As easy as it is to mock reality docs when they create arbitrary deadlines or "journeys", the lack of a concrete concept here does create a subdued feel.
McClennen points to videos released online this summer, in which Colbert gleefully mocked reality star turned Republican candidate Donald Trump and cheered the Supreme Court's ruling on same-sex marriage.
For a while it seemed to trade too much on mocking tawdry reality TV and I was not mad about the way celebrities appeared desperate to be in on the joke – a situation that reached its undeniable apotheosis when a phone directory of stars, including Ricky Gervais and Noel Fielding, allowed themselves to be filmed saying the phrase "Ear cataracts".
In addition to the G.T.L. shirt, the retailer may or may not have created a humorous "The Fitchuation" tee-shirt mocking the reality star -- the shirt, which we caught yesterday on a fake "Abercrombie-Fitch" website, has since been removed from the website.
(Although we are led to believe that she could still have a chance with him, Us magazine has already told us no — reality squelching the suspense of mock reality).
Hard to see clearly in the metallic mist, or through the sheet of mock reality cast over our world, bourne that no creature ever born pokes its way back through, and no love can tear.
The TV Weekend column last Friday, about mock reality shows including the new HBO series "The Comeback," referred imprecisely to Michael Patrick King, an executive producer of that series, and his involvement in "Sex and the City".
However much we may miss our daily dose of faux mock reality, the discomfort is nothing compared to the pain we will feel if the networks respond to a prolonged strike by falling back on the writer-free, unscripted, real reality TV.
That was the mock, reality TV Super PAC that Stephen Colbert set up as host of Comedy Central's Colbert Report.
One reason is that predictions of an end to the Syrian conflict have frequently been mocked by reality.
It ruthlessly mocks the reality format while still managing to be one of the most sensitive shows on TV.
