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Seriously: Is NBC's 'Celebrity Circus' Just An Elaborate Parody?
Posted by Defamer Hollywood at 6:10 AM on June 27, 2008
If, like many Americans, you have never laid eyes on the sadistic torture fest known as NBC's Celebrity Circus, please allow today's clip to be your first. Now that the show is finished cracking ribs and breaking celebrity forearms, its reason for being felt willfully out of reach until this clip brought it all home: what if, underneath it all, Celebrity Circus is just an elaborate parody of the typical reality competition? As you watch Brady Bunch alum Christopher Knight (dressed as a model for International Male) swing through the air to the tunes of the Black-Eyed Peas' "Let's Get It Started," finally facing a trio of judges cut from the usual "generic, dippy, and British" mold, allow your mind to ponder the thought: is it possible to spoof a show that's already a parody of itself?
If, like many Americans, you have never laid eyes on the
- Celebrity Circus [NBC]
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itmustbeken
Posted 7:07 AM 27/6/08
Another week of this and no deaths.
Removing it from my Tivo right now...
itmustbeken
CatherineTrammell
Posted 7:21 AM 27/6/08
Can't GLAAD call for the immediate execution of the judge, Louie? Just hang him right in the middle of Robertson and Santa Monica Blvd. He's the worst thing to happen to gays since that governor and his wife.
CatherineTrammell
blue lanugo
Posted 9:31 AM 27/6/08
Peter Brady has aged well.
blue lanugo
kookla
Posted 9:09 AM 27/6/08
How close to the Apocalypse must we be if Joey Fatone and Chris Knight are standing within mere inches of each other on a show that has the word "celebrity" in it's name?
kookla
Ringles
Posted 7:22 AM 28/6/08
I can't argue with any of these opinions, but that doesn't mean that I'm not completely in love with that show. Because I am in love with Celebrity Circus.
Ringles