Last week my sister came to visit from Pennsylvania. She’s been up here a bunch of times, but for some reason we always end up ordering takeout and watching bad t.v. So this time she was bringing her roommate, who had never been to the city, so I asked her if there were any New York touristy-type things they wanted to do. I figured they might want to go to the Empire State Building, Central Park, do some shopping, maybe see a play. Nope. She called me a week before her visit to say she had good news. She got tickets to a taping of Maury Povich.

I told her that was great, because she seemed really excited, but I was expecting it to be really lame. I was SO wrong. It was awesome. We got to watch two shows being taped. One about lying mates complete with lie detector tests and one where high school geeks come on the show because they’re all hot now. We had great seats for both tapings, the audience was hysterical and I cannot put a price on seeing daytime television up close, personal and uncensored.

Tickets are free and pretty easy to get, so if you happen to have some free time during the week, I strongly suggest checking it out. Go to: www.mauryshow.com.