Oh, TV. You were doing so well in the 90s. “Seinfeld,” “The Larry Sanders Show,” “The Sopranos.” But then, between “Survivor” and “Cupcake Wars,” I’m guessing someone went back in time, stepped on a bug and changed the course of human events.I’ve never seen one frame of “Survivor,” or for that matter “American Idol” or “The Bachelor,” which makes it all the more disappointing that one of my heroes, Adam Carolla (I never miss his daily podcast), decided to take part in “Celebrity Apprentice” this season.
Adam was fired in the latest episode of this piece-of-shit show, and bitched yesterday about how they cooked the editing to make him look like a control-freak asshole who botched his assignment/presentation for a new Buick vehicle. Buick execs told him he knew their car even better than they did, but the show’s producers were through with him, and did a hatchet job, cutting up his presentation to make him look like a real dope.
Adam, really – what did you expect? You mentioned that the first day of shooting involved everyone on “The Apprentice” being fired, so that they’d have it clean and in the can in case things went awry. That was your first sign. Why do you think there are writers in the credits?
But nope. You had to go ahead and participate in a reality show – you know the type that replaces scripted shows and takes away thousands of jobs from actors and crew. Based on the ratings, a lot of stupid viewers think this programming is not only real but entertaining, and yet I’ll be any one of the millions of schlubs who watch “The Apprentice” could have told you it wasn’t going to end well. How did you not see that coming? Shameful.
