'Three months in, I had watched 600 episodes. That’s when I decided to go to therapy.'
I’m not built for office work. I have always felt at home in a retail environment ― unboxing records, loading pallets, pushing heavy carts of textbooks or lifting something so heavy I need a heating pad at the end of the day.We were at home in our apartment, and I had just woken up after getting in at 5 a.m. from my job hosting karaoke. It was 1 p.m., but I was comfortable being a nighttime service industry vampire person.
My ex was horrified by my taste in television, born of a youth spent watching makeovers on “Jenny Jones,” club kids on “Ricki Lake,” controlling relationships on “Sally Jesse Raphael,” and endless DNA tests on “Maury.” The job was out of my league, but my ex talked up my dedication to and knowledge of absolute trash, and the producers agreed to see me. I caught a train to Stamford, Connecticut, and made my way to the studio.Talk shows used to be filmed in either New York or Chicago, but at some point, rent became astronomical and the last ones standing moved their operations to Connecticut. The final talk show to be taped out of New York was “The Bill Cunningham Show.
The author made a quilt out of the free T-shirts given to “The Bill Cunningham Show” audience members.“Maury,” “Jerry Springer” and its spin-off, “The Steve Wilkos Show,” were taped out of the same studio complex in Stamford. Once I made my way past security, I followed the hallway to the elevator and up to the executive floor where the walls were lined with pictures of Maury, Jerry and Steve in action.
“Jerry Springer” wasn’t my first choice when it came to daytime television viewing. The overly produced segments just didn’t have the same grit as “Maury,” where lives were ruined in real time. Jerry Springer himself, however, I would have chosen to hang out with over any other talk show host.He exuded a humor that was absent in most other hosts: a wink-wink boyishness within the circus of his show. He was in on the joke, hovering over the absurdity of it all.
“Are you OK?” my ex asked me about a month-and-a-half in. I was at that point 360 episodes deep into this show. With three segments produced in each show and three people typically involved in each segment, that meant that I had witnessed roughly 3,000 gladiators in this show’s arena of humiliation.
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