I know some of you are going to hate me for suggesting this, but if I were a cable exec, I’d call up American Idol reject Rhonetta Johnson and sign her to a holding deal.
Think about it: With her silver tube-top and hooch-tastic skirt, she’s not afraid to work a unique look, and given her post-audition meltdown last night, she’s not afraid to act the fool either. Plus, she’s already established a killer catchphrase. (”You think I’m gonna drink off you?” Rhonetta huffed to the cameras after Paula Abdul offered her a sip of bubbly water. ”You can drink off me!”)
So how about it, PopWatchers? If you were giving the greenlight to Here Comes Rhonetta!, who would you hire to fill out the cast? Would it be a comedy, drama, or reality? And what would the premise be?
Me, I’d cast her as a struggling singer-actress-dancer who can’t help but turn her auditions and rare gigs into utter catastrophes. Cast comedian Susie Essman as Rhonetta’s equally foul-mouthed agent, RuPaul as Rhonetta’s rhubarb-tongued stage mom, and Yasmine Bleeth as Rhonetta’s scheming arch nemesis, and you’ve got comic gold, people.
What say you? Would you watch my version of Here Comes Rhonetta!, or have you got a better idea?
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How about this: Cast Rhonetta as someone who is changing her fould-mouthed ways, and wants to become a nun. And we watch as she horrifies her fellow nuns with her words and actions.
Whitney and Bobby could play the stage-aunt and uncle who, we find out in a later episode, were ’sponsible for her upbringin’.
This is exactly what’s wrong with the world today. A pig like Rhonetta will get underserved attention and notoriety for her slutty performance.
Agreed! don’t give that trash any more attention or screen time.
STOP the madness! The media/public must STOP giving these awful people ink and air time!! Keep the trash out with the trash where it belongs!!
this woman was hard to watch last night, and to give her more attention is shameful.
Are you going to change the name to Entertainment Weekly Enquirer? You spend way too much space on red-carpet scandels and AI rejects. Class back up please!
Rhonetta is a struggling hairstylist who works at a beauty salon in the Bronx while she waits for her signging career to blossom. Daniel is an Orthodox Jewish man who plays for a minor league basketball team while dreaming of an NBA contract.
Every episode would feature Rhonetta scheming to get famous. One ep she dresses as a cheerleader to impress guest star Paula Abdul. Another ep she dresses as a man and pretends to be a basketball player so she can get closer to guest star Kobe Bryant.
Also featured are the sassy gay dude (with the sage advice and the heart of gold) who works at the beauty parlor, the chinese restaurant owning mean lady and her cute freckly faced Teenage Daughter (who in later eps turns out to have an amazing backing vocalist voice).
Oh, and let’s not forget the swear jar. Ep 1 starts with Rhonetta getting fired from her “video ho” gig because she disses guest star Kanye West for grinding with another female.
As Vader would say, all too easy…
I thought I’d click on the link and read about how everybody loved her. I was so happy to read that people are angry that Rhonetta is “getting press.” She’s obnoxious and disgusting and had nowhere near the “charm” of William Hung. The problem with Rhonetta was that she wasn’t an “awful” singer…she was just attitude. You’ve got to be an awful singer if you wanna win me over at this stage in the game.
Maybe you should of checked the very long rap sheet and multiple mug shots of Rhonetta before typing this up.
Casting RuPaul as Rhonetta’s stage mom? That is single handedly the best idea for a television show I have ever heard, haha! It would have to be ’spicy’ b/c of her style and language though, so would it be on HBO, Showtime, or Oxygen? I LOVE the idea and I’d watch it tomorrow!
A better idea? Could this be any easier? Turn your back on this skank ho and let her crawl on her hands (and probably VERY well used) knees back under the rock from which she came. I mean PULEASE!!! Michael is this REALLY you posting this? Rhonetta deserves about 3 minutes less screen time than she got last night – which for those who are counting would be LESS THAN NONE.
I found her to be very distastful. But some people like that. I would like to see a show with her learning how to sing for real and taking some lessons. Also giving some respect to other people and just not herself (she has the me complex). But she is interesting!!!!!!
If i saw a tv show with her on it, i’d immediately throw my tv out of my house. She took up the whole damn plasma, i can’t have VD on the tv screen, now.
A sitcom revolving around the toxic Rhonetta? I don’t need to SEE that!
She is trash and should be treated the same. Or was she just an actress? Give her a show called…
‘My Name is Rhonetta’ and put it on NBC.
The idea is gold!!! Jessica Walters should be somewhere on that show too. Oh man, I can hardly wait!
Would you all lighten up?! That, or switch to PBS and stop searching for highbrow behavior on a karaoke competition. Rhonetta was the funniest AI moment EVER! I say give her her own courtroom small claims reality show, a la Judge Judy. She could serve up her own version of foulmouthed justice.
Miss Rhonetta Johnson has been in jail. Check out her arrest Record http://mcmf.co.mecklenburg.nc.us:3007/cjin01w/cjjl/webnull and type her Name in and Search. Hers is the first three listed, then click on Charges. HEHE.
Rhonetta will be just fine. She just needs to go back to her corner and all will be right in the world.If you are really desperate to see her on a sitcom let her guest star on My Name is Earl. She can either be a friend or nemesis of Joy’s. It would be interesting to see those two skanks in a catfight over Darnell or trying to undo Earl’s karma attempts.
That’s all America needs is another no talent foul mouthed wannabe on the air waves. She was not entertaining in the least, just embarassing. I think people have gotten confused with what is entertaining and what is personal humiliation.
Put a blind-fold on her and give her a show on al-jazeera.
I say put Rhonetta on a deserted island with no food or means of escape. After she gets hungry enough, put Paris Hilton and Kevin Federline on the island and watch her hunt them down to eat. Then, each week the producers can drop off another D-list celebrity for her to devour. They can even call it “Maneater”.
NO, she should definitely not get her own show. She acted like a total fool last night and made an idiot of herself. I can’t stand when people act like that. The LAST thing this girl needs is any kind of fame. I never want to see her foul mouthed face again, she’s a piece of trash!
I hope this is a joke, Slezak. Rhonetta is a classless skank. The only show she should be on is one where they teach her how to dress and act in public.
Wait until September when Lil’ Kim gets out of the prison, and hire her and Rhonetta for a new version of “Hope & Faith”, with Rhonetta in the Faith Ford role, with kids and a former Happy Days star husband, and Kim in the Kelly Ripa role, playing a former rap star who’s been out of the game so long and trying to get back in.
Give her the show and why not go back through all 5 season and get the best rejects, (of course the only known one is William Hung)……and just call it All American Idol Rejects and it would be about a group of rejects trying to make it in life to become a Superstar….or reach their dream!!!!
Someone actually thinks that this piece of garbage should get her own show while quality TV like Arrested Development and Scrubs suffer?
Gag me with a friggin spoon.
Rhonetta “gets it.” She has a HUGE ego…American Idol fed it by following her on cam…we’re feeding it right now. No matter what our opinion is of her, you can bet she’s having the last laugh! …and have to admit, that’s pretty smart for a “foul-mouthed ex-jailbird!”
Only one person on the face of the earth deserves a sitcom, and that man is Norm Macdonald. All the others are crap.