Andi is the host, she's not supposed to contribute much. But the entire show is for entertainment anyways, it's not like Button (besides the draft) or Jeff O'Neil provide anything substantive most of the time.
I could probably live without Colby. I liked Mike Johnson a fair bit as a play-by-play/analyst type.
I reject the notion that an uninformed host or a modestly informed host of a particular event/show is more entertaining than a host that demonstrates expert knowledge of any given subject despite the push to insist as much.
George Strombolopolous was a good host. He proved it on MM, on his CBC talk show...but he was clearly miscast for HNIC despite the corporate decision to insist otherwise. Andi Petrillo is a tick away from Strombolopolous cringe-worthiness under the same consideration set.
Entertainment? I guess. But one consolation of what passes for entertainment that for most I suspect falls into mindless activity/distraction (and valued about as much by some of corporate) is that there remains a few options out there that provide relevant information presented by knowledgeable men who value the game and invest the kind of time that demonstrates it to an equally invested fanbase.
If a host of a particular event/show isn't expected to contribute much - and by contribution I take it contribution refers to specific supplemental knowledge - then there should be something other and exceptional that the presenter should bring. One might say, Andi Petrillo's value at this point is familiarity is it not? Familiarity on the heels (no pun intended) of having been made familiar.
Call me antiquated, but the notion of having Joy Behar host a press conference on Space X's newest technology is about as relevant...With the only exception of having reporters repeatedly note Behar's resemblance to ALF and in that perhaps her presence might serve some consistent thematic purpose.
Similarly, AP just doesn't fit, and every conversation attempting to find a fit for her feels like an exercise of deformed charity. Because in charity there's a goal to help the less fortunate. And by every measure, the mediocrity that is AP feels like someone whose getting more for less while never appearing to ever care to justify it. And it's that absence of contribution - given her time in the field - that feels more like an abundance of arrogance rather than an accidental absence of ability. And haven't we had enough of every kind of personality (or thing) like that? I know I have.