You know, when I think about these interview shows I’m reminded of the time that I called up a financial news radio program which then let me go on the air and pretend to be a professional fame trader from the Hollywood Stock Exchange. It took them about 5 minutes of discussing with my alter a-hole, financial guru Doctor Rudyard Keats, how to create a viable portfolio if you can only afford C list celebrities like one of the lesser Baldwins or say one of the guys from the Sopranos you don’t see so much anymore…. before they realized it was a hoax.

And the thing is they had a pretty good screener too. But the other thing is…you can’t screen for every crazy person. There are two types of folks who tend to get through every screening process without throwing up any red flags. People who are going to intentionally create chaos on your show, as in the latter case, and people who are so deeply warped they have no idea how insane they are. While you can’t hide that first one for too long going through the on-air application process with a huge tv show like The Marriage Ref, you could do so while also being a Patrick Batemen in waiting.

Then by the time said psycho was on air spewing his or her particular brand of crazy…it’s too late for anyone to stop it without making things look much worse already.

The wages of casting reality television are crazy people.

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