Kevin James backlash

by Brian McKim & Traci Skene on July 11th, 2006

Has anyone noticed an increase in anti-Kevin James chatter in the Mainstream Media? Since the Emmy nominations were announced, there have been snide comments about KJ– about his acting ability, his physical appearance, the relative quality of the show and the show’s writing. And the comments are often in passing, very matter of fact, as if we’ve known all along that this is understood. Which is doubly perplexing, since it seems at though James and Co. have been laboring in obscurity the past several years. How does one go from being under the MSM’s radar (even though one is the center of a solid hit sitcom) to being a pariah, the object of scorn, almost overnight?

The answer is: Get nominated for an Emmy… and be a standup comic, too.

But you must be in a sitcom– so far, Denis Leary has escaped the MSM’s opprobrium… then again, Leary has been catching some flack lately due to the spousal rape depicted in a recent episode of his Rescue Me. (We were amused at the fact that the boom mike appears early on in the scene, just as Leary’s character throws his estranged wife to the couch. She should have just asked the sound guy to klong Leary on the head with that big fuzzy microphone, putting an end to the assault. Perhaps the boom “accidentally” appeared, so as to make the scene appear less realistic for the more squeamish viewers.)

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