Cross-Dressing & Variety Shows

I find it mind-numbing that Channel 8 keeps producing cross-dressing personalities.

First, it was Liang PoPo,

then it was the aunite called Liang Simei,


I cannot remember anymore in-between, and now it's Auntie Lucy...


For 20 freaking years, they repeat the same formula.
Unlike Kumar, these cross-dressing comedians are not even funny without their dresses. That's the problem.

It's even more disgusting when you realise that the man behind Liang Popo and Liang Simei, is married with kids, cannot control his dick, and loves to fuck around with young chicks.
How fucked up is this??

I can't help but to ask:

Do we lack (biologically female) comedic talents? 

Is this insistence on cross-dressing, 

some kind of psychosis, 

as demonstrated by 'creative producers in Mediacorp' 

and/or 

by the audience that enthusiastically lap up such entertainment?

Please remember that just because we grew up watching crap, doesn't mean that our kids have to.


Some people argue that these cross-dressing personalities on TV are not for the educated white collars' consumption, but for the low to middle income Chinese masses.

To that, I stare with my eyes wide open and exclaim,"WTF kind of condescension is that?!!

Just because they make less money and/or are less-educated, they are supposed to be watching brainless cross-dressers on TV?!

If you know better, it is then your responsibility to 'help them progress', not fold your arms and conclude that 'it's like that'.
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On a somewhat related note...

When I was a kid, my father disallowed me to watch (i) Channel 5 altogether, and (ii) variety shows on Channel 8.

Disallowing (i) was because he did not want me to become Ang Mo Pai. In his own limited ways, he was fighting an up-slope war. Did he win? I would say, the war is not over till it's over, i.e. till I die. LOL!

Disallowing (ii) was because he thought variety shows were and still are crap.

Effectively, I was only allowed limited time to watch (i) the kid's channel, and (ii) drama and news on Channel 8.

This one-sided consumption of TV led to a couple of incidents (discussed in an earlier entry)...

During an English oral exam in Pri 2, I could not understand what the reading passage was about, because the key word of the passage was 'Causeway'. I later found out from classmates that the passage was about the bridge between Singapore and Malaysia.

If the passage had been in Chinese, I would have been able to understand immediately what 新柔长堤 was and read it aloud, because I had learnt about this while watching Channel 8 news.

Also, in Pri 2, no one in my class, except for me, knew what 'passport' was in Mandarin, i.e. 护照. Another term I'd learnt from watching Chinese news.

Curious moral of the story: Kids ought to mainly watch English AND Chinese news, coz most variety shows ain't gonna teach you shite, especially when you are watching Auntie Lucy stroking her face and showing off her muscular legs.

We need real hardcore talk shows, and not more cross-dressers.