The problem with reunion tours: Before you hit the road, you have to deal with the kinda-dim interviewers who weren’t prepped on your current activities, a lack of planning that only serves to accentuate how socially awkward they are when they have to go off-script. Exhibit A being New Kids On The Block’s appearance on Today, during which the dippy interviewer asked them what they’d been up to, then demanded that they dance in the rain for her, in such a way that it was abundantly clear that she was on the Guns N’ Roses side of the great late-’80s middle school debate back in the day. (My favorite part of the clip, of course, is when two of my current interests–Jon Knight and the popping housing bubble–come together when he talks about how his fame isn’t really helping move inventory in his real-estate business.) [Video HT to Jezebel]
The problem with reunion tours: Before you hit the road, you have to deal with the kinda-dim interviewers who weren’t prepped on your current activities, a lack of planning that only serves to accentuate how socially awkward they are when they have to go off-script. Exhibit A being New Kids On The Block’s appearance on Today, during which the dippy interviewer asked them what they’d been up to, then demanded that they dance in the rain for her, in such a way that it was abundantly clear that she was on the 
@loudersoft:
that comment is brilliant. lmao.
jesus, donnie is playing a mean game of pocket pool, too….especially when she asks him about his acting career.
joey is still hot, though.
:)
Is that Danny Wood, or Joe Camel?
@Audif Jackson Winters III: My friends and I always called him “Monkey Boy”, and there was almost always one ugly girl in everyone’s circle of friends that liked Danny.
I think Danny had some plastic surgery. Donnie is still handsome, though.
@scarletvirtue: I’m thinking, “What if David Schwimmer’s face got pulled/stretched with pliers?”
@Thierry: Yes - David Schwimmer gets caught in an old-fashioned taffy puller! I think that was a Very Special Episode of “Friends” that went unreleased.
And Danny’s smile reminds me of Jack Nicholson’s Joker in “Batman”. The stuff nightmares are made of, there.
@scarletvirtue:
Someone once said the exact same thing about my smile. It was depressing.
When I watched this clip, I was taken aback at how alarmingly excited I was when they burst out of that curtain to “The Right Stuff.”
The trippy thing is that fans of NKOTB at their peak probably are here with their kids, all of whom are excited. Weird but neat.
(Apologies for the requisite J-Pop trivia again, but keep in mind that this is the case with Japanese boy band S-MAP, as far as age, except they never broke up!)
more like New Kids On Bo Tox
so i guess former boy band members either:
1. go into real estate (jon knight, ronnie devoe from new edition), or
2. go on reality tv (the rest of them)
@loudersoft: Nice! [applause]
Wow, did I ever hate them…my less judgmental adult self would have been much easier on them, I am sure.
Shocking even to myself, my nerdy little middle school self loved the hell out of Guns N Roses. We backed them bloody birthday cakes and stuff. Good times.
Any news of progress on Axl’s album?
I do appreciate Velvet Revolver news though. Slash was the one I screamed for.
or *baked*
@mackro: Oh I’m sure that the girls that were fans back in the day will be bringing their kids to the shows. No doubt on that one.
My roommate dragged me to a Jon Knight show in Ferndale a few years ago and he didn’t even finish one song, but yes, the entire audience was women my age. Even though I’d been a fan back then, it was not enjoyable.