@KanyeWest #News – Kanye West appeared on Kris Jenner’s talk show Friday for an interview that yielded two big reveals. The first: Kris Jenner, apparently, has a talk show. The second: the first photo of Kim Kardashian and Kanye West’s baby, North West.
Of course, the photo of North West was teased so much in promo clips going in and out of commercial breaks that it’s a wonder there was time for Kris to even conduct an interview with Kanye. Though, to call the conversation between Kris and Kanye—who is dating Kris’s daughter, Kim Kardashian, and is the father of her grandchild—an “interview” is the most generous of characterizations.
The episode of Kris, the final in a test run of Jenner’s talk show that has been airing for the last six weeks on five Fox stations across the country, was the equivalent of a real-life dramatization of an Us Weekly article. Jenner is hoping for a national syndication deal in 2014, and this was essentially a spoken-word press release for her unabashed willingness to prostitute her family for fame. It was the most graphic display of mutual masturbation that television has aired yet—both ridiculous and fascinating.
Kris Jenner is notorious for the admirable doggedness with which she orchestrates her family’s publicity. Convincing one of rap music’s most respected artists to engage in an hour of scripted PR about his unconditional love of a sex-tape-turned-reality-TV star, all building up to the grand unveiling of a photo of his first child may be her most despicable and, ultimately, most impressive accomplishment yet.
For her first question, Kris channeled the thought on every viewer’s mind: “Why here? Why now?” Revealing the whole stunt to be farce from the very first minute, Kanye did not answer “because you’re my girlfriend’s mother and you’re forcing me to.” Instead, he answered, “I felt this was a place I could express myself with no love and no agenda.” No agenda, of course, except getting publicity for his daughter’s baby photos.
