"Dr. Steve-0" dangerous for your health

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - "Dr. Steve-O" will make you pine for the comparatively intellectual agenda of "Jackass" and "The Man Show."

The weekly half-hour stars the jolly sociopathic dolt known as Steve-O, who was featured on "Jackass" (both TV and film) as the guy who would go further than anyone else in his attempts at masochism and self-mutilation. In this "reality show" he purports to seek out the nerdy and lily-livered among us and "de-wussify" them by forcing each to face his fears in the most traumatic and humiliating fashion imaginable.

With a scantily clad blond-bombshell nurse by his side, he rides to the rescue of lame dudes everywhere in his tricked-out ambulance. In the opener, our sadistic hero "helps" one guy overcome his fear of bees by making him stand unprotected amid hundreds of them, a second to attack his public-speaking phobia by doing a stand-up comedy stint and a third to get past his fear of eating meat off the bone by, well, by putting a raw gutted turkey over his head and having a woman pummel his body.

Throughout, the demented doc struts around with hyperkinetic hubris, slurring his words and showing himself to be devoid of anything that might be mistaken for charisma. To paraphrase Franklin D. Roosevelt, there is nothing to fear but Steve-O himself. But of him, we should be very fearful indeed.

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