In a nutshell...
An exerpt from the God Bless America Script
by Bobcat Goldthwait
CubicleMate: So what about you Frank? You see that freak on American Superstars last night?
Frank: What?
CM: Last night, the freak on American Superstars.
Frank: No…I mean yes….I saw that guy accidentally. I don't watch American Superstars.
CM: You don't watch it…but you saw it? Right…what are you too good for the show?
Frank: Yeah…I'm too good for a Karaoke contest that makes stars out of people with no talent.
CM: You can't say that dude. Some of those kids have real talent.
Frank: No... they don't. They have good pitch, they're relatively clean, they're non-threatening to little girls and old ladies. They have the ability to stand in line with a stadium full of other desperate and confused people. But I assure you, they are talent free.
CM: Yeah well I bet that 32 million people would disagree with you bro. Cause thats how many people called in to vote last year on the finale.
Frank: I wish I was a super genius inventor and could come up with to make a telephone into an explosive device that was triggered by the American Superstars voting number. The battery could explode and leave a mark on their face so I could know who to avoid talking to before they even talked. Yeah… I could look and say, mmmm…no, you're not gonna be saying anything that's gonna add any value to my life.
CM: Yeah..but it's funny. I mean you gotta admit that...Steven Clark? Thats funny shit, Frank.
Frank: Its not nice to laugh at someone who not all there. Its the same type of freak show distraction that comes along every time a mighty empire starts collapsing. American Superstars is the new Colosseum and I won't participate in watching a show where the weak are torn apart every week for our entertainment. I'm done, really. Everything is so cruel now. I just want it all to stop.
Two women walk by complaining about how many kids Angelina Jolie has.
Frank: I mean, nobody talks about anything anymore. They just regurgitate everything they see on TV, or hear on the radio or watch on the web. When was the last time you had a real conversation with somebody without someone texting or looking at a screen or a monitor over your head? You know, a conversation about something that wasn't celebrities, gossip, sports or pop politics? You know something…something important. Or something personal.
CM: You know what…Taint and Jeff (radio personalities like Howard Stern) were talking about that this morning.
Frank's head drops into his hands.
CM: They were saying how their freedom of speech is in jeopardy…
CM sees Frank holding his head, says…What? you don't listen to them either?
Frank: No…I dont.
CM: Laughs..What are you more of a KT and the Snakepit kind of guy? Cause those guys are pussies, Frank, alright and they stole everything they got from Taint + Jeff.
Frank: I really don't like any of them.
CM: How can you say that bro? So maybe they aren't "politically correct" but it's funny Frank.
Frank: Well, seeing as how Im not afraid of foreigners or people with vaginas, I guess Im just not their target audience.
CM: You don't get it. If you got it, you wouldn't be so offended.
Frank: Oh I get it and I am offended.Not because I got a problem with bitter predictable whiny millionaire disk jockeys complaining about celebrities or how tough their life is while I live in an apartment with paper-thin walls next to a couple of neanderthals who instead of a baby decided to give birth to some kind of nocturnal civil defense air raid siren that goes off every fuckin night like its Pearl Harbor.
I'm not offended that they act like its my responsibility to protect their rights to pick on the weak like pack animals or that we're supposed to support their freedom of speech when they don't give a fuck about yours or mine.
CM: So you're against Freedom of Speech now? Thats in the Bill of Rights, man.
Frank: struggling not to kill the guy and hissing thru his teeth... I would defend their freedom of speech if I thought it was in jeopardy. I would defend their freedom of speech to tell uninspired, bigoted, blow job, gay bashing, racist and rape jokes all under the guise of being edgy but that's not the edge… that's what sells. They couldn't possible pander any harder or be more commercially mainstream because this is the "Oh no you didn't say that" generation where a shocking comment has more weight than the truth. No one has any shame anymore…and we're supposed to celebrate it.
I saw a woman throw a used tampon at another woman last night on network television on a network that bills itself as "Today's Woman's Channel". Kids beat each other blind and post it on YouTube…I mean, do you remember when eating rats and maggots on Survivor was shocking? It all seems to quaint now. Im sure the girls from "2 Girls 1 Cup" are gonna have their own dating show on VH-1 any day now.
I mean…why have a civilization anymore if we no longer are interested in being civilized?
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