Posted on 08/19/2008 6:41:23 AM PDT by MplsSteve
Jesse Ventura might become a judge.
Not a real judge, just a television version of one.
The publication TV Week reports that Ventura is close to signing a deal to host a television court show to debut in a year.
A Twentieth Television spokesman would not talk about negotiations between his company and the former Independence Party Minnesota governor.
However, an official for the Katz Television Group told TV Week that Ventura's history as a navy frogman and a talk-show host "might have the star power to distinguish himself from the welter of court shows."
"Jesse is a bigger-than-life personality, and there is always an advantage of having a brand name like his attached to a show," Carroll told the publication. "That personality could especially work well in the court genre, where he could break through in a crowded field. Needless to say, it would be hard to confuse him with the other judges."
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I was sick of him back in his rasslin’ days.
Another moronic tv judge. Just what we need. We haven’t been dumbed down to the lowest possible level just yet.
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