If you’re not watching The Joe Schmo Show, you should be. Premise: A guy goes on a reality show, The Lap of Luxury, for a chance to win $100,000. However, he’s the only real contestant. He’s sharing a house and “competing” against 8 actors playing reality show stereotypes—the virgin, the bitch, the veteran, the gay guy, the a**hole. Even the host is fake smarmy. It’s fantastic. The “reality show” is incredibly over the top, but Matt doesn’t seem to notice. What’s really fascinating is how the actors involved deal with it—they do mess up every now and then and then freak out that Matt’s going to figure it all out (he won’t because he’s not that bright, trust me). One of the best moments came when they were doing an endurance challenge and the producers tell us that the plan is to have it be The Hutch and Matt as the last two. The challenge, I might add, is “Touch the Hooker,” where each contestant had to keep a specified body part on a specified body part of an adult film star. Anyway, Matt is the first out. The producers were completely flabbergasted, as were the other “contestants.” The whole thing is completely amusing. Plus, the actor playing The Hutch is going to be on a sitcom this fall (go, him!) and they use some of the music from The Mole, which I got just way too excited about.
Yeah, between that and Newlyweds, the show about Jessica Simpson and Nick Lachey, I had a night full of quality entertainment. That show has taught me to hate Jessica Simpson, whereas before I had absolutely no opinion of her.
Current song in my head:
“The Remedy (I Won’t Worry)” by Jason Mraz