Sunday, May 20, 2007

 

Kristin Chenoweth on Ugly Betty

Kristin Chenoweth was on the season finale of Ugly Betty as a dental hygenist obsessed with romantic comedies. I am not entirely fluent with Kristin Chenoweth's body of work, but it seems to me that Ugly Betty's campy humor is where her skills lie. She is most famous for Broadway musicals, a genre in which campy humor reigns supreme.

This is another reason why Studio 60 (now cancelled) was such a bad show. Sorkin based his main female character, Harriet, on Chenoweth, but then seemed to miss Chenoweth's brand of humor entirely. He completely failed to capture this absurd, over the top spirit that Chenoweth brings to her characters. It is just funny that Sorkin created a show with one of his ex girlfriends as the inspiration for the main character and it seems fairly obvious that this show is one that his ex would never ever act on.

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