Joey de Leon has already established himself as one of the many (considered) institutions in the Philippine entertainment industry with “Eat Bulaga” being on top of his repertoire.
“Eat Bulaga” has managed to stay and become the longest running Philippine noontime for 36 years; an impressive feat to emulate by any show of similar genre or those came to compete with it; and competition “Eat Bulaga” had.
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Joey de Leon has been one of the more outspoken among the trio (Tito Sotto, Vic Sotto, and Joey de Leon) of mainstays in “Eat Bulaga”. With his sharp wit, Joey de Leon has become controversial with his various tirades, criticism, opinion, or “jokes” against various shows (and everything in them) that posed a threat or competition in the ratings “game” in the noontime show slot.
The latest to ‘seemingly’ receive the “sharp wit” of Joey de Leon is the comedian of ‘seemingly’ similar caliber is “It’s Showtime” host Vice Ganda. This in term has mostly turn audience members into loyal supporters; loyal supporters who somehow grow bitter and started ‘bashing’. This in turn has made Joey de Leon share a tweet like he usually do.
With a limitation of 140 characters on Twitter, Joey de Leon has delivered a seemingly perfect and sound statement; the keyword to look out for there is “seems”. The tweet immediately garnered mixed reactions of support and criticism.
You see, being an outspoken witty person is like a double edge sword which Joey de Leon seems to proudly wield one. His pun-filled jokes which are either hit or miss can either be meaningful and hurtful depending on who is reading it.
This itself can be considered ‘bashing’. To ‘bash’ in its rawest definition is to “Strike hard and violently” and a ‘basher’ is a ‘harsh critic or opponent’ as defined by Oxford Dictionary. Now that we got that out of the way, let’s look at the history of statements publicly released by Joey de Leon in the past.
A meaningful tweet that pertains to “It’s Showtime” with their now defunct ‘Pastillas Girl’ segment that attempted to compete with the AlDub. This looks awfully familiar as Joey de Leon may have already expressed this when he was criticizing Willie Revillame’s “Wowowee” back in the days.
