The call came one week before the prime time Emmys would be held.  My manager tells me that E! wants me to do a short comedy bit for the Pre-Emmy Show on E!.  I was so excited. The first thing that most females think about is “what will I wear?”  but not me, I was thinking “What will I say?”  E! scheduled a phone conference with me to discuss the material but they gave me no idea what to cover so I decided to look up some info and write some jokes myself.  While I was doing that,  I started to wonder, “What will I wear?”  This is the prime time Emmys, everyone looks so great. I didn’t have an outfit for the red carpet. My manager says,” Let’s put out some calls to see if a designer will dress you”. I started thinking, “yeah right, who will want to dress me?”..Well turns out, I had several people willing to dress a plus size funny ball like me!  I was so honored. I chose Maggie Barry because I remembered that I was doing a field piece for the Chelsea Lately show for  LA fashion Week and I had interviewed Maggie.  She was very nice and had a cool spirit.  When I found out that she would design me a dress, I was thrilled!! I had 3days to have a dress made for me and Maggie never complained.  We met and talked. She looked at me on video so when  I met with her, she had an idea already in her wonderful mind.  I was wearing a blue t-shirt and she looked at me and said, ” That is the blue I was thinking about you wearing so that is my sign!”  Maggie sat down and started sketching a dress. I was blown away.  She made it seem so simple that I knew it would be okay.  I left Maggie and had to get on the conference call with E! about the bit.  After looking at the Emmy nominees and reading other things, I wrote about 5 jokes.  They wanted 3 so I figured I would give them some options.  There were a team of folks on the phone.  E! has always wanted to try the comedy bit thing  in the past, so they decided to see what would happen with me.  The producer asked if I had written anything and I said yes…I went through  my jokes and they loved them!  Now that I knew what I was going to say, I just needed to get my look together.  Sunday arrived before I knew it!!! My dress was not ready until Sunday morning at 10 am…I was suppose to at the red carpet 10 am!!!  I rushed home, the driver waited and I gather my stuff and was on my way!!   Makeup, hair and putting on the dress was all a rush to me.  The make up artist had worked with me before and brought some rhinestone eyelashes just for me.  Hey, a little bling couldn’t hurt. It was sooooo hot and I was in the skybox. My time slot was 2:10 pm.  Catt Sadler was my interviewer…we had a quick rehearsal. Catt was so nice to me.   Action, and we were on the air!  The first thing Catt said to me was, ” Show everybody your Rhinestone eyelashes!”   My bit was over at 2:15 ..my producer said I did good.  As I walked to the trailer, Ryan Seacrest was sitting waiting to be driven his spot..he shouted…”Loni good work and I loved the eyelashes!! ”  That was enough for me…