Amy borkowsky biography
- Amy Borkowsky is an American author and comedian.
- Amy's wild ride from life as a typical single woman in New York City to becoming dubbed, "the comedian who's making a career out of listening to her mother".
- Amy Borkowsky is an American author and comedian.
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Amy Borkowsky
American author and comedian
Amy Borkowsky is an American author and comedian. Based in New York City, she is known for the two-volume comedy CDsAmy's Answering Machine: Messages from Mom, collections of actual messages from her overprotective mother. The CDs were launched in an interview with Matt Lauer on Today in 2000.
Coverage
Media coverage for Amy's Answering Machine includes airplay on hundreds of radio stations and on National Public Radio. Amy performs her comedy act and speaks at a variety of events across the United States. She is also the author of the Amy's Answering Machine book.
Projects
Amy is also the creator of the Cellibacy project, a media event in which she gave up her cell phone for sixty days, and she is the author of Statements: True Tales of Life, Love, and Credit Card Bills, a collection of true stories she remembered when she looked back at the charges on ten years of American Expresscredit card bills.[1] "Every purchase tells a story".
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Super Manipulation: Single Girl Seduces the Media
by Freddy Tran Nager + Guy Who Watches The Super Bowl For Both The Footbal AND The Ads…
How can you exploit the Super Bowl without spending millions for a 30-second commercial?
1. Be an attractive woman
2. Talk about doing something crazy
3. Build a website
Voila! You score national media coverage.
That’s what comedian Amy Borkowsky achieved with her highly publicized quest to find a husband. The never-married 40-something is trying to raise $3,000,000 to run a personal ad during the Super Bowl, and has put up a site, “Super Bowl Single Girl,” to help raise funds for the… um, worthy cause. So far, with just over 3 months till the Super Bowl, she’s raised about $2,000.
But in terms of massive publicity, she’s already earned millions of dollars in free hype. Score after the first week: Amy Borkowsky 1, Media Suckers (including me) 0.
Update 1/29/9: While Borkowsky didn’t even come close to raising the money needed for a Super Bowl ad, she scored something even better. N
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Amy's Answering Machine: Messages from Mom
The messages Amy's mom leaves are hilarious. Amy's mom is over protective, but also very loving. It seems that every last little thing she sees or hears makes her think of her daughter, so she calls Amy and instructs her on the most random things. Amy is both aggravated and amused by it. The messages, transcribed for the book, are interspersed with Amy's commentary on these messages. You can feel her aggravation, but also her affection for her mother.
This book was published in 2001 and is a snapshot of technology from a different time. "Tape" is referred to more than once--the tape in an old answering machine that could fill up if you had enough messages and didn't change it.