Seattle People: Are You Gonna Take This From Simon?

[RonDawg]

I was just laughing a bit at your protestation that you only really watched the prelims........sounded like YOU were ashamed! (hey - you're not taking any of this too seriously I hope!)

No protestation, just a statement of fact. How I even got around to watching the show's premiere audition episodes was seeing some of the dispatchers watching it one night.

As far as taking it too seriously, well it's American Idol. You can't take the show, or its hosts (in particular Simon and Ryan Seacrest), and especially many of its so-called "talent" seriously :11:

 

[Mike Veitch]

how about the US version of the Men Behaving Badly! Now that was a travesty to a great English tv show....

 

[Kim]

how about the US version of the Men Behaving Badly! Now that was a travesty to a great English tv show....

Good grief!!!!! You're kidding right????

If they're going to take show idea's use that Dutch guy Joop van den Ende's !!!! I'm sure they'd all be much more suitable right out of the box.

Actually.....come to think of it they screwed up Alf Garnett in "Till Death do us Part" pretty royally as well......:shakehead

Years earlier, Speight had developed for Arthur Haynes (The Arthur Haynes Show a belligerent socialist character with an aggressive attitude and deep chip on his shoulder; Garnett was a right-wing variation on the theme: an ill-educated, shockingly opinionated, loud-mouthed, appallingly tempered, deeply angry, Tory-voting, prudish, monarchist bigot, a deeply working-class man who nonetheless had no time for his kind and wouldn't hear a bad word said about the rich and the privileged - not an obvious character to become a TV phenomenon, granted, but this he most certainly became.

Truly one of a kind!!

 

[Robert Phillips]

Heck, it worked with Johnny Rotten and his renditions of "My Way" and "God Save the Queen."

'Twas Sid Vicous who sang the rendition of "My Way".

 

[Jamdiver]

yeah....rrrrright! (you must have been watching THEM for a good while though! )

But the "Simon" guy....he's English right? (if it's the guy I'm thinking about...one of the judges?) If that's him then he does represent a kind of English humour/sarcasm/truth....whatever you want to call it - but it's so laid on....time after time....that it actually loses credibilty for me and I just find him a rather pretentious ex-pat putting out what sells in the US. Watch the same kind of sarcasm/humour in the UK and (if you get it) you'll probably know what I mean. Jeremy Clarkson from "Top Gear" is a good example of the real deal.

I love top gear .......
And I do agree with you, Simon does play the pretentious ex-pat thing a bit too well, it's rather tiresome now...

 

[Kim]

And I do agree with you, Simon does play the pretentious ex-pat thing a bit too well, it's rather tiresome now...

In all fairness it's probably what the show expects of him - much the same way they recycle the "formula" in films and music albums. He wouldn't last long in the UK I shouldn't imagine - it'd wear thin VERY quickly!

 

[lamont]

He says ya'll are the worst singers in the USA.

I tend to agree.

I'll actually up the ante and state that Seattle tends to typically be second rate in general in almost all areas of talent...

 

[Cacia]

lol. why? all those high tech left brained people?

not enough sunshine? (I mean the suicide rate is common knowledge)

But I just heard Tucker bow tie, on csnbc say that they have intentionally gone out and collected people with "problems" to mock and ridicule for the show. I'm glad I'm not the only one who thought that. and I only caught clips on other shows.

 

[Jamdiver]

lol. why? all those high tech left brained people?

not enough sunshine? (I mean the suicide rate is common knowledge)

But I just heard Tucker bow tie, on csnbc say that they have intentionally gone out and collected people with "problems" to mock and ridicule for the show. I'm glad I'm not the only one who thought that. and I only caught clips on other shows.

'Tucker' is a favourite of mine, I miss him and the raging cajun Carville on crossfire......
I think the ultimate politically themed news show would be O'reilly and Carville...

 

[mislav]

I don't know about Seattle having the worst singers. I kinda liked the grunge music era.

To answer the question - I can't sing. I whine.

@Catherine: very, very nice avatar pic. It would be a great billboard.