A man figured out a genius plan to keep making it onto TV shows with a little help from his friends and it just kept working.
Comedian Ben Palmer and his friends devised an ingenious way to get onto shows on US channel Court TV by suing each other so they'd have cases that could be shown on air.
In the end, he was a witness for a case on court show Judge Alex and clearly wasn't taking things seriously at all when he made it onto the show.
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It's a bit difficult to believe that nobody caught on, especially since during the end of the show he said he was 'just glad we got this money, I needed the money so bad I'm broke'.
Palmer stretched credulity when he said he only had 'three frozen hamburgers at home' and 'can't afford to buy toothpaste'.
He then ended up as a defendant on the same show, where the judge expressed great surprise that he'd been the winning sperm at the moment of his conception.
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In the end, the joke was on the judge for having a case on his show devoted to a case invented by a bunch of friends teaming up to scoop some prize money.
Palmer also got onto Judge Joe Brown as a plaintiff, where the show thought he was suing a performer for breach of contract.
Whether or not show producers actually recognised him and realised the cases being brought before them were fake is unknown, but it probably made for good television so it sounds like a win-win all round.
The comedian explained that a bunch of friends suing each other for all sorts of weird reasons worked out pretty well as the show 'pays whoever wins and it doesn't go on anybody's record', meaning nobody gets in real life trouble for having a mile-long list of lawsuits.
People thought the idea that a guy sued his friends to get on TV and it just kept working was absolutely hilarious, or 'actually funny af' as they put it.
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Someone who used to be a big fan of the court shows was so satisfied to learn that people had been working to get on as many shows as they could, saying they 'knew I spotted repeat characters throughout'.
Another person pointed out 'the irony of being called stupid by a fake judge who doesn't even know he's being duped', though many argued back that the show's producers knew it wasn't real and just didn't care that much.
Others said it was 'just wonderful' that the comedian and his friends had found a way to get the last laugh off shows which had put them on TV to be mocked.
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