compliment off

I'm watching a show called "The Great American Sing-Off" right now. It's a performance competition reality show for acapella groups. A judge on the show just made semi critical (but correct) comment about one of the group. The crowd booed.

This always happens, the crowd that boos in the face of anything but a reality judge schmearing creamy and nondistinct compliments on any reality show contestant. Anything constructive, anything that would actually help the contestant improve is met with hostility from the American reality television show live studio audience.

It's really annoying, because the cranky British guy on the judging panel on any given reality competition show is usually right, and, as a performer, "You get pitchy on the high notes, and that's tough to listen to" is much more helpful than "GIRLFRIEN! YOU BROUGHT IT! YOU BROUGHT IT!"

While I sat her grumbling about the stupidity of the reality television audience, a brilliant idea hit me: why not just create an entire show that consists of regular people walking onto a stage in front of a live audience and a panel of judges. The person introduces themselves, and the judges just sit there, and one by one compliment the person on stage. For anything. And then the audience goes "WOOOOOOOO!!!!!!" I'll call it "The Compliment Hour" and it will be America's Favorite Hour Of Nonthought.