I’ve spoken about Keeping Up With The Kardashians TV Show before. Love it or hate it – this mornings show that I caught on E Entertainment was downright hilarious.

Here’s the thing…

Bruce Jenner is actually the reason I enjoy the show.

Some of you may know (or not know) that I was a reasonably accomplished Track and Field athlete some years ago, and I’ve always had an interest in Track and Field as a whole. As a kid, Bruce Jenner was a freakin’ legend! I even played the game “Olympic Decathlon” on my first Apple Computer (the Apple II e) and he was always the ‘character’ I chose. Of course at the time – the character was no more than a cursor with a full stop (period) rather than the amazing graphics of today. Anyhoo, I digress…

It’s so funny to see his ‘life after glory’ as it were.

He’s a 50 something father of 2 (6 if you count that he is stepfather to the 4 Kardashian adult children). I mean, did I totally laugh my butt off when he had to go for a colonoscopy? The poor guy. I was So feeling his absolute bemused embarrassment about what he had to go through! From the night before where he had to drink this stuff to clean out his bowels (FYI a colonoscopy is done where they enter your nether regions, and check out the intestines with a camera to check for any abnormalities/possible cancerous cells etc – and it’s something all men over the age of 45 should go for), to when he actually went in to surgery. Of course they don’t actually show you the surgery, but they do show you HIM grossing his kids out with the video afterward.

This morning, it was his wife Kris Jenner who was going through a bit of ‘empty nest syndrome’ with one of her daughters (Khloe Kardashian) wanting to move to New York. She talked about wanting a baby. Not necessarily her own, but I did laugh so hard when she went to Kourtney and told her to get her ‘show on the road’ (about having babies) because her own womb was ‘aching’. It was such a genuine line, and one could see she wasn’t acting out a script per se.

Of course the three Kardashian girls decide to give her a taste of what another baby would be like, and they rented a Chimpanzee for like 24 hrs, so that their mom would have a reminder of what early motherhood (with an infant) is like, i.e. no sleep, diapers to change and a whole lot of primal screaming.

Guess who got stuck entertaining the chimp? Yes, you guessed it, Bruce Jenner.

So there I sat this morning, watching my childhood idol, entertaining a Chimpanzee, in his neighborhood park, on the monkey bars.

Call it mindless, stupid reality TV if you want…

To me, THATis entertainment!

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