Even Sesame Street Wants to Poke Fun at Glee

The season opener of Glee might have been a vast improvement over season two, but even childhood touchstone Sesame Street did a light parody of the show. Puppets can be so cruel.

The season opener of Glee might have been a vast improvement over season two, but even childhood touchstone Sesame Street did a light parody of the show. Puppets can be so cruel.
Just like the weekend, the 63rd Primetime Emmys are history. This year's telecast was hosted by Glee's Jane Lynch and aired live on Fox from the Nokia Theater in Los Angeles. Despite Alec Baldwin's last-minute pullout, pretty much every small screen star showed up to celebrate television's biggest night.
Now the cast of Glee has gone and enlisted David Bowie in its quest to ruin Fashion's Night Out, Anna Wintour's fake charity. Their first act as spokespeople for FNO is this video for Bowie's classic "Fashion." I wish I could hate it.
As if Fashion's Night Out—Anna Wintour's fake charity that encourages people to shop with celebrities, free drinks, and parties (but never discounts)—wasn't annoying enough, now the cast of Glee has been named the official spokespeople this year.
GLAAD, the spayed and neutered gay media watchdog, released its annual Network Responsibility Index, which charts the gay content of television networks. Guess what they found? The highest percentage of programming with gay and lesbian characters is targeted at young audiences.
Not but two weeks ago we received the grim news that three of musical teensplosion Glee's lead actors — Chris Colfer, Lea Michele, and Corey Monteith — will be leaving the show after this season. Everyone was so upset! But maybe now that's not happening?
In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Glee's over-extended head gay Ryan Murphy says that Finn, Rachel, Babygay Kurt, "and others" will graduate at the end of season three, meaning stars Cory Monteith, Lea Michele, and Chris Colfer are getting the heave-ho.
Poor Chord Overstreet! The Glee actor's option to become a series regular wasn't renewed for a second season. The bloated show sure needed to get rid of some of the dead weight. This got us thinking: Surely there are some other shows that could use a bit of pruning, no?
Paige Wiser was the TV critic at the Chicago Sun-Times. She was fired yesterday for fabricating part of a review. But she might still have a job if it wasn't for her damn kids.
It seems that tiny showbiz dynamo Chris Colfer, gay angel of Glee, is not content ruling his small corner of Hollywood. He wants the publishing industry too. So he's inked a two-book deal with Little, Brown.
There was once a time where a boy being crowned prom queen, as per his wishes, would have been an exciting and subversive act. Now it just feels like yet another manifestation of the Gleeing of America. Still, congratulations to Jake Boyer, a openly gay senior from Blacksburg High School in Virginia, who actually had…