When I watch this video — from last night’s episode of WE tv’s “Joan & Melissa: Joan Knows Best” — of 78-year-old Joan Rivers and her friend Lynne smoking a bowl, hot boxing a car, demanding Cheerios, chanting “food truck! food truck!” and stepping into a hot tub fully-clothed to drink water from her shoe, I can’t help but think how awesome it must be to smoke with old people.

I get not wanting to smoke with your parents, because it looks like Melissa is having a miserable time dealing with her mother and Lynne (who makes an always-topical Natalie Wood joke), but if movies and TV have taught me anything, and they have, it’s that senior citizens smoking=HILARITY. Like that old dude from Road Trip — classic. Joan may look like she belongs in the Mos Eisley Cantina, but if she loves food trucks and calling Chelsea Handler out as much as I do, she can smoke with me anytime. Maybe she’ll call Louis?

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Joan Rivers and her daughter Melissa have a reality show on WEtv. I didn’t know this because I’m barely aware that WEtv exists. Unfortunately, I was made aware of the show’s existence because Joan tried to take pictures of Melissa showering. The Daily Mail says:

In the show Melissa is asked to do some naked photos by Joe Francis, the creator of the adult video series Girls Gone Wild. For some reason Joan appears very keen for Melissa to take part, saying she is ‘determined to make it happen’.

Yes, “for some reason.” Like, say, the show’s producers needed a story line.

In an apparent bid to persuade her, Joan breaks into the bathroom and starts snapping away on her mobile phone.

There’s video below, and I won’t lie: it’s pretty sexy, assuming you’re into blatantly scripted reality TV scenes in which septuagenarian women snap nude photos of their 43-year-old daughters in the shower. How can you not be into that? What are you, some kind of prude?

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Bryan Masche, better known as the father on We’s “Raising Sextuplets,” was arrested in Arizona last week and charged with resisting arrest, disorderly conduct, and threatening domestic violence. It’s a much more aggressive form of parenting for Masche, who — judging by the clips I see on “The Soup” — is usually just dangerously neglectful.

The arrest was made after ‘Raising Sextuplets’ star allegedly threatened his family and began yelling profanities, E! Online reports. A call was made to 911, and the investigation escalated when he did not comply with the deputies’ requests… It is not known whether Masche’s wife and TV costar, Jenny, was involved in the incident [PopEater]

In a 2009 interview with PEOPLE, Bryan and Jenny admitted that raising six young children was not easy and that the couple argued. “We have totally brutal fights,” Jenny told PEOPLE.

Relying upon their faith, the religious couple sought to work through their marital problems. “When you understand that there’s no way out of marriage, that forces you to work on your marriage,” Bryan told PEOPLE. [CNN]

It’s nice to see such a devout Christian couple work on their marriage. With shouting and threats of violence. I hope they can work out their problems — if not for the kids, then at least for the TV show. It’ll be like if Jon and Kate Gosselin didn’t believe in divorce.

"Check it out, I spent my hot years not getting any!"

Ever since I first wrote about “Sunset Daze,” WEtv’s supposed “Jersey Shore with Old People,” I’ve been flooded with emails demanding more coverage about old people trying to have sex. “More Sunset Daze!” they write. “Can you find more video of senior citizens dating?” “I can’t wait for ‘Sunset Daze’ to start!” “I can’t get off unless I picture my grandparents having sex.” You know, the usual stuff.

Well, good news, everybody! Embedded below is three minutes of new footage from the show, which features all sorts of clever bon mots your grandpa might say, like ”I have a great sex life. I just need someone to share it with.” Also, a group of old women shout “BATTERY-OPERATED BOYFRIEND” together, which really isn’t necessary. I don’t want to hear about old women masturbating. Not unless it’s Helen Mirren and there’s video.

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Remember “Sunset Daze”? The so-called Jersey Shore with old people? Well, the first clip of WEtv’s wrinkly reality show and its sagging balls has arrived online, and it’s everything you could have expected: there are old people, and they’re doing things. Doing those things more slowly and not as well as younger people do them.

But you have to give the show some credit: it looks more entertaining than visiting my grandfather with Alzheimer’s. I’m sure that’s just the kind of blurb WEtv is looking for. “‘Sunset Daze’ is more fun than your great aunt’s funeral!” – Warming Glow

[via Show Tracker]