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Reality, Really?
Author: velveeta jones    Date: 11/29/2009 16:08:27

NEW YORK — A television executive says the couple who crashed President Barack Obama's first state dinner is offering to talk to broadcast networks about it for a payment of hundreds of thousands of dollars.


Why am I not surprised. After all, this couple Michaele and Tareq Salahis - I don't know from the names which is the husband and which is the wife - want to become "Reality TV Stars" (a double oxymoron if ever there was one).

The woman, Michaele -with an extra 'e' or perhaps she's Tareq? Lets just refer to her as "Housewife" since that is what she was auditioning for - so Housewife wants to be on a show called "The Real Housewives of [insert city here]". The shows produced by the Bravo network, which I should add, used to have some class, is some sort of cottage industry of "Houswife" shows set in Orange County, New Jersey, Atlanta and who knows where else. I long to see the version set in the poorest part of the Appalachia. Tune in each week to see "The Real Housewives of Tomahawk Kentucky" struggle to put food on the table and to provide enough clothes for their kids so they can attend the broken down school which has little to no books. Now that's Must See TV!

As you can probably surmise, Velveeta loathes reality TV shows. It,s bad enough that we have to be introduced to theses "stars" after they do things like fake a news story that their son flew off in a balloon causing nationwide panic and much money and resourses spent searching for the lost balloon boy while the said boy actually enjoys popcorn and soda in the attic pretending that he's lost. I don't watch these shows. None of 'em. All that I know about them I learn from "The Soup" (E! Friday night 10pm) and what I know horrifies me!

It's not just the low-bar entertainment that they provide, it's the fact that they don't employ people in the TV/Film industry. These shows don't really need writers (they do script them, but they use just about any moron capable to hold a pen upright), directors, gaffers, camera operators, wardrobe staff, or any other craft Union worker in the industry, including of course: Actors.

I always thought "Survivor" was bad, but it is very tame compared to what Joel McHale tells me is out there. Sheesh. Wife Swap? Shot of Love with Tila Tequila? (I'm sorry, I don't care how smart and attractive someone is I couldn't date them with a name like Tila Tequila). Following around some sisters that got famous because one of them was stupid enough to have their private moment video-taped and trusted that their boyfriend would not release it onto the internet? (Even though he'd apparently done it before). Wow, dumber than a wet sack of rubber-bands.

Anyway, the good news is that Michaele with an 'e' at the end, and Tareq, her or his husband or wife, may just get their reality show in a court of law and possible prision time. Now that's some good REAL TV!




 

9 comments (Latest Comment: 11/30/2009 05:19:13 by Raine)
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