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Wednesday, September 07, 2005
One of the Greatest Reactions Ever
You may have read about Kanye West's comments about Bush during the NBC telethon for Katrina victims, but I had not seen the actual clip until just recently, when a good friend forwarded it to me.
Much has been made about West's comments, but much less about Mike Myers' reaction to West's ad-lib when West vears off of the words on the teleprompter. As far as I'm concerned, that's the real entertainment here. West's first ad-lib about the National Guard having orders "to shoot us" throws Myers a bit, but West's second comment, referencing Bush just comes out of nowhere and causes Myers to double-take.
It really looked to me like I was watching a 12:45 Saturday Night Live skit. It's really worth a look.
UPDATE:
The Sports Guy (who, IMHO, probably is the funniest thing on the web right now) hits on the SNL skit I was thinking about, one of my top ten favorites of all time:
Along those same lines, a few readers made a fantastic connection between
the Kanye/Mike Myers TV moment and a classic SNL skit from 1994. I'm
legitimately bummed that I didn't remember this myself, but I'll let reader Josh
from New Hampshire explain:
"If you think Mike Myers' reaction was hilarious during the Kanye West
rant during the Hurricane Katrina telecast solely based on the reaction itself,
then you have NO idea how funny it is for those of us who have seen the old SNL
'Pasta maker infomercial' skit where he plays a salesman opposite host Heather
Locklear. For no reason at all, during the selling of this pasta maker, she
starts insulting every ethnicity she can think of. Stuff along the lines of,
'This machine is so easy, even a drunk Indian could use it.'
"The board of callers behind them would light up every time she made one of
these insulting remarks, but the best part was watching Myers trying to distance
himself from her, hiding behind the counter, trying to say how he didn't agree
with what she was saying before she would interrupt -- the expression on his
face during the whole thing was the best part. You MUST not have seen this skit
because I find it impossible that you would not bring it up when mentioning the
Kanye West debacle. It just adds a whole new level of hilarity to his
discomfort."
Here's a link to the script of the Locklear skit. It really is brilliant.
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