As life becomes increasingly difficult for most Americans, new avenues for entertainment open.  After all, there’s nothing that makes people feel better then knowing that someone else has it worse than them.

In yet another flash of genius, Fox has foreseen America’s need to find someone hurting even more than them and made it into a TV show!  It will be called, Smile, You’re Under Arrest .

“It is a reverse Punk’d,” says Fox President of Alternative Entertainment Mike Darnell. “Instead of the worst day of your life and then a joke at the end, this is the reverse. This is the best day of your life, and then we arrest you.”

How cool is that!  There’s absolutely nothing that sinks a man to the depths of misery better than puffing them up just to knock them down, down, down. 

Naturally, there will be some buzzkills and funsuckers whose purpose in life it make sure that no one else enjoys anything new and awesome.  These are probably the same guys who find nothing funny in people getting hit in the head with a fastball or flipping over on their ATV, like they show constantly on America’s Funniest Home Videos.  You know, mainstream, regular-guy humor of somebody else in pain.

Of course, it’s not like Fox will get to make a “star” out of just anybody.  After the incredibly funny set-ups, where they make the “marks” think they are about to be a movie star, or a supermodel, or a race-car driver, they all end the same way:

all the participants are revealed as officers of the law, and the criminal is apprehended (before signing waivers to let the footage be used in the show).

So here’s the really, really funny part of the show.  How many of these reverse-punk’d participants will sign waivers to become real-life TV stars on their way to jail?  You see, the only think better than “misery loves company” is “stupid loves company,” and this for sure will prove that these “marks” on TV are far stupider than the idiots who would watch this program.  And the viewing audience will feel good about themselves, making Fox “alternative entertainment” a true source of happiness to a select group of Americans.