Furthermore, having a celebrity lip sync and face off against another celebrity is always fun to watch. What draws more viewers is the degree of interaction it demands from the audiences, and they are made to feel like they are a part of the show. Rather than its premise, the show is popular for its stardom, calling in new celebrities in every episode – celebrities such as Tom Holland, Rihanna, Ben Kingsley, David Spade, Jim Rash, Alison Brie and Joel McHale from the popular sitcom Community, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Iggy Azalea, Will Arnett, Terry Crews, Anne Hathaway, Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson, and Neil Patrick Harris, among others, have all starred on the show.Īs the celebrities are paired up to go up against each other, audiences decide who wins the lip sync battles. Randy Wood for the 1982 show ‘Puttin’ on the Hits’.Īs the name itself makes it self-evident, the contestants buckle up for lip-syncing/dancing performance for two rounds, at the end of which the audience decides the victor. However, if one were to really trace the history of the show, one would know that it borrows from the concept created by Wm. Spike (now Paramount Network) was then looking to diversify and explore new kinds of content, as the network president Kevin Kay had noted later. Krasinski, Merchant, and Fallon pitched it as an independent show to NBC and its various cable channels in 2014 to no avail, but then Spike came forward to take it up. Not only had it been a huge success in the episode featuring Krasinski, but it also went on to become a regular staple on ‘The Late Night with Jimmy Fallon’. Its origins are believed to go back to Jimmy Fallon’s ‘The Late Night Show’, the brainchild of Stephen Merchant, Emily Blunt, and John Krasinski when they chanced upon the idea of a celebrity lip sync competition. Celebrity contestants are invited to go toe-to-toe on a lip sync battle, a one of a kind ‘singing but not really’ never seen on TV before. ‘Lip Sync Battle’ has quite a simple premise. We hope these two get to host some cool celebrities who are the reason why the show is such a massive success. Doubtless, the same hosts will be returning as the entertaining hosts of the show. The duo has been with the show ever since its first iteration on Spike in 2015. Much of the show’s success goes to the excellent hosting done by rapper-actor LL Cool J (James Todd Smith) and supermodel Chrissy Teigen. Here’s everything we know about its next season. Lip Sync Battle has had five successful seasons so far. Nonetheless, the strong fan following ‘Lip Sync Battle’ has accumulated, speaks for itself. Vulturenoted the success of the show and jotted it down to the show’s creators “opted not to impose artificial demographic targets, they also went out of their way not to futz up the very simple premise that worked so well on Fallon’s late-night shows.” The Hollywood Reporterwas a bit more reserved in its praise saying that the show was a success, but maybe it was a better fit as an interlude on Jimmy Fallon’s ‘The Tonight Show’. It also received the accolade of a primetime Emmy award in 2016. The overwhelmingly positive critical reception has been thoroughly consistent over the years throughout the seasons of the show. It has also given rise to a spin-off centered around kids on Nickelodeon, titled ‘Lip Sync Battle Shorties’. The show comes from the minds of John Krasinski and Stephen Merchant and was initially meant to be a recurring segment on ‘Late Night with Jimmy Fallon’ before its popularity prompted in the branching off, and being conceptualized as an independent series. John Krasinski, Jimmy Fallon, David Larzelere, Stephen Merchant, Casey Patterson, Jay Peterson, and Rick Schwartz are on board as executive producers. The series is backed by Eight Million Plus Productions, Matador Content, Sunday Night, Four Eyes Entertainment, and Casey Patterson Entertainment, and has famous American hip hop artist LL Cool J as the producer.
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