If you can't poke fun at the mentally challanged, who can you make fun of?? (Don't get all crazy, I am just kidding! OK, so don't send me indignant msgs.)
Can someone post a picture of matt Dillon in Something About Mary? "I love that goofy bastard!"
I always wondered why some of these obviously bad contestants don't have at least someone, anyone, listen to them first...?
Well, I'm glad I've never watched this show.
It no different this year than any other. The freaks come out of the woodwork for this part of the show, and viewers eat it up.
if someone is going to get on a television talent show w/o talent, they should be aware that they are potentially up for extreme commentary. If they are goofy looking, even more so.
And this is all that matters to any of the talentless, not-ready-for-TV people that got their feelings hurt. They knew what they were getting into when they showed up. No way in heck, I would go on that show and I am the perfect contestant to make fun of. Like Eastwood said, "A man's got to know his limitations."
I don't know. I think a little dose of reality will only help these people in the long run. Once they realize they are never going to be rock stars, maybe they can concentrate on the things they can do. That Kenneth fellow thought he was just like Justin Timberlake.
I didn't see that they were "clearly limited". I would expect, as a 45 year old, overweight male with a less than perfect (much less) singing voice, that if I went on American Idol wanting to be the next American Idol that I would be treated just the same.
What they do is sometimes hard to watch, but they really are doing people a favor. They are telling them honestly that they don't have what it takes to be a "star" in the business today. They will either realize the judges are right and quit with no regrets because at least they tried and now know, or they will determine that the judges are crazy and will try harder next time or will try a different path to fame.
That guy sounded almost exactly like "Jimmy" on South Park, and looked rather like him, too.
The best--I mean the absolute best--thing about American Idol is when deluded, tone-deaf people show up with their infantile dreams of stardom, only to have their noses rubbed hard in their own incompetence. It's cathartic. It's healthy.
The same goes for the bush-baby, too. It's generally bad form to humiliate someone for his looks, but when someone is literally applying for the position of "Idol", he deserves to be told in no uncertain terms why worship is not owed to him.
Those contestants had way too much self-esteem and families and friends without the ball* to tell them don't do it.
I didn't see the show. What is "clearly limited"? Their voice range was limited?
This PC crap is really bugging me. Speak your mind, people! You're not communicating with the reader, people!
Clearly.
My wife makes me watch it occassionally. She says that she watches my stupid shows (Heros is not stupid!). She threatened to tie me to a chair and make me watch it. :o)
I was busy so I was in and out and looked at it occassionally. For the 15 minute stint I actually sat, I was embarrassed. I felt sorry for the contestants. It was actually painful to watch. I could not imagine what I would be able to say to the "performers" to critique their talent.
In my moral and ethical point of view, they could easily employ lesser figures to do all the auditions leading to those who will go to Hollywood, and not televise those early auitions at all.
The principals, Simon et al, could review the audition tapes and add to those selected to go to Hollywood.
Then they could televise the rest of the process without looking like a singing-audition version of Jerry Springer.
But of course, then Fox and Simon would not make as much money.
Old story. Alan Funt. People are Funny. 25 years of entertaining people by humiliating and making fun of others. The American mass audience loves watching someone they can feel superior to. Idol's just the latest incarnation.
The way the cameras focused on the people crying was purely sadistic.
Cultural entropy indeed.
Okay, I'm interested in the opinion of others about Nick Zitzmann. I thought he was total put-on. A smart guy and a good actor creating a Napoleon Dynamite type character.
Any thoughts.
So it's OUR fault. Like we knew they were going to humiliate two people to the degree that the did. I was appalled and thought it cruel and in terrible taste. Whatever happened to "Love Thy Neighbor?" Oh yeah, that's right, celebrities haven't read the book! Overall, it's a good show and considering television these days, rather mild and still can be watched by families. I put another spin on it though and say, let's teach our children that this is NOT the way to act and also it's a good lesson to show that money and fame do not give one character, soul, or any number of qualities that one would consider as virtues.