Good for you.

I believe Shearer's done a lot of voice work for the Simpsons, etc. and I think he's done a lot of comedy writing. I'm sure he's funnier than most of us. However, in the absence of Allah, I now deem Ace to be The Creator of Worlds. So, fuck Harry Shearer.

As far as the Edwards video is concerned, I don't care where it came from. It's funny. And yes, video of waking up with bed-head would be funny, too, depending on who it was. That's the point. It's funny seeing HIM do it. Tell me you wouldn't laugh your ass off seeing Le Fraude taking a shit. C'mon, what would that face look like. Better still, how about TUH-ray-zah pinching a loaf. Oooh, how about TUH-ray-zah yelling at Johnny to light a match. Wait...mental images...coming...too...fast.

what the hell else should he be doing with the two minutes he has before air-time? Splitting atoms?

Survey says: "Blogging (of course)."

What bugs me is that Harry Shearer has been doing this "found art" thing of taking open satellite feeds and passing them off as some kind of new age, edgy performance pieces since the mid 80s! That's one, moderately interesting, non-conceptual, bland form of media that his been pissing on as his own for... what 20 years?!
Lame. Get a new schtick.

Edwards is a fruit.

He did invented the interjection (learned that word watching School House Rock) of "D'oh"... so he's got that going for him, which is nice.

I thought the point was that Edwards was doing it himself unlike someone who just wanted to get on air, and he wouldn't let the make-up lady near him except with hair-spray. He was using a compact, and he had a system of hair placement. This wasn't an "I can take it for TV" thing, it was a well practiced routine.

That was the gist of what I got. He's a very vain man. But then, Kerry flies his hair dresser out on his private jet for 200 dollar touch-ups.

As Mr. Bizkit might say, I'm in agreeance with Dear Johns. With Allah's Jihad against updating, Ace has moved--Ortiz style--into the 4-hole.

What I found interesting about the Breck Girl video was the stone face. The megawatt smile is always flashing when the camera is on. He looks like a different person without it.

JFH-

You are evil!

Now I'm going to be humming "Conjunction Junction" all d@mn day...

I agree too. I don't see the big deal.

However, this is a riot. Smallpox blankets? Putting immigrant kids back in the Atlantic? Desecrating the memory of CHIPS? All things John Kerry supports.

Ace-

It's not Harry Shearer taklking, it's Montgomery Burns. When Montogmery Burns speaks, you listen.

The whole "humor" aspect reminded of when I saw F-9/11 and everyone laughed at the beginning montage of the Bush admin folks getting fixed for their TV appearances.

Seemed pointless and unfair.

The point, I thought was that while Edwards is a touch effete with the compact and all, it's not anything that doesn't happen to every guy who goes on TV. Bush, Cheney, Ahhhnold...hell John Wayne had a makeup person. So is he still the Breck guy? Yes. Does this video amount to anything we can point to in order to make a partisan point? No. I chuckled at it, but I decided not to run it.

As pointed out,everyone who appears in front of a camera has had this sort of thing done to them, and to make it some sort of comedy bit shows the lack of creativity on the part of the so-called commedian. On the other hand, no one in their right mind throws a football around the tarmac with their airplane waiting, which is why all those sports moments ARE funny.

Does Shearer really deserve credit for "d-oh"?

Would it have caught on without Dan Castellaneta saying it the right way?

I hear people trying to say it all the time and it's not funny. But one guy I know does it just like Dan, and it is funny.

So, maybe typing three letters d...o...h (or maybe four, d...u...o...h) on a piece of paper or a computer monitor wasn't that much better than regurgitating satellite feeds.

By the way, the Cheney clip they had up last night was really lame. I mean, video of Cheney doing something is boring. Cheney could be in one of those decapitation videos sawing off someone's head and he'd drain all the interest out of it. It would be like watching an old shop teacher explain a miter saw.

Can it get more boring by having video of Cheney not doing anything at all? Yes, it can, Harry.

Speaking of decapitation videos...if Shearer had a video feed of Zarqawi and the rest going through their setup, now that might be funny. In a sick rat bastard sort of way.

I am with Lollia on this. If make up is necessary at least take it like a man and not like Liberace.

"Lacking any genuine artistic talent, blah, blah blah..." Your tortureous defense of Gurlie Men such as Edwards and yourself falls flat. But why you go after the messenger is obvious: You resent the fact that Harry Shearer got such mileage out of a hillarious snippet of tape and you didn't. How childish! But not to worry, when you grow up mommy will buy you publicity and acclaim too, just like Harry Shearer!

Make sure you hit the tip-jar, Paul. I can't keep delivering this sort of commentary without your support.

Thanks!

Hit a nerve, eh?

Blasphemer. Oh yeah, Paul, buy a fucking dictionary.