Episode 10 of Celebrity Apprentice: Jingle writing from the depths of despair (oh and I make the final 2)
Last week saw Melissa Rivers melt down, letting loose with a tirade like nothing I have ever seen on national TV. We also saw Joan Rivers quit and had a week of wondering if Joan would be back. Well, I knew Joan would be back because I figured she only quit for the drama anyway. It didn’t really matter because either way there was no upside for her to quitting. If she didn’t come back she looks like a diva drama queen who has to fight her daughter’s battles for her. If she does come back, she looks like a diva drama queen who is full of shit when she threatens to quit. Either way, she is a quitter. And I thought the one cardinal sin that you do not commit on The Apprentice was to quit. Tionne got fired for merely volunteering to come into the boardroom and support Melissa. I get that the quitting appears sympathetic because she is quitting over her daughter. But she knew when she signed up for the show that she would be against her daughter. She knew her daughter would be fired first (afterall she is Joan Rivers). And she knew she wouldn’t like the firing (who ever does). She signed up for that and knew what she was getting into. So that deep into the show when faced with the reality of what she signed up for she quits. In my book that still just makes her a quitter.
Now Melissa and Joan’s tirades came, in part, because the Rivers thought that I was manipulating Brande in some sort of conspiracy to get rid of Melissa, who they believed to be my stronger competitor. The opposite could not have been more true. Brande was by far my stronger competitor and I went against what would be good short term game playing to stick by Brande’s side. Against Melissa, Melissa has to be project manager so if we lose the next challenge she goes home since she would have PM’ed and is not an effective fundraiser. Against Brande, on the other hand, I have to be Project Manager so if we lose I go home since Brande is such an effective fundraiser and I am the PM. I knew that going into last week’s challenge. I knew it was to my advantage to take Melissa with me. But Brande deserved it more. Brande was my friend. She was the better player. So I went against my short term best interest in recommending Melissa get fired but I really felt it was in my long term best interested because I could then live with myself after the game.
Well, we go into task delivery and man, I have this big moment of regret on that decision. First, of course, Joan comes back in grand entrance style. Then we find out we are writing a jingle and a 30 second spot for Chicken of the Sea. A jingle? WTF? With Clint Black, grammy award winning songwriter on the other team? Are you kidding me? I know we have lost before we even start. I know I am going home. And somehow I feel it is justice. I recommended Melissa get fired when it was in my interest to keep her, the weaker player, around. With Brande on my team I am, indeed, PM which means we cannot lose the challenge. Period. Or I go home. I have been more than willing to take credit where credit is due me for what I do in the tasks (too much for most people’s liking, agreed). So it is some sort of poetic justice that I am going to die by my own overconfident sword.Whatever. I deserve it.
So Brande and I immediately are in the crappiest of crappy moods. I mean we are total BITCHES because we are in the depths of despair. We are already facing the boardroom in our minds. And we don’t like it. We get it together just enough to research Chicken of the Sea before our meetings with the execs. What we found out in that meeting was that the execs 1) like radio spots that are more serious and informative 2) Chicken of the Sea is bought by moms overwhelmingly and 3) The jingle should be catchy for kids because it is their moms who by the product.
Okay, so that meeting got us some focus and I immediately tasked Brande with putting together the 30 second spot while I went to work on the jingle. On the van ride over, I find out that while I always thought of myself as the least musical person on the planet it turns out that crown would go to Brande. I actually forbade her to sing! So I gave myself the jingle job by default. During the van ride over, me and Brande’s attitudes really changed. I think we realized the absurdity of what we had been tasked with. And we just decided to try to have as much fun as possible with the whole thing. I mean, I jsut got it into to my head that if I go home from The Celebrity Apprentice because I lost in a song writing challenge to Clint Black. Whatever. I could hold my head up high. From that point on we wpent much of the day just laughing our asses off.
In the midst of all the laughter, we did get our work done. Brande and I discussed the 30 second spot being a conversation between two moms on a playground and after we had the concept she went to work writing it and rehearsing it with Maddie (our singer). I went to work on the jingle and was dismayed to find out that despite the fact that we had professional musicians they were not allowed to write a single note for us. Dammit. I had some fantasy that we would write the lyrics and kind of hum a little but the musicians would do the actual work. Not so. Had to write every damn note.
So, Brande left me alone with the guy on guitar and I can’t explain what happened. Don Jr. had come by earlier and said he liked our lyrics. I figured out that lyrics to jingles just really have to mention the brand name a lot of times and I just went with that in writing it. That boosted my confidence some. But I still to this day don’t have any idea how I wrote the song. I just started humming notes and was trying to think contemporary yet nostalgic and out popped this jingle. Here are the lyrics:
Moms they want it fresh
Kids they want it fast
Chicken of the Sea is the name you can trust
Chicken of the Sea is the tuna that you know
For a healthy choice anywhere at home or on the go
Ask any mermaid you happen to sea
What’s the best tuna, Chicken of the Sea
I pretty much went with jingle writing 101 there (after researching jingles on the internet). I hit all the brand points of health and convenience moms and kids and repeated the brand name three times. Brande included all the same brand points in her 30 second spot and also included all the different products in the product line, like the fact they also carry other seafoods like salmon. Between the two I think we hit all the messaging and Brande did amazing voice over work for the 30 second spot.
After watching the reaction of our musicians to the jingle we had done I really came out of the depths of despair and found my hope again. They really liked what we had done. At that point I knew that if we lost it was not because we had given up, given in to our hopelessness in the task. If we lost it would just be because we couldn’t beat Clint Black in a songwriting challenge. And if that was how I got fired from Celebrity Apprentice so be it as I said before.
Before the boardroom, in my private interview, I teared up when asked about the challenge because this one was so stressful. I knew that if we lost, and at the beginning of the task I thought the possibility of that was 100%, I would be the one with my head on the chopping block having to argue myself vs Brande. And I didn’t want to have to do that. I had no desire to fight for my spot vs Brande. All I wanted was for the two of us to be in the final two together and I was stressed out at the prospect of both arguing against Brande and knowing I was going down anyway as PM of the project.
When we went in the boardroom, we got to hear KOTU’s jingle and commercial. When I heard the jingle I thought we really had a chance. I don’t think country was the right choice because it is a very narrow demographic. But more importantly I thought the song was not uptempo enough and didn’t say enough about the brand. I also didn’t think it was a song little kids would like as much as our jingle. I also didn’t like the commercial they did. That is my personal opinion, of course, but I didn’t think it was funny or informative enough. The executives did like the KOTU commercial in its tone and I am not going to argue with them on that. Their opinion matters more than mine. But they agreed that the brand messaging just wasn’t there.
The moment I knew Athena had won was when Don Jr. gave the positives and negatives of our jingle and commercial spot. All they said they didn’t like about it was we didn’t get in that the product also comes in pouches. That was it! One tiny thing on the negative list! The list of negatives for KOTU was pretty long and, yes, we did pull the victory out! At that moment Brande and I just grabbed each other in disbelief and friendship and solidarity. We had pulled through this thing together to get to the final four and we couldn;t believe we had managed to overcome such huge odds. I am embarassed that I cried in the boardroom but I was really overwhelmed by the whole two day experience.
I have to say that Clint was such a gentlemen in this challenge. He was so encouraging in that boardroom in saying that everyone has music in them and they just need to find it. He really menat that and you could see how much he just really loves what he does and really believes everyone ahs a little of that in them. And he was very gracious in the loss. The really great side of Clint really shone through that night and I hope everyone can see that, despite his drawbacks, there is a good and gracious man in there. I thought he exited with amazing class and grace. An interesting contrast to last week’s exit.
So, now we are down to the final four and we all have to go get interviewed by Piers. Before the interviews, while in the war room, Joan pointedly ignored me and Brande. And I mean pointedly. They didn’t show it but when we went in to argue for the final four in the boardroom Joan claimed to Trump that we had ignored her. WTF? I was so mad about that and glad they showed how she ignored the two of us on TV. Anyway, we go in to get interviewed by Piers and Brande is first to go. I thought it was unfair that Brande got painted as not bright enough for the final 2. Nothing could be farther from the truth. She is very smart. She runs her own business (Financially Hung) and I think she played the game brilliantly to get to the final four. In the end, the proof is in the pudding. And depsite both of the Rivers women coming at her with guns a blazing she managed to outlast Melissa quite nicely, even when it was in my best interest to have Melissa stick around. I wish people would give Brande Roderick more credit for that. But Piers didn’t see that, unfortunately so Brande ended up getting fired first.
When Piers interviewed Jesse James he mainly just pushed him on his lack of fund raising and really got on him about not leveraging his marriage to Sandra Bullock. I feel kind of two ways about this. First, I deeply respect Jesse for keeping his personal life out of The Apprentice and we should all respect his right to keep his private life private. But, on the other hand, I am disturbed by him saying that he was holding back for the end. I really felt all the charities were super important and all deserving of a share of the money raised on the show. I came out strong with the money because I really wanted to raise a lot of money for charity full stop, not just my charity in particular. So I think Jesse made a mistake there because it is really about the charities in the end. So Jesse got fired because he wouldn’t leverage his relationship with his wife. I think that is unfair. But what is fair is that he admitted to holding back. And that is a fair reason for the firing.
So that put me against Joan. When Piers interviewed Joan he gave her every opportunity to retract her statements about Hitler in regards to me. He gave her every out to say that was uncalled for and over the top. But she wouldn’t even admit those comments might have been just the littlest bit out of line. Gotta love a woman for her conviction, I guess. But Piers clearly was not happy about how personal she made her attacks and clearly agreed with me that the mother daughter thing had no place in business when they both knew what they were signing up for. In my case he just kept asking me about strategy and how I might have gotten my opponents to do what I wanted them to in the game. He also asked if I talk too much. I gave him a big fat YES on that one. No arguments there. When he asked me what my biggest fault is, which they didn’t show, I said that it is that I suffer fools so poorly. He actually said he thought that was a good thing since he is like that too. But I think it really is my absolutely worst quality. That and I talk to much 
After Trump decide on me and Joan as the final two, I said I respect her. I also said later, very harshly, that I don’t like her and she has made the game personal for me. Now I want to clarify why I said in the boardroom that I respect Joan Rivers because I understand it looks weird in light of the fact that I clearly don’t like her. I do respect her in as much as I hope I could still have her energy at her age and have the longevity of her career. She is clearly a very shrewd woman and I absolutely respect that about her, I respect her ability to persevere. However, that does not mean I like her. So my comments that she has made this personal for me and that I do not like her at all as a person in my private interview are not inconsistent with what I said in the boardroom. I would like you to find me the person who can come under 10 weeks of escalating attacks, being called Hitler and worse than white trash (what office environment allows that, btw?), and still like the person delivering those attacks. By this point in the show I am angry. She has attacked me without stop. She has attacked Brande. She has attacked all poker players spewing the most hateful comments about them. She had repeatedly told me I wasn’t even allowed to talk to her because I was so beneath her. Of course I took that personally. But that does not mean I don’t respect her energy or her longevity of career. It does mean I don’t respect her tactics or her boundaries of what is acceptible behavior. I don’t think Joan could understand that I could feel both things at once because for her it is all black and white. If she doesn’t like you then you are 100% bad with no redeeming qualities whatsoever. You are worse than Hitler in her eyes.
So next week is the live Finale. I am really excited for that and busy putting on my thinking cap about ways I can argue for myself in the final boardroom. I am leaving for New York Tuesday to shoot some stuff for the show then Thursday I am going to the Refugees International Gala. Then I head back to NYC where my family is meeting me for the finale. And I am having dinner with the gay guys from room 702 (remember the hotel challenge?) I can’t wait to see them! So tune in next Sunday to see who wins! And who I end up with on my team I can’t wait!
Congrats on making it to the finals Annie. You deserve it more than anyone. I can’t believe Joan made it to the finals. She didn’t earn that spot, she brought in no money! Brande should have been there in the end competing with you. No brainer. Joan just rode on everyone’s coattail. Kind of ironic she was saying that Brande wrote on your coattails when she was NEVER accountable for any loss because Trump never put her in the line of fire. Well, I look forward for next week. I want to see Joan get smashed badly by you. Now that’s one thing she deserves.
Congrats on your jingle Annie. I can imagine what an ominous task this must have been for you going heads up against Clint Black in anything musical. Holy smokes… I was at 1st feeling overwhelmed for you but then I thought about what the executives had said they wanted and realized there was hope for you as I realized that Clint would, for sure, be doing a Country jingle. That style would work well if they wanted to advertise Chicken of the Sea at Rodeos… but that wasn’t what the executives asked for. and one thing was for sure… Joan and Jessi were NOT going to be able to tell Clint Black anything when it came to producing any kind of Music… nor would they even hope to dare. This task was “Clint’s to lose”. Clint chose to go for a classic country style which was good for you… possibly country Rock might have been a little better choice for him. He did make a few good choices with his task… like not using Joan’s Cluck-cluck-cluck… SPLASH. OMG.. NOT using that was at least a face saver for Clint! My other thought was that you could use musicians to help you. Even though yourself and Brande were not musically inclined… the musicians you use to help you produce the task certainly would be and might have enjoyed the Clint Black challenge too. As it turned out.. your jingle and ad were much better promoting the product over all and you deserved the win. Congrats to you and Brande on a job well done.
I was sorry to see Brande get fired but as you said in the board room you would rather show down with Joan than anyone else in the room. Good choice I think. Jessi played his cards to close to his chest the whole game… and just eventually got blinded out. I thought that Brande and Jessi could both come with the fund raisers if the final task involves that. Brande would have been a tough opponent in any task. However, Joan is determined and I think she really does hate you. I don’t think that all the things she says are just emotional attacks in the heat of an emotional moment.. or things she wished she hadn’t said and something she would like to take back…. I truly believe that she means every hateful thing. It’s so ingrained now that she is hard pressed to even be in the same room with you. You can certainly use this to your own advantage. It wouldn’t be hard to get Joan off her game… Deep down I think Joan knows that you are way smarter than she is… even though she puts up a tough front and says she wants the fight till the finish… I think she is scared stiff that “the likes of you.. a Poker player” will beat her. She will give it her best shot… Her entire career has been to get people to laugh at her… well… I hope that continues for at least one more week
Best of Luck to you. I will be watching for sure! Cheers from Canada.
Annie, perhaps the most enjoyable moment on CA so far was how you brilliantly and easily played Trump. You know full well that Brande would have hands down been your hardest challenger, so when asked who would be you say “Joan” of course. Joan, who you know you could beat with your eyes closed! And as you know men as well as you do, you knew that when Piers interviewed Brande the blood rushing from his head to another part would have affected his thinking … making Brande the dumb one … not him right?
The only piece you forgot, in my humble opinion, is that a great opponent raises our game. I play tennis, which is a one-on-one sport .. the hardest match is playing an inferior challenger — they bring your own game down. You would have brought your A game against Brande … you have to survive with Joan.
But you played Trump … and that was worth watching all the other tawdry nonsense throughout this season. Not sure I’ll be bothered to watch the finale … it will just be a bunch more name calling and grown women mud-wrestling. It would have been much more interesting to watch two stellar talented bright energetic contemporary women face off in the spirit of true sportswomenship … but Trump likes mud-wresting.
Good Luck.
Have fun at the dinner with the gay guys! They were so funny on the show. Hahaha
and I don’t think Joan can honestly face reality….. maybe she’ll botox it.
Annie, congratulations on the Athena victory last night!!! You know I was proud and excited to hear of your win, but not at all surpirsed. You are an amazing talented woman Annie, probably your strongest quality is how much heart you clearly put into your work, and it does show in everything you do. I knew you would make it to the finals, and I am confident that you will triumph over Joan, because in many ways you already have. You are a better person than she is, you have faced incredible personal attacks from her,however you still were gracious and respectful enough to credit her longevity. Even though you have a great reason not to like her, you are smart and respectful enough to keep this what it is about; a charity, and the world notices that! As far Joan not apologizing, she has defeated herself in that, she has proved she is a drama queen, Melissa as well, and her behavior is never tolerated in business, definately not mine! I am proud of your performance throughout this whole competition Annie! Last night you shined like a star, you triumphed over near impossible odds being the nature of the task. To tell you the truth I actually sat there and cried with you when I seen the tears in your eyes when you expressed how much this task meant to you, I have never been so proud! I look up to you, you are living proof that a person can do anything if they apply themselves, thanks Annie! Good luck in the final competition, and know that I will be watching the finale, and know I will be betting on you and cheering you on every step of the way! Go get em Annie Duke!
Good luck Annie! You are arrogant as hell, but I think you’re great and I hope you kick Joan’s butt.
HI Annie,
You deserve to take it ALL. Your an everyday person that’s beatiful inside and out, your the best!!!!! The Rivers just want their way with everything and they are not as good as they think they are…….stay being yourself…your gorgeous.
George
Annie,
Thanks for sharing the details of your experience. I didn’t know much about you before I started watching the Celebrity Apprentice and I’ve grown into a fan of yours. I’m a big Joan Rivers fan, but she went berserk and you handled her unnecessary putdowns with class.
Best of luck in the finals.
should’ve been Jesse vs. Annie in the final that would’ve been a real challenge.
Annie you are a talented woman. BUT so is Joan. Since we’ve all been watching the same program, please do not ask us the viewers, to pretend NOT to see what we’ve been seeing and hearing in the last 10 episodes. You are both in the wrong. You have called Joan a “CANCER” And have said quote ” This woman needs to die,” on episode 11 preview. Please do us all a favor and stop playing the viewers with the ‘miss innocent’ and ‘saintly’ FRONT you are putting on.
Congrats on making it to the final two. I’ve never been a huge Apprentice fan, but when my friends began referring to me as Poker Annie I had to check it out. We’ve been cheering you on through every challenge and board rooom. I never doubted that you would be in the final two. Best of luck to you!
Annie, you complained ad nauseum about the things Joan has said to your face yet you called her a bitch several times and compared her to a cancer behind her back. That is supremely hypocritical.
Awesome Interview on ElLen Annie wtg, well done, you will win hands down without a showdown lol
CONGRATS Annie……….I am THIRLLED you made it to the final……You have done the best job by far….Joan did not “earn” her spot…her “trump friendship” gave it to her and that my friend is not fair…..he did that only for ratings!!! anyway KICK her tired old butt in the final……keep your cool, don’t go wild and mf everything (let Joan do that and look like the angry woman she is)…..hold youR head up high and WIN, WIN, WIN, ANNIE DUKE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Congrats on making Final 2! I really hope you win and not Joan. Her comments about you and your profession were really unnecessary. More importantly she has not been an efficient player. Brande should have been with you in the final 2. Go Go Annie Duke!!
Great Job Annie…. Please send that old hateful devil to her grave….If she ever tried to make peace…Spit in her face;)
Annie, I hope you win for all of us poker players out there. By the way, I played poker, to past the time, during Vietnam, my father play during WWII, and my grandfather and uncle during WWI, ain’t nothing wrong with poker. Poker is as Amercian as apple pie. When Clint, Bandi, Jesse, etc., got fired, I just thought…Well, OK they are nice folk and all but I want Annie to win, so that’s just the game. Go Annie! However, I wonder if Joan realizes or even cares just how she has actually hurt her public image with her behavior/remarks? Joan’s remarks are some of the most offensive and awful that I have ever heard. In a real work environment or poker game, she would be fired and or escorted out. While all this drama may make for good TV, I think Trump should have maybe even fired Joan for those remarks.
Anyway…ANNIE, to quote a friend of mine “Good luck and may all your deals be good” See you at the tables.
We have all endured week after week of Joan and Melissa cackling, clucking, and screeching like rabid barnyard foul. I was elated to see Melissa fired last week, and hoping that Joan would return…..for this very reason. She’s all yours, Annie…take her down.
Way to go!!!
Your jingle was great! I caught myself singing it this morning. What I can’t understand why she Joan still there. Trump said on the Regis show last MOnday morning that Joan was gone.
Trump is only using Joan for rating because she is such a BITCH. I guess one more dance for the Old Bitch. Brande should of been there with you for the final TWO. Trump screwed up picking Joan just for rating value. Nothing sells better then two beautiful girls who are smart and able to raise money. Come on Trump you invented that factor. The only Way Rivers could win is if the show is fixed and for some reason he owes it to her for some reason.
Congratulations are in order, Annie.
Liz and I are VERY proud of you. My chest is sticking out two feet…lol!
WTG Girl!
I assume you take down the whole thing, Annie, so congratulations. After all, Donald Trump fired Khloe for a DUI and wondered if Brande (thanks to Piers) would tarnish the title of Celebrity Apprentice because she may not be bright enough. Somehow, that same guy is going to give the title to an old woman who spews insulting remarks regularly and compares you to Hitler repeatedly? Here’s the thing I hope you get a chance to talk about: Joan didn’t like Clint and had problems with Jesse. She may have been rude and insulting to many, but she only name-called other women. Typical sexist behavior. Jesse James would have slugged her if Joan Rivers called him Hitler and you should have, too.
Annie,
I think you have behaved in the most classy way possible. I’ve read a lot of psychology books and they all agree that when someone is spewing accustaions at a person, usually the person spewing is guilty or thinks she is guilty of the exact crimes. She is so obviously intimidated by you and jealous of you.
In the past, I had always thought of her as a good person, but class, unfortunately if she ever had any she lost it in her older age.
You guys were so cute getting so excited about your jingle, great job. It was nice to see you act like a grownup and be gracious despite how nasty Joan has been, while she continued to channel a two year old with poor impulse control and couldn’t act like an adult for 5 seconds. I really hope she is just putting it on for TV and doesn’t act so crazy and ill-mannered IRL.
What a surprise, Joan returns to jump in front of the camera and get attention yet again *rolls eyes* The suspense there was killing me. Ha.
yayayayayaya annie!!!!
i think your the best game player…and i’m sure you’re going to win and the finale will be fabulous. my entire graphic design class watches the show, and we discuss it every monday. that jingle was better and ya’ll deserved to win. i still have the tune stuck in my head a day after, and i crave chicken of the sea. why why why!!!! anyways i have to congratulate you on your skills and also attacking all the tasks even if some are out of your comfort zone.
synapse, I noticed that too. Joan sadly said a few times she thinks the way Jesse is playing the game is not right, but she didn’t freak out and get all up in his face and attack him. I think she’s just doing it because she knows what sells, but shut up about marching with Steinem already if you’re going to play like that–it’s disgraceful and hypocritical as hell.
*dances*
Moms they want it FRESH
*shakes butt to the right*
Kids they want it FAST
*shakes butt to the left*
Chicken of the Sea is the name you can trust
*wiggles head side to side*
Chicken of the Sea is the tuna that you know
*thrusts pelvis forward*
For a healthy choice anywhere at home or on the go
*twirls hips*
Ask any mermaid you happen to sea
*slides down onto knees*
What’s the best tuna, Chicken of the Sea
*breakdances and poses, lying on side*
oh yeah before i forget…i was on the twitter and totally found the whore pit vipers page…also there’s a lot going on the interweb about the macaroons comment going down in history as one of the most memorable lines ever.
and brande is not a dumb person. i think she’s smart, and knows what works for her but isn’t afraid to try new things. i think that the show was edited a certain way to make people fit into “characters” or “stereotypes”…i knew who brande was before CA, without the playboy, but mostly through her charity work and throwing events and fundraising…and i think the game is set up a certain kind of way, but you guys all signed up for it so i’m sure you’re not surprised. brande is not a dumb blond…there’s more american celebrities in the mainstream who certainly fit that perception. i don’t think piers was right in saying that about her, but there is a little truth in everything.
also the rivers are too much. i know you’ll win annie, because if you don’t that would go down in tv history as one of the worst upsets ever.
Awesome job. They counldn’t have come out with a better pair for the final week. You do have the educational and emotional superiority by far. You can see right thru Joan and that will continue to keep you a winner. Keep your cool and prove yourself again. Good Luck! Maybe I’ll see you at Foxwoods.
WTG, Annie Duke!! You deserve to be in the final 2. After looking at who the final 4 were, my 1st choice was Brande—she is certainly not the “dumb blonde” that she was called but, for ratings sake, Trump choose Joan. Joan has lasted a long time in show business (why, I don’t know!!) but she isn’t a game player – you are. Joan has shown the world what kind of person she is, which is really sad. Play the game to the best of your ability and keep your head up!! Play with class and dignity!
As a jew I am appalled with what Joan has said to you. You have done a great job and deserve to win. Joan is a bitter, old, hateful jew.
i saw the ellen!!!! it was faboosh, and it was really better than the rivers on friday, and and best of all i got a little poker lesson for free. thanks annie! also good on pimping the school.
Annie,
I hope you win for all of us poker players out there. By the way, I played poker, to past the time, during Vietnam, my father play during WWII, and my grandfather and uncle during WWI, ain’t nothing wrong with poker. Poker is as Amercian as apple pie. When Clint, Bandi, Jesse, etc., got fired, I just thought…Well, OK..they are nice folk and all… but I want Annie to win, so that’s just the game. Go Annie! However, I wonder if Joan realizes or even cares just how she has actually hurt her public image with her behavior/remarks? Joan remarks are some of the most offensive and awful that I have ever heard. In a real work environment or poker game, she would be fired and or escorted out. While all this drama may make for good TV, I think Trump should have maybe even fired Joan for those remarks.
Anyway…ANNIE, to quote a friend of mine “Good luck and may all your deals be good” See you at the tables.
First I must say congratulations on making it to the top two. But in all honesty I find you to be very hypocritical. You do play the game very well. However you are completely two faced when it comes to the boardroom. You blow so much smoke up Donald Trump’s ass. You show a completely different side when in your private interviews. You have called Joan a bitch several times and have said that she is dead to you. That is EXTREMELY personal. On Ellen you said you kept it to a professional level the entire show. Saying that the most succesful comedienne in the world is dead to you on national television is not professional nor was the way you handled the issue with Natalie asking Phil Hellmuth for a donation. If you are going to be succesful in business you have to take every punch thrown at you and not say a word so you have a one up on the competition. You play the game very well but you are overwhelmingly sarcastic, unbelievably hypocritical, and despite what you may think you are not a big enough of a celebrity to be as cocky as you act.
You are simply my role model!!!
you can do anything and everything you set your mind to!!!
really,I just want to be like you, you are a huge inspiration and I am sure you ARE THE CELEBRITY APPRENTICE!!!
YOUR ARE A CHAMPION IN EVERY SENSE OF THE WORD A REAL WOMAN AND A CLASS ACT!!
I I I I I I
you suck!
Hope Joan kicks your ass
mertz says,
“also the rivers are too much. i know you’ll win annie, because if you don’t that would go down in tv history as one of the worst upsets ever.”
I would change the word “upsets” to “setups” then it would be a very accurate quote!
“Suzi says:
May 4, 2009 at 7:22 am
Joan+Melissa is that your name or just a handle?”
It is just my handle as my snarky attempt to point out (to others) that Joan Rivers’ real name is “Rosenberg”, she changed it to “Rivers”.
I can only assume (imo) that way back then she changed it so not to show she had a Jewish last name (as Rosenberg blatantly is).
I can’t stand those 2 b’tches and do not wish them well. If Joan wins then it’s completely fixed. They only had a couple days to do this final huge task and after seeing who Annie gets on her team compared to who Joan got, it’s just ridiculous. Hopefully Annie pulled out all the stops and did accomplish what was needed to beat Joan so bad in that final task, that Trump won’t dare hand it to his wacko friend Joan.
The way he’s let her get a FREE ride through this competition so far is disgusting.
Joan fans, Poppy, go raise your IQ’s and get an education- none of you can possibly be above the 40 pt mark.
Annie, I think Ellen was diplomatically disrespectful to you having HUGE pics of Joan and Melissa in the background while you were a guest on the show. She should have had pics of you while you were on. Very cowardly and disrespectful of her.
Annie’s interview on Ellen’s show was awesome beyond words. Class act. Can’t imagine the pathetic people who don’t see that.
Ellen’s interview: http://ellen.warnerbros.com/
Someone posted confusion over a comment Claudia made about being at the finals. I think your confusion is: that some come back to help with the final task, that was done last fall when this whole show was taped I assume. So only a few came back then (Clint, Melissa, Herschel for Joan- and Tom Green, Brande, and Dennis for Annie).
So when Claudia says she’ll be back for the final, she probably meant the final LIVE show next wk when all show up to sit in the background and watch Donald fire one of the final 2, in front of the live audience.. I would assume that’s what she meant
Annie you did so well in this competition. You did smart women and poker players proud. Don’t doubt otherwise.
“Any team Annie is on spelled tIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIeam.” Great quote.
“CJ says:
May 4, 2009 at 9:21 am
I hope Joan Kickes your ass! The name Hitler does fit you, Your a trashy nasty Poker Player. Every one I know hates you, Trump was right about that, and you are an idiot, stupid tramp, I can’t stand anyone who talks so highly of thierself. You aren’t anything, your a waste of Air Space”
ROFLMFAO, OMG, LOL, HYSTERICAL, LOVE IT, OMFG, SO FUNNY!
…oh my side hurts now
Congratulations Annie! This Is … Could Be Even More Exciting!
So … who knows “exactly” … “approximately” how the Ultimate Winner is “selected?” Is it a “sudden death” whoever wins the next challenge type deal? The next challenge, as I understand it, involves previous contestants in a three hour LIVE event? Some of this three hour LIVE event must have been, is going to be pre-taped? The challenge itself?
Anybody know?
Good Luck Annie!
Congratulations On Your Ability To Forgive Joan
For “Whatever It Is That’s Ailing Her ô¿~”
David says:
May 4, 2009 at 5:46 pm
On the other hand, maybe, they recorded the lunatic Joan’s rants, then went back and edited many of Annie’s conversations and cut the “I” out and put them together to play after Joan’s comment.. Gosh, they wouldn’t do that would they?
duh
Dude….I hate jingles because when they work, they stick in my head and I can’t get them out….needless to say as I was here finishing up some stuff around my house…this f4$$@# little tune pops in my head….”moms they want it fresh..kids they want it fast……” AHHHH!!! well I give you credit that it was the TRUE jingle of the night…not sure Clint got the message that it was to be a JINgle…not a sap country wanna kill my self…lost my dog….wife left me kinda of downer…Jingle…not downer!!
Alright…where was I…..”moms they want it…..”AHHHHHHH!!!!!!!
SoCoolBob,
Have you seen past seasons of CA? the finale is live but all tasks were done months ago- this final will have an audience and all past participants sitting off to the side watching (just like the audience but they are on stage to the side).
trump will have his desk on stage setup to look just like the office you see on the weekly show.
now this is only the 2nd “celebrity” version of his show- so in this finale like last yr, he will assess how they did on this last task (which is always super hard, needs to be done in a very limited time (2 days?) to put on a huge event, and, he will judge them on their performance, the outcome of that final huge task, and how much money they brought in.
for the final 2 on any of his seasons, he brings back seveal of the past contestants who were fired, and the final 2 choose between those ppl, add them to their new team and use them to help accomplish this final task.
last yr, and hopefully this yr, he will let a lot of his decision making be based on how much money is raised – that was 99% of the reason he let Piers win last yr.. how much money he brought in.. hopefully that will be the final decision maker this year too.
hope that helps
I talk TOO much
Ben says:
May 4, 2009 at 5:59 pm
LMAO @ your post
Congrats Annie! I didn’t pick up on the show until the Gulbis elimination. However, I am troubled by Joan Rivers making the final since she seems so weak. I am also troubled by the fact that Trump’s sister-in-law is on the board of Joan’s charity. It sounds like a conflict of interest to me. Maybe that’s been discussed. Like I said, I’m a late arrival to the show.
very interesting info there Joel.. VERY
First things first: No hiding brilliance and no apologizing for it. It insults both parties.
Sure Joan was scared of you, but moreso because Melissa would have been embarrassingly crushed were she in a final 2 against you. Joan couldn’t have that. Also, Brande couldn’t make it to the final 2 because she is beautiful, even if she is smart. Everyone assumes that Donald would be voting with his pants, even if he wasn’t (for once!) Perceived prejudice is a beyotch. So in this way Brande is proven right again, it’s tough to be beautiful and smart. Donald and his crony knew she couldn’t beat you anyway, so the safe play is to fire her early.
Something seems choreographed to me. Joan hates Clint like poison, leaves in a huff, but then is suddenly back… and loves Clint till the end. This was when Melissa was on the block early on. So if some CA-producer hallway chat was a combo of contractual obligation combined with the lowdown of how you can/will crush everybody there, Joan must come back to protect Melissa.
“Cynical-me” also thinks that Joan was promised a final 2 to come back this last time. How else can we explain this? She is 75, mean, and woefully out-gunned! Seriously, Cluck-Cluck Splash? That’s what you’ve got?? That’s not even bringing a knife to a gunfight. That’s bringing a spork.
So she’s old enough to be Donald’s mommy, with a rolodex like no other, but she received NO financial help on the charity fundraisers! From anybody she knew??? Hershel and Clint bring in the dough? In cash, no less? Joan–zippy. WTF? How is this not brought up by Jesse in his board room exit, BTW?
We all know know Joan should’ve been fired after the Ivanka Auction, not Natalie, who did exactly what she was told. By Joan. My 13-year-old daughter saw that for what it was–a raw deal. I had no other explanation for her. Either Donald is stupid or it’s rigged. (She was ok with either, BTW).
If this next one is a fundraising task (don’t think so, too easy for Annie to win) expect that Donald will give Joan some ringers; others have already mentioned that he gave Annie some boneheads to handicap her. We’ll see.
So good luck and play smart. You know the way to focus on the win criteria and not get distracted. Great to see a fellow Billings-ite do well (even if you were a loaner).
Now that Brande is gone, you are sure to win!
I believe your Rolodex will pull the finale off for you. You are a very nice person!
Joan+Melissa Rosenberg
Excellent Description. Thanks A Bunch!
They’ve done what they can do and now it’s
wait for the answer? And then … Annie
could be the next Celebrity Apprentice?
That would be … will be … xxxxxx !!