Stop the World, I Want to Get Off

In a taping of The Masked Singer, Ken Jeong and Robin Thicke,walked off the set when they discovered that Rudy Giuliani was a contestant.

I do not want to be a part of this universe:

Here is an incredibly bizarre sequence of words:

Rudy Giuliani was unmasked as a contestant during a taping last week of 'The Masked Singer.' His presence on the stage upset two of the show’s judges, Ken Jeong and Robin Thicke, so much that they left the set with cameras still rolling, Deadline reports. https://t.co/HgLt5PJEZz

— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) February 3, 2022

This Daily Beast item concerns … well, just what it says in the tweet, there: During a taping of the TV show The Masked Singer, a masked singer turned out to be Rudy Giuliani, and his unmasking prompted Ken Jeong and Robin Thicke, two of the show’s celebrity(?) judges, to walk out, maybe in protest or maybe in simple horror. Click through if you wish; there’s really nothing more to it, at least until, uh, more reporting can be done on the story. The story of Ken Jeong and Robin Thicke walking off the set of The Masked Singer at the revelation that the masked singer was Rudy Giuliani.

This tweet seems like a signal artifact of our deeply insane present; it is this abominable new decade crystallized into a news slug. Imagine trying to explain it to a median adult, generally familiar with world events but not, for example, terribly well-versed in the local politics of New York City, who lapsed into a coma a couple of weeks after the events of Sept. 11, 2001 and only just today woke up—whose last memory of Rudy Giuliani, that is, was the national news media pretending he was The Risen Christ because he showed up to his job as mayor of New York. Where would you even begin? 

I wish that they had never started. 

I will not watch this.  I can't even deal with the mental image of Giuliani doing a "Furry" (Furred Reich) thing.

The horror.