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  • MONDAY NOVEMBER 24 2008 6:00 PM

Steven Seagal Fights Crime... And You Get To Watch.

My world has just changed forever. I wake up day in and day out, assuming I live in a post-Seagal word. Assuming that the most I'd hear of Seagal these days would be an arrest for drunk driving or some altercation somewhere. How wrong I was. The Seagal era continues. I want to say ""stronger than ever" but that seems like an exaggeration. Let's just say the state of the Seagal era is "strong."

Steven Seagal can now add "reality TV lead" to his resume, as A&E is in production on nonfiction skein "Steven Seagal: Lawman" in New Orleans. According to the net, Seagal has been working on and off as a fully commissioned deputy with the Jefferson Parish County Sheriff's Office for nearly two decades.



Okay, what? TWO Seagal bombshells in one day? One would've been more than enough, two is just greedy. Tomorrow, when I wake up to no Seagal news it's gonna feel like a cold, empty Seagal-less void. It's like eating two feasts back to back only to know the next day brings starvation. I almost don't want to eat.

Let me get this straight, 1) Steven Seagal is a cop?!?! How has this escaped my notice? And for ten years? That sort of implies he's actually pretty decent at his job and that it's not a total stunt...This is really something that has happened on our world? And it isn't national news?

And 2) Um, WE GET TO WATCH HIM BE A COP ON TV?! Unbelievable.

"Lawman" also will document his life off the beat, including his musical and philanthropic activities in the Big Easy.



"Musical activites" makes me nervous. Hopefully we're talking about the music created when a fist bounces off a bad guy's skull. The sweet sounds produced when a pool cue collides with a Haitian drug kingpin's ribs. Not, um, you know, shitty sax-filled jazz.

Hopefully "philanthropic activities" refers to his donating punches to lawbreakers, and volunteering his time, free of charge, to the pursuit of arm-breaking and kneecapping all those who defy him.

Seagal toplined a series of successful actioners in the '90s, most profitably in the "Under Siege" couplet.



Uh, thanks Variety, is that who Steven Seagal is? He's that guy? Not the president of France, Steven Seagal? Good to know.

The only people who don't know who Steven Seagal is have been living in a cave the past twenty years, and chances are they're living there to avoid detection by Seagal who sent them running to the cave in the first place. So, yeah, anyone reading Variety knows who Seagal is.

Also, Under Siege is still the best rip-off 'Die Hard on a boat, balcony spaceship, etc., movie' ever made. To re-cap, he's a chef on a boat taken hostage by villains... who also happens to be an ex Navy Seals. Or was it Green Beret? Special Forces? Well, you get the idea. And Tommy Lee Jones is the main bad guy.

"I decided to work with A&E on this series now because I believe it's important to show the nation all the positive work being accomplished here in Louisiana," Seagal said of the new venture.



The ONLY way that was ever going to happen was to put Steven Seagal in a reality show. That's a fact, ask any expert. You wanna publicize the plight of the people of Louisiana? Then you gotta take Seagal. It's just like how JCVD was actually made to draw attention to the perils of not making your bank robbery proof. People needed to know about it.

Seagal "helps fight crime because he cares about the community," said Robert Sharenow, A&E's senior veep of nonfiction and alternative programming



Think about that first sentence: "Seagal 'helps fight crime because he...'" Someone really said that. And it wasn't in reference to a movie. If you had walked into my bedroom twenty years ago while I was watching Out For Justice or Hard to Kill or Punch to Neck and said to me, "Hey man, pretty cool, right? Uh, by the way, someday Seagal will fight REAL crime on the planet Earth and they'll make it a TV show," I would've either exploded in tears of joy, or I would've pummeled the lunatic who'd broken into my house and spouted crazy talk. And now, that reality is here.

A guy robbing a convenience store will hear an offscreen, "Hey shitbag... looks like you've got more than ten items..." Then look up to see Steven Seagal say, "Here's two more." (delivers two punches) And WE GET TO SEE IT.

A drunk driver will get pulled over to hear, "Looks like you've been drinking and driving... You like drinking so much, you're Mr Drink-guy, right? Why don't you try drinking my fist. (punch)

A guy speeding will get pulled over to hear, "What's your hurry? You need to get somewhere fast? A regular 'Mr. Hurry' we got here. How about I show you my shortcut...Let me see here, according to this map, you were going...TO SLEEP." (punches guy)

A jaywalker will hear, "You like crossing against the light? That your thing? That gets you off, right? Well you didn't just cross the street...you crossed ME...and that makes me, cross. When I get cross I cross you off a list. The list of people I don't punch in the face. This automatically adds you to my list of people I DO punch in the face. Also, I'm wearing a cross." (punches guy)

"Lawman" is skedded for a late 2009 bow.



TheCoolerKIng is SuicideGirls' "Culture" and "Celeb" editor (we'll use those terms loosely). Click HERE for further reading. He's also doing this: HowToBeatUpAnything

 

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CyclopsJr

CyclopsJr

Los Angeles, CA
November 2004

NOV 24, 2008 06:10 PM

Between this and JCVD this is a very meta time for the action stars of Yesteryear. It'd be nice to see Dolph get a job hosting the "Feud".

welchjsn

welchjsn

Bethalto, IL
July 2005

NOV 24, 2008 07:28 PM

I would shed a solitary tear of joy at this news, but Im too affraid that Seagal would appear out of nowhere and kick my ass for being a pansy. Now we just need to get Chuck Norris off of the Total Gym and on the beat.

NFXFSX

NFXFSX

Vacaville, CA
October 2008

NOV 24, 2008 08:13 PM

haha

Awesome.

Moxy

Moxy

SUICIDEGIRL

Michigan, USA

NOV 25, 2008 12:22 AM

i think id be more impressed if chuck norris fought actual crime instead of did workout videos and sold home gyms on my tv set at 4 am between softcore porns and girls gone wild commercials.....
but i guess its pretty badass!tongue haha. segal FTW.

Toffee

Toffee

Australia
October 2008

NOV 25, 2008 12:58 AM

Ok thats normal...if we lived in bizarro world.

GrumpyGringo

GrumpyGringo

Fort Worth, TX
June 2007

NOV 25, 2008 01:12 AM

You had me at Punch to Neck

ki1

ki1

Ireland
September 2007

NOV 25, 2008 03:08 AM

omg omg. jumps up and down. as a child of the 80's/early 90's i am now wetting myself in anticipation......seriously. i wonder if they could hook up dog the bounty hunter as his sidekick???
or would they sort out the age old question of who is better steven seagal or chuck norris. it has to be seagal, cos hes a real cop. right.

DeltaEcho

DeltaEcho

Ireland
September 2008

NOV 25, 2008 06:36 AM


"Lawman" also will document his life off the beat, including his musical and philanthropic activities in the Big Easy.



Well, he also cooks...

hellboy7

hellboy7

Austin, TX
July 2004

NOV 25, 2008 06:40 AM

I am soooo sick today. And this news is sooooo bizarre. Taking more meds, drinking more juice and then burying myself in the sheets. Wake me when the show is cancelled. puke

lowroller

lowroller

Australia
May 2008

NOV 25, 2008 11:54 PM

I hope at some point he walks into a bar, takes a ball off the pool table, puts it in a rag, and beats a bunch of guys senseless. But for real this time.

That would be worth seeing .... even if they're all too drunk and can't fight back.

TaboriHK

TaboriHK

USA
August 2007

NOV 26, 2008 01:18 AM

Can he even kick above waist level anymore?

lowroller

lowroller

Australia
May 2008

NOV 26, 2008 01:31 AM

DanteDH said:
Can he even kick above waist level anymore?



Probably not. I always thought he ran funny. Can he even run anymore? He looked kinda on the fat side last time I saw him.

dirtyrugbyshirt

dirtyrugbyshirt

Tuscaloosa, AL
March 2008

NOV 26, 2008 07:23 AM

seriously? for real? wtf?

I cant wait.

TheJuanupsman

TheJuanupsman

Hopkins, MN
April 2004

JAN 01, 2009 06:11 PM

lowroller said:

DanteDH said:
Can he even kick above waist level anymore?



Probably not. I always thought he ran funny. Can he even run anymore? He looked kinda on the fat side last time I saw him.



I don't think he ever could kick above waist level. And yeah he runs like a Dire Corby.

sweetloretta

sweetloretta

Seattle, WA
June 2003

JAN 01, 2009 07:21 PM

wants.

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