How can I spoof a reality TV show? I have to do a solo skit, so there can only be one character!?

You could do one of the sections when the characters are alone, talking to the camera. It would be fun to do a parody of how “reality” television shows always have the same stock characters. Like, have in a screamo band hoodie and a trucker hat to be the “hip,” “alternative,” girl, then take off the hat and hoodie and put on glasses to be the brainy one, then let your hair out into pigtails (if you had them behind you) to be the “young, innocent one”, then let your hair down and strip to a tank top to be the trashy sex kitten. Come up with a situation, and show their different points of views, or have a running monologue, and swich characters midsentence, whatever.
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That’s just the first thing that came to mind, but I hope it helped!

While that genre is repulsive to me I get it’s popularity and having purused a couple, there are “Reality” programs or very real, situational programs where the host is alone. I’ve seen it in comedic cooking shows. I’ve seen it in snake hunter shows. I’ve seen it in restaruant critic shows. I’ve seen it i do it yourself, repair shows, where in all, the only others in the show are the hundreds of people off camera.

Comedy truly isn’t so difficult and can be born even in drama or tragedy. My first inclination would be an infomercial, or a show/skit where the host/actor does almost nothing right, or nothing happens as planned or scripted.

SNL news segment is a great example of spoofing reality.

I do not LIKE Julia Childs, but if anyone on REAL TV, situationally, can be made a spoof of it is her, and she loves making fun of herself too. Martha Stewart would be another.

On a most morbid comedic note for an infomercial, I’d do Billy Mays, who died recently. “Hi Folks, they wanted to pay me so much I had to come back. How’s my makeup? Oxy Clean is an Oxy moron, by the way, get a shamwow and some dollar store detergent.”

Just my two sense.

Steven Wolf