Tonight at 9p, The Masked Singer will grace the airwaves on Fox. It is the strangest singing competition you have ever seen. Yet it is actually really enjoyable.
It is not full of people vying for a record contract. It is not celebrities singing as other singers. It is not celebrities trying to pretend they can sing when they can’t. It is twelve celebrities in full-body costumes and we have to guess who they are. They are Grammy winners, Emmy winners and pro-athletes. That is all we know about them.
Each week they will compete and we get a new clue to who they are under all of that fabric that covers their bodies from head to toe. They will perform, in groups of 2, a song in front of a live audience and panelists, Jenny McCarthy, Nicole Scherzinger, Ken Jeong and Robin Thicke, and host Nick Cannon. After they are done, the panelists will ask them some questions to see if maybe they can guess what is their identity.
After each group of 2 performs, the audience and the panelists decide who they want to keep around. At the end of the night, the bottom person of each group will face another vote and the lowest scoring person goes home. This will keep on going until there is one.
Fox is so secretive about who is on the show, that they even blurred and bleeped out the losing contestants face and name on the two screener episodes they sent out. Thus, I don’t even know who they are. I think the person eliminated next week might be Tracy Morgan, but who knows, it can be anyone.
Although, wait until you hear the A-list celebrities they think are under the suits. They actually believe that Barack Obama might be one of the singers. Seriously, that is what he is going to do with his spare time? I think I am more on point when I tell you I think that La Toya Jackson is one of the competitors. That makes more sense, right?
Like I said, this is a show unlike any other. It so out there, that is truly enjoyable. It is like what did I smoke and can I have more of it. Who doesn’t need more of that these days?
It is going to be Ken Jeong vs Shaq on Drop the Mic. I hope for Dr. Ken’s sake, he loses. Because if he won, then Shaquille O’Neal might drop him. If he drops him, then there will be no more Jeong.
Actually, the battle of the diss already happened. To see who won, then you can watch it on the TBS site.
Even though this already happened, the photo is way too awesome not to share.
Ken Jeong is a doctor and also an actor. In between those two professions, he was a standup comedian. Next month, Dr. Ken is going to film a special for Netflix and you can go see him do what he does best in person. Well, one of the many things he excels at. Secretly, I think dancing is the thing that he does best.
Anyways, if you want to see him do comedy live and you will be around Pasadena on September 15th, then you can get tickets to the show. There will be two performances at The Ice House that night and you can still get $20 tickets to the show. Make sure to come thirsty because there is also a 2 drink minimum.
As we know drinking always makes the comedian funnier. Although, I have him do standup live (albeit around 15 years ago) and you do not need an alcohol to find him hysterical.
UPDATE: The taping night sold out, so he added a rehearsal shows the day beforehand. Therefore, you can get tickets to the early show and late show. In a way, that is even better because you get to influence what might be or might not be in the special.
We have seen singing competitions where the judges did not know what the singer looked like until they turned their chairs around. There have been other ones with celebrity competitors. And now Fox is combining both of those elements for their show The Masked Singer that debuts in January. Take that American, what is it called again?
Anyways each week, several celebrities will skip hair and makeup and wear a costume from head to head, hiding their true identity host Nick Cannon, the audience and the judges. The judges, Ken Jeong, Jenny McCarthy, Nicole Scherzinger and Robin Thicke, will have to try to guess who they are. Then at the end of the episode, one singer will go home and we will find out who that masked singer is.
Who are these masked singers? According to Fox, “Between all of the celebrity competitors on the show, they’ve amassed 65 Grammy nominations, 16 multi-Platinum albums, 16 Emmy nominations, nine Broadway shows, four stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and four Super Bowl titles.”
Not bad. Too bad we have to wait 5 months to see it. Can’t they switch it up for another show because I want to watch it now!
We know that Ken Jeong is a very funny man and he is also very smart, but did you know he is sexy too? Maybe it was because I saw all of him in The Hangover, but I never realized it until I saw this photo that he posted to promote his appearance on America’s Got Talent tonight as a judge. Now I am judging him, and I am making sounds like the late Eartha Kitt, meow! What about you, kitties?
