Fame

The last thing I needed to do was watch another reality TV talent show. Isn’t the upcoming Most Talented Senior competition the nadir of it all? Why watch FAME? Why, to make comparisons with AMERICAN IDOL, the show that’s responsible for FAME’s return…

Here now are some random thoughts on the show, which is generally painful to get through:

Debbie Allen thinks she’s Paula Abdul, but she looks more comfortable reading her words of encouragement off a teleprompter.

The show has a male judge named JoJo who broke out the “You made that song your own” cliche from AI. He had to. The singer was awful.

You just know that most of the contestants were AMERICAN IDOL rejects a few months ago during those auditions. Many of them admit to having no dancing ability, but just wanted to sing. They’d let Debbie teach them to dance. Great.

If I hear the phrase “triple threat” one more time, I’m going to slap Joey Fatone. BTW, can someone tell Fatone to please open his eyes?

Guest judge Carnie Wilson Phillips (whatever her name is) has huge nipples. There was no need to put them on display for all of America as she slouched down in her chair, though. Whoa.

But the real upset tonight was that McKenzie didn’t make it through. I couldn’t believe it. The white rapper boy made it through, though. Weird.

Only 6.5 months to go before AMERICAN IDOL returns.

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