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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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GadflySystem

GadflySystem

Santa Rosa, CA
April 2007

JUL 18, 2007 05:41 AM

You've probably never heard of Shadowrun, but it is the RPG that got me though the awkward years of early puberty. Well this asshole "Mitch" turned it into an FPS video game that has no resemblance to the original game.



And I've got a shovel I'd like to hit him with...round about the forehead would be fine! wink

Domo_Kun

Domo_Kun

Rockford, IL
March 2005

JUL 18, 2007 05:45 AM

I forgot to nominate someone:


Emil Jones, nepotist and president of the Illinois State Senate.


Blago, governor of Illinois

For Jones:



A solid whack from that aught to end his Senate career.

For Blago:



If only we could get Lisa Madigan in the governor's mansion immediately afterward...

geo35

geo35

Minneapolis, MN
January 2003

JUL 18, 2007 07:04 AM

"...or some giddy talk show host intro'ing him as if (Hefner's) done something fantastic for men everywhere and we should all bow down."

I'm old enough to remember the world that Hefner helped change, and believe me you wouldn't have liked it. It would have been more graceful if he'd retired from the sport 30 years ago, but nonetheless I gotta' give the guy his due. There probably wouldn't be an SG in the new millennium if Playboy hadn't blazed this trail in the 50's.

Shell_Shock

Shell_Shock

Rockmart, GA
May 2007

JUL 18, 2007 07:54 AM

geo35 said:
"...or some giddy talk show host intro'ing him as if (Hefner's) done something fantastic for men everywhere and we should all bow down."

I'm old enough to remember the world that Hefner helped change, and believe me you wouldn't have liked it. It would have been more graceful if he'd retired from the sport 30 years ago, but nonetheless I gotta' give the guy his due. There probably wouldn't be an SG in the new millennium if Playboy hadn't blazed this trail in the 50's.



I hear you, man.

I was cleaning an old closet a few weeks ago and came across some Playboys that were older than 4 the last 5 Suicide Girls whose profiles I just checked out... dentist recommended and everything. The bottom line is that PB has really not evolved. I don't know that I'd hit Hef with a shovel, but SG is so new very refreshing. Sexy... interactive... real... gotta love SG.

anthonyd

anthonyd

Aurora, MO
April 2006

JUL 18, 2007 08:22 AM

I would like to see someone beat the fuck out of Bam Margera. I don't see what his appeal is in the first palce.

RileyStClair

RileyStClair

Los Angeles, CA
September 2006

JUL 18, 2007 09:08 AM

Gerry_D said:
i hope you get a TV show out of this column where you get to live out your dream of shoveling assholes.



please, please make this happen.

Morgan

Morgan

SUICIDEGIRL

Illinois, USA

JUL 18, 2007 09:58 AM

Agreed on all counts, and I'd like to hit the people who chose to put all of that list on the air for any amount of time.

longbeachjamie

longbeachjamie

Ladera Ranch, CA
October 2004

JUL 18, 2007 10:48 AM

haha, great read.

Guppy

Guppy

Bayonne, NJ
July 2007

JUL 18, 2007 11:42 AM

Agreed, oh this is comical.

redheadcd

redheadcd

Anaheim, CA
June 2007

JUL 18, 2007 12:31 PM

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.



lmfao..thanks!!

mingol

mingol

Singapore
July 2005

JUL 18, 2007 12:35 PM

JayDiddy said:
That's fucking funny!
I agree with all most importantly Flava and that fucking gook from top chef...I would never get tired of slapping him in the face!



Well, that was a lovely post.

aleksa

aleksa

Tacoma, WA
April 2006

JUL 18, 2007 12:37 PM

mingol said:

JayDiddy said:
That's fucking funny!
I agree with all most importantly Flava and that fucking gook from top chef...I would never get tired of slapping him in the face!



Well, that was a lovely post.



Thank you, I thought I was just being overly sensitive or something.

Varuka_Salt

Varuka_Salt

I'm lost
October 2006

JUL 18, 2007 02:25 PM

#4 trenching shovel
#3 late 1800's early 1900's Steam Powered Excavator (Steam Shovel)
#1 has a fiberglass handle, not oak. That way it will never go limp.

# -1...I know way to much about shovels.....I really need a new job!!

TheCoolerKing

TheCoolerKing

NEWSWIRE

Los Angeles, CA

JUL 18, 2007 02:52 PM

JayDiddy said:
That's fucking funny!
I agree with all most importantly Flava and that fucking gook from top chef...I would never get tired of slapping him in the face!



Wow. There's gotta be a way to insult him without insulting asians everywhere... and making yourself look... shall we go with "uninformed," right?

scorp17yh

scorp17yh

Brookings, OR
November 2004

JUL 18, 2007 03:35 PM

Billy Mays, the HI I'M BILLY MAYS COMMERICIAL SHOUTER
Anne Coulter
George Bush
Stephen A Smith ESPN'S

Not neccessarily in that order

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