I saw the start of a TV chat show tonight. The set was full
of gaudy, spangly things; the ‘host’ was wearing gaudy, spangly clothes. The
audience whooped and whistled as three celebrities bounded enthusiastically
onto the gaudy, spangly set and proceeded to hug and kiss each other as only
luvvies can.
*CLICK*
Talk shows I can
watch:
An intelligent person sits in one chair, an interesting
person in another. The intelligent person asks the interesting person
interesting questions, which the interesting person answers interestingly.
Talk shows I can’t
watch:
A celebrity with an over-inflated ego and a gaudy, spangly
mentality asks inanely trivial questions of another celebrity who probably isn’t
quite as gaudy and spangly since his/her role is meant to be inferior to that
of the first celebrity (commonly and rather ridiculously referred to as ‘the
host.’) The host’s primary skill is in being able to ask questions to which
he/she can react in an amusing and
entertaining way, thus placing him/herself on a pedestal and further
massaging his/her ego almost – but not quite – to bursting point. The
interviewee then falls about laughing in a vain attempt to make up lost ground
by persuading the watching public that he/she is in on the joke and therefore a
very interesting person.
Whatever happened to the days when TV had a bit of class
about it?
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