Thursday, September 25, 2008

Hail the freak show

Last night while dragging myself to fold a week's laundry, I decided to kill two birds with one stone and switched on the tube. There was nothing interesting on and I began to surf channels when conveniently, America's Got Talent was on air. If there was any show that showcases some of the most weirdest, freakiest and outrageous talent, this would be it.

The show was a bit too carnival for my taste that it felt more like watching a circus than a talent show but hey, since when talent is restricted to singing or dancing or playing musical instrument right? Even stripping your clothes off is considered as talent, if you can call that a talent. Well, at least in this show it was.

The show's judges consist of David Hasselhoff (from the Baywatch series), has-been singer, Brandy and relatively unknown British, Piers Morgan who? And what's with the British as a judge in any talent show? And do they have to be mean and ruthless too?

Nevertheless, I had a whale of time laughing my ass out watching this show because it was so damn entertaining. And oh, what is a talent show without its usual histrionics right?

Like what this cross-dresser guy demonstrated in the video below. Watch it and weep!


America's Got Talent is currently on Star World, Astro on every Wednesday 9pm