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Pity Parties & A Lawsuit: Aftershocks In The Land Of Kardansia

By Karen Malmquist

Karen M.OKAY, WE GET IT, KIM KARDASHIAN. You married for love. You got divorced because you fell out of love. All of this was not for the money. Okay.

Your mother even went as far as to return the wedding gift Joy Behar got you and your now ex (it was a blender!) on... The Joy Behar Show. To promote her new book, Kris Jenner and All Things Kardashian. Perfect timing, huh?

While mom is surely reaping the rewards of your heartbreak, some actually feel sorry for you, and one man is planning to sue your ass.

Now, days after the divorce announcement, and after all the televised “I’m heartbroken and I totally married for love” interviews, Kim is finally ready to let it all out. Again. This time, on her personal website. In case she didn’t make it clear already, Kim took to her Celebuzz account to assure her fans that she married for love, that she didn’t get paid for the wedding, and that she’s a totally real person and what you see on the show is, like, totally how her and her family are in real life.

After this was posted, someone must've decided to feel sorry for her (that, or this an extremely sarcastic gesture), because Knock DownNinja.com and KSFM want to help Kim heal her deep emotional wounds by asking people to go on Facebook and Twitter and share the “Help Cheer Up Kim Kardashian” link.

What happens is, when enough people share the link, they will send a little gift to Kim. Once the link was shared 15 times, Knock Down Ninja sent Kim a card with the names off the 15 participants. Once they get to 140 shares, they will send Kim a copy of the movie Dirty Dancing. At 500 shares, they will send her chocolates.

Not everyone is ready to join Kim’s pity party. In fact, comedian Rob Delaney announced his intentions to sue Kim and those involved in the wedding/divorce in his recent Vice Magazine column. His reason is clear and simple: “It is alleged that Kim Kardashian was paid $18 million to participate in her own wedding. I feel like schools could use that money. Or health clinics in areas hit hardest by the recession. Or Pizza Hut. Or Bernie Madoff. Or my uncle Mitchell, who is a convicted sex offender making a living selling Percocet to the elderly in Rhode Island” .

He also plans to sue Keeping Up’s producer, Ryan Seacrest, E! Entertainment television, and Comcast, for “promoting their sham marriage, bilking advertisers, and polluting the airwaves of America and every other nation unfortunate enough to be subject to the disease of Kardashia.”

Late night television spared no joke this past week about Kim's divorce, with late night talk show hosts making jabs at her every night this past week. On Saturday Night Live, the first sketch to air was a fake advertisement for "Kim's Fairytale Divorce," featuring Nasim Pedrad's dead-on Kim impression, Andy Samberg playing an extremely dim Kris Humphries, and and Kristen Wiig playing up Kris Jenner's fame-whoring methods.

It’s not like Delaney was the only person who saw this “sham” marriage coming, either. E!’s hit clip show The Soup predicted last July that the marriage would last “like, 75 days or whatever”. This weekend on the show, host Joel McHale replayed the clip from the July episode where he predicted the demise of their marriage, and the in-studio audience applauded. So maybe don’t sue all of E!, Rob? Either way, Delaney told reporters that he is “deadly serious” about the lawsuit. Can’t wait to see how this pans out!



Karen Malmquist is a junior at La Salle University, and the head writer and star of In Other News, a comedy series airing in Philadelphia.

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