American Idol’s feel good show, Idol Gives Back took up 2.5 hours of our schedule today. Naturally the show was full of “Give Now” videos, some stupid, some funny, many mercifully brief. Somehow this had the feel of a Jerry Lewis Telethon, just slower, longer, and more boring. But it’s for a good cause so we’ll put up with it.
This recap is going to be extremely brief and feature little in the way of opinion. We opened the show with an awesome performance by the American Idols singing “Please Don’t Stop The Music” and featuring the dance stylings of the So You Think You Can Dance crews. It was a great way to start out.
We will naturally have tons of “give now” videos. The first three featured Jimmy Johnson, George Lopez and Kylie Minogue. Maria Shriver was actually at the theatre with a pimp for volunteering (which is a good thing I might add). Ben Stiller tried “humor” in his video. I don’t like stupid humor so I didn’t find him funny. We then got a video about clean water featuring lots of gas cans.
Snoop Dogg and Charlie Wilson performed a song that I assume is called “Can’t Say Goodbye” as rap songs usually have unimaginative titles (which I like). They performed with the Snoop Youth Football League swaying in the background.
We were treated to videos from Kobe Bryant and Triple H (who is funny). Then Randy Jackson and Paula Abdul introduce a video about poor children in California being helped by an organization called Save the Children.
The next cute moment features Carrie Underwood, Terri Hatcher and that guy from Desperate Housewives (don’t watch the show, sorry), Terri tells Carrie that if Carrie steals her husband she will steal her song. Then Terri comes out and sings “Before He Cheats” and does a decent job (though she should keep her day job). Carrie comes out clapping and tells her she did a nice job.

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