Ken Jeong wass convinced Raccoon was Danny DeVito. And while the Masked Singer judge had a moment of clarity earlier this season, it’s usually safe to bet against Ken Jeong.
The fifth season’s third episode of the singing competition series (yes, somehow there have already been four complete seasons of this thing) included performances by Group A, the group of singers viewers first saw on the season five premiere: Seashell, Raccoon, Robopine, and the Russian Dolls. Though they outlasted Snail—who was really Kermit the Frog…we’re serious about that—Group A was no smaller this week, as they welcomed a Wild Card named Orca. The judges seemed to think Orca is some rock legend even though he sounded like anyone’s drunk uncle at a family birthday party, but that’s beside the point since he was not the raspy-voiced singer sent packing at the end of Wednesday’s episode.
[Spoilers ahead.]
The singer with the lowest amount of votes this week (whatever that means, now that the show has no real live audience) was Raccoon. After a clue package that revealed the masked singer had started out as a boxer and trainer to an actor before becoming a star himself, followed by a performance of “Wild Thing,” the judges panel had guessed everyone from the aforementioned DeVito to Sylvester Stallone. But before Raccoon was unmasked, guest host Niecy Nash—still stepping in for COVID-positive Nick Cannon—reminded the panel of their “First Impression” guesses from week one, and offered Jeong, Jenny McCarthy, Nicole Scherzinger, and Robin Thicke a chance to change their votes. Here’s their initial guesses and final guesses:
Jenny McCarthy: Dustin Hoffman / Gary Busey
Nicole Scherzinger: Gary Busey / Sylvester Stallone
Robin Thicke: Danny DeVito / Tony Danza
Ken Jeong: Mike Tyson / Danny DeVito
But, in a shock to no one, they were all wrong and Raccoon was actually Machete himself, Danny Trejo. So at least Ken got the first name right?
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Pretty wild that this site has dropped coverage of the majority of the shows that people here actually watch and used to comment on the review articles of but has decided to start running random pieces on the fifth season of the masked singer.
Yet they still have the audacity to write this headline about the Simpsons:
The Simpsons’ 700th episode reminds us why The A.V. Club doesn’t cover The Simpsons any more
They’ve always had a news item for Masked Singer, though. It used to be one, season-long slide show collecting the clues and making guesses for each performer. Since the commentariat avoids that format like the plague, these news articles are basically mini-episode recaps. Plenty of people actually watch this show.
I’d guessed Danny Trejo from the first appearance, but I didn’t realized he was so short!Also, Orca is Adam Sandler, I believe.
I worked with Danny Trejo once and was shocked by how short he was. I’m just 6′ but he seemed at least a head shorter than me.
We watch this show and I guessed this one, which is weird because I usually never guess correctly. But since Trejo was more talking than singing, I guessed right.
I had gone from AC/DC’s Brian Johnson (until the clue package this time around made clear it was an actor) to Michael Madsen (who has that same kind of raspy voice). Would not have guessed Trejo in a million years.
Madsen was a good guess, though. He also seems a bit crazy in the Busey/Rourke vein.
The most notable part of this was Trejo’s autism comments. Trejo thanked McCarthy for the work she’s done on autism. McCarthy is an anti-vaxxer who believes in the disproven idea that vaccines cause autism. It’s terrible to give any airtime to this.
And the show isn’t live, they could have edited that out. But they’ve also kept Nick Cannon’s anti-Semitic Hotep-ass around.
I like to imagine that there is a capricious, powerful trickster god named SyCo who builds gigantic, gaudy sets – and becomes very very angry if mortals do not constantly fill them with dead-eyed, singing competitions. The fate of the world hangs in the balance. The audience must clap and cry, the judges must point and screech, someone must cover Hallelujah
What’s the point in having a spoiler warning in the article when the spoiler is in the caption for the header photo?
It’s probably a good thing Ken Jeong is not a practicing physician anymore, since he really has terrible intuition.Idk, I’ve never watched this show. But he does generally seem like he’s a better fit for entertainment than for medicine.
I’m not watching the show, but I am pretty sure that given that bio I would have guessed Trejo. It’s practically the first thing they talk about in any piece about him.They usually do a good enough job with blocking, etc.(and a lot of solo shots) to kind of obscure how short he is, but sometimes they miss. Dude’s only 5’6, about Tom Cruise height.