How did Wonder Showzen get its start?
VERNON: You mean the most hated show in television? We made this eight-minute tape a few years back and shopped it around. Eventually the USA Network gave us money and told us to come back in six months with a pilot episode. So we did, and within five minutes-maybe less-USA canceled their comedy division as well as our jobs. JOHN: It didn’t help that we tried to make it a heavy drama. But it really tackled some serious issues! So how did MTV2 come to pick up the show? VERNON: They’re the most annoying network on television, and we’re the most annoying people in television. JOHN: A marriage made in hell. VERNON: Basically, we shoved it down their throats. Kind of a combination of shoving and charming. JOHN: It was a charming shove-but even now, it’s a struggle to get what we want on the air. The show we really want to make-that has 100 percent of what we want-would never make it on TV. It would be so raw, even we wouldn’t want to watch it. The raw style of Wonder Showzen seems to come s
