Non-Guild Audience Members Fair Game For 'Ellen' Celebrity Look-Alike Bit
Stripped of her staff of writers, The Ellen DeGeneres Show manages to keep things lively using segments that require no words at all: Just the eagle eyes of an audience-scanning producer who can pick out nobodies who look like somebodies, and within seconds paste together a side-by-side guaranteed to have everyone else rolling in the aisles. (Come to think of it, that kind of sounds like our job description.) It's all good fun, until a red-faced P.A. was forced to point out that the Tom Bosley look-alike was in fact Tom Bosley, who's taken to filling the long, unoccupied afternoons with Burbank talk show tapings.