Bryan Greene
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Totally made up, though bad Jamaican accents were not unique to Miss Cleo.
I will submit into evidence, Your Honor, the song Informa by Snow, the Canadian rapper, circa 1993, four long years before Ms.
Cleo ever hit the television airwaves.
Don't take the law into your own hands.
You take them to court.
When she moved to Florida in the late 1990s, she got involved with the Psychic Readers Network, a company run by Stephen Federer and Peter Stokes.
Not mystics, not psychics, not hippy-dippy types.
Oh yeah, infomercial guys.
I mean, I know the average one lasts 30 to 60 seconds, but these guys go the full 30 minutes.
That joke almost writes itself.
They hooked up with Miss Cleo, they put her on TV, dressed her in bright colors, gave her a fake backstory, and boom.
A star is truly born.
At the height of her fame, Ms.
Cleo was literally everywhere.
Her commercials ran nonstop.
Her catchphrase, Call me now, became a pop culture joke.
She was even parodied on other television shows like Mad TV.