Hassling The Hoff

I happened to catch an episode of America's Got Talent last week on NBC. There are some genuinely entertaining performers like clog-dancing quintet All That and hula hooper Hoopalicious but the show is way too long and host Regis Philbin deserves a clog in the head.

Even more ridiculous though are the talent-starved washouts serving as judges: some british nobody who's undoubtedly buddies with exec producer Simon Cowell, fish-faced Brandy and her fake boobs, and the Grand-dad of Baywatch - the Knight-Rider himself - David Hasselhoff. Why, America, why?