A brief explanation of America

[andrewducker]

You know what I'm gonna do?
I'm gonna get myself a 1967 Cadaliac Eldarado Convertable,
Hot Pink!
With whale skin hub caps,
An all leather cow interior,
And big brown baby seal eyes for headlights.
YEAH!
And I'm gonna drive around in that baby,
At 115 miles per hour,
Getting one mile per gallon,
Sucking down quarter pounder cheeseburgers from McDonalds in the old-fasioned non-biodegradable styrafoam containers.
And when I'm done sucking down those grease ball burgers,
I'm gonna wipe my mouth in the American flag,
And then I'm gonna toss the styrafoam containers right out the side,
And there ain't a God damn thing anybody can do about it,
You know why?
'Cause we got the bombs, that's why.
Two words, Nuclear Fucking Weapons OK.
Russia, Germany, Romania,
They can have all the democracy they want.
They can have a big democracy cake,
Walk right through the middle of Tienemen Square,
And it won't make a lick of difference,
Because we got the bombs OK!

Aah, Dennis Leary, whatever happened to him?

(Aah, yes, Disney films and voices for animated Tigers)

Comments

[onceupon.livejournal.com]

Well, he also has a couple of kids and a wife to keep him busy. He scaled back the touring but he still does the occassional charity gig.

[heron61.livejournal.com]

I completely agree. I loathe most of the humiliation-oriented insipid stupidity that passes for modern comedy. I far prefer the hard-edged sarcasm of folk like Dennis Leary and Brett Butler.
I'm still baffled by the fact that Leary isn't considerably more famous and that anyone goes to see Adam Sandler movies.

[andrewducker]

Well Dennis Leary did get pretty big. He was no Bill Hicks though.

And I'll admit to liking The Wedding Singer and wanting to see Punch Drunk Love (because it's a PT Anderson film, of course).

[drainboy.livejournal.com]

The fact that Rowan Atkinson is making it big in films playing parts like Mr Bean and Johnny English rather than Blackadder really saddens me. He was the ultimate hard-edged sarcastic evil git that you still actually liked and empathised with.

[andrewducker]

Well, considering Blackadder Back and Forth, it doesn't surprise me that much.

I remember reading something about the difference between Blackadder and Mr Bean. With Blackadder, the writer/director/producer used to be pissing themselves. With Mr Bean, they were just doing a job, but the stage crew were pissing themselves.

Sadly, the stupid market is bigger than the smart one.

[kpollock.livejournal.com]

Actually I find Blackadder would come under my definition of 'stuff for the stupid' too - i find some bits mildly amusing, but I'd never call it clever...

Of course it is oceans better than any Mr. Bean.