January 16, 2008
'Idol' Philly Auditions Sufficiently Funny/Sad
Above, the contestant from Philly who also did an impression of the old guy who sings in Suburban Station for his audition! Be sure to discuss him and other fake contestants hilarious Idol hopefuls like the woman who was one of the "last two contestants" and dressed up like Princess Leia then went nuts when she didn't get picked in the fakest "real" moment in television history moment of excellent reality television put on by the benevolent Fox corporation.
Posted by D-Mac on January 16, 2008 10:32 AM
Posted to American Idol
, Fakeness
, Reality TV
, WTF
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all i'm saying is that you don't need to pay people to be fake when there are many ugly comic book nuts that'll happily do it for free. not saying it's not staged to get maximum reaction, just that the reactions of the nut jobs are real.
Posted by: chrissmari at January 16, 2008 11:48 AM
The dude above seems real enough, but both of those people at the end -- "the last two contestants" -- were plants. It was way too staged.
Posted by: dmac at January 16, 2008 11:53 AM
oh come on. the last two were held back by the producers. staged for maximum reaction. not fake though.
Posted by: chrissmari at January 16, 2008 12:10 PM
The people are real. The crazy, talentless ones just get pushed through and pumped up by the producers just so they can get ratings.
"You're unique! The judges will love you! You'll do well!" is what they're told for months until they get in front of those three, then they get eviscerated. This show really preys upon morons.
Posted by: mike at January 16, 2008 12:28 PM
mike: exactly.
Posted by: chrissmari at January 16, 2008 12:41 PM
I like the FoxNews.com headline-
Reality Check: 'American Idol' Proves It's Not Always Sunny in Philadelphia
Posted by: Philly Chit Chat at January 16, 2008 01:21 PM
The biggest winner? The USS Olympia looked great in a bunch of background shots.
Posted by: Anonymous at January 16, 2008 03:40 PM
I wonder how many times in history prior to this have Paul Robeson and Eddie Vedder been named in the same sentence?
Posted by: Lynn at January 16, 2008 11:28 PM
Paul Marturano (the 32 year old) who sang that original stalker song was a myspace friend of mine for a while. But I kept getting too many bulletins, comments, etc about his shows so I dropped him.
He is a comic pianist in Bucks County I think.
And what is with the non-enforcement of the age limit?
Now, I'm thinking if I were dressed as Andy Reid, I would have gotten serious face time on America's highest rated show.
Posted by: steve odabashian at January 16, 2008 11:29 AM