PRESS & AWARDS
QUOTES
‘Her new blog, Exploiting My Baby, explores this growth period with brutal honesty and sharply hilarious wit. In her blog she has written about: advice-spouting moms nearly provoking her to violence; how she goofed, calling Nancy O’Dell the c-word on Carolla’s wildly successful podcast; and her very real fears on becoming a new mother.’
- LAist.com
‘Teresa’s gone & got herself in the family way (meaning, pregnant) and she’s been keeping an incredibly biting, honest blog about it called (natch) Exploiting My Baby.’
- MyNorthwest.com
‘Strasser is a genuine public intellectual, a bright writer who managed to succeed in morning radio in a venue beyond NPR. (Now that is a shock.)’
- The Daily News
‘Teresa Strasser is exploiting her baby. How? By writing a super humorous, very fun and must read blog … witty, down-to-earth, bare bones and tell-it-like-it-is.”
- Bellyitchblog.com
‘Teresa Strasser, one of the hosts from the first season of ‘While You Were Out,’ is a raven-haired, quick-witted hipster with an acid tongue, the kind of person who might make mordant jokes at funerals.’
- Slate.com
‘Teresa takes a look at the funny side of pregnancy all while airing her fears of becoming a parent. I laughed so much while reading it and wished that this blog was around when I was pregnant.’
- Knocked Up Celebs
The Least Annoying People – The folks at amiannoying.com have once again polled readers to come up with the most – and least – annoying personalities of the year. Topping the most annoying list for 2003 are the rabid, cave-dwelling members of Al-Qaeda… As for the least annoying people of the year, Salma Hayek comes in first, followed by home repair hottie Teresa Strasser, God, the late John Ritter and actress Mischa Barton.’
- Page Six in the ‘New York Post’
‘This column, ‘Saying Goodbye to an Angel in Sin City,’ told a good story and told it well. Ms Strasser has a great voice. She allows the reader to see the story clearly and feel a part of it. The column is also a touching reflection of our society’s rituals surrounding death.’
- Los Angeles Press Club, Judges’ Comments (Columnist Award)
‘Teresa Strasser is the main draw, as the show’s perky, smart, and dont-you-want-her-as-a-gal-pal host … Teresas a funny lady, a hard worker and an Emmy winner for her writing on ‘Win Ben Steins Money.’ Shes a sistah if I evah saw one with that cute little barrette she uses to hold back the hair from the right side of her face during those hard-to-complete jobs that require lots of bending.’
- The Southern Voice
‘An almost lyrical narrative of a ghastly family tragedy. From the brutally honest lead to the thoughtful last line, we couldnt put the story down.’
- Los Angeles Press Club Awards (News Feature Award)
‘Teresa Strasser was challenging you at home before you knew who she was. She was a writer for four celebrated game shows of varying degrees of prestige in the late 90s and early 00s. The bright and lively queen of Friday night cable television knows how to scour through the almanacs, the newspapers, the atlases and quotation sources … In a turn of events which surprised even Teresa, she became host of TLCs While You Were Out, the networks second-highest rated prime time show.’
- Inside the Games
‘In keeping with the TLC decorating program host formula, Teresa Strasser is very pretty. Fortunately, Strasser is also clever and likeable, so us average-looking viewers dont totally hate her.’
- Winnipeg Free Press
‘She was beautiful, had this sort of cool nature and was funny as hell. Someone on the show remarked that it was a nice day and her reply was, ‘Any day you’re not being fed intravenously, it’s a nice day’. That was it for me. I was in love … Her self-effacing humor is extremely endearing and her quick, off the wall wit is priceless. Hopefully a book will follow.’
- Citi Music Magazine
‘Thanks to co-host Teresa Strasser, The Adam Carolla Show isn’t just smart for morning radio. It’s just smart.’
- LAist.com
AWARDS
Los Angeles Press Club Award, 2006
First Place: Columnist, Daily/Weekly Newspapers
Judges’ Comments: Ms. Strasser brings a fresh and funny perspective to an age old topic: Romance. She’s the Jewish Carrie Bradshaw of Greater L.A.
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Los Angeles Press Club Award, 2005
Columnist of the Year: Daily/Weekly Newspapers
- ‘Saying Goodbye to an Angel in Sin City.’
- The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles
Judges’ Comments: This column told a good story and told it well. Ms Strasser has a great voice and uses quotes and details well. She allows the reader to see the story clearly and feel a part of it. The column is also a touching reflection of our society’s rituals surrounding death.
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Los Angeles Press Club Award, 2005
New Feature: ‘The Evil Stepmother Dies’
- The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles
Judges’ Comments: An almost lyrical narrative of a ghastly family tragedy. From the brutally honest lead to the thoughtful last line, we couldn’t put the story down.
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Emmy Award Nomination, Outstanding Special Class Series, 2004
- Host, ‘While You Were Out,’ TLC
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Simon Rockower Award, 2002
The MicroVoice Award for Excellence in Writing About Singles
- ‘When Booty Calls’
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Emmy Award, Outstanding Special Class Writing, 2000
- ‘Win Ben Stein’s Money,’ Comedy Central
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Emmy Award Nomination, Special Class Writing, 2001
- ‘Win Ben Stein’s Money,’ Comedy Central
