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I'm Sophurky -- your Host again this week for the Comedy Newsletter, where we'll talk about the wonder that is Reality Television (while I play around with popnotes)!
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REALITY TELEVISION
| "Reality television is a genre of television programming which presents purportedly unscripted dramatic or humorous situations, documents actual events, and features ordinary people instead of professional actors." From Wikipedia. |
With the writer's strike entering its third month (or is it the fourth? or second? I can't keep track, I just know it's been a long time!) the networks are responding to the crisis by adding more Reality Television and Game Shows to their weekly line-ups. If you are a Reality TV or Game Show fan, this is great news for you. But if you are not fond of that particular genre of television, then this is going to be a very long winter for you, I'm afraid! Maybe you can rent some DVD's
| I recommend "Weeds," "Big Love," and "Huff". |
| Check out their latest series on "The War." |
People either love Reality TV or hate it (or if they love it, they don't admit that they do). Personally I am embarrassed to admit that I am a bit of a Reality TV show addict. I don't watch all of them, mind you, or else my husband would stage an intervention -- but I do watch quite a few of them. In fact, a few years ago I even wrote a chained haiku poem about my addiction:
"Reality TV Anonymous"
My name is SophY
and I'm a Reality
TV-aholic.
HI SOPHY! I can't
help myself - Survivor, The
Amazing Race. But
my BIGGEST SHAME is
Big Brother. <sigh> At least I
learn survival skills
on Survivor, see
the world on The Amazing
Race. But Big Brother?
I'm so ashamed. OOPS!
I have to go! The Mole is
on in ten minutes!
I have standards -- they aren't very high but I do have them!  So I tend to avoid reality shows on Fox (except for American Idol) or VH1
| Which will soon begin airing "Scott Baio is 46…and Pregnant" and "My Fair Brady ... Maybe Baby?" Even I can't bring myself to watch those. |
| "The Hills?" Seriously?!?! |
| The only Reality TV show to regularly win Emmys! |
| A truly helpful show should you ever be stranded in the middle of nowhere with only a machete and a bag of rice! |
| Can someone explain to me how a man THAT rich can walk around in public with that hair and not afford to get a better, more flattering style?!?! |
But my biggest shame is that I watch "Big Brother" on CBS. I content myself with the knowledge that it's only on during the summer, when I have less work to do and more time to sit around watching mindless television. So I justify my addiction by pretending that it's just a guilty pleasure I indulge in every once in a while in order to watch these mismatched, dysfunctional house guests bicker, drink, and dump iced tea on each other's heads. (And sleep, they sleep A LOT!) But that's not true, I don't just tune in occasionally -- I never miss an episode! Sometimes I even watch the live feeds <hangs head in shame and disgrace
| But on the bright side, I sometimes write brilliant live feed recaps on a BB web site, so at least I get some writing done! |
They say that the first step to recovery is to admit that I have a problem ... and I DO have a problem. But my problem is not "Big Brother" -- my problem is the writer's strike
| I support the writers in this strike, by the way, and want them to stay on strike until their demands are met by the fat-cat producers and studios |
| Beginning Feb. 12 on CBS at 9pm EST. |
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Who knows? Maybe this onslaught of Reality TV will finally cure me of my addiction. Maybe having nothing to watch but real people making fools of themselves on national television will finally break my nasty habit. Oh hell, who am I kidding ... I'm sunk for sure!
| But maybe I can get some good comedy writing fodder out of it! |
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I tried to find some funny items about Reality TV around the site, but there just aren't that many of them. Y'all must not be addicted like I am! But here are a few you might like -- and remember, if you enjoy them, please let the author know by reviewing and rating the piece! 
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Try your hand at creating your own Reality TV Show with this fun Madlib:
Some other funny items about TV in general:
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Here are some responses from my last newsletter about New Year's Resolutions.
From Vivian 
Sophy, I enjoyed this issue of Comedy so much. Yes, Robert is funny, but I'm used to his funniness, see it quite often. Yours slipped up on me. ~~ Viv
Aww, thanks Viv, glad you enjoyed it. Yeah, I'm hysterical actually, I just keep it hidden!
  
From larryp
Nothing like a newsletter for Comedy that causes the reader to chuckle throughout. Good sense of humor Sophy.
kansaspoet
Larry
Thanks Larry! Glad it made you chuckle!
From Julie Caulfield 
This is funny. Confusion can be funny. Thank you for your help.
Glad you found it funny. Confusion can be funny, but it can be scary too! So I try to look at the lighter side of it!
That's all for now! Until next time, and on behalf of your other brilliant Comedy Newsletter Editors Melissa is fashionably late! and Robert Waltz  -- LAUGH ON!
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