I invented a term about a decade ago called “Affluent Poor,” which describes a broke journalist who frequents fancy events filled with rich people and who is treated like royalty. The best place for this is at the Getty Museum VIP openings, which press can attend. Of course, no one else but the Affluent Poor tries to have sex on the tram. Here is the tram sex instruction video.

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Take the wide-eyed naïve PBS host Huell Howser, mix in a healthy dose of acerbic wit and an encyclopedia of phobias, then whip to a mental frenzy and you get Jeff at the House.

Journalist/comic Jeff Favre, who fears everything but his own shadow and has a skewed view on the world, hosts this interview/self-exploration show. Jeff’s skills as an entertainment reporter and stand-up comic turn each 3-minute episode into the type of intelligent, but accessible, humor that Web audiences crave. Whether you’re laughing at Jeff, or with him, JATH is, as a Playboy Online reviewer wrote, “Weirdly Compelling.”