Youtube + Brain Fart + Beauty Queen = Comedic Gold
I’ve made it very clear that I love almost everything about pageants—the beautiful women, the nature of the competition, and the joy of finding that one delegate who can flawlessly recite a few lines from a pageant pattie handbook. Essentially, the crown is reserved for the gorgeous woman who can deliver a few lines without stuttering or sounding like a total ass. However, on rare occasions, you’ll have a woman like Chelsi Smith, a former Miss Universe from Texas, who is beyond amazing. Chelsi is best remembered as a beauty queen with brains.
Well, a few weeks ago, a young South Carolina beauty queen by the name of Lauren Caitlin Upton made headlines when she delivered an unintelligible answer to one of the final questions. Not surprisingly, she didn’t win the Miss Teen USA crown. I feel bad for her. It’s very stressful to be on stage and deliver a performance of a lifetime. She didn't deliver; the poor girl failed miserably.
Again, I am a huge supporter of beauty pageants. I’ve loved them for years. I can understand all the arguments against them—that they are sexist and disgusting to some people. However, from a very objective perspective, these pageants only serve to entertain.
My, how times have changed. Beauty queens have been delivering trite and sometimes incoherent final answers for decades; but now, thanks to the internet, people who don’t normally watch pageants have access to some of these displays of cognitive dysfunction. The following clips were all inspired by Lauren’s . . . what’s the phrase . . . brain fart? Yes, brain fart!
Labels: Beauty, Comedy, Culture, Fun, Miss_USA, News, Society, Television

2 Comments:
my issues with pageants aside, the problem *I* had with miss south carolina is that she reminds me horribly of a lot of my students (who, because of my subject area, are almost all female - which is a topic for another day).
Miss SC has a million and one clones out there - they just aren't on stage, so their stupidity doesn't look quite as....stagey.
one of my favorite Stupid in Real Life moments was a student essay we were given during our "training" to teach; it started off, "a few decades ago, the United States was involved in a terrible war called the Civil War."
the essay was written in 2004.
{sigh}
Great post. Now we know why, when Jay Leno goes Jay Walking, he doesn't need to walk long or far to find fodder for his comedy. Anyone know when July 4th is celebrated? Huh?
Seriously, we are a joke. How can the US compete with other countries who are seriously educating their kids? Let's hope it's not too late to turn things around.
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