MTV Rips Itself Off

Are you laughing yet? Neither am I!

I hate Tosh.0. It's a terrible concept, unfunny, annoying, and unoriginal. I could see the need for a program centering around funny internet videos in a world without YouTube, but since anyone can see the videos Daniel Tosh airs in lieu of original content, the notion of devoting half an hour of your life to this jackass prancing around in front of a green screen making snarky remarks once a week is insulting to the collective intelligence of the world.

I might even be able to see some point in watching the show if Daniel Tosh was smarter than me, or funnier, or clever, but then again, being smarter than a twenty-year-old is a hard standard to set for someone who works in television. I could even see past the vapid, humorless writing if the program showcased relatively new clips, but alas, Tosh seems to focus on the same internet videos you were emailed in 2006. Fuck Tosh.0.

And fuck Ridiculousness even harder. You remember all that stuff about Tosh.0 being irrelevant in 2011? Consider the fact that it first aired in 2009, and now consider it airing in August of 2011 and hosted by someone who didn't get enough oxygen as a child. Ladies and gentlemen, I give you Ridiculousness.

Rob Dyrdek may be the least talented man in the world. A high school dropout turned "professional athlete" (extreme sports aren't really sports, kids) turned television star, Dyrdek peddles the same "oh my God, that's so crazy!" bullshit that everyone on MTV does. Again, this might be excusable if it were an original concept, but guess what? It isn't. Dyrdek is doing what Bam Margera did in 2003, Johnny Knoxville did in 2000, and Beavis & Butthead did in 1993. Almost twenty years later, it isn't fucking funny.

Even the YouTube clip show idea is a stolen one. America's Funniest Home Videos aside, WebJunk20 (starring the fucking incredible Patrice Oneal) was Tosh.0 with actual jokes and laughter and stuff a whole three years before on VH1.

What am I getting to exactly? Well, Ridiculousness is an unfunny ripoff of Tosh.0, an unfunny ripoff for one. But hey, I can see why MTV would want to steal that idea. I hate it, but I'll be honest and admit that Tosh.0 does pretty well in the ratings (for some fucking reason). Maybe MTV isn't so stupid after all.

Oh wait, MTV owns Comedy Central. They own Tosh.0.

So why do they want us to watch two of these fucking shows?

The only reason I can ascertain is MTV's love of stupid, gullible teenagers. YouTube is the wave of the future, and modern media needs to follow it's model. This, unfortunately, means that whatever is popular on YouTube, like say, this fucking bullshit, is what we're going to see a lot more of. Weep, my children, as YouTube and MTV combine to form a Reese's Cup of utter chaos and planetary destruction. Say goodbye to entertainment, and say hello to Rob Dyrdek.