Jeer Factor

You know something is bad when it makes comedian and Fear Factor host Joe Rogan stop short and go, "WTF?  Really?  Seriously, dude?  Get the f*ck out."

One of his funniest stand up bits details his time spent as host of the cringe worthy, hork inducing primetime game show of the early 00s.  Having to cheer contestants on as they faced down their fears of height/speed/vermin was easy.  Having to coax them on to eatjust "one more inch" of horse rectum?  Well, that required him being stoned on national TV a lot of the time.

He admits he would find out the details of the edible stunts, look at the writers/producers, and say, "GTFO.  You really think they're gonna eat raw dong?  OK, let's do this."

The show went off the air in 2006, but began a comeback  in 2011.  Apparently there is no shortage of writer creativity and desperate out of work actors in LA.

And where reality TV viewer lust is concerned, well, that's the perfect storm.

Tomorrow night was to see another new episode aired on NBC.  Joe Rogan hinted at its contents in an interview several months back saying,  "I got there and they told me what we were gonna do, and I just started laughing like, 'There's no way. That's not really gonna happen. Wait, is that really gonna happen?'

He then said that NBC was still reviewing the footage and that it might not even air.  It was THAT bad.

Well, apparently there IS a line that NBC won't cross, and this episode contained it.

They call themselves Must See TV, not Must Pee TV.

The episode which is being flushed, as it were, included a stunt in which the contestants had to down donkey piss and donkey semen.

Let that digest a moment.

Donkey piss.  Donkey semen.

Of course now that the story is out, the sanctimonious uproar begins. How low can they go?!?  How dare they?!?  The writers should be fired!!!

Ha.  I am of the opposite mindset.  It's not the writers I fault - this is what they get paid to do.  As for the producers?  Their job is to bring in ratings, and as the evening news has long known, "if it bleeds, it leads"  - meaning the grosser, the better.  They know they have an audience for their antics.

I say air the damned thing.  Hype it to high heaven.  Because the ones who really need outed are the idiots who agreed to say "Bottoms up!"

Shows like this, The Bachelor, The Bachelorette, Bad Girls, et al.,  would not exist without lines of ignorant 20 somethings snaking around the block in an attempt to snag their 15 minutes of fame, or in most cases, SHAME.

If they are willing to debase themselves for the possibility of $50,000? Film it and show it.  No one has to watch it. 

Frankly, $50k is not even an opening bid to get me to entertain the thought of rectum carpaccio with a piss chaser.  But then I don't think $10k is a big enough prize on Cupcake Wars.  I mean if you are able to put together a cupcake that contains salmon, caviar, and mashed potatoes, yet still makes that snooty French man go, "oo la la"?  You deserve a helluva lot more than $10,000.

But back to Fear Factor...

As I said, no one forces the American public to tune in.  No one forces us to watch Snooki get drunk, total strangers make out in hot tubs, girls rip out each other's hair extensions, or toddlers dressed up like Dolly Parton.

But that's apparently the mental piss and semen that keeps us sated.

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So, what's YOUR price for downing a glass of donkey drippings?  I have mine.  'Fess up.

 

Comments

[Katy]

I'm not even good with the human kind, but that's another story. Regarding the donkeys - who gets the job of collecting this "stuff" for the contestants to drink?!

[audreyf]

hmmmm, I just threw up in my mouth just THINKING about it, so, uh, NO price for me....

[Dorothy R]

I'm with Audrey, actually gagged a little while reading that. There ain't enough money in this universe!!!!!

[Not in a million years Chicky (Kathy)]

Phil and I just watched 127 hours - when the scene came on where he was out of water and had to drink his own urine??? I had to leave the room because my lunch started to reappear, and I couldn't take it - I was okay when he cut off his arm - but I draw the line at dining (slurping) on extrament of ANY kind. So it would take about a billion dollars before I could even consider it, and even then, I know I wouldn't be able to keep it down (it probably wouldn't even make it past my lips before reappearing)...Yuck Linda - Thanks for the sour taste in my mouth right after breakfast!

[Amy in CT]

Yeah, NO! There is no amount of money you could pay me to do this.

[Katy]

Chicky!! You were ok when he cut off his arm?!!? I laughed out loud at that!!

[Theresa from Virginia]

My son told me about this episode a few days ago - I think he saw it on TMZ or somewhere like that (yes, he's 17 and thinks TMZ is THE news source). 50K is simply nowhere in the ballpark - I don't know if there is a ballpark of a price for that. But I agree - who are the idiots who would do this - according to my son, they had to drink a PINT of each!!!!!!!!

[Chrissy]

I would only do it to save the life of someone I love dearly. Some of the stunts they do on that show are pretty cool but I always wind up leaving the room when the gross stuff with bugs, blood and snakes comes on.

[Nikki]

My life or the life of a loved one would have to be at risk. No money in the world would get me to do this. But then again, if they approached the BILLION DOLLAR mark, I may rethink it.

I just feel for the guy collecting the specimens. Donkeys are not easy animals.

[Shawn]

I have enjoyed Fear Factor but don't think "Fear" is the operative term for the 2nd "stunt" as that stund invariably involves something totally vile and disgusting that the contestants have to ingest. I have repeatedly told my husband that $50K was not near enough money for me to do any of that stuff. I'm not sure what amount would make me able to ingest donkey jizz and piss...don't think there is enough money in the world for me to do that.

I caught one of the new episodes recently and the gross "stunt" involved eating live roaches or crickets in some sort of blood. Sorry...no chance I would do that.

I agree with Linda...air the show, put a disclaimer and out these freaks who would actually do that for $50K.

Chicky - I watched 127 Hours too and yes drinking your own pee is disgusting but if he hadn't he would most likely have died. My guess is survival won out. Not sure if I could do either that or cutting off my own arm...I would have probably died there.

[RBlues]

I agree with most. I could only do this in order to save the life of someone I loved dearly.

[Lori in Texas]

Well, I'm going to give a totally serious answer to the question.

If drinking some disgusting stuff would result in paid college educations for my girls and grandson, a new house and a new car for my family and long-term financial security, I'd drink whatever they gave me for $2,000,000. I wouldn't even think twice.

But for $50,000? Probably not.

[natala]

This stuff used to gross me out and shock me - until I found out what goes into most of the food (especially animal foods) that people eat - like if someone told me a few years ago they would give me 500 bucks to eat chicken menstrual cycles I would have been grossed out - but truth is I was eating them every day and not thinking twice about it ;) but things like this - make me wonder why people aren't grossed out by other stuff in their food/drinks a friend of mine stopped smoking when she found out that there was beaver urine in most brands of cigarettes - but most people still smoke and don't think - yum I'm inhaling some beaver piss. And then there is cow milk - which the govt. allows a huge amount of puss and blood into every gallon of the stuff - but still if you asked people "hey I'll give you 1000 bucks to drink infected breast milk that has blood and puss in it - most people wouldn't do it, but they will happily drink a glass of milk or have cheese or ice-cream with out thinking about the gross parts. (and yes there is semen in a lot of foods that people eat and boy parts) People just put nicer words on it like eggs or milk or sausage. I'm guessing if we called stuff by the real names people would be grossed out.

[natala]

Reminds me of when Carson called Rudy when we were walking through Whole Foods and informed him that some wine has fish bladder in it ;)

[Katy]

Lori: I asked my husband last night and interestly, he said the same number - no LESS than $2,000,000.00.

[Jill]

Sorry I have just been lurking lately and haven't commented in what seems to be forever...but I had to put in my two cents about the amount of money these idiots get (not enough for me to do it)- especially considering it is TAXED!!! I think that is what really makes me scratch my head- totally NOT enough! imho

[Kerry]

Drinking your own urine will only help keep you hydrated for an extra day or two. Then it starts being harmful, because it is a waste product. Your body already took out the nutrients it needed and passed the things it didn't. So to keep putting it back into your system puts harmful things back into your system. I have heard you would be better off drinking your friends urine than your own - there may still be something in there your body can use.

The thought of doing it at all is gross, but I guess you can reconcile it with the though that it is only something you already put in your body and it was fine then, plus you've been carrying it in your body too.

And if people want to do/eat/drink stupid disgusting things for money, priZes or just 15 minutes of fame, let them. None of my business. And if I don't like it, I just won't watch. Simple!