Twitter Conversation With Aida Mollenkamp


Dear Aida Mollenkamp,
Jillian Madison from Food Network Humor here. Quick question: WHY THE HELL DO YOU KEEP TALKING INTO THE WRONG CAMERA? Ever since Noah Starr left, you’ve been doing it 800-900 times per episode, and it’s seriously annoying. Are you brain damaged? Or are your producers just morons? Either way, I think I speak for all of humanity when I say YOU SHOULD STOP DOING IT IMMEDIATELY. Your show is hard enough to watch as it is, without you going all spastic on us.
Sincerely,
FNH




Has Noah’s star burned out? (Corny, yes, but it’s Saturday morning and that’s allowed.)
The new season of Ask Aida premiered this morning, and “resident computer guru” Noah Starr was nowhere to be found. Aida didn’t acknowledge his absence and carried on like he was never even there to begin with. The show was, however, just as awful as always.
Was he fired? Did he quit? Just where the hell is Noah Starr? We have a few ideas:





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