July 22, 2008

"eat your heart out peggy fleming"

4 comments:

jay said...

what a bunch of freaks. i love it. richard dawson is my all time favorite gameshow host, have to say. especially when he's oozing either palpable contempt at the whole show and all the contestants present, or when he's being a blatant filthy lech. by the way, did you know that he ended up marrying a contestant on family feud and having a kid with her? i feel like maybe there's a similar kind of appeal to celebrity game shows as there is for illegal musical pros and session men. they both occupy this sort of career purgatory that people end up in often through bad luck and industry shittiness rather than a lack of something to contribute. if someone can laugh it off and still be entertaining or at least make their bitterness funny, chances are they'd be worth buying a drink for.

jay said...

by the way, how often do you think the whole panel and host on this show are all roaring drunk?

dan said...

yeah, career purgatory is often the best place. there's something inspiring about a niche in the pop culture sphere that finds a place for charles nelson reilly.

anthony campuzano said...

and it provides inspriration:

The Dead Milkmen "Serrated Edge"


Up on the hilltop where the vultures perch,
That's where I'm gonna build my church,
Ain't gonna be no priest, ain't gonna be no boss;
Just Charles Nelson Reilly nailed to a cross.

I don't piss, I don't shit, I'm gettin' no relief,
People shake their heads in disbelief.
GO!

Just me on a hilltop with 15 girls,
In a Nelson Reilly orgy that'll make your hair curl.
I don't piss, I don't shit, I'm gettin' no relief,
People shake their heads in disbelief.

Yeah, Charles Nelson Reilly, he's our man,
He can't heal the sick with the touch of his hand,
He can't walk on water, can't make wine flow;
Just another greedy actor on the late late show!

I don't piss, I don't shit, I'm gettin' no relief,
People shake their heads in disbelief.
GO!

Just me on a hilltop with 15 girls,
In a Nelson Reilly orgy that'll make your hair curl.
I don't piss, I don't shit, I'm gettin' no relief,
People shake their heads in disbelief.