Reality show a blast for local 'Joe Schmo'  Pittsburgher Chase
Rogan, star of 'The Joe Schmo Show,' can laugh at himself and
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Email Read Later  Chase Rogan watched himself on television
leading a llama up a mountain path in California. Sitting on a
couch in his Lawrenceville home Tuesday, he recalled that, at
the time, nothing about that seemed strange.  "I grew up with
horses," the 28-year-old said. "So it wasn't weird for me to
walk a llama."  Even when producers of Spike TV's "The Joe Schmo
Show" encouraged him to light candles and share inspirational
notes with the fluffy white animal, he just figured other
contestants were doing the same thing.  Much of reality TV is
beyond unreal. But in 2003, Spike TV upped the ante with "Joe
Schmo," creating a fake reality show starring one person who
believes it's legit.  Everyone else was an actor, playing
stereotypical reality show contestants. Having resurrected the
program, producers cast Mr. Rogan, who