Mr. J 頻道 (Mr. J Channel): Guests: Lara, 張傑 and 張菲 (12/4)

2 part episode with guests Lara, 張傑 and 張菲!!!!!!

1. 南拳媽媽's Lara & 張傑
1. Both Lara and 張傑 have left their band 南拳媽媽 to start their own solo careers. 南拳媽媽 is a band that Jay founded a couple years ago who have constantly switched band members for the past 3 times.
1. Lara is a Russian-American-Taiwanese who is releasing her new album 12/6 (can't wait) with mainly acoustic guitar sounds. She performed her song "John" which was in all English and it was alright, I want to see what else is on her album before I buy it. The song sounded a little strange because her English sounded fobby despite the fact that she was born and partially raised in LA!? So confused. Anyways, she's really talented and she does a duet with Jay on the song 珊瑚海 (Coral Sea) and sings in Jay's 蛇舞 (Snake dance).
2. 張傑 is super talentedddd and amazing at guitar. His "finger style" guitar show was really good, although, obviously Jay's was better haha. And his jazz-like guitar renditions of Jay's songs like 龍捲風 and 他的睫毛 was nice. And then Jay out shined him once again with his own acoustic version of 雙截棍 was ridiculous! Why did Jay even invite them when he's better than all of them and so when he performs he outshines them by like 100%?!!! Probably because 小豬 (Show) was freaking amazing during the first episode haha. But whatever, it was cool, we found out why they decided to go solo and displayed a bit of their talents. :)
2. 綜藝大哥大's 張菲 aka 菲哥
1. Okay, 菲哥 is like the king of all Taiwanese variety show hosts!! He's been hosting for like more than 20 years!!!! So he rolled up as a guest (my parentals used to rent his VHS tapes every week when they lived in America haha), I had no idea Jay even knew him O_O" or at least even considered him a friend but then again I'm out of the loop on a whole shit ton of Taiwanese entertainment haha. Anyways his freaking intro was RIDICULOUS! He sang ITALIAN OPERA and it was actually freaking good! I had no idea he could even do that??!!!! Anyways, Jay was offering 菲哥 a motorcycle and 菲哥 talked about how OPRAH gave the whole audience cars. WOW. How the hell did she even get into this conversation?!!! Anyways he was super humble which was cool! And he kept praising Jay for his hosting abilities! YAY JAY! <3 And he doesn't like 杜哥 just like me!!! WOOT! REPLACE REPLACE REPLACE!!!! Okay so basically the next 20 minutes of the show was about motorcycles and all that stuff. Lameee....They should've traded celebrity gossip!!! Anyways, it got better towards the end especially when he played the saxophone and showed off his musical abilities bahahhaa.

(So usually I attach youtube links on my other blog but apparently you can only watch them on youtube because they're copyrighted by Sony Entertainment -_-" so I guess just go find it yourself and copy/paste the title of this entry, sorry guys!)

Mr. J: 頻道 (Mr. J Channel): Guest 林俊傑 (11/20)

Guest: 林俊傑 aka JJ Lin~! <3 OMGOSH, totally love him and own all his albums!!!!


Anyways, he's super freaking talented as you can see in the show, and his cover of Jay Chou's 安靜 was ridiculously good! So he can sing, dance, beat box...damn! Jay sucks at beat boxing for reals, but JJ is so good~! 


Background on JJ: He's 29, so 2 years younger than Jay, but doesn't he look like he's only 20?! His face is still so baby cute. Anyways, he was born in Singapore which explains why he's good at English haha. And he's a singer-songwriter, composer and actor~! Cool yeah? Anyways, for the intro of the show, they call JJ: 情歌王子 (love song prince) bc his songs are super cute and romantic~! YAY! <3 But no, I'm a true Jay fan, so obviously I think Jay is better lol, but JJ has some really good songs and his beat boxing skills are not bad, and of course he can DANCE! Definitely better than Jay's in those 2 categories! Haha, and his MJ moves are pretty good too! I feel Jay getting jealous...haha JK!


Anyways, so happy that 杜哥 (the makeup artist guy) talked so much less in this episode! YAY! But this show was honestly just a back and forth between Jay, JJ, and 雪糕 (ice cream --> the choreographer guy) so it was a little too inclusive for me.


Wow, seriously after watching Mr. J Channel, I'm in so much in awe of how talented these celebrities actually are!


And for the latter half of the episode, they exercised lol?! Diablo yoyo thing, basketball, and ping pong! AHHH! Jay is so cute! Esp when he wore those 2 red cheek thingys~! <3


Check out the show at: http://heyitsabell.wordpress.com/2010/11/23/talk-to-me/~! Enjoy!

Mr. J: 頻道 (Mr. J Channel): Guests --江蕙 & 張惠妹 (11/13)

3 huge Taiwanese music icons on one show? YES PLEASE!

Recap:

• 江蕙 and A-Mei are super super super famous in Asia, and have won numerous amounts of awards. And most of all, they're super Taiwanese~! (^^)Y So half the show is like in Taiwanese...which I could barely understand, I had to read the mandarin subtitles because I was like -_-" what are they saying???
• Elly sang 江蕙's 《酒後的心聲》in Taiwanese and it was actually really good~! For someone who's not terribly fluent in Mandarin, much less Taiwanese, she sang it really well. Also, the song was like REALLY GOOD! I really like it!
• 江蕙 kept insinuating that Jay and A-Mei must have had some type of romantic relationship because they're really "close" haha but it just made things between Jay and A-Mei look even more suspicious. I'm like 99.9% show nothing is going on, but like a doting mother 江蕙 kept saying that there must be...haha she just wants her favorite young people to get together~! So cute!!!!! <3
• When Jay and 江蕙 duet-ed for 《一種感覺》 it was a little awkward yet so cute at the same time <33333 I loved it~!
• I like the fact that Jay, A-Mei, and 江蕙 are all really good friends~! It makes them more interesting, plus they have a lot of stories to talk about and you really get to find out about everyone's personalities :)

Last remarks:

• Jay is actually getting a lot better at hosting! Maybe it's because all of his guests are friends of his so it's not that awkward? But he seems more extroverted than the 1st episode for sure!
• Jay said 3 things that he would never do for his show: sing, act, and dance. Yet in the last episode he acted a little with 林志玲 and this time he sang both solo and with 江蕙. Whatever, I hope he sings more for the show now~!
• Elly and 小麥 like literally did not say ANYTHING. Except for when Elly sang A-Mei's and 江蕙's song.
• LASTLY, does anyone else think that the snarky gay makeup artist is taking over the show?! He like talks more than anyone else on the show and is like a attention whore. He purposely spills embarrassing stories about Jay so that people will want to listen to him but otherwise he's just really effing annoying....

Favorite quote:
When 江蕙 said “我選周杰倫！” ("I pick Jay Chou") when he asks her who would you pick, when they were singing <3

Link: http://heyitsabell.wordpress.com/2010/11/20/something-to-talk-about/

Mr. J: 頻道 (Mr. J Channel): Guest --林志玲 (11/6)

So I was really afraid that the this show wouldn't be funny if 羅志祥 left because he literally stole the show last week. But I'm happy, his co-hosts and Jay totally survived for this episode. Props to them for reals. They're really funny together~! I mean except for Elly who is just prompted to say things, I don't think she really knows what's exactly going on because they talk pretty fast. But we found out in this episode she was born in Thailand! COOLS! Anyways, Du Ge really likes to make fun of her because I think that he thinks that he should be the only "girl" on the show. HAHA. Oh gay guys, always competing!

The guest star this week was the ever so elegant actress/model 林志玲. She's really cute and sweet, they kept making fun of her for being drunk but all she drank was iced tea. HAHA. Really innocent, I like her. I like her they call her 姐姐 (big sis) because she's older than them. -_-" Well I guess it would be a little awkward to call her 妹妹 (little sis)...But all of them have a huge crush on her which is SO ADORABLE. They're all vying for her attention, especially 雪糕 (ice cream)! So cute~~~!

Again, I love the show because we always find out a little bit about Jay, he admitted that he likes to walk around 西門町 (ximending) (wearing a face mask of course) to remember what it feels like to be young and un-famous. :) It's sad the things that you lose when you become a huge star. :(

It was all in all a pretty good show. The captions are really funny which is my FAVORITE part of all TV talk/variety shows. :)

Watch the whole episode on my other blog: http://heyitsabell.wordpress.com/2010/11/07/walkie-talkie-man/ ~!

Enjoy~!

Mr. J: 頻道 (Mr. J Channel): Guest --羅志祥 (10/30)

I'm going to review a talk show in Taiwan that just came out on Saturday 10/30.


Jay Chou is hosting a talk show/variety show: Mr. J: 頻道 (Mr. J Channel) in Taiwan now with his co-hosts Xiao Mai (he can dance, sing, and he looks like a cartoon ==> they call him a “ghost” because they keep forgetting about him BAHAHAHAHAH), Ice Cream = Xue Gao (a dance choreographer), Xiao Du (a makeup artist) and new J Girl Elly (Eri Otoguro)–> She’s one of his Japanese fans and a model HAHA. OMG IS HE LOOKING FOR AN ABC?? :))))) [They explain all their bios in the first 2 parts lollllll] Anyways, he sends out Ninjas to go and get co-hosts for him LOL. So Jay.

Jay’s BFF 羅志祥 (Show Luo) also has a show: 娛樂百分百 (100% Entertainment) and he makes an appearance as the guest star in the first episode of Mr. J Channel! Woot! LOVE HIM! He’s sooo cute~! :)  They’re really good friends, and in the show they talk about how they first became friends and how they’ve been BFF’s ever since, and of course he gives us all this good gossip about Jay! YAY! Anyways, HAHA, he always calls Jay “baby” and sends texts to Jay asking him “Do you love me??” So cute! :) Reminds me of me and my bfff lol.

A lot of celebrities in Taiwan have their own talk shows, but it’s funny that Jay is having one because years ago he was known to be pretty awkward in front of people especially when he’s not singing/acting, since he’s a pretty private person. Especially during his interview with 小 S like years ago. LOL OMG. That was soooooo funny, I need to find the YT clip because it’s hilarious, she was like hitting on him and he was getting super super embarrassed HAHA! Anyways. He seems to have changed from being A+ shy, and now his show is effing hilarious~! AHHH! <3

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Overall:

The beginning was really cool because we got to learn about the background and history of the co-hosts and why Jay picked them in the first place which was really cool. Each host had a chance to talk and explain themselves. The show was amazing, kept me entertained the whole time because Show was really funny and we got to learn a bunch of interesting stories between Show and Jay. The co-hosts barely spoke because Show was just talking to Jay the whole time.

Well I am pretty biased because I'm huge fans of both Jay and Show so maybe that's why I thought it was really fun and cool, I watched it twice and repeated many scenes multiple times because they were just too funny.

However, Show definitely took over the show, as he has lots of experience in the entertainment business along with his own rather popular talk show. He was poking fun at how Jay was so awkward and unexperienced as a host. Which was okay because they are really good friends, and Show is known to do things like that. I think that it was a smart move for Mr. J Channel to have him as a first guest because it made the show really entertaining. I'm afraid that since he was so funny and amazing, the next couple of episodes might not be as good. Other celebrities aren't as loud and crazy and cool, so we have to rely on Jay and all his co-hosts to carry the show on, if they can, that it'll be good, if they can't, I wouldn't be surprised whatsoever.

I posted all the episodes on my other blog if you're interested in watching it:
http://heyitsabell.wordpress.com/2010/11/03/talk-of-the-town/