I am cringing. Literally cringing watching Scott Hamilton’s pre-“show” banter. Why does he think he’s a master at improv? He’s doing all this improv stuff with his co-commentator – she’s pretending she doesn’t know about skating, he’s pretending to be all silently insulted … and it is bad. Why does he think this is a chance to show that he’s good at doing SKITS?? You’re a SKATER. Not a comic. To quote Mitchell: “Leave the comedy to the professionals.”<\/p>\n
Don’t “act” little moments … don’t “pretend” anything … don’t you DARE improv unless you know what you’re doing. Those of us who are, you know, ACTORS … know how to do that shit – just like you know how to skate. I don’t go out onto the ice and pretend that I know how to do a triple sow-cow just because I can act. It goes both ways. You SKATE. Just because you SKATE doesn’t mean that you can do witty little skit-like banter about “cappuchino double lutzes” … not to mention his cutesy introduction to the horrific and mind-bogglingly stupid Moskvina Minute.<\/p>\n
Leave the acting to the professionals, dude.<\/p>\n
Just comment on the SKATING.<\/p>\n
God, and ice skaters wonder why their sport gets such a cheesy bad rap. It’s because of crap like I just witnessed. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I am cringing. Literally cringing watching Scott Hamilton’s pre-“show” banter. Why does he think he’s a master at improv? He’s doing all this improv stuff with his co-commentator – she’s pretending she doesn’t know about skating, he’s pretending to be … Continue reading