Garofalo, Kilmead 'Debate' Inspires New Celebrity Game Show
NEW YORK (Disassociated Press) February 28, 2003 - The much bally-hooed "debate" on "Fox and Friends" this week between Janeane Garofalo, Comic Actress/Anti-War advocate, and Brian Kilmead, that show's co-host and Sports Reporter/Pro-Forced Disarmament advocate, has spawned a new celebrity game show that will be aired on the Fox broadcast network.
"When I saw that skirmish the other day, I was just overtaken by how hilarious it is to watch an impassioned argument between two famous or semi-famous people who are both completely unqualified to discuss the issue they're debating," said Fox Broadcasting Company Director of Development Seth Gumbridge. "The best part was when in the same breath Garofalo managed to both glorify and condemn the UNSCOM inspections of the mid-90's, while it was obvious that Kilmead thought UNSCOM was a brand of bathroom cleanser."
Gumbridge went on to explain that the format for the new game show, which will be titled Star School, would be to have two celebrities of differing genders and coming from different realms of show business or media debating esoteric issues that each would have little or no knowledge of. "I especially sort of like the whole 'sports journalist vs.comic actress' dichotomy," Gumbridge added. "I see us coming up with issues like, for example, the Rise of Charlemagne, or the effect of early existentialist literature on post-modernism for our celebrity contestants to debate. Maybe, to make it more interesting, we'll lock them in cages and submerge them in water, or throw them into a pit of seething pythons, and not let them up until they come up with cohesive and relevant positions."
The first episode
is slated to pit Jim Rome against Ellen Degeneris, debating the significance of
Rommel in the 20th Century.