Are You There Ellen DeGeneres? It's Me, Amy

Dear Ellen-

Let’s dive right in here.  I am a huge fan.  I am a comedian.  I bleed for US women’s soccer.  If you add all of these things together what do you get? (Said as an overly eager and slightly obnoxious cheerleader) You get me, being your official correspondent to Women’s Professional Soccer next season and also the Olympics next summer to cover the US Women’s National Soccer Team! (Feel free to do some cheer kicks and spirit fingers in excitement over this idea.  I’ll give you a moment, read on once you’re done.)

Ok, welcome back.  I loved that you got into this Women’s World Cup and were tweeting your support for the team.  I have loved and played soccer since I was 4.  I started writing and performing comedy when I was 14.  Those are the only two things in my life that I can honestly say I have ever been passionate about.  There is nothing I love more than putting a smile on someone’s face and making people laugh.  I always debate if I should have stuck with soccer, but I know in my heart I was meant to make people laugh and bring smiles and laughter to people’s lives.  Well, that, and also play with puppies. I love puppies.

So Ellen, I am going to try in every form possible to contact you.  I have a writing packet I would love to get to you as well.  If you would like to read on to more of my blog entries, to get a better feel for my writing and general lack of good decision making, please do.  My dream is to be successful in comedy and someday work for you and learn from you.  If I could start that dream by covering women’s soccer for you, I might actually explode from excitement.  Literally.  But don’t let that sway you from contacting me; I will risk combustion for this.  I have so many ideas for different skits, interviews, and coverage that would all be funny, entertaining, and helpful to promoting the sport and the amazing female athletes we have here playing soccer. Your show would be perfect for this idea as a brief segment from time to time covering the WPS league and possibly something for your website for the Olympics next summer.  WPS needs all the support it can get and I want to help in the effort.  Also, once the Olympics come I suppose I could cover some of those other sports they do there as well.  I tend to forget there are other sports happening there, other than soccer.  But for you, I would cover anything and everything. Except maybe pole vaulting, that looks terrifying to me.

So please have your people contact my people.  I’m sorry, that’s a lie. I don’t have people.  If you could get me people, that would be awesome.  But I won’t push it, we can talk details later.  I hope you get to see this and you see something in me and in this idea.

Thanks for inspiring comedians like me every day.

-Amy
@Gillian_E_Dubbs

PS: Tell Portia I am super excited for the Arrested Development movie.  We want the Bluth’s back!!!  And also let her know she had the best chicken dance…hands down.