"Dance" world is tough

"So You Think You Can Dance" is getting too close for Comfort now.

Each week, Comfort Fedoke finishes in the bottom two or three. Each week, she survives; even the one time she was voted out of the show, she bounced back because of Jessica King's injury.

Now she's done it again. Fedoke finished in the bottom two (again). She survived (again) and Kherington Payne was voted out. Here are a few of my comments; please add yours:

1) Payne had rarely been in the bottom, but this time she ran into bad luck. There was no more safety in partnering with Twitch; instead, she and Mark Kanemura tackled two difficult routines.

2) The country two-step is sort of like the quick-step, designed to make dancers look bad. It had that effect, plunging Payne and Kanemura into the bottom women and bottom two men.

3) I would have voted out Kanemura and Fedoke. Viewers kept them, however, and dumped Gev Manoukian -- a wonderful street-dance soloist -- and Payne, a terrific dancer facing her one bad week.

4) Mia Michaels provided a stylish little routine for the five women to dance. The only problem was that it required lots of ugly make-up. For the rest of the hour, they didn't look good. Even Payne, a spectacular beauty sometimes, merely looked OK.

5) The irony was that the show had just received an Emmy nomination for best make-up. This time, make-up's job was to make the women look bad.

6) The other good news was that the show received three choreography nods, for Wade Robson, Shane Sparks and Mandy Moore. That was for last summer, when the choreography was great; this summer, it's even better.

7) The other choreography nominations? One, of course, was for "High School Musical 2." The other was interesting -- Julianne Hough (now a 19-year-old country-music singer) for one of her "Dancing With the Stars" routines.

8, 9 and 10) Now "So You Think You Can Dance has eight dancers returning Wednesday. This should be fun.