Talent tends to help…
I used to love the variety shows of the 70s. A few years ago I caught some reruns and boy, did they not age well.
I haven’t liked Rosie since her View days - she just seems like a loon and a vile one at that.
I kinda wish a good variety show would return, but I’m glad we won’t be forced to see her each week.
You know who I could see pulling off a variety show? Drew Carey.
Having said that, I don’t see them coming back. There’s just too many channels anymore where you can watch exactly what you like, instead of having stand-up, sketches, songs and a tribute to our men overseas in the same show, and having to sit through the elements that aren’t your personal favourite.
Rosie is like Hillary Clinton, you either love or hate her.
Put me in the hate category. As soon as Rosie is in a show it gets an automatic -5 rating and has to work it’s way up from there.
I would just like to say that I was wrong.
Ellen’s Even Bigger Really Big Show (or whatever) was actually entertaining. Some Circus type acts, an 8 year old singer with attitude, some Ellen Standup to start the show. A bit where she was “hired” as an Ellen impersonator unbeknownst to the behind involved in the play or watching.
The genre is apparantly not entirely dead. It is needing somebody of the right caliber to pull it off. Rosie apparantly did not have it, but Ellen may.
Y’all happy now?
Yep. If ever a show deserved to be unceremoniously tanked, this is the one…
I think Rosie’s biggest problem is that nobody has the guts to tell her what is crap. I bet the whole crew just pretended the show was great…sort of like the production crew and staff at her Broadway flop, Taboo.
“Icon” wasn’t the word that came to me. “Mummy” would be closer.
Seriously, does anyone outside of rich gay men living in New York City think of Liza Minnelli as being a star anymore? Every year I’m mildly surprised when she’s not featured on the Oscars “Cavalcade Of Dead Movie People” film.
And then the show got worse.
It’s kind of a drag (for me) that it got cancelled, because I was going to be on it. The Off-Broadway show I play keys for was scheduled to appear, and we were going to play a tune.
But yes, that one episode was terrible.
Holy crap, she sang?!?!?!:eek::eek::eek::eek::eek:
I hated when she did the Survivor reunion, because she insisted on singing (and screeching and squealing and eurgh!). Man, I’m glad I missed this.