Post by Trublu on Nov 14, 2004 12:58:33 GMT -5
I got this link through the Yahoo Casey Novak group, its a really funny interview, Ms. Neal is quite funny.
www.96x.ca/cgi-bin/more?category=morningshow&id=100869
And i had some time floating around, so i wrote the whole thing out for yas:
BJ: Good morning Diane Neal from Law and Order Special Victims Unit!
Diane: Good morning how are you?
BJ: We’re good how are you? [Shannon goes ‘woooo’ in the background]
Diane: I’m doing very well.
BJ: Hey you and your life of crime.
Diane: That’s pretty g--- actually you know what I was gunna ask you BJ [emphasis on ‘BJ’]
BJ: Yes?
Diane: We just did an episode about a radio shock jock---
Shannon: That’s right!
BJ: I know and we talked about---
Shannon: And his name was BJ!
Diane: Named BJ [emphasis on ‘BJ’ again] Was that you? Was that based on you I need to know.
BJ: It was based on my life story yeah.
Diane: Oh my god!
BJ: Yeah, an--- an--- an--- and amazingly they solved it on TV but they can’t solve it in REAL LIFE!
Diane: You got away with it…<br>BJ: I’m---
Diane: You’re the one that got away.
BJ: I’m still on the run Diane.
Diane: Kudos BJ.
Shannon: Who did we talk to about that show, we talked to somebody, uhhhhhhhhh---
BJ: Who wrote it, the guy who writes it, what’s his name?
Shannon: Uhh… Was that the dude?
Diane: Well we have a lot of writers…<br>Shannon: Oh! Neal! We talked to Neal.
Diane: Neal Baer!
Shannon: Yeah! We talked to Neal.
BJ: Yeah yeah yeah.
Diane: He’s the executive producer.
Shannon and BJ: Yeah yeah yeah.
Diane: Yeah he’s fancy.
BJ: And he’s like a doctor and stuff to right?
Diane: It’s crazy, yeah, he’s got like 3000 post graduate degrees.
BJ: Yeah, like 85 letters after his name.
Diane: Yeah, it---it’s unbelievable like that--- his office door just goes uh, vertically.
[BJ laughs hysterically, Shannon gives a little chuckle]
Diane: All the words… I--- I don’t know what to do.
BJ: So you are the Assistant District Attourney Casey Novak. [says Casey Novak with a little voice]
Diane: That is CORRECT sir.
BJ: On Law and Order Special Victims Unit [says with another silly voice] Ah, one of the uh, incredible Law and Order franchise uh, shows of course. And you’re loving--- you’re loving life. Are you loving life?
Diane: I’m--- you know it just can’t GET any better. Yes I am, thanks for asking BJ, YES I AM.
Shannon: Did you pee your pants when you found out that you were gunna be on a new Law and Order, uhhh, spinoff?
Diane: Well it was really--- Well cuz I’d been on uhhh…SVU had been on… for… four seasons when I joined the cast.
BJ: Right.
Shannon: Oh, mmmm.
Diane: So they were all like [in a silly voice] Ooooo yeah, we know what we’re doing, we’re too cool for school.
[BJ and Shannon laugh]
Diane: So---uh---no [laughs] Little scary, but it was great---
Shannon: They don’t really say that do they?
[All three of them laugh]
Diane: I was so excited. [takes deep breath from laughing] Because I --- I live in New York, and so to actually get a JOB in New York [Shannon:Yeah!] and not hafta go to LA, which HORRIFIES me, in SOO many ways, on so many levels, I--- I could not have been happier, so
BJ: So now, who---who’s the first person you called when you got the gig?
Diane: Ahhhhheeeeuuhhhh.. probably my boyf---- I think my boyfriend, my mom maybe.
BJ: Yeah.
Diane: But then it’s hard, cuz like I--- I’ve--- I’ve had like one of those, you know, I got out of theater school a couple years ago, and its one of those things your like ‘Yay, great new show, you’re gunna be the star of it’ and then like, airs for one episode and fails.
BJ and Shannon: Right.
Diane: Like that’s kinda been my---my--- uh, work history.
Shannon: You had some of those did ya?
Diane: Quite a few actually, THANKS!!
[All three laugh]
BJ: See, I’m trying to bring up the good---
Shannon: I’m just here to dredge up the past for you.
BJ: I’m trying to bring up the good feelings and you’re bringing up the negative feelings over there.
Diane: But its hard cuz you never wanna jinx it, so like I didn’t want to tell anyone for a while, ya know. I was like they gunna FIRE [ pronounced FI-AH, Boston accent like] me every day I was thinkin they were gunna fire me…Yeah, so…<br>BJ: So---
Diane: Now that I’ve been there a couple years, I’m--- I’m fine, I’ve actually calmed down a little bit.
BJ: Ok so now what are we gunna see you doing on tonight’s episode of Law and Order Special Victims Unit? [says with same silly voice as before]
Diane: Oooo, I do a little bit of running, I do ahhh, uh..
Shannon: Are you wearing s-- something scantily clad?
Diane: No, just heels, I’m running in the courthouse.
Shannon: Oh, ok.
Diane: That’s a slippery floor.
Shannon: Of course.
Diane: I’ll tell you something… [Shannon laughs] No, it’s uh..[Diane laughs] It’s--- It’s actually a really cool episode Kyle McLachlan uh, gueststars, and his son, his little 5 year old son, is murdered, by someone, and we try to figure out who. But it’s--- it’s really twisted episode.
BJ: AWWWWW, I hate it when the kids get killed in the shows [Shannon agrees]
Diane: You KNOW, that’s our show, its about sex crimes…<br>[BJ: I know…]
Diane: Or crimes against children, or sex crimes against children, you’re kinda gunna get one of the---
BJ: I gotta--- I gotta tell ya, I’m being completely honest with you now Diane, when this sea--- when the show came on, now, what did you say, it was about four, five seasons ago now?
Diane: Yeah yeah, about six seasons ago now.
BJ: Ok so, and of course my wife and I were huge Law and Order fans, it was ‘Oh, spinoff of Law and Order, this has gotta be good---
Diane: Wait---
BJ: And so we started watching it and honest to God my wife said ‘I’m sor--- I can’t watch this show, I can’t’---
Diane: They’re horrified.
BJ: It’s--- oh my goodness, yes she was horrified, so I had to like, closet watch the show [Diane laughs]
Diane: [in an extremely silly voice] I’m just gunna, go downstairs to get, uh.. some CHEESE---
BJ: Yeah, I’m just gunna go look for my ball glove---
Diane: [still in silly voice mode] Yeah, I’ll be--- I’ll be gone for one hour, entirely, don’t come down--- It’s cool. You don’t see me back upstairs, I’m cool.
BJ: I know, but I still--- I love the show, and whenever I get a chance to watch it when she’s not around, I still watch it.
Diane: I know… Actually I was so happy to get on a show that I actually enjoyed watching---
BJ: Yeah
Diane: And I could be--- I could be proud of like ‘Hey I’m on the show, everyone watch’ because when your friends and family have to watch you on a really crappy show---
Shannon: Uh huh.
Diane: You feel bad for them, because they feel obligated---
BJ: Yeah, you know, it coulda gone the reality series way.
Diane: EWWW…<br>BJ: I know [laughs hysterically] You got a REAL acting gig.
Diane: Yeah, yeah I know, that’s--- that’s always encouraging, I’m--- good thing I paid for theater school. I couldn’t have paid for theater school and gotten a reality show.
BJ and Shannon: Right.
BJ: Alright, we’ll be watching for ya---
Diane: Excellent guys!
BJ: On Law and Order Special Victims [Law and Order Special Vicims Unit theme song begins to play] tonight, and---
Diane: And uh... I’ll be reeling from my BJ and Shannon experience for the next couple hours [BJ and Shannon begin to laugh]
BJ: I love it.
Shannon: Hey, we know.
BJ: It takes a while to come down.
Shannon: Yeah.
Diane: [in strange voice] Can’t talk, coming down…<br>[BJ and Shannon laugh]
BJ: Thanks Diane!!
Diane: Alright bye guys, have a great day.
Enjoy
www.96x.ca/cgi-bin/more?category=morningshow&id=100869
And i had some time floating around, so i wrote the whole thing out for yas:
BJ: Good morning Diane Neal from Law and Order Special Victims Unit!
Diane: Good morning how are you?
BJ: We’re good how are you? [Shannon goes ‘woooo’ in the background]
Diane: I’m doing very well.
BJ: Hey you and your life of crime.
Diane: That’s pretty g--- actually you know what I was gunna ask you BJ [emphasis on ‘BJ’]
BJ: Yes?
Diane: We just did an episode about a radio shock jock---
Shannon: That’s right!
BJ: I know and we talked about---
Shannon: And his name was BJ!
Diane: Named BJ [emphasis on ‘BJ’ again] Was that you? Was that based on you I need to know.
BJ: It was based on my life story yeah.
Diane: Oh my god!
BJ: Yeah, an--- an--- an--- and amazingly they solved it on TV but they can’t solve it in REAL LIFE!
Diane: You got away with it…<br>BJ: I’m---
Diane: You’re the one that got away.
BJ: I’m still on the run Diane.
Diane: Kudos BJ.
Shannon: Who did we talk to about that show, we talked to somebody, uhhhhhhhhh---
BJ: Who wrote it, the guy who writes it, what’s his name?
Shannon: Uhh… Was that the dude?
Diane: Well we have a lot of writers…<br>Shannon: Oh! Neal! We talked to Neal.
Diane: Neal Baer!
Shannon: Yeah! We talked to Neal.
BJ: Yeah yeah yeah.
Diane: He’s the executive producer.
Shannon and BJ: Yeah yeah yeah.
Diane: Yeah he’s fancy.
BJ: And he’s like a doctor and stuff to right?
Diane: It’s crazy, yeah, he’s got like 3000 post graduate degrees.
BJ: Yeah, like 85 letters after his name.
Diane: Yeah, it---it’s unbelievable like that--- his office door just goes uh, vertically.
[BJ laughs hysterically, Shannon gives a little chuckle]
Diane: All the words… I--- I don’t know what to do.
BJ: So you are the Assistant District Attourney Casey Novak. [says Casey Novak with a little voice]
Diane: That is CORRECT sir.
BJ: On Law and Order Special Victims Unit [says with another silly voice] Ah, one of the uh, incredible Law and Order franchise uh, shows of course. And you’re loving--- you’re loving life. Are you loving life?
Diane: I’m--- you know it just can’t GET any better. Yes I am, thanks for asking BJ, YES I AM.
Shannon: Did you pee your pants when you found out that you were gunna be on a new Law and Order, uhhh, spinoff?
Diane: Well it was really--- Well cuz I’d been on uhhh…SVU had been on… for… four seasons when I joined the cast.
BJ: Right.
Shannon: Oh, mmmm.
Diane: So they were all like [in a silly voice] Ooooo yeah, we know what we’re doing, we’re too cool for school.
[BJ and Shannon laugh]
Diane: So---uh---no [laughs] Little scary, but it was great---
Shannon: They don’t really say that do they?
[All three of them laugh]
Diane: I was so excited. [takes deep breath from laughing] Because I --- I live in New York, and so to actually get a JOB in New York [Shannon:Yeah!] and not hafta go to LA, which HORRIFIES me, in SOO many ways, on so many levels, I--- I could not have been happier, so
BJ: So now, who---who’s the first person you called when you got the gig?
Diane: Ahhhhheeeeuuhhhh.. probably my boyf---- I think my boyfriend, my mom maybe.
BJ: Yeah.
Diane: But then it’s hard, cuz like I--- I’ve--- I’ve had like one of those, you know, I got out of theater school a couple years ago, and its one of those things your like ‘Yay, great new show, you’re gunna be the star of it’ and then like, airs for one episode and fails.
BJ and Shannon: Right.
Diane: Like that’s kinda been my---my--- uh, work history.
Shannon: You had some of those did ya?
Diane: Quite a few actually, THANKS!!
[All three laugh]
BJ: See, I’m trying to bring up the good---
Shannon: I’m just here to dredge up the past for you.
BJ: I’m trying to bring up the good feelings and you’re bringing up the negative feelings over there.
Diane: But its hard cuz you never wanna jinx it, so like I didn’t want to tell anyone for a while, ya know. I was like they gunna FIRE [ pronounced FI-AH, Boston accent like] me every day I was thinkin they were gunna fire me…Yeah, so…<br>BJ: So---
Diane: Now that I’ve been there a couple years, I’m--- I’m fine, I’ve actually calmed down a little bit.
BJ: Ok so now what are we gunna see you doing on tonight’s episode of Law and Order Special Victims Unit? [says with same silly voice as before]
Diane: Oooo, I do a little bit of running, I do ahhh, uh..
Shannon: Are you wearing s-- something scantily clad?
Diane: No, just heels, I’m running in the courthouse.
Shannon: Oh, ok.
Diane: That’s a slippery floor.
Shannon: Of course.
Diane: I’ll tell you something… [Shannon laughs] No, it’s uh..[Diane laughs] It’s--- It’s actually a really cool episode Kyle McLachlan uh, gueststars, and his son, his little 5 year old son, is murdered, by someone, and we try to figure out who. But it’s--- it’s really twisted episode.
BJ: AWWWWW, I hate it when the kids get killed in the shows [Shannon agrees]
Diane: You KNOW, that’s our show, its about sex crimes…<br>[BJ: I know…]
Diane: Or crimes against children, or sex crimes against children, you’re kinda gunna get one of the---
BJ: I gotta--- I gotta tell ya, I’m being completely honest with you now Diane, when this sea--- when the show came on, now, what did you say, it was about four, five seasons ago now?
Diane: Yeah yeah, about six seasons ago now.
BJ: Ok so, and of course my wife and I were huge Law and Order fans, it was ‘Oh, spinoff of Law and Order, this has gotta be good---
Diane: Wait---
BJ: And so we started watching it and honest to God my wife said ‘I’m sor--- I can’t watch this show, I can’t’---
Diane: They’re horrified.
BJ: It’s--- oh my goodness, yes she was horrified, so I had to like, closet watch the show [Diane laughs]
Diane: [in an extremely silly voice] I’m just gunna, go downstairs to get, uh.. some CHEESE---
BJ: Yeah, I’m just gunna go look for my ball glove---
Diane: [still in silly voice mode] Yeah, I’ll be--- I’ll be gone for one hour, entirely, don’t come down--- It’s cool. You don’t see me back upstairs, I’m cool.
BJ: I know, but I still--- I love the show, and whenever I get a chance to watch it when she’s not around, I still watch it.
Diane: I know… Actually I was so happy to get on a show that I actually enjoyed watching---
BJ: Yeah
Diane: And I could be--- I could be proud of like ‘Hey I’m on the show, everyone watch’ because when your friends and family have to watch you on a really crappy show---
Shannon: Uh huh.
Diane: You feel bad for them, because they feel obligated---
BJ: Yeah, you know, it coulda gone the reality series way.
Diane: EWWW…<br>BJ: I know [laughs hysterically] You got a REAL acting gig.
Diane: Yeah, yeah I know, that’s--- that’s always encouraging, I’m--- good thing I paid for theater school. I couldn’t have paid for theater school and gotten a reality show.
BJ and Shannon: Right.
BJ: Alright, we’ll be watching for ya---
Diane: Excellent guys!
BJ: On Law and Order Special Victims [Law and Order Special Vicims Unit theme song begins to play] tonight, and---
Diane: And uh... I’ll be reeling from my BJ and Shannon experience for the next couple hours [BJ and Shannon begin to laugh]
BJ: I love it.
Shannon: Hey, we know.
BJ: It takes a while to come down.
Shannon: Yeah.
Diane: [in strange voice] Can’t talk, coming down…<br>[BJ and Shannon laugh]
BJ: Thanks Diane!!
Diane: Alright bye guys, have a great day.
Enjoy