the bride’s column!
July 29, 2010 at 4:55 pm
Fracking awesome! Everything!
(PS: Just my two cents, which are worth much less: I certainly wouldn’t want a Be-Dazzled VAGINA. But that would probably be the case eventually, were I to get Be-Dazzled Labia Majora. Hehe.)
July 30, 2010 at 10:13 am
Good for you April. You are a wonderfully funny person. You should be doing stand up. I’d pay to see ya.