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Congress Heights on the Rise had the scoop Sunday morning: former D.C. mayor and current Ward 8 Council member Marion Barry is currently filming a pilot for a reality television series. No joke.
No word yet on when the show would make its way to TV or on what network, but folks are telling The Advoc8te they have seen the film crews trailing Barry about town and that members of his staff have confirmed that they are in fact filming a pilot for Barry's reality show. No idea yet on what the focus of the reality show will be, but if in fact true, The Advoc8te isn't really all that surprised. Wasn't it just the next illogical progression for the ultimate showman - his own reality series?
Barry Chief of Staff Bernadette Tolson confirmed for DCist that the pilot is in fact happening, though she claimed not to know the names of the producers behind it (seems pretty hard to believe that Barry's top aide wouldn't have the details, but given this is the Mayor for Life we're talking about, we suppose anything's possible).
We'll be aggressively updating this story as we learn more.
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that man is going to be an attention whore until the day he dies.
i'm sure he's already sold naming rights for his funeral.
Awesome. I'd definitely watch. Hopefully, it'll get picked up by a broadcast network.
"Bitch Set Me Up!" The laughter ensues when Marion's loveable antics around the house and on the mean streets of SE Washington DC land him in a whole lotta trouble! Cameo appearances by Adrian Fenty, that women who woult NOT go down on him, the hilarious comedy duo Cillizza-Milbank, and the fleeting appearance of a very blurred Barack Obama's back in a meet-and-greet party.
I really hope it involves him running a junk shop with his big dummy of a son. With a guest appearance by the stinking corpse of Whitman Mayo as Grady.
If this show is about Barry's reality, then is it really a reality show? Discuss.
Hopefully the producers have scouted out good locations for the police to bust Barry.
I don't think Barry has what it takes to pull this off on his own. Dude's getting old. Who wants to spend half an hour watching him shuffle to his car, buy single sticks of butter with pennies, or trim his ear hair? They need to shack him up with his opposite to create an entertaining conflict. Someone neat freak like Jim Graham or David Catania. They'd be the original Odd Couple. You'd have Jim in a "Kiss the Chef!" apron dusting his tchotchkes while Barry's dumping his bongwater into the cactus pot. Then the Feds bust in to arrest them both for fraud, malfeasance, and impersonating a human. Jailarity ensues.
*applause*
words fail me. *weeps for humanity*
One has to wonder if this is a bad idea for the esteemed Councilman...
Kinda hard to run quasi-legal/illegal operations when there's a camera crew tagging along. Damn photographic proof!
This will need subtitles. Saw him on the Len Bias special on ESPN and could only understand about every 3rd or 4th word.
Working Titles:
Crack-Rock of Love
Crack-Rock Bus of Love 2: Bitch Set Me Up
Bigot's Loser
The Crackhelor
So You Think You Can Legislate!