Sometime between The Truman Show and Jury Duty, the Spike cable network premiered The Joe Schmo Show. It was 2003, and reality TV was in a boom time where no premise was too outlandish. You could feed contestants testicles or chain them together or drop them in a foreign location to try to find their way back to the U.S., and no one would have you arrested. Schmo did something more daring than any other show in its class: It showed the viewer it was completely fake.
In the first season, Matt Kennedy Gould believed he had been cast on a Big Brother-ish show called Lap of Luxury. In fact, he was the only person involved in The Joe Schmo Show who didn’t know he was the main character of the universe, at least as far as the production was concerned. Everyone he interacted with was an improv...
In the first season, Matt Kennedy Gould believed he had been cast on a Big Brother-ish show called Lap of Luxury. In fact, he was the only person involved in The Joe Schmo Show who didn’t know he was the main character of the universe, at least as far as the production was concerned. Everyone he interacted with was an improv...
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