1. 1. My Life of the D-List, Fat Actress, and The Comeback are all:
A-Reality-based situation comedies
B-Documentaries
C- Sitcoms
2. Fat Actress is a fictional reality show within a show about Valerie Cherish (Lisa
Kudrow) who tries to rebuild and maintain her career in television.
True / False
3. –Fat Actress tells how Kathy Griffin struggles for fame in a straightforward non-
fictional aspect.
True / False
4. The Comeback shows Kirstie Alley’s hardships of finding work as an obese female
actor through a scripted format.
True / False
5. The Real World was a new comedy-reality hybrid was almost like a documentary,
relying on improvisation.
True / False
6. My Life of the D-List, Fat Actress, and The Comeback are all about:
A- Females who have succeeded greatly.
B- Females who have foregrounded their perceived shortcomings for their
audiences’ pleasure.
C- Male actors whose wives have failed in the acting world.
D- A and C
E- None of these
7. My Life of the D-List, Fat Actress, and The Comeback all have comedy stemming
from the stars:
A- Fame
B-Failures
C-Relationshiops
8. My Life of the D-List, Fat Actress, and The Comeback all “press the boundaries of
audience tolerance and pleasure” by removing the “fictional frame; or distance
between actors and audiences that more traditional genres hold in place.

2. True / False
9. In many ways My Life of the D-List, Fat Actress, and The Comeback echo earlier
televisual attempts to use comedy as a space in which to perform women’s struggles
for visibility and equality.
True/ False
10. My Life of the D-List, Fat Actress, and The Comeback are shows that:
A-Are designed to catch the stars behaving badly with hidden cameras.
B-Invite the viewers to witness the “real” strugless of age, weight, and sexism in a
comedic narrative
C-Are 100 percent scripted fake stories about the lives of these actress’.