Just ask Gervase or Toastee: When you’re done smiling on reality/contest TV, the whole world is done smiling with or at you. And yeah, Philly native Justin Guarini has done better than most in his uniquely modern predicament, but nothing will ever change the fact that the world is done with him now, he went Disney, it’s all karaoke gigs from here on out (or, at any rate, it should be) and American Idol is a scourge upon American music in the first place. We regard these facts as uncontroversial. So the clock ticking down on Guarini’s new web show, Sketched Out, would seem to invite anticipation where there is none whatsoever. Besides which, there’s nothing worse than somebody iChatting you to tell you what a web show is going to be about when you can just tell us by putting the damned show up on the web in the first place. Double-Besides Which, Sketched Out’s promised 12 minutes of comedy or whatever the fuck it’s supposed to be is roughly nine minutes longer than any “web show” should ever be. Also an uncontroversial fact. Again, Guarini is trapped by a medium which only seeks to destroy him and he does not know. We almost feel bad for the guy.

This entry was posted on Thursday, July 2nd, 2009 at 3:05 pm.