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Talk show hosts and guests are often working at cross-purposes.
The guests are just trying to promote the nth season ofTalent Show Where People Have Sad Backstories.
Bravo fans demand Andy ask the difficult questions, and the guests fans often dont want the real answers.
So naturally, Colbert put Harington on blast.
Rather than move on to different anecdotes, he forced Kit to not react as Colbert readGOTtheories at him.
And I know youre trained to give me an emotional response.
But like, do nothing with your face.
More often than not, this is how the celeb interview game is played nowadays.
Weve slid into a hellscape of bits and stunts.
I say hellscape as someone who interviews people for a living, not as someone who watches TV.
As a viewer, Im mostly fine with bits.
Because when you sit down for an interview, you are ceding some control.Take R. Kelly.
Take him to jail.
That left him open for critiques that werent even on the table before he opened his mouth.
Now Kimmel can examine every choice Kelly has made with the criterion of dumb?
and not just predatory?
But blanket disavowal doesnt work either.
Guess what every question was about?
Nothing tastes sweeter than forbidden fruit.
- Like making your brother drink bird saliva.
We should all be eating bugs.
Their carbon footprint is so tiny, and there are plenty of tasty ways to prepare them.
Frankly the whole Spill Your Guts or Fill Your Guts format is rife with race/class issues.)
Kevin chose to hurt Nicks feelings.
When Nick was given his question (Whos the most famous celeb to hit on you?)
he chose to eat the food as a fuck you to Kev.
Who could thread that needle better than Nick Jonas, a true cypher of a man?
Thats how you dont answer a question.
You steer it to something gossip-adjacent.
Nick Jonas will own us all one day.
