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Reality TV just got a whole lot more realer! Chris Crocker, stalwart defender of Britney Spears and all-around role model for fame-hungry teens everywhere, might have just hit the big time!
Variety reports that
44 Blue Prods. has inked a development deal with Chris Crocker, the Internet superstar whose tear-filled defense of Britney Spears has generated nearly 8 million hits on YouTube in just one week.Plan is to develop a docusoap built around Crocker, a 19-year-old who lives with his grandparents in Tennessee. Even before the Britney clip, Crocker had developed a large Net audience via numerous video performances posted on MySpace.com."It's going to pretty much be the 'Chris Crocker experience,'" says the production company's president. "We consider him a rebel character that people will find interesting. He's going to be a TV star." We can't wait!
And if we've said it once, we've said it a million times: There is no faster way to achieve your dreams than posting a second-take video of yourself pretending to cry about insults hurled at a washed-up teen-pop starlet who has just given a completely appalling performance on a live music video awards show. It's pretty much a sure thing.
'Britney' guy may get TV gig [Variety]
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Endtimes, ya'll.
LEAVE US ALONE! YOU BASTARD!
"Leave Chris ALONE!! He's a HUMAN!!" [sic] [bawling, sheet-clutching ensues]
wow, he just screams meth addict.
In related news, pedestrians are reporting four horse-like figures hovering in city skies.
If I see his puss even inadvertently while clicking through channels, my head is going to explode.
Of course he did.
The happiest boi in all Middle Earth!
And he talks.
Will the entire show be filmed in his sheet fort?
Why did I go to college again?
Will they be there to document it when the local rednecks beat the crap out of him?
Yuck all around.
OMG, I cannot WAIT for his show. It is so going to be this season's "Rock of Love"
So it's not fag-bashing if it's done with a contract and a camera?
@LolCait: "Elves Gone Wild!"
If the horsemen need a fifth, I'm in.
@DavidWatts: Exactly. The lesson is never apply yourself to achieve anything useful. Ever.
Come on, everyone knows by now it wasn't a second take. It was the second of two videos. In the first he was just getting worked up. The second half of it was the now-infamous "Leave Britney Alone!"
that's it. i can't take this ridiculous world we live in where success is now merited by the number youtube views one receives! has it really come to this? aww shux, i might as well admit it: i'm just jealous cause my youtube videos don't get many views, meaning i'll be sitting in this cubicle until the world ends. the good news is that will be very, very soon.
I'm sooo watching this.
Oh, and homosexuals: mind that pendulum -- it swings back fast.
SATAN'S BALLS. Is there ANY piece of shit that won't somehow make it's way to the Great Glowing Eye? "He's a rebel character"? More like a shreiky, very annoying drama queen. 44 Blue needs to understand that most of those eight million downloads are people who wanted to see an on-screen gay meltdown about a white trash singer meltdown. Shit, I'd watch a Mystery marathon before I would dedicate 5 minutes to this kid.
The most interesting thing about his new show is that it's a remake of Miami Vice. Tay Zonday plays Tubbs.
We are the last remaining souls on earth not to have a reality TV show.
What the fuck took so long?
That sound you just heard was every actor on two coasts throwing up again and again before calling an agent/manager/best friend to scream "why did I bother with years of training and crappy regional theater gigs?"
This is going to be worse than the first time some Real World bimbo starting turning up everywhere.
Jesus!
@TyraMale: seriously, i just said this in the JA post, but the day of the locusts is truly upon us.
this is so depressing.
By the time the "docusoap" get on air, Crocker will be at least 21. (He turned 20 a couple of months ago.) A 21 year old living at home with his grandparents lacks a certain rebel edge.
On the other hand, his unflustered webcam interview with Jimmy Kimmel suggests he might make a pretty good talking head for "I Love the '90s" type docutainment.
perez has already destroyed idle channel surfing for me
LEAVE NO ONE ALONE, EVER!!
That's it. I'm moving to a Swiss village to live in a stone house and paint water colors for amusement and cut myself off from the rest of the world.
Just wait until they get a load of the YouTube video I'm posting about my meltdown in front of the Continental counter at JFK when my flight to Minneapolis got delayed an hour.
Cha-ching!
As somebody on anotehr forum pointed out, take him out of his little posted home-videos context and things will seem different.
But at least he finally got a job.
Fuck this shit. Time to cash in. I'm teaching my parrot to bawl, "O.J. is NOT HUMAN!! Don't [beep] his [beeping] [beep]!! [BEEP] OFF, [BEEPERS]!!!"
i'd rather watch him than the hills or perez sez any day.
i'd also rather watch two and a half men over the evening news, so who i am i judge?
@ellagood: The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences.
Gossip Girl hasn't even debuted yet and along comes a knock-off.
See, this is why I have no idea why people are so fucking thrilled about YouTube. Congratulations, dumbasses, now the biggest moron in the world has a television show for his moron e-friends to watch him on.
As long as they keep making booze, I'll get through this.
He belongs on The View.
B**** Please...welcome the modern incarnation of black face.
Its just a hair flip!
@collegecallgirl:
Bush-Cheney '08: Don't Change Horsemen Mid-Apocalypse!
If they ever make Zelda: The Adventure of Link as a gay emo flick, he'll be first in line, with Britney as Zelda. At the end, he rescues her from jail, then they can't find the raft to cross the Colorada River to Vegas, so they get married in a cave in Arizona surrounded by fairies.
@LolCait: if that's who i am, then i'm really sorry for the roast we put on the other night.
@KarenUhOh: Welcome back--I didn't see [read] you for a few days while they were totally yanging up the site!
I guess my question now is, seriously ... should we be (and are we truly) outraged and/or disgusted that this dude is being "rewarded" in the media for essentially being a ... a ... what, exactly, a attention vacuum or whatever one's specific beef with him is, or are we more outraged and/or disgusted because the interest in attention vacuums is growing more and more and we wish that were not so, because we want it for ourselves because we are more legitimately talented and deserve to be seen or we wish that everyone else did not want to watch people who are attention vacuums? or a third option? sheesh--if my question made sense to you say "ho-oh!"
@the cajun boy: Oopsy daisy.
@TyraMale: God, I need to go back to third grade and learn how to separate clauses. Oh, and punctuation would be nice, okay?
He will host fashion police, sell a line to H&M, and retire by December.
i totally saw this coming.
Arrrr! In unrelated yet equally relevant news, today be National Talk Like a Pirate Day! Avast!
Tennessee, huh? That's where I live. I'll watch out for locusts.
Seeing as I'm planning to be him for Halloween, I'm glad he's staying in the news.
Less 'splaining to do on my part.
@Colonel Mustard: God, is that Scott Thorsen?
@TyraMale:
We're only more deserving in a short-burst sort of way.