It's not a reality show, but something like "Curb Your Enthusiasm," based on the lead character's real life, but scripted and acted. I know: Where's the line? Reality shows are scripted, blah blah blah. But Tyson offered "Curb Your Enthusiasm" as the model his show either used or wants to be thought of as using.
Here's another model:
Anyway, Tyson's marijuana farm is "a 40-acre plot of land about 60 miles southwest of Death Valley National Park." And:
Besides growing premium pot, Tyson Ranch will feature a cultivation school to teach growers the latest technology, an edible factory, a hydro-feed and supply store, plus cabins and “glamping” campgrounds for stoner tourists....What would you pay to glamp and smoke weed within the aura of Mike Tyson? Or — better question — would you sit and watch a TV show about the people who'd pay a lot of money to glamp and smoke weed in the actual presence of Mike Tyson?
Tyson is a big proponent of weed’s health benefits and said 85 percent of pro athletes use some form of cannabis to relieve pain, inflammation and anxiety. “I smoke it all day, every day,” Tyson said.
Which reminds me... that new Lena Dunham-produced TV show "Camping" (about some glampers) is unwatchable, and I like Jennifer Garner (and I'm fine with her name). It looks promising in the trailer:
"The weird thing about life: You can feel fine but also know that you're a ticking time bomb."
Maybe I can't watch it because I'm not understanding it properly. Here's a New Republic piece, "Welcome to Camping, the Most Misunderstood Show on TV":
It’s premiered to some fairly harsh reviews, all of which entirely miss the point. Camping, in its original incarnation [a British TV show], was a vicious satire about a middle-aged harridan who micromanages a trip at a campground run by a deranged mama’s boy.... The jokes are blindingly cruel.... The miniature society of the camping trip totally breaks down. Repulsive sex ensues, along with diabolical mishaps, nudity, violence, and drug benders. The show isn’t so much dark as completely, disorientingly devoid of light.Understanding that doesn't make me more able to watch the American version. It just makes me sad about how dull America has become in The Era of That's Not Funny.
Dunham and [her Girls co-producer Jenni] Konner have now remade the show for an American audience that is notoriously thinner-skinned than its British counterpart.... The central change is that Dunham and Konner have imbued each character with a sympathetic twist. Kathryn still micromanages—forcing everybody to go bird-watching, for example—but now she’s a woman stricken by grief over her hysterectomy, her emotional dysfunction sublimated into worries over her body (echoing Dunham’s own medical woes). The brainless and nasty alcoholic of the British Camping has become a sweet, struggling guy who is just trying to find his way. Miguel the shagger is now a smart doctor finding a new light in his life, instead of a pathetic young Englishman who got hair plugs and speaks with a slight American accent....
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It’s premiered to some fairly harsh reviews, all of which entirely miss the point.
The rubes don't get it. Once again.
The Mike Tyson farm will be in California City.
Strange location, think Edwards Airforce Base area, not Death Valley.
It’s premiered to some fairly harsh reviews, all of which entirely miss the point. Camping, in its original incarnation [a British TV show], was a vicious satire about a middle-aged harridan who micromanages a trip at a campground run by a deranged mama’s boy.... The jokes are blindingly cruel.... The miniature society of the camping trip totally breaks down. Repulsive sex ensues, along with diabolical mishaps, nudity, violence, and drug benders. The show isn’t so much dark as completely, disorientingly devoid of light.
If you're looking for this kind of thing, may I suggest Shameless.
How could anyone ever get enough Mike Tyson? And this time it isn't pay-per-view. I'm counting this as another MAGA success!
I don't watch any reality TV. I cut cable 7 years ago.
But, Tyson's plan is interesting. If he's growing outdoors, that means he's growing sativa. The indoor variety is indica.
He's correct that pot is almost required for anybody who suffers daily blows to the body combined with acute performance anxiety. Also cools out the hatred you have to cultivate against opponents during combat.
I lived for a few years in the Brooklyn neighborhood Tyson terrorized when he was a kid. He really had a bad rep.
Try Veep seasons 1-6. I find it all very funny. The left will see it as mocking politicians and the right will see it as mocking the pol-media electorate but everybody gets something out of it.
After the film In the Loop (2009) but tightened up to work on the right.
I think Lena Dunham has Munchausen syndrome. Specifically directed at her reproductive organs.
America isn't in to "that's not funny". Americans in large numbers do not like the PC culture. But people like Dunham and apparently whomever wrote this article want to foist it on Americans.
Lena Dunham and Repulsive Sex. Comedy Gold!
"The rubes don't get it. Once again."
The link at TNR goes to the NYT.
"America isn't in to "that's not funny"..."
You don't have to be into an era to be in it.
I grew up in the Vietnam War Era and I wasn't into it.
Sounds like Tyson's show should be on PBS.
If you have a tag for The Office it sounds like you should use it here. Sounds like they just made a template off that show and stamped it onto this one.
Michael K said...
It’s premiered to some fairly harsh reviews, all of which entirely miss the point.
The rubes don't get it. Once again.
which gives me yet another opportunity to misquote my favorite headline
Hix Nix Stix Pix
Our Professor points out that now, Everyone are Hix, and Everywhere is the Stix!
Tank, the British version of Shameless is also darker than the American version, with irredeemable characters instead of lovably fucked up ones.
That Brit show sounds interesting, though maybe you have to bring a certain taste to it.
The Dunham/Garner version sounds pathetic.
I am reminded of when Bea Arthur (post-'Maude') tried an American reboot of Fawlty Towers. I loved and still love Fawlty Towers, the Bea Arthur version was unwatcheable for what sounds like similar reasons--they sanded down all the rough edges and made the characters into uninteresting, even cliche people doing silly things. Who needs that?
I like Jennifer Garner (and I'm fine with her name).
She should change it to Jennifer Get. Now that's a bad ass name!
I forget why Althouse hates the word "garner." Because it's synonymous with the word "get" and has no reason to exist?
I've never used the word once in my life. But I like the word. It's a good uppity word. Not a lot of words scream uppity like garner does. And it's two syllable uppity, which is tough.
"I forget why Althouse hates the word "garner." Because it's synonymous with the word "get" and has no reason to exist?"
Let me suggest that it is a word because it means something subtly different than these other words. I would think that "garner" would be closer, in meaning, to "gather" than "get", with maybe an overtone of being a methodical and patient gathering. Looking the word up, it appears to have come from gathering grain, and it's use as a noun identifies a granary. I think that it has picked up the implication of being more strategic in the collection than mere "gathering". So, it makes more sense to "garner", than merely "gather", wins or points in a game.
Well, his chicken has always been pretty good. So there's that.
The British version does sound fun but I couldn’t get through the first episode of the American version. Bland, predictable, and clearly hobbled by the zeitgeist. Life’s too short.
Mike Tyson -what a freak. Another of our criminally insane celebrities. Like Dunham.
BTW, its amazing how often Hollywood rips off the UK for TV shows. All in the Family, the office, Sanford and Son, House of Cards, etc.
don't pleasure yourself over the manifestations of the mentally ill.
Mike Tyson, thug, muggers, rapist, woman-beater, vile, ignorant, bully... and prog, hipster and Democrat party hero. Don't say that Democrat party members are not full of forgiveness and always willing to give the fallen a second chance. Right Alec, Kathy, Joy, and Ed? ...uh, not you Roseanne- racist!!!!!
The British embrace cringe comedy in a way that I can't handle (but that's me).
The Office is a great example of it.
It's as if, once they outlawed bear baiting, they turned to each other as a substitute.
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