TVgasm Investigates: NeNe Leaks Can Act?

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By WaffleBoy | Monday, September 17, 2012 | 12:00 pm | 6 Comments
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Hi there Gasmi! Well, it’s that time of the year again. A new season of wobbly TV shows are taking their very first baby steps, as we try to figure out which ones won’t make our eyeballs bleed too much when we watch them.

This year is actually even extra special for anyone who is a fan of reality TV, because somebody is piercing the veil and crossing over from reality TV to big boy/girl pants scripted television. NeNe Leaks from The Real Housewives of Atlanta has a steady re-occurring role on the new NBC sitcom, The New Normal.

 

(For those of you who are curious, The New Normal is a show about two gay men who want to adopt a baby, so they hire a surrogate, and we meet the surrogate’s wise beyond her years daughter, and Ellen Barkin shows up as a racist grandma, because how fun is that? NeNe, plays one of the gay guy’s big sassy assistant, and the show is from Ryan Murphy who also does Glee so you know every joke will be as subtle as a tire iron being whomped against the side of your tater. Enjoy.)

 This is big, big stuff people. If NeNe can pull this off, it will open the doors for other reality stars to come over, and show the world what they can do.

 Think of it Gasmi, a world where Teresa Gudice is on The Mentalist every week. Aaron Sorkin does a new hard hitting cable drama about a group of plucky barristas getting his coffee order right at Starbucks for a change, starring three random  Teen Moms. Jesse from Big Brother taking over hosting duties on Meet the Press. The sky is the limit.

Well, as long as NeNe does a good job the sky is the limit, and that leads us to the big question, just how good is NeNe Leaks as an actress?

Now, the obvious thing for me to do in this situation would be to watch the show, but, um, no.

That’s not going to happen. Sorry, but I wont be watching The New Normal for two reasons. First, it’s about kids and families, and it is my personal theory that the less DNA you share with a child, the more boring and annoying they become, and in the Waffle family when we to make money off the fruit of our loins, we have them sell oranges by the on-ramp to the freeway; like normal people. So seeing as there are no little waffles on the screen, we have our first no.

The second and equally important reason I won’t be watching this show, is that it is being produced by Ryan Murphy, and I really believe that giving Ryan Murphy any form of positive reinforcement makes as much sense as making an extra set of house keys for the local raccoons in your neighborhood. No good will come of it. Think I’m wrong? Go back and watch the last season of Glee.

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Waffle's family would like to go on record and say he was raised by raccoons. You eat out of the garbage one time, and everyone suddenly gets judgmental. He's just going to point out, for the last time, with God as his witness, there was ice cream in that carton. However, the fact of the matter is he was born and has lived about 90% of my life in the Bay Area in Northern California. He's a long time cube monkey (office worker), who spends too much time trying to maximize the money he spends on his cable bill, and has a not so healthy love of all things that are dumb and fun, translation: needless explosions, cable neeckedness, and any time Steven Segal attempts to express human emotion only by squinting.

6 Comments

  1. 1
    NameOfState
    Posted September 17, 2012 at 12:37 pm

    I missed the first few minutes, but unless NeNe had an opening monologue, I don’t think she was used much.

    Ellen Barkin’s character is basically, “I hate gays and wish all black people were slaves.” I mean, “Are you supposed to be using this bathroom?” when she opens the door on NeNe and “In my day, we read about Presidents who owned people like him” about Obama? It’s almost like he’s making a statement about Republicans, but it’s so subtle. What could he mean?

    The gay couple has a nice kitchen and I love that the daughter was imitating Little Edie from Grey Gardens.

    Only saw the Glee episode with Carol Burnett, and I did like American Horror Story, but from what I’ve read about his reactions to musicians who turned down offers to have their songs featured, he seems to be an angry man with an agenda. I don’t see myself watching it every week.

    I really do like that kitchen though!

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    kloewent
    Posted September 17, 2012 at 12:52 pm

    well I watched it. The show was ok, I like the concept, makes gay families seem completely Normal! NeNe was ok, she just played her caricature of a sassy black woman who is going to beat you if you ask her to do anything for you. She wasn’t memorable, but she didn’t stand out as horrific either. Plus, she does look like a drag queen!!! I don’t know why if the mother was so appalled she didn’t just give her daughter the $35k. Is that the going rate, cause it doesn’t seem like enough to me. For the 10 months (I am including the month after because you are usually pretty messed up and perhaps have stitches!) That is less than a thousand a week!!

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    cherrylipgloss
    Posted September 17, 2012 at 2:22 pm

    ellen barkin was my celeb girl crush after the big easy and she still looks amazing….but why does she have an old lady voice?? what the heck happened….? I still have the same voice I’ve always have and I haven’t aged as well physically as Ellen, but she sounds 90+ years old now….

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    NotWithoutMyTV NotwithoutmyTV
    Posted September 17, 2012 at 5:32 pm

    Is asking NeNe Leaks to play the big, sassy black friend “acting”?

    Now, if she act the role of someone who WASN’T obnoxious, then give that bitch an Oscar. Snatch it right out of Helen Mirren’s hands and hand it to over to The Mouth of the South.

    And I’m right there with you, Nads. Ryan Murphy could use a nice, severe, daily beating. Sorkin, too. (Although I saw Sorkin on 30 Rock a while ago, and he was spoofing himself, so I have to respect that. Some.)

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    See-Jay
    Posted September 17, 2012 at 11:10 pm

    There is nothing lovable about Ellen Barkin’s character. She’s simply written as an over-the-top bigot with no redeeming qualities whatsoever. The poor man’s Lucille Bluth.

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    vallegirl vallegirl
    Posted September 17, 2012 at 11:27 pm

    FYI – if you repeat the words “NeNe Leakes” enough times then throw in “drag queen” your targeted ad will be for Astroglide.

    The more you know.

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