# IYHO: What are the cheesiest acts that still draw big crowds? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 10, 2013, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iyho-what-are-the-cheesiest-acts-that-still-draw-big-crowds/652568 "2013-03-10T20:19:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2013, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iyho-what-are-the-cheesiest-acts-that-still-draw-big-crowds/652568/21 "2013-03-11T01:53:38Z")
> [@An\_Gadai](#): > > [intermission act](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7ydWMgBBZU) at 1994’s Eurovision Song Contest in Dublin. In Dublin? Shit, Flatley’s [South Side Irish.](http://www.chicagotribune.com/chi-south-side-irish-parade-20130310,0,816275.photogallery) Got a buddy who used to hang out in the same bar as him and that Daughter of the Auld Sod, Jenny McCarthy. But the dancing’s not bad? Always struck me as a cheesarama, but the dancers are hot. ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2013, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iyho-what-are-the-cheesiest-acts-that-still-draw-big-crowds/652568/22 "2013-03-11T01:55:20Z")
> [@Shodan](#): > > My vote is for the Miss America pageant. My wife won’t watch it with me any more, because of the mooing noises I can’t help but make during the Parade of Nations, and the hysterical giggling during the interview portions. Actually the Miss America pageant would be the parade of one nation. You’re probably thinking of Miss Universe. Second vote for TSO. I was looking forward to going to one of their concerts until I actually did. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2013, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iyho-what-are-the-cheesiest-acts-that-still-draw-big-crowds/652568/23 "2013-03-11T02:05:03Z")
> [@BobLibDem](#): > > Second vote for TSO. I was looking forward to going to one of their concerts until I actually did. Well, its founder also co-wrote [Convoy](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3VN54M1OXA) so cheese runs through his veins. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2013, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iyho-what-are-the-cheesiest-acts-that-still-draw-big-crowds/652568/24 "2013-03-11T02:17:53Z")
Air Supply is still popular in Thailand. They used to come here fairly regularly, but I think it’s been three or four years since the last time. ---
**Author:** ![Askance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/askance/32/8281_2.png) [@Askance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askance)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2013, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iyho-what-are-the-cheesiest-acts-that-still-draw-big-crowds/652568/25 "2013-03-11T02:26:44Z")
This thread needs to be merged with the Beiber/fondue one. How about Michael Buble, Michael Franks, Michael Bolton - do the Michaels never stop? ---
**Author:** ![Nawth\_Chucka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c57346/32.png) [@Nawth\_Chucka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nawth_Chucka)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2013, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iyho-what-are-the-cheesiest-acts-that-still-draw-big-crowds/652568/26 "2013-03-11T02:42:49Z")
> [@Siam\_Sam](#): > > Air Supply is still popular in Thailand. They used to come here fairly regularly, but I think it’s been three or four years since the last time. That sounds about right; the Thais used to be crazy about them, but now…they’re all out of love. ---
**Author:** ![Tripler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripler/32/21807_2.png) [@Tripler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tripler)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2013, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iyho-what-are-the-cheesiest-acts-that-still-draw-big-crowds/652568/27 "2013-03-11T02:49:41Z")
> [@Nawth\_Chucka](#): > > Anything ‘On Ice’. [. . .] Nurenburg On Ice, you name it. > [@An\_Gadai](#): > > I’d pay to see Nurenburg On Ice. ::the prosecution takes the rink, and skates around the defendants’ bench at center ice:: “We’re here to try the Nazi’s–that’s you, you and you! We accuse y’all of killing the Jews! Goering and von Ribbentrop are a bunch of bad boys, Five minutes for fighting, for each ‘a’ yous. Oy!” Tripler Thanks, I’m here all week. ---
**Author:** ![An\_Gadai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@An\_Gadai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Gadai)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2013, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iyho-what-are-the-cheesiest-acts-that-still-draw-big-crowds/652568/28 "2013-03-11T03:53:47Z")
> [@dropzone](#): > > In Dublin? Shit, Flatley’s [South Side Irish.](http://www.chicagotribune.com/chi-south-side-irish-parade-20130310,0,816275.photogallery) Got a buddy who used to hang out in the same bar as him and that Daughter of the Auld Sod, Jenny McCarthy. > > But the dancing’s not bad? Always struck me as a cheesarama, but the dancers are hot. The dancing is no more cheesy than “real” Irish dancing. The girls and boys (and women and men) who do Irish dancing display real talent but the get up they have to wear most of the time is just awful in my opinion. Celtic twilight cornball stuff and the wigs, good god, the wigs! ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2013, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iyho-what-are-the-cheesiest-acts-that-still-draw-big-crowds/652568/29 "2013-03-11T04:10:23Z")
The fact that the New Kids On The Block / 98 Degrees / Boyz II Men tour has sold out a 20,000 seat arena in my area just plain confuses me. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2013, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iyho-what-are-the-cheesiest-acts-that-still-draw-big-crowds/652568/30 "2013-03-11T04:34:02Z")
> [@Lamar\_Mundane](#): > > Yakov Smirnoff still draws big crowds every day in Branson, MO. I was going to nominate pretty much all of Branson. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2013, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iyho-what-are-the-cheesiest-acts-that-still-draw-big-crowds/652568/31 "2013-03-11T04:45:59Z")
Circuses. Rodeos. Just about anything in Vegas. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2013, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iyho-what-are-the-cheesiest-acts-that-still-draw-big-crowds/652568/32 "2013-03-11T15:01:03Z")
> [@dropzone](#): > > Well, its founder also co-wrote [Convoy](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3VN54M1OXA) so cheese runs through his veins. Just to set the record straight: “Convoy” was co-written by [Chip Davis](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chip_Davis), who also founded Mannheim Steamroller, not Trans-Siberian Orchestra. Yeah, I know, six of one, half a dozen of the other. ) ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2013, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iyho-what-are-the-cheesiest-acts-that-still-draw-big-crowds/652568/33 "2013-03-12T01:54:45Z")
A [crowd pleaser from Celtic Thunder](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5gydvllKdM), that you might be a knowin’. This piece re-enforces just how brilliant _A Mighty Wind_ was- Guest captured exactly the same audience. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2013, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iyho-what-are-the-cheesiest-acts-that-still-draw-big-crowds/652568/34 "2013-03-12T02:01:03Z")
> [@An\_Gadai](#): > > I’d pay to see Nurenburg On Ice. Will this do?: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybuKQf9p5jg](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybuKQf9p5jg) ---
**Author:** ![An\_Gadai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@An\_Gadai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Gadai)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2013, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iyho-what-are-the-cheesiest-acts-that-still-draw-big-crowds/652568/35 "2013-03-12T02:13:17Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > A [crowd pleaser from Celtic Thunder](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5gydvllKdM), that you might be a knowin’. This piece re-enforces just how brilliant _A Mighty Wind_ was- Guest captured exactly the same audience. They have [competition](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XhJp0W0ku2w) in the cockamamy stadium Oirish bullshit stakes. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2013, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iyho-what-are-the-cheesiest-acts-that-still-draw-big-crowds/652568/36 "2013-03-12T02:17:07Z")
Do the Harlem Globetrotters still draw big crowds? ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2013, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iyho-what-are-the-cheesiest-acts-that-still-draw-big-crowds/652568/37 "2013-03-12T03:41:25Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#): > > Do the Harlem Globetrotters still draw big crowds? Probably not on the level that they did in the 1960s and 1970s, but they still tour constantly, and seem to be doing all right. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2013, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iyho-what-are-the-cheesiest-acts-that-still-draw-big-crowds/652568/38 "2013-03-12T05:05:10Z")
Ringling Brothers still tours, doesn’t it? And don’t get me started on the massive Disney Cheese Empire. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2013, 11:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iyho-what-are-the-cheesiest-acts-that-still-draw-big-crowds/652568/39 "2013-03-12T11:55:27Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#): > > Do the Harlem Globetrotters still draw big crowds? They were just in [North Korea](http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/video/2013/feb/28/harlem-globetrotters-pyongyang-video) with Dennis Rodman and his Besty Kim Jong. I’m not quite sure what that says about their career status. [QUOTE=Boyo Jim] And don’t get me started on the massive Disney Cheese Empire. [/quote] Though I must say that Disney-on-Ice was a highlight of my childhood. Though that was 40 years ago and I don’t think they do that anymore. > [@An\_Gadai](#): > > They have [competition](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XhJp0W0ku2w) in the cockamamy stadium Oirish bullshit stakes. Odd choice for a group name; like Highlander, couldn’t their by definition “be only one” High King? Maybe they’re being Oironic. ---
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