I don’t care what the critics said, Obama’s joke at the radio & TV correspondents dinner last month about Schwarzenegger being on “I’m a Celebrity, Get me Outta Here!” to help the cash strapped California was fucking hilarious. Considering the sates precarious financial situation, maybe it will come to fruition because it seriously seems like everyone is boarding the shitty reality TV train.
Shows like “I’m a Celebrity…” are where z-listers go to die. On camera.
This cringe inducing trend of craptastic shows has spawned a whole new job pool for those actors/singers/famous just because I’m pretty people that we had completely forgotten existed. When you think about it- it’s pretty fucking clever- though unbelievably embarrassing. Agent not calling you anymore? Ring up spike or MTV or TLC and sell your soul to their latest train wreck. MC Hammer has a show. MC fucking Hammer! Scott Baio, Brett Michaels, Flava Flav, Danny Bonaduce, and the list goes on and on and on, down through the depths of a cauldron of bile and quivering pinkish body fluids.
Did they really think that this would be something lucrative? A sound business move? A reputation building venture? How are they not suicidally embarrassed by their fame whore aging self trying to look relevant and cool? Presumably they have no real friends because if they did, why the hell didn’t they lock them in a basement somewhere until the lure of publicly humiliating themselves had passed? If that were me and I tried to pull that shit, Susin would have me committed right after she slapped the stupid out of me for even considering it.
Seriously, who thinks this shit up? (better yet- who the hell watches it?)
