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[6502]

These shows are a poisen that lowers human standards of behaviour.

Also fuck Jeremy Kyle. I had to listen to that shit every day after work (bloody wife). Its unbelievably aggravating being subjected to an hour or two a day of chavs fucking arguing over cheating with their brothers sister.

 

[The Hamburglar]

They are entertaining but pretty gross

Its really just incredibly rich former politicians/lawyers clowning poor people. Probably met a bunch of poor people while working and decided to make a show out of them

Judge Judy I find even worse, she is a real piece of work

The worst I found was that Jeremy Kyle show. Where they would get the ugliest guests possible, if they have fucked up teeth then yes please, and seemed to fill the audience up that looked like they came off the Oprah set. So you got this weird contrast of middle class people just laughing their ass off at dumb poor people. And whereas Jerry Springer always maintained some politeness, Jeremy Kyle made the show about him and how he would verbally humiliate the guests for being dumb Hicks

I was an audience guest on the Jeremy Kyle show and it is full of students or people looking to laugh their arse off. I was dying with laughter, got told to shut up by the crew.

During the breaks he’s always trying to embarrass the crew as well and tells some bizarre story how his friend died eating a sandwich.

 

[Izumar]

This is when i knew it was Kayfabe.


The bell ringing, the pole dance, and the guy carried away at the end. How does someone watch this and think it is real?

 

[Rat Rage]

It's hard to decide which are bigger human scum: people making the show or people liking the show.

 

[Ionian]

This is when i knew it was Kayfabe.


The bell ringing, the pole dance, and the guy carried away at the end. How does someone watch this and think it is real?

Hadn't seen this one. Midget fight! Midget fight!

The smaller dude rolling after getting knocked down reminded me of Tekken, dudes nimble.

The stripper pole though, busted up laughing at that. So random.

 

[MastaKiiLA]

Springer was great when it first started, because there was nothing quite like it. It was basically WSHH for the general public. However, it got too formulaic very quickly. There's only so much you can do with trashy people living trashy lives, who just appear on the show to throw down in fake fights. We had wrasslin for that, where they took bigger bumps, and do less talking.

 

[AJUMP23]

Most of the people on the show were actors.

 

[SF Kosmo]

It's really the show that pioneered the "fake" reality show. That's kind of the most credit I can give it. Like there's that moment where pro wrestling went from sport to entertainment, and Jerry Springer is that moment for reality TV.

Most of the people on the show were actors.

I remember one time Danny Bonaduce was on it, like not as Danny Bonaduce.

But most of the people were not "actors" in the sense that they were professionals, they were people who called in to the show, but the producers encouraged them to just make shit up and play to the camera and all that. Like they would put out these ads with impossibly stupid shit like "Does you mother-in-law think she's a werewolf" and people would just call in and be like "Sure, yeah that's me." Sometimes they were actors trying to get on TV, but most of the time it was just regular people wanting to go on TV and act silly. Either way very few were actually true.

 

[MMaRsu]

Its pretty good

 

[Mohonky]

It's really the show that pioneered the "fake" reality show. That's kind of the most credit I can give it. Like there's that moment where pro wrestling went from sport to entertainment, and Jerry Springer is that moment for reality TV.

I remember one time Danny Bonaduce was on it, like not as Danny Bonaduce.

But most of the people were not "actors" in the sense that they were professionals, they were people who called in to the show, but the producers encouraged them to just make shit up and play to the camera and all that. Like they would put out these ads with impossibly stupid shit like "Does you mother-in-law think she's a werewolf" and people would just call in and be like "Sure, yeah that's me." Sometimes they were actors trying to get on TV, but most of the time it was just regular people wanting to go on TV and act silly. Either way very few were actually true.

Say what you want, but this was most definitely legit not acting