Wednesday, July 30, 2008

Third Day on Jay Leno

So as some of you know, Third Day is my all-time favorite band. I love their music, their lyrics, and the fact that Mac Powell's voice is so unique. When I heard this weekend that they would be performing on Jay Leno, I was pretty excited- not just about hearing my favorite band, but that a Christian band was playing to a pretty secular crowd.
Since I usually don't watch Leno (I'm more of a Letterman girl) I had to remind myself to change the channel after the 10 o'clock news (I'm more of a CBS girl than NBC). Jay Leno is just starting, so I grab a blanket and settle in to watch his show. Wow. Was I in for a shock! Leno's opening jokes were actually ok, and he did a Jay Walking segment where he knocked on people's doors and threw a stay-cation for them. That was pretty funny. Then came the guests.
First of all, I didn't know either of the guests (but I usually don't stay caught up in knowing the latest Hollywood stars). The first guest had just played a part in a movie about weed. Yes, that's right. Before talking about this, he talked about a one hour comic routine he had written about doing something I will not even write on here. And his parents were in the audience. Great. I can only imagine what the band is thinking backstage.
Then comes this girl who plays a role in a movie called "Death Race" (I think). They're talking about how this role is not a normal role for her (blah, blah, blah) and then Leno asks what the hardest part was about playing that role. She tell him that there were several lines that she was supposed to say that were filled with cursing and vulgar language and that it was really hard to get through those. I'm thinking, wow, that's kind of cool that she had a problem with that. What would have been cooler is if she had taken a stand about it. What does Leno do? He wants her to say one of the lines on air. The entire line was bleeped- that's how many curse words there were. However, it of course was not bleeped for the live audience where I have to believe there were some Third Day fans who had come just to listen to the band.
By this time, there's only about 5 minutes left so Third Day just performs and they don't talk to the band or anything. That's pretty common, but after all the trash in the show, I really wanted Mac Powell to stand up and say something.
Point of this post: Way cool to see Third Day perform. Totally disappointed by the filth that is the Jay Leno show.

1 comment:

annemarye said...

haha. your posts are becoming random.
i enjoy that you clarified that you're a letterman fan over leno. and that you're a cbs fan over nbc. i'm kinda glad i didn't watch it after hearing your report.