David Hasselhoff Seizes The Moment

On a night dedicated to celebrating the very best in American talent, it was a man whose myriad.gifts are almost exclusively recognised overseas who truly stole the show.

During Tuesday’s moving finale of the NBC hit (we’re trying to make up for missing the event by slowly reconstructing it through YouTube clips), judge David Hasselhoff offered a brave performance of his Jekyll & Hyde: The Musical’s “This is the Moment,” knowing in his heart that the larynx-eroding effects of too many wild nights of drunken, camcorded floorburger parties might prevent him from delivering a single note in its intended key. Still, Hoff belted on, nearly collapsing from the exertion necessary to execute the song’s lung-bursting finish. Fuck America, Hasselhoff’s triumphant expression seems to declare as he sustains a final, strangled note, I’ve got all the talent you need right here.

• HASSELHOFF – Germany’s Number One Male Vocalist [YouTube]