Pink Lady... and Jeff
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 1 เม.ย. 2018
- In 1980, the idea of a variety show hosted by Japanese pop idols seemed like a good idea to NBC. Alongside Jeff Altman, Mie, playing the ditz, and Kei, given the role of the wiseacre, hosted what is considered one of the worse American TV show ever to broadcast. Filled with the variety show conventions of corny jokes and embarrassingly silly skits, the show also insisted on disco song covers despite the fact that even by 1980 disco was dead.
It didn't help that neither Mie (left) or Kei (right) spoke a word of English. - บันเทิง
They were so beautiful!
I fell in love with Pink Lady when I first saw them perform, and I was only 6 when I saw them on American television.
i was 7 years old when this was on tv, i missed it... Now I want to check out some episodes
There is more cheese here than on a meeting snack tray.
"Your honorable ancestors." Oh, bring on the stereotypes!
His dad impression reminds me so much of my grandfather. Spot on. Cracks me up to this day.
Watching it now, this show is an absolute train wreck. Usually, If you liked something at 13 and then add 30 years you just end up shaking your head in disbelief! But, just picked up the DVD set! For purely nostalgic reasons....of course...lol!
Actually, NBC already had a train wreck with Supertrain.
This truly was the 1970s and disco (temporarily) dying in one tremendous crash and burn.
When the bodyguard came out it felt like a moment straight out of The Eric Andre Show
You just didn't see the part where he grabbed Jeff, held him up by his legs, and treated him like a naked wishbone.........
**THE AUDIENCE GASPS**
KEI: "NEXT!"
It must have cost them a fortune to pay that audience to pretend to be wildly excited about what they were watching.
8:05 - Oh, bruhder
This was the first show of the series, originally telecast on March 1, 1980. Fred Silverman, NBC's president, was gambling that viewers wouldn't notice the flaws in the show {the girls speak no English and had to be taught their dialogue PHONETICALLY, guests were often booked at the last minute; some of the music acts were represented by their VIDEOS, and didn't perform "live")- and Jeff was told to be deliberately "bad" in his delivery.
Not only that, but Silverman decided Pink Lady deserved their own show on American television . . . after watching _one_ tape of one of their performances in Japan. He turned to Sid & Marty Krofft, who by then had done other poor variety shows like DONNY & MARIE and THE BRADY BUNCH HOUR; Sid even pitched the concept that the entire show take place inside a giant Japanese music box (a concept Trans-Syberian Orchestra replicated with one of their Christmas tours that took place inside a giant trunk in an attic), but Silverman rejected it and told them to make the show like DONNY & MARIE. I believe Silverman was even the one who forced the running gag that every episode end with the hot tub just as an excuse to show Pink Lady in bikinis.
Well Jeff was killin' it
Silverman didn't realize that Pink Lady was experiencing a career downturn in Japan by the time he saw that tape. Due to a bad business decision made by their management on New Year's Eve 1978, people stopped buying the duo's records and their concerts were no longer selling out. This was further exacerbated by the disco backlash, as the duo relied too heavily on the genre. Doing this show was the final nail on the coffin of Pink Lady's golden era, as it caused them to lose focus on the Japanese market. Shortly after the show's cancellation, the duo held a press conference to call it quits.
Even their final concert in 1981 was depressing, as it rained all day and less than 30,000 fans bothered to attend it. At least today, Pink Lady is revered as one of the pioneers of J-pop, with their songs being covered by current artists almost every year.
With whiffs of "THE SONNY & CHER COMEDY HOUR" and "TONY ORLANDO AND DAWN" to boot (especially the latter!). Silverman helped nurture those shows while he was a programming whiz at CBS. He was told by an NBC executive, before "PINK LADY" went on the air, that "the variety show is dead."
"I'LL tell you how long the variety show is dead!!", Silverman growled.
"How long?", the executive asked.
"It's dead until the next hit variety show is on the air!!!!", Fred insisted. THIS one wasn't it.
Great show! This is way better than Andy Williams.
Andy Williams KNEW how to stage a variety show, and attract top guest stars, writers, choreographers, musicians, and everything that makes a successful variety series. HE never had to throw a music video into the mix because he didn't have a shortage of talent "at the last minute", as "PINK LADY" had. HIS production and musical numbers were taped during each show!
Keep it on posting funny videos
Thing I remember most about this show (other than two beautiful women) is the song, "Get the scoop/All the poop/Cheap Shot nagazine!".
I miss 70s Variety Shows 😢 they were so wholesome and cheesy and fun❤
...Blondie looks like she got coked up. XD
Fred Silverman must've been more coked up to greenlight this
He was desperate to attract viewers to NBC, and lift it out of "third place" among the three broadcast networks at the time [CBS barely "won" the 1979-'80 season against ABC].
To the people that says television was a.lot better back in the day really have selective memories! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
kei looks so tired.
Makes sense if she was, Pink Lady were still touring Japan while this was in production forcing them to fly back and forth between Japan and the US. Probably a good thing for them it only lasted 6 weeks.
Poor pink lady had to do this show. The saddest part is this jeff guy is more cringeyer than her
"Her"?
"Pink Lady" was a duo.
@@KM-bc3lm That's "hers."
Dangit, her name isn’t pronounced “me”, it’s “me-ay”. You’re dragging these poor girls through all these horrible skits and making them learn phonetic speech and you can’t even pronounce their names right, jeez NBC
"Making them"? I'm pretty sure they had a choice and were paying them. No one forced them to sign on for awful shit.
Friday nights at 8pm on. NBC.
9pm(et)- opposite "THE DUKES OF HAZZARD".
I like how singing, dancing , and performing was not Pink Lady’s strong suit! 😅
its because they were singing in english and it was really hard for them. their japanese performances are amazing.
I give it an A for Awful.
Thanks for posting this bodacious "blast from the past". I do recall watching one episode during the series' brief run. I was not impressed, to say the least. Was not surprised that it didn't last long. Painfully unfunny. What in the world were the execs at NBC thinking ??
Blondie!? She had to be so high she thought she was at CBGB's
The worst variety show of all time. It makes "The Brady Bunch Hour" look like "The Ed Sullivan Show".
Pink Lady and Jeff was responsible for WSB-TV here in Atlanta saying to themselves, “That’s it; we’re going to ABC!” (after some 30-plus years with NBC)
Thankfully, I was just a toddler when this dreck aired.
I'm trying to put myself in 1980 and imagine taking this in based on the prevailing norms and mores of the day to give it a fairer chance of being judged, not by todays standards. It's still pretty awful.
They're NOT "Dawn", and HE'S NOT "Tony Orlando"!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Their mothers probably sang in those "Mothra" movies.
Emi and Yumi Ito (who perfomed as "The Peanuts") were the twins who appeared in three "Mothra" movies. They weren't related to Mie and Kei, but they were the original female
"J-Pop" duo from the late 1950's through the mid-1970's.
Has to be the worst show evah!
Aperfect match.Pink Lady was a pair of singers who can't sing,Jeff Altman is a comedian who is not funny.
This is just embarrassing to watch. Who in the world wrote this???? Silverman must have been smoking something really bad
More like “Stink Lady”.