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On Ellen, “Idol” and Rep. Joe Wilson
Ellen DeGeneres is the new, permanent, fourth “American Idol” judge.
I guess I should have blogged this last night, but I wanted to let it sit for a while. Frankly, I’m still not sure how I feel about it. Ellen’s been on ‘Idol” before (back when the show was popular enough to have to “give back”) and I’ve been a fan ever since her earliest television appearances on stand-up specials and the short-lived sitcom “Open House,” but something doesn’t seem right about this.
“Idol” has tried comedy before and failed (remember Brian Dunkleman?). And I’ve got to wonder how a comic’s advice is going to help the contestants. Still, maybe it’s a good idea to place a truly funny, actually gay person on the panel so that Simon Cowell and Ryan Seacrest can stop slathering each other with juvenile, offensive, accusatory “you’re gay!” “no, you’re gay” innuendo. If that happens, I’m on board.
In any event, I want to go on the record as saying that I think it was a bad political move for Rep. Joe Wilson to shout “You lie!” last night after Sen. John McCain leaned over and whispered the DeGeneres/”Idol” gossip into his ear. There’s just no place for that during a Presidential address.
The Twittersphere seems to be reacting to the Ellen news positively. What do you think?
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By gsterzing
September 12, 2009 9:40 AM | Link to this
What on earth was Idol thinking? After last year's fiasco with 4 why do it again? I stopped watching - I want music & the judges' results, NOT YAK, YAK, YAK! Maybe they want her "TV following", but all they'll get is her being what she thinks is BIG TIME funny--she's no musician--no authority on what makes it big.
You won't see me watching until they go back to the tried & true formula of 3 EXPERTS! to judge.