TV oddities Pts I and II

by Brian McKim & Traci Skene on June 23rd, 2006

FOS Stuart McCallister writes:

Not sure if you watched NBC’s new show– America Has Talent! (or whatever it is called) but it had a little girl do standup. The judges fawned over this girl. It was just kind of sad to see this happen. Sid the Kid gets her time on national tv and gets fawned over and really just wasn’t funny. I can’t blame the kid for not being funny but I can blame her folks for putting her on the show. God knows what is going to happen in future shows for this kid. I know I won’t be watching.

Thanks, Stuart! (You were so close– it’s actually America’s Got Talent, but we believe that your version of the show’s title is actually more grammatically correct!)

Apparently 12 million viewers tuned in, according to a Reuters report, making it NBC’s best showing in the time slot in more than a year.

Among the assortment of contestants auditioning in the first round on Wednesday were an 8-year-old stand-up comic, a rapping granny and a guy named Bobby Badfingers, who snapped his fingers in time to the famed drum solo in “Wipe Out.

There’s your kid comic.

And we received an email from FOS/Columnist Paul Ogata asking if we knew of anything hinky going on with Tuesday’s west coast broadcast of Last Comic Standing.

Was there something wrong with this week’s LCS? As far as I can tell, either it didn’t air here on the West Coast or my DVR failed to grab it. I’m leaning towards the former, since I have a Cox DVR and a TiVO and neither recorded it. Also, I heard from someone in Hawaii that it didn’t air there either.

Perhaps there was something which caused “Jittery Peacock Exex To Yank Feed,” as Variety might say. I figured since you guys watched it, maybe you could tell what it was.

Or maybe my DVRs need a good whack.

We haven’t heard anything… maybe our readers have. Readers?

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