By LIA SPENCER
Repeat After Me
Coming soon
YOU know when someone falls off a chair and they aren’t hurt so you just want to laugh at them, but you know it’s inappropriate, so you try and bite your lip and put on a straight face while offering them a helping hand instead?
Well, I find that kind of situation pretty funny to watch from afar, so it’s no surprise that my guilty pleasure is candid camera shows. I am usually in stitches watching people react in awkward situations. That’s why I just had to YouTube a new half-hour reality show called Repeat After Me, which was inspired by a popular segment on Ellen DeGeneres’ popular talk show.
And it did not disappoint.
Through an earpiece, host Wendy McLendon-Covey (The Goldbergs) instructs different celebrities to copy what she says and the results are freaking hilarious.
She has singer Michael Bolton using a banana as a telephone in a busy supermarket, asking onlookers to mind their own business because he is having a private conversations. She tells actor Scott Foley (Scandal) to act like a tantrum-throwing baby in a bizarre role-play during an interviewing with a potential nanny.
Beth Behrs (Two Broke Girls) gives what is probably her best-performance yet as a self-centred twerking drunk, flirting with the unsuspecting instructor during a private dance lesson. It is so stupidly funny that I did my embarrassing laugh which isn’t really a laugh at all – it’s more like I am gasping for air between high pitched squeals and snorts while my eyes well up with tears.
The only downside is, like many of my former favourite candid shows such as The Jamie Kennedy Experiment and Punk’d, there are only so many pranks you can pull on people before the gigs get old and the laughs wear out.
Until then, I will continue to get my fill of the show and give myself a belly work-out with a weekly YouTube screening.
Repeat After Me premiered on the US ABC television network on 17 February, but I have my fingers crossed it will air in Australia soon.
– Lia Spencer
