Is that your final new year's eve show?
Today the internet newsgroups are all abuzz about how bad recovering stroke victim Dick Clark sounded on New Year's Rockin' Eve. But for me, the real train wreck was on Fox, where Regis Philbin hosted New Year's Eve Live. First, Regis came out on a balcony overlooking Times Square and exhorted all the tourists freezing their butts off to sing "New York, New York" along with him in some sort of mass karaoke. The problem was that the only one with a microphone was Regis, whose singing voice isn't terrible, but let's face it - he's no Bo Bice. Then he introduced Jillian Barberie, who had a terrible cold, thus making her poorly written banter with Regis even more difficult to listen to.So let's see: we lead off with a mediocre singer performing a thirty-year-old song that every one, especially those who used to DJ wedding receptions, is sick of, followed by a chit-chat with a woman famous for being sexy who is wearing a heavy wool overcoat and is in desperate need of a Nyquil IV drip. How do you follow that? I know! We bring out the mediocre singer's wife, who is even less talented vocally than her husband and have them sing a duet of "Winter Wonderland," or as Regis called it, "Wonter Winderland." At that point, I switched over to Dick Clark. To those of you who actually went out for New Year's eve: good call.
posted by John Shannon @ 8:59 PM
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