The Joe Schmo Show - Season One Uncensored
starring: Joe Schmo Show
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Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9781415701355
Format: Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC
ISBN: 1415701350
Label: Comedy Central
Manufacturer: Comedy Central
Number Of Items: 3
Publisher: Comedy Central
Region Code: 1
Release Date: June 22, 2004
Running Time: 486 minutes
Sales Rank: 14656
Studio: Comedy Central
Theatrical Release Date: September 02, 2003
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Editorial Review:
Amazon.com:
Spike TV's first season of The Joe Schmo Show is a real-life variation on the Jim Carrey comedy The Truman Show, in which Carrey played a man unaware he is the star of a television series, living on an enormous set and surrounded by actors playing family, co-workers, neighbors, etc. Joe Schmo fools a gregarious, likable 27-year-old fellow, Matt Kennedy Gould, into believing he's part of the cast of a reality-TV program called Lap of Luxury, competing for a $100,000 prize by surviving humiliating trials and those inevitable, once-per-week evictions of unlucky contestants. What Gould doesn't know is that his competitors--all living in the same house under the watchful eye of an ubiquitous production crew--are all actors playing sundry reality-TV stereotypes: the token gay guy, the good-looking sweetheart, the good-looking bitch, the clown, Mr. Macho, the borderline-pariah, etc.
The eight episodes in The Joe Schmo Show: Season One Uncensored look and sound like any other reality gimmick, though part of what makes the series fun are little risk elements that threaten to blow open the whole scheme or at least create suspicion in Gould's mind. There are several occasions in which one or another actor gets confused about a character detail and Gould wonders about apparent contradictions; once or twice, actors have to leave a situation because they are close to cracking up. For the most part, however, the tall, gullible, good-natured hero bonds with his 'housemates' and keeps a smile on while participating in underwear-swapping contests, gross-out meals, and tense elimination rituals. The final episode, in which Gould is told the truth, is surprisingly moving. This DVD set includes extensive supplementary material, including Gould's after-the-fact, mixed responses to many of his experiences. --Tom Keogh
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- Funniest Show to Ever Air on Television!I loved this series the first time I saw it but, regrettably, never managed to really catch all of ... Read More
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- Great Show - the best of the reality genreThis show is great - a hybrid of candid camera and reality television, the show is only made spectacular ... Read More
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- The Joe Schmo Show - Season One UncensoredSimple...The first season of Joe Schmo in my opinion is the only true REALITY show .... ever. The season ... Read More
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- Loved it!When this show aired I loved it, it was so hilarious and new. The concept was awesome and really got the audience ... Read More
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- I couldn't get enough the first timeI saw this on Spike TV when it first aired. It was so funny I was in stitches. I tried to describe it to friends ... Read More
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