Shaq and Ken Jeong to work odd jobs on new reality show, because why the hell not?

By Sam Barsanti | November 6, 2018 | 2:17am

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We’ve been known to critique TV shows from time to time here at The A.V. Club, but let’s be clear about one thing: Making TV shows is very, very, very hard. It must be, or else it would be completely absurd for TBS to pick up a pilot about Shaquille O’Neal and Ken Jeong working together on various odd jobs. Surely someone out there would’ve had a better idea for a TV show if it were easy to do, because this one—tentatively titled Unqualified—just seems totally arbitrary. Shaq is a big guy who was good at basketball, Jeong is a shorter guy who was a doctor and then became a funny actor, so clearly the only possible TV show that anyone could come up with for the two of them involves forcing them to operate a train, work as dental hygienists, or strip down as nude models.

Anyway, TBS announced this new project in a press release, explaining that Jeong and Shaq had a really good time together on Drop The Mic and so now—obviously—they’re going to use their famous combination of “talent and hustle” to try things like “patrolling malls as rent-a-cops, substitute teaching kindergarten, train conducting, and performing as party clowns.” Of course! It all makes perfect sense.