Yes, and...: LJ Idol Season 9 Week 8
"And now to present his work on his new findings about alien life on other planets, I'm pleased to present Dr. Josh Shapiro."
Josh nervously stuck his finger under his tie and tugged as he got up to present. Little known fact about him: as much as his work was his passion, he hated having to get up in front of everyone to speak and discuss his work. He would sweat and twitch and occasionally stutter. It embarrassed him to no end - he was a well known and respected man in his field, and he couldn't even express himself in front of his peers without feeling foolish. He slowly made his way to the podium, feeling everyone's eyes burning into him. Luckily, he made it to the podium without falling on his face. That was one of his biggest fears. He looked out into the crowd, catching a glimpse of his wife's smile. Unlike most times, her smile didn't make him feel any better.
"Hi, I, um, uh, I mean - my name is Dr. Josh Shapiro." He paused, staring down at his notes and speech. All the words seemed to blur together until he couldn't quite make out what he had typed. The crowd waited expectantly as he wiped his face. Could the lights be any brighter?
"I, um, have been working on, discovering what kind of life if any could exist on space. Re..Recently, my team and I have discovered evidence that...that there might be evidence that life could exist....." The words were dancing on the page.
"On...?" Somebody from crowd prompted.
"On Saturn...or at least on Saturn's moon. The moon is named Enceladus."
"And?" Another person prompted from the audience.
"And, what?" He stuttered. "Ummm, there might be a gravitational love triangle that involves Saturn and another moon, Dione that uh might be causing this but we think we have found a lake on Enceladus*."
"Huh?" The crowd wondered in unison.
"Yes, uh...sounds hot right?" He joked awkwardly. The audience started at him confusedly. "Our theory is..." His notes slipped out of his hands and magically disappeared. "Is it just me or is it getting hot in here?"
"Yes, it's hot," someone shouted. "And?"
"So that means take off your clothes!" He yelled as he started ripping off his clothes, The audience gawked as his wife slowly snuck out her iphone to record this.
"Dr. Shapiro! I've never!" The professor who presented him huffed in horror.
"Well, I've never tap danced naked!" He called back as he tap danced on stage now naked.
"You know, you're supposed to imagine us naked when you're up on stage to get you through your speech - not actually get naked!" his wife hollered in laughter as audience tittered in shock.
"This is more fun," he said. "Besides! You want to know how I really know about life on Saturn?"
"Yes!" The audience shouted in frustration.
He slowly shed his skin, revealing his true blue and purple skin of his home planet. "Because I am from Saturn here to take over your planet!" The crowd gasped as blue and purple Saturians invaded the conference hall armed and ready for attack.
Josh woke up all of a sudden, drenched in sweat. He stared around the dark room, noting he was back in his room next to his snoring wife. "I really need to lay off the vodka and twizzlers before bed," he muttered before falling back to sleep.
http://articles.latimes.com/2014/apr/04/science/la-sci-enceladus-water-20140405 is where I took that quote from (as well as the idea of his speech). I just thought was a hysterical line and needed to include that into the story! This story completely is different than what I had planned out so I hope you like!