I just saw this on D-Listed and all I can say is “what the hell?” I’m getting flashbacks to when Heidi Montag did a Funny or Die commercial in which she basically played herself, but advocated for consumer protection. In Montag’s case she did a faux PSA and it worked. It wasn’t particularly funny, but it was watchable. Here we have Courtney Stodden and Doug Hutchison playing themselves on a fake talkshow run by Jason Alexander. It’s just like all of their other talkshow appearances in that she plays the Lolita sexpot and her RL husband Doug is the “straight” man (although that’s up to question). There’s nothing particularly funny or unique about this bit. I had a hard time watching the whole thing and Jason Alexander is just lame. He hits on Courtney and smacks Doug across the face as some kind of couple’s therapy. This isn’t amusing to me at all.

If you’re a big Seinfeld or Jason Alexander fan (I never was) you might enjoy this, like Emily did over at Evil Beet. She thinks that Courtney and Doug are up for mocking themselves, but I don’t see it that way at all. I think that Courtney and Doug are up for any and all publicity they can get, and they’ll take it where they can. Remember, they’re still trying to get some sort of reality show that isn’t happening for them. Courtney’s mom spoke to E! about this skit and she said that her daughter and son-in-law weren’t offended. Of course they weren’t:

“They were not at all offended,” she told E! News. “Courtney is so funny, and with her sense of humor, and Doug’s too, they are able to be confident in who they are as people. They can take something and like it and laugh and be OK with it. They were the first ones to think it’s a funny thing.

“If someone spends the day with Courtney and Doug, they would win them over. They’re able to rise above everything. With Courtney, it flows off her back like water off a duck’s back. She’s so secure, she can take anything and look at the funny side. Criticism does not get her down at all.”

During the webisode, Clay tries to help the couple “fortify” their relationship with a couple exercises, including trying to see the quality of Stodden’s heart by taking pictures of her breasts with a new app on his iPhone (you see where this is going), and showing Hutchison how to express his love for Courtney.

[From E! Online]

I thought it was funnier when Courtney and Doug showed off their little dogs on Australian TV. They were happier and more hopeful back then. Now they’re just kind of resigned to being punchlines, which is as it should be.

This has me nostalgic for Heidi and Spencer’s brief stab at fame. They were famous for nothing and they staged ridiculous photo ops and planted stories in the tabloids, but they made sense. Like Paris Hilton, Heidi and Spencer seem almost quaint compared to some of the people that have hit the scene lately. It’s a slippery slope in the tabloid media.