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  • TUESDAY JULY 17 2007 8:00 PM

9 People On TV I’d Like To Hit With a Shovel



And I’ll show you the shovel. A pretty easy concept to wrap your head around. I’m ignoring “fish in a barrel” types like Rosie O’Donnell, Jay Leno, Simon Cowell, John Belushi, Carlos Mencia, etc. and they're not listed in any particular order. Feel free to add more.


9) Jimmy Fallon- Apparently he’s taking over "Late Night" for Conan O'Brien in '08. A talk show. That’s right, the premise of the show is… Jimmy Fallon… talking. I’m pretty sure I could work up the anger to punch him while on ecstasy.

I chose a nice, sturdy-looking shovel for him. Solid construction, easy-grip handle... I anticipate a nice loud "gong" on impact.



8) Stan Lee- "Who Wants To Be a Superhero? C’mon, man, you're a god. You created the Fantastic Four, you’re better than this. Average slobs clad in repurposed workout gear does not a super-hero make. ‘Nuff Said.

I picked out a plastic scooped, gravel shovel. More of a mercy shot, just hard enough to knock him out so he can be taken some place far away from ill-advised basic cable trainwrecks.



7) Bam Margera- When does “fucking with your parents” stop being funny? I mean, start. Whoa, there are goats in the living room! Now there’s a spaceship in our bedroom! Now there’s a-- Zzzzzz... This mascara’d douchebag is the absolute definition of unamusing. His MTV show actually opens with a VO guy asking. “What will Bam do next?” Bam answers “Anything I want.” 11 year-olds everywhere flip off their parents, and go about the task of cleaning their rooms.

A short, squat, uninteresting tool. I'd have trouble telling them apart, but I'd grab the one closest to me and use it on the other. Mercilessly.



6) Isaiah Washington- For being a huge, whiny baby. Denying. Admitting, Begging forgiveness. Denying again. Complaining. That’s a great way to spend six months.

An aluminum show shovel. Not much damage, I'm guessing. More of an umcomfortable slap.



5) The asian contestant from Top Chef- I’m not looking his name up. He is atrocious. Ironically, his personality is the one thing wretched enough to render his glorious-looking food inedible. He should serve people through a plastic bubble.

A child's toy shovel. I'd slap him around with it, then insult him by using it to eat his food.



4) Mark Mcgrath from "Extra"- Or is it Access Hollywood? Congrats, you found a job more embarrassing than being in Sugar Ray. (I'm not proud.) And you seem really excited about shitty movies. Good for you. I wonder if you dream about saying, "Back to you, Dana."?

This appears to be some kind of post-hole digger. I'd bean him right over the head with it.



3) The Dos Equis beer-spawned, "Most Interesting Man in the World- "Hey, maybe no one will notice if we rip-off all those 'Chuck Norris facts' that were so popular on the internet a few years ago. We can even have a guy with a husky voice list all the manly atributes! It'll be really funny!" Poor Chuck... His throne, so delayed in arrival, was usurped in an instant.

Not sure what you'd call this. But I'd hit him with it and then use it to bury him. Right next to all the other shitty ad campaigns. Yeah, that's right, "Bud Light" VO guy.



2) Flava Flav You were in one of the greatest groups of all time. Now you're... I'm not even sure what you're doing. Sad. You need to take a close look at one of those dangling clocks...

This looks like a ceremonial ground-breaking shovel. Maybe its mighty blows would shake something loose, "breaking ground" on a whole new Flav... Either way, I'd have fun.



1) Hugh Hefner-I don't understand the holiest of holy reverence paid to this obsolete and embarrassingly out of touch dinosaur. The idea that HH is somehow considered a god or creature to be admired and celebrated. "Look, he's doing it for us!" What, exactly? "Umm, sex, or something. Isn't it great? He's fucking stuff."

And the comedy... Oh, the comedy. Every unfunny joke, aside, pun or poorly crafted piece of innuendo. Of course sex is phenomenal. Seriously, it is. Having sex is the greatest. You know what's somewhat less than the greatest? Endless variations on a joke where the punch line is always "sex." Whether it's HH himself groping a pair of uncomfortable looking sorority girls or some giddy talk show host intro'ing him as if he's done something fantastic for men everywhere and we should all bow down.

Not a single desire I possess is quenched by the sight of a hideous old man winking creepily at me while making suggestive comments. The subtext of every statement is "I'm going to have sex! Get it? Wink, wink, I'm having sex with this woman! Here is some not so clever joke about how I love sex. Here is a viagra reference! You know... For all the sex!"

A rusty, tired-looking shovel that's seen better days. You'll notice, unlike Hef, its rugged oak shaft has no problem staying hard. Or knocking down old men.

 

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audiophiliac

audiophiliac

Portland, OR
September 2006

JUL 17, 2007 11:24 PM

I actually like HMH. Hugh has covered a lot of ground this past century. I mean, yeah... the media needs to stop treating him like a King. But the guy has done a lot, even with Pin-Up. In a sense; if you think Hef has done nothing but worthless junk in his life you can erase every SG who has enjoyed any of Marilyn Monroe's pictures, she'd just be some women with relations to a lot of important people. What about the mad love Hef has given Silverstein? Maurice Sendak? Anyone who now buys Playboy for the ladies is just flat out lying. I mean you're paying how much per month to see only 3 women in the nude over a total of 8 pages, and nothing but words on the other 162.
Yes the playboy video game was a worthless concept, the TV show Girls Next Door is almost pointless other than the fact that you actually get to see inside the Mansion, something Hef had done his best to keep out from the media.

I can think of many more people that should take Hef's place in this list.

nothingtonothing

nothingtonothing

San Lorenzo, CA
December 2005

JUL 17, 2007 11:44 PM

What's wrong with John Belushi? Not dead enough for you? Too funny?

eScottie

eScottie

Minneapolis, MN
August 2003

JUL 17, 2007 11:47 PM

I am SO sorry Al Sharpton is really "on TV."






***SMACK!!!***

Uncle_Screwtape

Uncle_Screwtape

Los Angeles, CA
February 2004

JUL 17, 2007 11:48 PM

audiophiliac said:
I actually like HMH. Hugh has covered a lot of ground this past century. I mean, yeah... the media needs to stop treating him like a King. But the guy has done a lot, even with Pin-Up. In a sense; if you think Hef has done nothing but worthless junk in his life you can erase every SG who has enjoyed any of Marilyn Monroe's pictures, she'd just be some women with relations to a lot of important people. What about the mad love Hef has given Silverstein? Maurice Sendak? Anyone who now buys Playboy for the ladies is just flat out lying. I mean you're paying how much per month to see only 3 women in the nude over a total of 8 pages, and nothing but words on the other 162.
Yes the playboy video game was a worthless concept, the TV show Girls Next Door is almost pointless other than the fact that you actually get to see inside the Mansion, something Hef had done his best to keep out from the media.

I can think of many more people that should take Hef's place in this list.



I can't. For years I thought I was the only one who felt this way about him:

Orko27

Orko27

Lacey, WA
October 2004

JUL 17, 2007 11:58 PM

I'm ignoring "fish in a barrel" types like Rosie O'Donnell, Jay Leno, Simon Cowell, John Belushi, Carlos Mencia, etc.


John Belushi's been dead for over 20 years.

You'd need a shovel to hit him with a shovel.

joker_

joker_

Minneapolis, MN
October 2005

JUL 18, 2007 12:09 AM

I don't even know who Bam Magera is, yet I feel like I want to hit him.

Actually, I don't know who 4 of the 9 are total, and I am glad they're not annoying me; it looks like they all need to be hit by a shovel.

Flavor Flav really has fallen down that into the realm of crazy sideshow freak, it is sad; could you hit him first?

Thank you for that.

nothingtonothing

nothingtonothing

San Lorenzo, CA
December 2005

JUL 18, 2007 12:16 AM

aldoushuxley said:
This was the funniest article I have read in some time, you my friend are a creative genius. I am glad you gave spike Lee a love tap, I watched an episode of that dog crap show of his and he is probably the nicest person on television, even dealing with all those psychotic spandex clad fiends he still keeps a mr. rodgers attitude going.



I know you meant Stan Lee, but now I wanna see Spike Lee get hit with a shovel.

missbusk

missbusk

Seattle, WA
December 2005

JUL 18, 2007 12:22 AM

I almost wish that I actually watched tv, just so I could see if those who made the list are truly the most deserving of a whack. Although, as apt as a "short, squat, uninteresting tool" would be, #7 deserves something far more scarring.

Cyanea

Cyanea

Seattle, WA
June 2006

JUL 18, 2007 12:26 AM

best story i've read in a while. Flava Flav was probably my highlight. thank you smile

BloodMoney

BloodMoney

Bakersfield, CA
December 2006

JUL 18, 2007 12:36 AM

I loved the Bam Margera part. To this day I still can't figure out how he became a pro skater. He's amateur at best.

Airayeet

Airayeet

Columbus, OH
May 2007

JUL 18, 2007 12:52 AM

dainbramage said:
This list is missing Tiffany Pollard, aka New York from "I Love New York" and "Flavor of Love"

I want her to be hit by a bus. Which is covered in forks. And driven by a clown. Who is on fire. And high on PCP.



Im not sure if its because im high and its late at night but thats great and hilarious. Fuck Ill rent a clown suit.

Markus001

Markus001

United Kingdom
November 2004

JUL 18, 2007 12:59 AM

nothingtonothing said:

aldoushuxley said:
This was the funniest article I have read in some time, you my friend are a creative genius. I am glad you gave spike Lee a love tap, I watched an episode of that dog crap show of his and he is probably the nicest person on television, even dealing with all those psychotic spandex clad fiends he still keeps a mr. rodgers attitude going.



I know you meant Stan Lee, but now I wanna see Spike Lee get hit with a shovel.



Agreed. For a guy so passionate about race issues he sure as hell is misogynistic.

And re Bam Margera: Agreed. His behaviour just gets on my tits. If I were his parents, I'd have brained him when he'd turned 18. Probably even younger, if he always behaved like that.

I actually read the comic of the guy who won the Superhero show last time. It's decent, in a corny early-60s kind of a way.

RudieCantFail

RudieCantFail

Baton Rouge, LA
January 2006

JUL 18, 2007 01:12 AM

punk said:

hadees said:

punk said:
First, Conan O'Brien is leaving Late Night?!



He is getting the Tonight Show, although I didn't relies it would be in 08



Ooooh, I seem to remember hearing something about that.



We need to hit Jay Leno with a shovel, so that Conan can get his time slot sooner.

Matthew_O

Matthew_O

Los Angeles, CA
December 2006

JUL 18, 2007 01:16 AM

BloodMoney said:
I loved the Bam Margera part. To this day I still can't figure out how he became a pro skater. He's amateur at best.



Hahaha...But...amateur? That may be a stretch...like a strrrrrrrrretch kind of stretch. I have seen 11 year olds at the local skatepark pullin his moves. No joke.
Although he did have an alright part in...I can't remember the Adio Video I believe.

McKenneth

McKenneth

Macedon, NY
August 2005

JUL 18, 2007 01:19 AM

punk said:
First, Conan O'Brien is leaving Late Night?!

Second, fucking Jimmy Fallon is replacing him?! I've got nothing against the guy, but Conan O'Brien he is not.



+1

Though I do like the guy quite a bit. I mean, I love Fever Pitch.

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