Hi, all, One of the funniest things on Mad TV (which over-does character-driven stuff sometimes, as much as I love Alex Borstein's maddeningly vague Ms. Swan) is Debra Wilson's emotionally volatile, pot-smoking Whitney, occasionally joined by her dumpy, out-of-it, coke-addled husband, Bobby Brown (played by Aries Spears).
Debra is perfectly able to capture Whitney's use of effortless, heartless, soulless, feellingless melismata. Really a scream. She'll be in the middle of one long wandering "note", when she suddenly takes offence (for no apparent reason) at one of the backup singers or even someone in the audience and start shouting at them, only to abruptly return to where she left off in her singing. When "Bobby" joins here, he spends most of his time smiling blankly with white powder on his face, or trying to get whitney to make out while she's singing. Don't know to what extent this is based on Whitney's or Bobby's actualy behavior. Frightening but funny. The show (MAD TV) gets repetitive, but it's worth checking out from time to time. my 2c, Walt
