Ellen & Elias: A Match Made in Heaven

I enjoy funny people. I think I might even appreciate them more because they can make light of situations that are not necessarily ideal. Plus, they're sharp as tacks (or the extreme opposite) because of their quick-witted responses to normal statements.

Want to know what I enjoy even more? When funny people think that something is hilarious. It's super rare that comedic people crack up, because they're so good at maintaining their expressions. 

I would scream on top of the tallest mountain that I have a humongous girl crush on Ellen Degeneres. If anyone would turn me, it would be her. It's significantly harder to make quality comedy without swearing, and she has perfected the art. Her content is clean and voluminous. Not to mention she is absolutely radiant. With blue eyes like aquatic marbles I just want to lock into her arms and hug her until I die. Her look may not be what is considered average for a 55-year-old female talk-show host, and she rocks it. It makes me happy that her success challenges the profiling and stereotypes that society has set in modern culture. Of course, things have significantly changed in the past decade and I am so confident in where we are headed. 

In this clip from the Ellen show, we meet a little boy named Elias Phoenix. Although some of you may confuse his gender because of his Goldilocks hair , I can assure you that he is a male. Elias is a piano prodigy in every sort of the word. The kid is a mastermind behind the keys of the instrument, tapping classical ballads like it's a typewriter. He's only seven, and the future is holding something bright for him. To see a video of Elias playing at Carnegie Hall, click here. 

I don't know what kind of liquid speed his mother spiked his PediaSure with that morning, and I'd like to know what isle of the underground supermarket it is located in. He exudes more energy than a dog in a bone store. It is gut-wrenchingly hilarious watching him repeatedly hug Ellen and shower her in compliments. It is even funnier to watch how much of a kick she's getting out of it. At one point, when he is walking over to the piano you can hear her chuckling harder than I've seen her in a long time on the show. 

I hope that this kid becomes famous from this appearance. With a personality like that at his young age, he would blossom in any part of show business. Even with his confounding hair. 

I first saw this story on BuzzFeed. If you'd like to see their article you can find it here:

http://www.buzzfeed.com/hnigatu/ellens-interview-with-elias-the-child-prodigy-is-the-cutest

Here is the video:

  

Who Wants To Be A Millionaire

Do you want to know why TV annoys me? Because some television shows don’t know when to just end it. For God sakes Survivor is working on its 28^th and 29^th season to be aired in 2014, The Bachelor has had 18 seasons not to mention all of the spin-offs such as The Bachelorette and Bachelor Pad, and MTV just aired its 29^th season of The Real World last week.

This anger ignited in me this morning. I woke up just like any other day and turned on the TV as I sat down to eat my breakfast. When I turned it on I saw that Who Wants to Be a Millionaire was playing. I figured it was just an old rerun. I know Regis Philbin retired from TV quite a few years back and Meredith Viera replaced him on the show. The game format was changed around and even though Meredith was good I never really warmed up to the change of play and host.  To my surprise this was not an old episode….and who was hosting you might ask…CEDRIC THE ENTERTAINER.

Cedric the Entertainer

Is this some kind of sick joke? I’m not hatin’ on Cedric but what kind of grade A blasphemy is this? Who Wants to Be a Millionaire is a legend as far as game shows go. Now I’m even more aggravated that they didn’t completely pull it after Regis Philbin. Yes, Cedric is qualified and absolutely fine as a TV host in general; but, what the network needs to realize is that the show will never own up to the original…SO WHY KEEP IT GOING. It honestly makes my blood boil (or perhaps I’m just lactose intolerant because I ate a lot of yogurt this morning and I don’t think my gastrointestinal track is very happy with me).

Do less, television, do less. Even though many reality shows go way upwards of ten seasons, at what point do you think they lose their integrity? Sometimes when you love something, you have to let it go.

You know what, maybe some of these shows do still stay true to their original state. But seriously, it can’t go on forever. I (clap) can’t (clap) deal (clap) with (clap) it (clap). But I do have to admit I still watch The Real World which I will most likely do a review on later hehe. Maybe I’m just a griping hypocrite.



Regis and Joy Philbin at the
2009 Tribeca Film Festival

To wrap this up I’d like to give a shoutout to my boy Regis Philbin for still being alive and kicking like an absolute boss. The man is as sharp as an arrow straight from the factory. Seriously, God bless him. As for Cedric the Entertainer…I wish him the best with millionaire. It’s not his fault the network is still snowballing the show, and I’m sure he will do just fine.

So what are your thoughts? Do you think that long running reality shows are overkill, or simply a comfort blanket for the American public? I guess here we are toying with the line if it’s not broken, don’t fix it.   

Tamera Mowry's Scrutinized Marriage

If you're anywhere between the ages of 20 and 25, I'm sure that Tia and Tamera Mowry are familiar names from your childhood. I used to watch Sister, Sister on a daily basis along with all of the other 90's favorites such as Saved by the Bell, and Boy Meets World. Even though I was under the age of ten when I watched them and couldn't understand a lot of their teenage directed humor, I would still laugh at all of the jokes I didn't understand to try and compensate for being completely oblivious. If I were my parents I probably would have slapped myself listening to all of the stupid cackling. Ahhhhh, the life of being young and dumb.

During and after the production of Sister, Sister, the Mawry siblings continued to act in kid-friendly roles for the majority of their young life. Does anyone remember the show Smart Guy? Their brother was the main character and was absolutely adorable. The kid looked like a living chicken nugget with dimples.

After these shows were discontinued, I have to say I had no clue what happened to Tia and Tamera. I knew that they were still acting separately, but that was pretty much it.

Apparently in 2011 Tamera Mowry married Fox News correspondent Adam Housley. A few days ago she spoke out on Oprah's: Where Are They Now; to discuss the internet racism she has received from being in an interracial marriage.

 First of all, it is disheartening that she would even have to come out on something like this. Even though the internet is an open platform to criticism that doesn't make anything racist, sexist, biased, etc. ethical on any terms. Love is blind and when it is all said and done, regardless of the color of our skin we are all human beings. The poor thing is clearly distraught by the comments just like any other women would be. It's easier said than done to "just ignore it" when it is truly unavoidable. 

Now, I don't want to come off insensitive, but was anyone else confused by her sisters reaction? To me it seemed like Tia was hearing all of this for the first time. I mean maybe the two never got into detail about the specific comments being made but shouldn't she have known this was going on? Watch between :39-:45.

"Geez, like what do they say?" 

WHAT THE HECK TIA? I'm sure your twin has been getting this stuff spitballed to her since 2011. And I'm sure you had to have known that when you were asked to be on this Oprah show that your sisters marriage was a topic of interest. The entire time I watched this I was cracking up at how surprised she looked. 

Does anyone have an answer for me here? Like I said before, no disrespect but Tia threw me for a loop on that one.

I hope that Tamera Mowry can one-day create a coating where the comments repel straight off of her, but like I said before that is easier said than done. I'm sending an air hug and a puppy over express mail. I wish her all the best in her marriage, and have one thing left to say.