You may have thought that the only way you could attend the Jerry Springer
Show would either be in the studio audience (for which you must live in a U.S.
trailer-park), or be a guest (for which you must live in a trailer-park, plus
have a cousin who is having an affair with his bisexual transvestive
quadraplegic hairdresser, and his twin brother who's also his teacher, while his
teacher's cousins neighbour, whos also a transvestite watches. and is a crack
addict. and strangles kittens.) But you'd be wrong.
Last year a stage-show spoof of the Jerry Springer, called "Jerry
Springer: The Opera" played at the Edinburgh Fringe. It now looks likely
that the show may transfer to the West End. However, any hopes of it going
to Broadway may have been dashed because of the risk that the producers of
the real Springer show, Universal, have not given conscent for the show and
could take legal action against it.
Former stand-up Stewart Lee (the one from the comedy pair "Lee &
Herring" who isn't Richard Herring) co-wrote the outrageous opera, and told the
LA Times: "The fact they might sue places us in a tough
position."
