Interview: Situation: Comedy Star and The Sperm Donor Co-Creator Mark Treitel - Page 3

It is weird. I mean, you're working with people and you want to give them what they want.

I think the only real reality show is The Amazing Race because you have to do something like climb the Great Wall of China. You can't duplicate that! But anything else, it's…

I would counter with The Contender, but I definitely get your point.

I didn't see The Contender… Oh, you mean because the guy gets punched in the face?

Exactly. Someone gets their ass kicked at the end of the show.

I think we had an episode, maybe it was the sixth or seventh, where we beat each other up!

It's just weird, because we've always wanted to do sitcom writing and this is who we are, and Shoe and I interact very well together. But the camera's on you the whole time, you know? And there's no one who's natural. When you watch other shows, like The Apprentice, you start thinking about, "If this happened to me…"

I've never been on a reality show, and I think about it, so I definitely get you there.

Eventually, everyone will get their own reality show. I think that's being written into the Constitution right now.

You're paving the way for that right now.

Well, we said we were going to kill off the sitcom or we're going to kill off reality shows!

At the end of the day, we were happy to be on the show, but it was never about that. Our "show" was always about making the best sitcom and proving to the world that we've got the chops. Making a good show and getting it out there.

So what's the status of the show right now? You have the 15 minute pilot in the can and you're waiting for the voting process to take place?

The voting process is happening right now. It started on Friday night and it ends on Friday, September 2nd at midnight. Everyone is invited to vote for our show, The Sperm Donor, or the other show, and you can also watch the pilot. You can vote once a day.

What do you think of the other guys, your competition, the writing team behind Stephen's Life?

I like Stephen's Life, and I like Andrew and David.

Everyone got along?

Yeah, we got along, and I like their show, but I think our show holds up. I feel very strongly that when you compare the two that ours sets out to do what we want it to do. I think, objectively, you can see our show on NBC. Right up there with King of Queens or one of those types of shows.

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