Remember the movie Reality Bites? (Winona Ryder, Ben Stiller, Ethan Hawke in 1994 movie about GenX)
This was my favorite interview, ever.
Interviewer: No offense, sweetie, but you don’t have any experience on a newspaper. You’re TV.
Lelaina Pierce: Well, I’m trying to make my transition to print journalism.
Interviewer: Ah. Why?
Lelaina Pierce: Well, newspapers are the last watchdogs of our… our government. They enforce the checks and balances. And one half-hour of TV only adds up to…
Interviewer: OK. All right. Define irony.
Lelaina Pierce: Irony. Uh… Irony. It’s a noun. It’s when something is… ironic. It’s, uh… Well, I can’t really define irony… but I know it when I see it!
Later that afternoon …
Lelaina Pierce: Oh, my god. I’ve never been so glad…to see anyone in my entire life. This day has been the biggest nightmare. I mean, these job interviews, Troy… the word vivisection, a staggering understatement. Can you define irony?
Troy Dyer: It’s when the actual meaning is the complete opposite from the literal meaning.
Lelaina Pierce: Yeah. My god. Where were you when I needed you today?
Do you have a favorite interview question? One that you ask? or one that you’ve been asked?
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