May 15, 2005

• wherever he's been, he shouldn't've taken MoneyFilter with him...
• Wow, three FPP's on this guy in the last 3 days. And I have no idea who he is.
• He's a funny guy who is unfortunately quoted by everyone in a most unfunny manner.
• He's NOT Rick James, Beeyatch. illustration of what loto said
• That was nice of Time to print the press release Dave's PR guy sent. I mean, I hope he's OK and all, but that's some heavy spin there.
• Hmm... Robin Hood: Men in Tights, The Nutty Professor, and Undercover Brother... and I wondered why I didn't know him.
• ?
• I give him credit for knowing when to step back and try to see the big picture. I'm kind of doing that myself right now. It's harder than I'd thought it would be.
• I think he's wiser than a lot of people think, like Cali said, knowing when to step back and look at the big picture is important.
• Just last night i read my first article about it that assumed the same, but it's good to get it straight from the man. It's hard to be publicly speculated upon in times of crisis-- fjord knows supposition is a large part of compounding real problems. i agree it shows his good judgement on the whole because (and if i had the presence of mind to find the link, i would) success can be the biggest obstacle to continued success, and knowing he knows on how many levels he has to manage his life makes me respect him all the more.
• Hell, if that's heavy spin, I like the guy just for having PRs who can do a good impersonation of human behaviour. Which, lets face it (*cough cough tomcruise katieholmes cough*) is rare enough. "Look, don't worry, I know what how to smooth this all out. Just put in the stuff about Islam, that'll have the public back onside in no time." I think Douglas Adams once said something along the lines of, whenever anybody - no matter who - becomes successful, they should be allowed a year of grace for being an arsehole, because it's just not humanly possible to avoid it. You should judge them on whether or not they manage to return to normal, civilised behaviour, not on whether they go a bit loopy for a while. And I'd like to point out that I still have only the vaguest ideo of who the hell this Dave Chapelle dude is. I've worked out that he's not the camp photographer, and that he may or may not be Rick James, bitch, but beyond that...
• He's afraid of Wayne Brady, I can tell you that.
• flashboy: in the same mag i read, it says he's made some shows downloadable (which added to his #1 selling DVD ever thing) sorry, tired and still not quite awake, but i'm sure it's easy to find. i dunno about other spinning but as these are the only two things i've bothered to read about it yet, seems other people are spun for their own reasons being redundant, but it's speaks well of getting away from things, even if stuff falls down when one leaves their perch
• mj: i'm afraid of Wayne Brady, or i was until that sketch. that was genius
• ok, then you have to know who Wayne Brady is. The (not la) Chapelle got the best laughs by skewering things head on with blunt raving irony, satire and that most effective weapon, the truth. i'm shutting up now.
• An article written by Chris Farely...from a van down by the river!!!
• Flashboy, can you find that direct quote? I live in Tinseltown. When friends who visit are gleeful to point out poor movie star behavior, I pretty much say the same thing, that it's the uncommon person who stays "humble" and that most folks, given a chance, turn into raving assholes (i.e. the majority of Hollywood.)
• Ok, Wayne Brady I'm familiar with. The connection...?
• Check out Wayne Brady season 2 clip.
• Ok, that was HILARIOUS. Is it all like that?
• the clip on the website stops before the bit where Wayne Brady makes Dave smoke PCP and then kills a cop...
• aww, you spoiler! since i didn't find the downloads he sanctioned, i didn't wanna blow the fun of the unexpected. It's definitely one of the best sketches, and they can't all be that good, but as he would like them to be and i believe it is just him and one writing partner who wrote all the sketches, it's been assumed widely that that was part of the "problem"--
• My exboyfriend peed right next to Wayne Brady. It was probably one of the most exciting moments of his life.
• my brother saw eric bogosian puking in an alley. not a high point.
• Seeing Eric Bogosian? No.
• I had sex with a clown a couple times. You can say what you like about people in the entertainment industry - they do have really big cocks.
• Yeah, but that was just Gacy.
• And McBoozo.
• My very short mom walked face first into then-heartthrob Patrick Swayze's crotch accidentally while not watching out for what loomed ahead. As he is a not quite too distant relative, that makes it all the funnier.
• dude, i'm sorry. having both chronic stupidity and unjustified narcissism in your genes must be difficult.
• OUCH hehe
• Yeah, wow. So, Hawthorne, do you have a body covered with scars from bar fights and your stint in the French Foreign Legion, or just those incredibly well-lived fingertips?