The American Gladiator You Won’t See Tonight: ‘Joto’ in the House

We’d never turn the dial to catch American Gladiator, macho brain dead TV that viewed alongside gay Entertainment Tonight would doubtless induce an instant video lobotomy. But when in Hollywood the novelty of catching a show live is ever in your face so we shaped up at the down-on-its-heels LA Sports Arena to fill a seat at the taping of this new version of ‘Gladiators’ that airs tonight.
We marveled as teachers, cops, paramedics and other true heroes of our society baited with the carrot of fame and some chump change were held to ridicule. Squeezed into silly mascot superhero costumes they wrestled on a giant, soft pyramid and after one show we had enough. But our bid to bail was thwarted by a show of force. Seems we had entered Thunderdome, there was no leaving and so endured the taping of five entire shows. And that’s how we cought some segments during taping that have a snowballs chance in hell of airing but would make great reality TV.

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