# Celebrity freak shows you'd watch.

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**Created:** [March 23, 2005, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-freak-shows-youd-watch/295957 "2005-03-23T22:43:44Z")\
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**Author:** ![Charlie\_Tan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/charlie_tan/32/12582_2.png) [@Charlie\_Tan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Charlie_Tan)\
**Post date:** [March 23, 2005, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-freak-shows-youd-watch/295957/1 "2005-03-23T22:43:44Z")

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There was ‘the Osbournes’, Anna Nicole did a brief tour and I guess Paris Hilton can qualify with ‘The Simple Life’. I’m not sure if the Gotti’s are celebs, but close enough, I suppose.

Before the whole concept is mercifully flushed down the drain (where it belongs), what freak show would you tune in to? I have two possible candidates:  
Gary Busey, who’s wonderfully wacky, borderline psycho and a riot when he’s playing himself.  
Crispin Glover is the next, just because it would probably be very, very weird. And possibly scary.

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**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\
**Post date:** [March 23, 2005, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-freak-shows-youd-watch/295957/2 "2005-03-23T22:55:45Z")

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**Oh Real Killers, Where Art Thou?** - a reality show in which Robert Blake & O.J. Simpson travel the country in a VW Bus working odd jobs (ala The Simple Life) while looking for the men who “really” killed their wives.

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**Post date:** [March 23, 2005, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-freak-shows-youd-watch/295957/3 "2005-03-23T23:12:45Z")

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Didn’t Busey already do one?

Crispin Glover would be great though.

Also, Courtney Love. I suspect court hearings on every episode would get boring though.

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**Post date:** [March 24, 2005, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-freak-shows-youd-watch/295957/4 "2005-03-24T02:03:17Z")

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Comedy Central had [I’m With Busey](http://www.comedycentral.com/tv_shows/imwithbusey/), but it didn’t last.

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**Post date:** [March 24, 2005, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-freak-shows-youd-watch/295957/5 "2005-03-24T02:07:32Z")

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Actors Catherine Oxenberg and Casper Van Dien have one coming up called “I married a princess”. Travis Barker of Blink-182 and his wife (a former Miss USA) have a reality TV show of their own in the works, too.

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**Post date:** [March 24, 2005, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-freak-shows-youd-watch/295957/6 "2005-03-24T04:17:03Z")

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I heard Christopher Walken had been developing a cooking show for the Food Network, but I haven’t heard anything new about it in quite a while. The guy is weird, scary, extremely talented, very funny, and supposedly a great cook too, and I’m sure it would have been top-notch television.