TMZ On TV - Parodies

Parodies

  • On August 26, 2009, 3rd Degree Films released a pornographic film based on TMZ called TM Sleaze. The film "turns up the heat and the humor as you get to see what happens when celebrities get engaged in hardcore humping", and features porn actors including Ron Jeremy, Lisa Ann, Tori Black, and Faye Reagan.
  • Originating in 2009 on the short-lived NBC primetime talk show The Jay Leno Show and currently used since 2010 on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, comedian Mikey Day performs a sketch called "JMZ"; in it, Day and his "camera crew" track down celebrities (some actual celebrities appear in the sketch, while impersonators whose faces are not shown are shown sometimes in the sketch), which end up with Day involved in strange situations.
  • The season one episode "Robarazzi" of the Nickelodeon series Victorious, features a parody of TMZ on TV. In the episode, Robbie (Matt Bennett) turns Hollywood Arts High School's online video blog into a tabloid about the students of Hollywood Arts; shown in the episode are scenes that parody the TMZ.com morning staff meeting seen in every TMZ on TV episode, including a teen character parodying TMZ clip clearance coordinator Max Hodges.
  • An episode of Cartoon Network series Mad parodied TMZ as this as TMNTMZ.
  • TMZ was featured as a video on Meg Griffin's laptop, dealing with the Lauren Conrad/Brian Griffin scandal on the Family Guy episode "We Love You, Conrad". Stewie had his silhouette shown in the video and was discussing how he knew Brian and how he had seen Brian with Lauren. A caricature of Harvey Levin was used when Peter Griffin met Richard Dreyfuss (voiced by himself).
  • "Weird Al" Yankovic wrote a song in 2011, "TMZ", about the website and TV show on his album "Alpocalypse". The song is a parody of Taylor Swift's hit single "You Belong with Me".
  • In the South Park episode "Bass to Mouth", Cartman uses an app called Eavesdropper, centering on gossip around South Park Elementary.
  • TMZ is heavily criticized and parodied by the Nostalgia Critic, especially in his 'Top 11 South Park Episodes' and 'AI' episodes.

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