What DOES happen when people stop being polite and start getting real?

At this point, Gothamist is more enthralled by the Real World Road Rules challenge than either of the actual shows that lend it their name. I mean come on! Tonya pretends to be so misunderstood! Katie and Veronica hate each other! Coral secretly has really bad bangs! Now that's good television.

Still, when it comes down to it we have a deep love for all things Bunim-Murray which is why we recommend checking out The Real Real World at the UCB on Thursday at 9:30. The true story of seven strangers picked to live in a house (the strangers include a boy in a bubble, a Nazi, and Oscar Wilde) is one that is told time and again but worth checking out. Showing with RRW is nstant Cinema, where an improvised movie is created on the spot by some of the UCB’s best performers.

Also, Wednesday night is the Brutal Honesty series, produced by Giulia Rozzi, Lianne Stokes and Becky Yamamoto. Brutal Honesty is a storytelling show featuring performers, writers and musicians all telling stories based on this month’s theme “Food Issues: Eat It Up”. Performers include Gothamist’s own Rachel Kramer Bussel and mistress of puns Michelle Collins.
Brutal Honesty – Ottos Shrunken Head – 538 E. 14th St. betw. A/B – 9:30pm - Free

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By Liz Black in Arts and Events on August 16, 2005 5:27 PM

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mike

yes but the real real wolrd at UCB makes fun of that crap! come see it!

Kojak

From the very 1st showing of the Real World to now, the show has degenerated into crap.

It’s definitely not the Real World as they would like you to think. They get together the most screwed up bunch of crack heads, social outcasts, and snotty mental case quasi good-looking people, put them all under one roof in a mansion type home worth millions of dollars with gadgets most people would only dream of owning. They hang out and go to clubs almost every day, get easy cheesy ass jobs helping a community that doesn’t care, and for their efforts or lack there of . . . they go to Tahiti for a week on a dream vacation.

That’s not the Real World.

I just watch to see who gets laid and who gets beat up.