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Q: Name the MTV franchise now in it’s 22nd season that introduced reality stars like Pedro Zamora, Puck Rainey, Eric Nies, and Jacinda Barrett.
A:“The Real World”
Q: Name the singer, and now “Dancing with the Stars” alum, that got her start as on her parents reality show, “The Osbournes.”
A:Kelly Osbourne
Q: Name the MTV game show from 1987 that featured up-and-coming comics, Adam Sandler, Denis Leary, and Colin Quinn.
A:“Remote Control”
Dave Lingwood and Duncan Penn come on approximately 44 minutes into the show Press Play–> Or download to your computer
The Buried Life is an MTV reality show focusing on four friends (from L-R above: Duncan Penn, Ben Nemtin, Dave Lingwood, and Jonnie Penn) as they travel across America to complete a list of “100 things to do before you die.”
For every item they complete on their list, they help a stranger achieve one of their dreams and encourage others to go after their own lists.
Everywhere they go they ask the question: What do you want to do before you die?
The second season of MTV’s mega hit reality show Jersey Shore will not take place on the Jersey Shore. That much we know. But what hasn’t been determined yet is where The Situation, Snooki, Paulie D, Ronnie, Sammi, JWoww and Vinny will be spending there summer.
The Hamptons and Miami were two rumored locals. On last week’s show, Doc, Collette, Vinny and The Burl had another idea. They thought MTV should send the cast to another country. Then the Radio Happy Hour gang considered what type of international incident Guidos and Guidettets might cause and worried that perhaps President Clinton may have to get involved to diplomatically smooth things over.
This week, we heard what that scenario might sound like:
Transcript of above audio:
Katie Couric: Good evening. What started out as season two of a popular MTV series has turned into a tragic international incident leaving producers wondering if sending the cast of Jersey Shore to South Korea was a good idea. David Martin reports.
David Martin: Thank you Kaitie. The Situation is dead and two other stars of MTV’s hit show The Jersey Shore are in captivity after what is being called a tragic and unfortunate misunderstanding at the border of North and South Korea.
It all started Friday night when producers took the cast for a photo shoot on the border of the feuding nations.
Background: Korean talk
“I saw them do it,” a female bystander said through a translator “I’ve seen the show so I knew what it meant. Obviously the border police have never seen the show”
By “it”, she’s referring to “The Fist Pump,” a Guido dance move or mating ritual in the states but a show of force in North Korea.
Charles Armstrong, Director of the Center for Korean Research at Columbia University:
Professor Charles Armstrong: Producers obviously didn’t prepare the Guidos well enough in terms of local customs. Now they’re paying the price but I’m confident that the government will not rest until the two women are released.
David Martin: To that end, the Obama Administration will once again be leaning heavily on former President Bill Clinton who successfully negotiated the release of Laura Ling and Euna Lee last summer.
Bill Clinton: I’ve been in constant contact with both JWoww and Snooki and each seem to be in good spirits. I spoke to J-Wow as recently as late last night and I felt really good about what she was saying.
David Martin: Katie, Clinton should arrive in North Korea tomorrow though he’d give no time table for their release.
Katie Couric: Have you been able to find out how JWoww and Snooki have been treated by the North Koreans?
David Martin: There’s some confusion about that. Reports surfaced earlier today that the girls were beaten and brutally raped but that JWoww and Snooki were simply calling the incident “a normal out.” Katie.
Katie Couric: Thank you. David Martin reporting in South Korea.
To hear this week’s show, featuring comedian Adam Ray and singer Karlee in its entirety
She is also a singer, actress and model, plus, she’s no longer friends with the dim witted socialite.
We’ll get the full scoop on why this match made in reality show heaven didn’t work out, whether she’s better off without Paris and we’ll get the full lowdown on what Brittany is up to these days.
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Emmy winning composers Richie Saccente and Cosmo Mallardi from Young Rebel Goombas discuss winning the “Best Trop-rock Album of 2008″ award for their debut self-titled album.
The debut of a new monthly entertainment gossip segement with Liz from Jewssip.com.
This week on the Radio Happy Hour, we compared the booking of little known actor Antonio Elias (above), who plays Officer Pitts in the new Star Trek, to perhaps what it may have been like if we did our show in the 80’s and 90’s and was offered “the new kid from Growing Pains” who plays a homeless teen runaway named Luke Brower.
Who else could we have been offered if our show existed back then? Maybe a rep from the FOX network (which back then was a bigger joke than The CW is now) would have pitched a silly comedian on their sketch comedy show In Living Color?
Or perhaps the young host of a new MTV talk show?
Would we have booked or turned down this unknown actor in a goofy sitcom?
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