The Masked Singer in late March of 2020 is like viewing a museum piece, for this pre-taped gem artifact exists in a world not yet clouded over by lockdowns and “shelter in place” and scalding your hands with hot water after every touch of a doorknob.
Here we see a studio audience of more than 100 people gathered to giddily chant “Take it off! Take it off!” like bloodthirsty Romans eager for the lion’s merciless coup de grace.
Here we see host Nick Cannon doling out puns that would seem hokey even in 1951 on The Texaco Star Theatre. And here Robin Thicke, Jenny McCarthy Wahlberg, Ken Jeong, Joel McHale (he’s ba-aaaack) and Nicole Scherzinger sit less than six feet apart from each other, cluelessly guessing which celebrities might be lurking
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