And They Call That Real

How do people get their own "reality" shows? From the Kardashians to Playboy Bunnies to a crazy woman who had twins then sextuplets, it's gotten to be absolutely ridiculous! What exactly started the "reality TV" trend, anyway? I think it was the movie "The Truman Show" with Jim Carrey (I'm not sure if there was anything before that or not). Did people just wake up one morning and say, "I'd like to film every little thing I do throughout the day and then let the world watch my humiliation?" And it's so easy to get sucked into the shows, too. You have the people that watch "American Idol" RELIGIOUSLY, letting the world know through Facebook or the like whom they are throwing their votes in for. There's "The Bachelor" and "The Bachelorette," where the women of the world sniff and sigh over the supposed relationships that are blossoming on the screen. My husband watches a show called "Tough Enough," which shows individuals training for WWE-style wrestling. We get into arguments about the so-called reality of both the training and WWE. He says it's real (the WWE, that is), even though he's watching with his own eyes people being trained STUNTS! Today we were watching a marathon of Sinbad's new show (remember him?). Don't get me wrong, he's a funny guy, but the whole thing is so scripted it's not even funny.
And that's the trouble with "reality" shows...there's no REALITY to them! Some of them, like "Operation Repo," even state that the episodes are BASED on what actually happened. Which means the show could have been scripted and doctored to be way more dramatic than the actual scenario. I think the worst one is all the "Desperate Housewives of..." shows. Sadly, I have watched a few episodes of some of them. Grown women are acting that way? And they're supposed to be "upper class" and "sophisticated," too. It's just cat fight after cat fight. They snub their noses at us heathens, and yet they act like children. It's embarrassing.
Don't get me wrong...I still watch these shows for entertainment. But I just want to know how I can get my own show and make lots of money for making a fool of myself, my children, and/or my family and friends. Apparently it's a decent living otherwise people wouldn't be doing it, right?