Jerry Springer Audience Question

[grinningghost]

Anyone ever been in the audience at the Jerry Springer show? I'm just wondering if people really go on their own, or do they pay people to withstand all that nonsense? I watched it for the first time in ages, and it's gotten even more unbelievable than before.

 

[Dakota_Lynn]

I think it's all fake. I was at a friend's house the other day and she insisted on watching this guy. I could not believe what I was seeing. People on stage going after each other and cussing and screaming like total shameless idiots. I really think those people are all actors. There can't possibly be that many nutters in the world...can there? I mean, are there enough people who are that messed up to fill that show every single day? If that many screwed up people really are willing to take their messed up lives on public TV, then this world has come to one really scarey place. If it IS real, what about the poor children who have to go to school and face classmates. How does the child of a crack addicted prostitute who admits to having 180 veneral diseases on public TV cope with the ridicule? It just can't be real, can it? What would make somebody want to go on a show like that and reveal personal information about their botched up families to the whole world? I just don't get it....and I kinda hope I never do.

 

[cgcw]

My nephew and his wife were in the audience a couple years back. They got in on their second try. They had to go down to the studio on the day they were assigned tickets and wait in line. Then depending on where they were in line, they were admitted (the first time they tried they got their too late and did not get in). This was a big event in their lives (early 20's couple) and really enjoyed the chance. I'm not sure why.

It is a very trashy show but it didn't start out that way. Somewhere along the way they decided they could attract the "guests" they do.

About 10-12 years ago, my Mom received a call from the Jerry Springer Show. They were interested in having her as guest. My Mom was a very spunky, attrative older lady who frequented many singles dances for older people as well as worked as a receptionist at a health club. Somehow, the Springer Show got wind of my Mom and wanted her on a show regarding Singles Later in Life -- or something along those lines. My Mom debated whether she wanted to be on it or not. In the end she turned down the opprotunity because she had just started dating a man she later became engaged to. I know at the time it wasn't a trashy show or she wouldn't have given it any consideration.

I agree, Dakota_Lynn, there can't possibly be that many mixed up people in this world to be actual true stories on that show. Or could there??

 

[Rock'n Robin]

I think to get into the audience you have to take an IQ test, and if it's over 100 you can't get in.
Robin M.

 

[Dan Murphy]

There is a local, neighborhood restaurant here (food is fabulous and the place is really a great neighborhood 'joint') but two things are awful. The place is smokey and they have several TV's hung from the ceiling around the place and they tune this dumb show in around noon or whenever. I like to go to the place for lunch, maybe every two weeks or so (for the good food and folksiness of the place) but this show almost nauseates me. For the life of me, I don't know why the owner tunes in to this show. I try to read the paper while there, if not jabbering with the waitresses or others there, LOL, but all the bleeping of the audio sounds like a constant weather alert of something. They sure do find the bottom of life's barrel to drag on that show, to make fools of themselves for the voyeuristic drama of it all. I guess that's is the trend of TV today, voyeuristic drama and pandering.

 

[grinningghost]

I think it goes without saying that a DISer has never been a guest on the Jerry Springer Show - thank God.

 

[Beth E. (NJ)]

Sometimes when I am folding the laundry I put on the tv and flip around the channels. whenever I flip past Jerry I have to pause and see what trash he has on.

I have always thought that the people on his stage were just that -- staged. Some of them almost seem to be reading from a script.

And what about the folks in the audience. Very classy that every time one of them asks a question the rest of the audience yells for them to flash. And the female audience members bare themselves for beads. Oy vey!

 

[IloveDMB]

This show really does seem to bring out the bottom of the barrel. When I lived in the dorms, the girls on my floor LOVED this show. I could never get into it, I felt like I was losing something while watching it.

But as it goes with all tv shows, each one has their fans.

 

[grinningghost]

Yes, those Jerry beads are so worth flashing your stuff, aren't they?

 

[catsrule]

Ah, the former Mayor of Cincinnati! My mom and sister and some of their friends went to his show when it first started out in Cincinnati, before it moved to Chicago, because the show just grew so big we couldn't handle it anymore. It wasn't trashy when it first started, it became that way for ratings sake, after it moved.....

 

[grinningghost]

Hate to say it, but Buffalo would be better off with Jerry Springer for mayor than the one we have now.