Two-time Super Bowl MVP is revealed as this week's 'Masked Singer'

Joel McHale was a guest judge this week on Fox’s bonkers new celebrity singing competition, The Masked Singer, alongside regular judge Ken Jeong -- which resulted in a fun Community mini-reunion. (Oh, if only Donald Glover had shown up!) Community was absurdist comedy at its finest, of course, and McHale also spent years back-announcing kooky clips on The Soup. But at the top of Wednesday’s latest Masked Singer episode, even seen-it-all television veteran McHale announced, “I feel like I’m already on drugs!” I certainly felt like I was on drugs by the episode’s end. This show is weird, you guys. And it is also addictive. The Masked Singer, on which cosplaying mystery celebs perform karaoke for regular judges Jeong, Jenny McCarthy, Nicole Scherzinger, and Robin Thicke plus exiled America’s Got Talent host Nick Cannon, basically resembles an hour-long version of Eurotrash band’s Alacazar’s infamous “Crying at the Discotheque” music video -- and it has become such an unlikely ratings smash that Jeong is shocked. At the end of each episode, one contestant is unmasked, and the internet breaks. The show’s first episode had everyone in America indulging in the new national pastime of figuring out the famous faces behind the facades of the Peacock, Monster, Unicorn, Deer, and Lion, and this week, those characters were back to keep us all guessing. This week also marked the second unmasking of an NFL star, following Antonio Brown’s big reveal as the Hippo on the season premiere. On Wednesday, the Deer sank his teeth and antlers into Florida Georgia Line’s “Get Your Shine On,” and when he got his mask off, he was revealed to be -- as I’d guessed correctly -- Super Bowl champion Terry Bradshaw. This one was a fairly cinchy guess. The Deer had dropped clues about the “wild West” (Bradshaw has sung country & western music semi-professionally before), a love of horses (Bradshaw breeds quarter horses), doing tons of commercials, winning multiple titles, and “making a donkey of himself” (Bradshaw owns a pet donkey!) -- so it all led to the perfect Masked Singer touchdown.

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