If you're on the lookout for an easy laugh and a good time
on television these days, you can certainly do much worse than
Lip Sync Battle on Spike. If you haven't seen it yet
or run across the clips on YouTube, you really need to check it
out.
Here's the setup—each
episode pits two celebrities against each other in an
audience-judged contest. The celebrities will lip sync two songs
apiece. The first is just the celebrity but, for the second song,
the show gives them access to just about any prop, professional
dancers, or any other bells and whistles they could possibly
want.
Most of the time, it's rip-roaring funny. Really, who
can't laugh at Channing Tatum all done up like Beyonce? Or John
Krasinski frenetically miming Tina Turner in "Proud
Mary?" To top it all off, LL Cool J hosts the show and his
reactions alone are often worth your time.
