Six Degrees: ‘Daily Show’ writers dream up scripts for other shows

Hee! New York Magazine asked striking writers from a number of shows to create “scripts” for shows other than their own. The Daily Show writers took on some network/cable powerhouses and reality TV. From New York Magazine, the entries that made me laugh the hardest (well, the Pushing Daisies one did, too, if I remember the premise of that show correctly):

Alternative Reality TV … And 13 other shows
By J. R. Havlan, Steve Bodow, Rob Kutner, Tim Carvell, Jason Ross, Kevin Bleyer, Rachel Axler, Sam Means, Scott Jacobson, and Rich Blomquist, writers from The Daily Show

Lost
It turns out the island is actually a peninsula. Boy, are they embarrassed.

Heroes
The power to keep track of all the new heroes becomes way rarer than invisibility or time travel. Seeking to scrimp on budgets, NBC rolls out an entirely special-effects-free spinoff called Bystanders.

House
In order to prove a housewife’s flulike symptoms are actually a rare bronchial infection contracted from giraffe dung, House must kill and dissect the housewife. His colleagues protest this grave Hippocratic breach until—guess what? Turns out he was right about the giraffe-crap thing.

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CSI
In a case designed specifically to take advantage of the CSI unit’s skills, the cops must track down a serial killer who stabs his victims with knives made of frozen bodily fluids.

. . .

Rachael Ray
Rachael wraps a pretzel in a piece of bologna and calls it a “healthy 30-second snack.” TV executives reward her with another multimillion-dollar contract.

Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, So You Think You Can Dance, and Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?
The shows end with the answers “Me,” “Not really,” and “Yes.”

Read the full slate of show ideas here

These are hilarious, gang, and I don’t even watch any of the above shows! We really miss you on The Daily Show, though. Crossover episodes notwithstanding, the shows will be better when when you’re back at work, your well-earned contracts in hand.

Thanks to dustdevil for the tip!