Past years have included Keri Hilson, saying "wicked" in a terrible British accent, and Shaggy in 2007 asking the crowd "if they fancied a shag" (cringe!).
The highlight of every episode was watching Trevor Nelson console contestants with motivational quotes like "Keep your pecker up" and "Off you go, no room for a loser," while Lisa Snowdon stood around in a boob tube saying "Wicked".
And every voter asked said "Wicked" would win.
These are the places where comedians "say wicked, crazy, silly, wrongful, delightful, upside-down, careless, offensive, disgusting, whimsical things".
It's true that in the 90s we wore bootcut jeans and said "wicked"; in the 2000s jeans got tighter and we started to say "sick".
When sentencing Layla, Judge Paul Batty QC said: "Your behaviour throughout the proceedings has been irresponsible in the extreme and many would say wicked.
Users may not greet such missives with the enthusiasm they reserve for reports of snow from their favorite resorts, but such a potentially life-saving feature might still be, as Mr. Turgeon might say, "wicked useful".
Written by Eric Simonson and directed by Thomas Kail, the team behind the modest popular hit "Lombardi," about the celebrated football coach Vince Lombardi, "Magic/Bird" represents another workmanlike attempt to colonize a small patch of Broadway for the underserved straight male constituency, which now has something to drag wives and girlfriends to in exchange for attendance at, say, "Wicked".
And should Donald Trump be elected president, I'd expect the markets to express some ... I'll be kind and say, wicked bad indigestion.
Going back to Abraham Lincoln, who was probably America's first comedian, Americans have enjoyed gathering at night in small packed (and once smokey) rooms, drinking themselves a bit numb and listening to each other say wicked, crazy, silly, wrongful, delightful, upside-down, careless, offensive, disgusting, whimsical things.
Seriously, there just aren't enough staged musical adaptations of Stephen King's work out there—I'm looking at you, creepy clown from It, or should I say wicked killer vocal soloist clown from It! Anyway, Broadway's always been a bigger fan of those high-class idiocy fests called "musicals," while L.A. seems to have found its niche in the way-cooler "rock opera" cousin.
