Jenna Wolfe's allDAY Debut
Posted: Thursday, October 11, 2007 9:00 AM by Jaclyn Levin
(From Jenna Wolfe, TODAY correspondent)
Time’s fun when you’re having flies… wait, maybe it’s the other way around… no, I think I’m right. Either way, as I near my 2-month mark here at NBC I can’t help but note it’s been a lot of fun… and also there aren’t a lot of flies here.
I was a sportscaster for 11 years before coming to 30 Rock. And while they were 11 fun-filled, emotionally-enriched, athletically giddy years, they don’t compare to the last two months I’ve spent making TV at NBC… and I’m not just saying that so my bosses will read this and maybe pay me more. (Unless one of the big bosses is reading this…then of course you are more than welcome to pay me more.)
But instead of chasing 300-pound linemen around a locker room after a sweaty game (as riveting as that was and is), now I’m doing something a little different. I’m branching out… telling stories outside the world of sports… talking about things other than a 3-4 defense, or a free throw line, or icing. And while I may someday use all of those words in a sentence, (might be a run-on) the sentence will most likely have to do with something other than sports…
Like pizza.
There’s good pizza, there’s great pizza, and then there’s Brooklyn pizza… or so I’m told by Mr. Brooklyn himself, Tony Muia. From accent to attitude, Tony “is” Brooklyn, and thus “is” the perfect tour guide, which he does for a living.
So picture it: 30 tourists, including my producer Meredith and me, packed into a mini tour bus in search of sights (the Brooklyn Bridge), sounds (fogettabout it) and pizza. A lot of pizza. I think by day’s end, I inhaled about six slices of pizza. Don’t get me wrong, I’m hardly complaining. My scale might disagree, but it’s a great story, great fun, and as always, great laughs. WATCH VIDEO
Another example, I did a story recently on face yoga… yup, yoga for your face. WATCH VIDEO
Is it a replacement for plastic surgery or a way to get 30 people in a room and make funny faces and nifty noises for an hour? You decide. I don’t really have time right now to decide for you.
We also took to the skies to meet a pilot unlike any you’ve come across. The guy actually comes out and "warms" up the crowd (his passengers) before the flight, raffling off gifts, answering questions mid-flight and passing out little trading cards. Well he let us fly with him a few weeks ago, and it was indeed an experience. WATCH VIDEO
And then we met Andrew Zimmern, host of Bizarre Foods on the Travel Channel. Andrew travels the world in search of the strangest, most bizarre food you’d ever imagine eating. Stinky tofu, chicken uterus, fermented meat, black-bone chicken testicles, and fried bees, just to name a few. Andrew and I went out to lunch one day (though I’d hardly call it lunch)… you gotta see this to believe it. WATCH VIDEO
So as we near the end of my first ever NBC blog, a few quick things about me I feel like sharing… I have memorized every line from every episode of "Seinfeld" (not on purpose, more like by accident), I take spin class religiously, (that reminds me, I have to get new clips for my bike) I only watch James Bond movies when I’m home sick (Roger Moore, not Sean Connery), I have "The Office," "Curb Your Enthusiasm," "30 Rock" and TODAY on my DVR (that’s why there’s hardly any room left for anything else). I love the NFL and the Caribbean in the winter, volleyball and waterskiing in the summer, and a comfortable pair of jeans all year round.
Okay, that should tide you over until my next blog. Thanks for the time, sorry about the Yankees and just remember… COGITO EGGO SUM: I think; therefore I am a waffle.
