Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for July 19, 2009

Touche Obivous Man! A well placed hit!

OBVIOUSMAN is my favorite celebrity……

Thank you Obviousman, I’m looking forward to your next press conference.

Obviousman. My hero. sigh

THANK YOU Obvious Man! My hero! Though you might have to repeat that a little louder for the so called celebrities to hear you over the roar of their own egos.

My favorite example of this is the guy who was on a reality show about dog groomers (Groomer Has It), came in second and now appears on other Animal Planet shows as an “expert” and is credited as a “Celebrity Dog Groomer.” Not a groomer that grooms dogs of famous people, a groomer who thinks he himself is famous and it somehow honors the dogs to be groomed by him. Twitch… Twitch… the guy lost! And not only that he was a sore looser too! He walked off going, “It should have been me.”

PLEASE SAVE US OBVIOUS MAN!!

Reality TV is such and oxymoron!

The San Francisco Chronicle used to be my favorite newspaper, but the reporting now is like TV news, entertainment passing as “reporting”, and “reporters” passing as reporters. Our brave new world.

Those reporters are taking Obvious Man’s word for it without question. Real reporters do research and check facts. They create the story instead of having it fed to them.

In this case, they should look at ‘Q Scores’ and do opinion polls to find out who rates A-list celebrity status. If a person is on the B-list or less, then they aren’t REAL celebrities.

Note: Cartoons also have Q Scores called Cartoon Q.

Reality TV is that bleeep Jay Leno saving money for the network at 10 pm.

The reality of reality TV is that anything involving actors, writers and any intelligence is a better way to spend your time than Sanjaya. These networks have said they don’t want to spend any cash to buy your allegiance, so you get Flava and Brigit, and Simon Cowell, who will never reproduce if Charles Darwin wasn’t an idiot. The point of reality TV is that human beings are willing to be repulsive for cash. And people will watch this? Are we not men?

Do people not understand that this shite is scripted like wrestling?

Now more than ever, it is an idiot box: produced by idiots, performed by idiots, advertized for by idiots and watched by idiots.

A magnificent blow against the “drive-by-media”!

Actually you can get enough “Celebrities” to do just about anything for some combo of money & ego … it’s the “Reality” that isn’t real…

(Although personally I’m waiting for “Celebrity Wipeout”)

HI!, I’m Troy McClure. You might remember me from such programs…

Is PBS is broadcasting?

to compare reality tv to wrestling is giving wrestling a bad name. granted they are both fake and scripted, but nobody takes a steel chair to the skull on a reality tv show. and most of the wrestlers are better actors.

You may have a point there, wdgnas.

Save me from ever watching a “Reality” or “celebrity” show of any kind!

An exception can be made for Celebrity Deathmatch.

Reality is keeping the television turned off except for shuttlle missions on NASA and the occasional classic movie on TCM.

Cheers, Obviousman (two hits in one!) And thanks, Wiley.

Yeah! Right on Wiley - thanks for telling it like it is!

what is scary is that these shows have a following….

YES! YES! YES!

I think Annie Duke is a celebrity. She’s the only reason I ever watched the Apprentice. Of course, it was really bad and I will never watch again, but I still like Annie Duke.

Wiley nailed it with this one. RIP Mr. Cronkite.

A real reality show wouldn’t work.

Tune in at 8 to watch people watching families watching TV. Each from their own separate room! Watch as they text each other trying to get snacks delivered. Watch as dust collects on their vapid expressions. Call the number on your screen to vote who you think will be the first to STAND and WALK to the bathroom and off the show forever!

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Tune in tomorrow for an 8 hour marathon of ‘TV Addiction Intervention’.

He ought to have mentioned that anyone calling themselves “fair & balanced” are lying through their teeth..

Couldn’t have been stated better, “Obvious Man, except by Walter Cronkite.

Loving the comments, gang!….including this one….

olfart said, ”I don’t understand most of these comments. I am probably happier not knowing what you are talking about.”

If it weren’t for cartoonists, how would we know what reality really is?

never watched one second of reality TV and never will

Science Channel is about it these days

boozoothatswho: “And people will watch this? Are we not men?”

No! We are Devo…lving into drooling imbeciles!

Dracip said, about 12 hours ago OBVIOUSMAN is my favorite celebrity…… WEEE Pointing fingers so maybe is he a ”real”celebrity… I want him to continue!! My Head hurts! I’m trying to say something I’m thinking but I can’t get it out. Msaybe more coffee, ya that will do it?

I for one find many things entertaining on TV Science Channel for “How It’s Made” but as for other types of shows that are “so called’ reality such as Survivor Man…and all the rest of them I have one thing to say “I am not a celebrity,get me outta here”

You want reality? check out Rocky and Bullwinkle.

Caddy.1957 you are correct “how it’s made” beats all the inane drivel on the eye.

hey at least su rvivor man is by himself, unlike bear whats his face from man vs wild

While I like the entire cartoon the last frame is my favorite one….becuase its so true.

RIP Walter. The great triumvirate is gone, and real journalism has long since left the building. I’m only sorry that he had to witness the devolution of his legacy into the farce that passes for news reporting today.

The only American TV I miss are the educational channels: History, Discover, HGTV, PBS… anything like that. Just thinking about “Mummy Autopsy” makes me homesick!

We used to have two local papers - a morning broadsheet of reasonable quality and an evening tabloid. The evening tabloid closed, and the morning paper moved to tabloid size - and tabloid quality! No news and anything for a gimicky headline. The only part worth reading anymore is the comics.

I Micheal Jackson still dead??? That is what inquiring minds want to know

He’s doing an Elvis. Expect to see him on those tabloids soon.

In Ringworld, Larry Niven postulated a “luck gene”, but when the puppeteers tried to contact someone with the gene, they were too lucky to be found, so the person they eventually got was, in the end, not as lucky as they hoped.

The celebrities on these “celebrity” reality TV shows are not real celebrities, because a real celebrity wouldn’t be on such shows…

Well said!

Stupid