Old School. Biblically Independent.
By Dustin Rowles | News | April 9, 2025
One of the small joys of daytime television is the Spirit Tunnel from The Jennifer Hudson Show, where guests are given the opportunity to dance while the crew serenades and fawns over them. There are some fun compilations of them if you need a break from our current reality for a few minutes, although two standouts that I’ve run across on my social media feeds are that of Aaron Pierre:
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… and Kathryn Hahn.
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For Pierre, it all seems to come naturally to him. Hahn, meanwhile, seems to approach the Spirit Tunnel in the best way imaginable: By embracing the cringe. You just gotta throw yourself into it, and the more you enjoy it, the more everyone else will, as well.
Noah Wyle, bless, took the opposite approach. Appearing on Hudson’s talk show yesterday, Wyle basically declined to dance and to, instead, turtle-up and escape it as quickly as possible.
Noah Wyle on The Jennifer Hudson Show.
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I get it. Wyle himself said that he has some minor childhood trauma from a failed attempt to breakdance at a bar mitzvah in 1984. He feared that trying to dance would “would’ve triggered a bigger breakdown” than his character had on The Pitt a couple of weeks ago (for which Wyle is now a shoo-in for an Emmy win), although he did suggest he might “baby step” it next time, should he return to the show.
And that’s the thing. Wyle is cool. He is one of the coolest actors on the planet. He should know better than anyone that the key is to embrace it with confidence, earnestness, and without any fear that he might embarrass himself. Because no matter what he does, everyone is gonna love it — unless he turtles up and runs! Even if he’d embraced it half-heartedly, he’d have avoided posts like this one! The only way out is through, Wyle.
The Pitt season finale, by the way, airs tomorrow night. The second season has already been announced, production has begun, and it will be set 10 months after the first season— over the 4th of July weekend.
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