Pie-In-The-Face Award
Given Each Week to the Person with the Dumbest Quote
9/29/2000
""I think
he would be liberal. I think he would care. I think he would
probably want to see me released." -- Mark Chapman, imprisoned
for murdering John Lennon 20 years ago, on whether Lennon
would want to seem him paroled, quoted in a British newspaper.
9/11/2000
"There's
Adam Clymer, major-league asshole from the New York Times."
--Republican presidential candidate George W. Bush, referring
to a reporter at a campaign stop in Naperville, Illinois,
when he leaned over to running mate Dick Cheney. (The microphone
was on.) "Oh yeah, he is, big-time." -- Cheney's reply "I
regret that a private comment I made to the vice-presidential
candidate made it onto the public airwaves. I regret everybody
heard what I said." -- Republican presidential candidate George
W. Bush, arriving in Allentown, Pennsylvania, when he was
asked about his remark about Clymer. "I won't respond to it.
The governor made a private comment to me." -- Dick Cheney,
when asked by a television producer if "calling people names"
was part of the campaign.
9/1/2000
"Gore Kills Child: Al Gore
was arrested today for killing a small child with his teeth."
-- An ABC news internal wire news story, which appeared to
have originated at ABC affiliate WFAA in Dallas, listed available
images like "Various shots of Gore with dead body" and "a bite
with John Carpenter of the Austin Police Dept." A short time later
a "Mandatory Kill" alert and retraction was sent out on the wire.
"A recently hired, inexperienced freelancer in our Southwest
Regional Bureau [was] training on the computer system. In showing
someone else how to write and send a script to the affiliates,
this freelancer created a dummy item in an existing lineup,
and a dummy script. He then hit the computer key sequence that
sent the lineup and the script to our affiliates. This freelancer
was fired immediately."
-- Don Dunphy Jr., ABC News vice president of Affiliate News
Services, explaining the Al Gore story in a memo to affiliate
stations.
8/11/2000
"Breast-feeding is an immoral
act. It leaves people with an oral fixation. And the worst part
of it is, the child doesn't have a choice."
-- Bruce Spencer, 56, of New York who was among a group of
anti-breast feeding advocates at the GOP convention
... So god put milk in mommies for what purpose?
... And you know how the GOP is for choice...
... So just whack off the end of it's pee-pee, and let's
get to church already...
8/4/2000
"I thought it was Charles
Manson. I don't know whether it's shock art or schlock art. David
Lynch should stick to his day job, making movies."
-- New York City Parks Commissioner Henry J. Stern on David
Lynch's contribution to CowParade NYC 2000, a show that features
several hundred fiberglass cows decorated by artists and schoolchildren
and displayed on sidewalks around the city. Lynch's featured a
severed head with forks covering the body of the cow. (Source:
New York Times)
"Don't you think when people tell you you're allowed to do
whatever you want as long as it's not sexually X-rated that
they should stand behind their word and show your cow?"
-- David Lynch's response. (Source: New York Times)
... The judges were horrified at the brutality of the piece,
then went back to eating their McDonalds hamburgers...
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6/2/2000
"Men will always remain pigs."
-- Sharon Stone, according to "Hollywood Insider" Tom Kummer
"Sometimes something will be hanging out of my nose... for
days."
-- Brad Pitt, , according to "Hollywood Insider" Tom Kummer
"Minotauruses are eating the genitals of the moon . . . There
are seagulls on the Riviera, slurping ice-cooled gin and tonics."
-- Courtney Love, according to "Hollywood Insider" Tom Kummer
"It's all about entertainment and you know it ... May the
force be with me!"
-- Journalist Tom Kummer, who was revealed to have made up
all his celebrity interviews for magazines. In Munich, where
his interviews were featured as cover stories in a weekly magazine
published by the city's respected daily newspaper, the Suddeutsche
Zeitung, two editors were fired for their part in publishing
the bogus exposes. Kummer called his work "conceptual art" in
a letter to his (ex-)editors.
5/19/2000
"She asked, 'Does he have
to be a gladiator? Couldn't he be someone who works in the Colosseum?'
She was also against the violence."
-- Screenwriter David Franzoni to the New York Daily News on
Columbia exec Lisa Henson, who passed on "Gladiator." It ended
up at Dreamworks.
5/12/2000
"I'm crazy about him.... He's
just the sexiest [bleeping]...creature that every lived...I am
madly in love with this man till the day I die."
--Reportedly suicidal actress Angelina Jolie on her new husband
Billy Bob Thornton. She's his fifth wife.
5/5/2000
"Just because we've made the
choice that we don't want AIDS doesn't mean the party's over.
We can still fool around with sex and have a great time. Still
shoot up if that's what we're into. We can reduce the chance of
getting and spreading HIV by sticking to our decisions and always
using condoms and new rigs."
-- A pamphlet, entitled "My Choice. AIDS. Not In This Body,"
produced by the Canadian AIDS Society as part of a national
awareness campaign. It urges young people to practice safe sex
and intravenous drug use. (Rigs is street slang for drug use
materials such as needles.)
4/28/2000
"Maybe I can have him sit
in City Hall and you won't know the difference."
-- New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani at the unveiling of a life-size
wax figure of himself at the site of a future Manhattan branch
of Madame Tussaud's wax museum.
4/21/2000
"I never thought I'd go into
porn, but it's better than modeling. If you model, you have to
have sex with the agent, the booker and the photographer. In porn,
I only have to have sex with one person, and I get paid for it."
-- Hungarian porn star Mercedes in the premiere issue of Nerve
magazine. (Source: New York Post)
4/14/2000
"I absolutely loved it. It
reminded me of 'My Fair Lady.' And it was the only movie I've
seen that made me want to go out and buy new luggage."
-- John Waters on the film "American Psycho." The main character
stuffs his victims into designer suitcases. (Source: New York
Post)
4/7/2000
"(He claimed) he needed the
money more than his victims did."
-- New York State Attorney General John Panagopoulos, quoting
"Sopranos" and "Spin City" actor Thomas Bifalco, who was sentenced
to prison after reneging on an agreement to pay restitution to
the elderly victims of a stock scam. Bifalco ran a boiler-room
operation out of a Wall Street office where he and others used
high-pressure sales techniques to sell worthless stock in a shell
company called Falcon Marine Inc. (Selling worthless stock? Gosh,
I wonder where the "Sopranos" writers got THAT idea this season?)
3/2/2000
"Amazing!"
-- President Clinton, dazzled by a coffee cup screen saver
on a monitor during a visit to a computing class in a senior citizens
center on Tuesday.
"His only has the presidential seal, and it doesn't move."
-- A White House spokesman, explaining Clinton's apparent
fascination with the screen saver.
2/25/2000
"My big invention idea was
the vomint. The vomint. Like when you belch and get a little throw-up?
You need a mint for that ... Our world is so over-compartmentalized,
I think we need a mint for that specific case."
-- David Duchovny on his early business aspirations (source:
Maxim).
2/11/2000
"Now I bet he's choking on his words."
Carrie Leigh, ex-girlfriend of Hugh Hefner, commenting on
reports that Hef once had sex with well-endowed porn star John
Holmes, and the Playboy founder's advice to her to always "think
big." (I'll bet he was choking then, too...)
1/28/99
(This week we devote an entire page to George W. Bush, who
is giving Dan Quayle a run for his money
as the the King of the stupid quote)
"I'm going to win."
-- George W. Bush predicting a win in the New Hampshire primary
(rival John McCain won in a landslide).
"I'm all name and no money"
-- George W. Bush, 1986
"When I was coming up, it was a dangerous world and you knew exactly
who they were. It was us versus them and it was clear who them
was. Today we are not so sure who the they are, but we know they're
there."
-- Texas Gov. George W. Bush, presidential candidate, in Council
Bluffs, Iowa, on Jan. 21, 2000.
"I propose that every city have a telephone number 119 - for
dyslexics who have an emergency."
-- Bush being inclusive
"Some say give it [the Federal Budget Surplus] to the taxpayers
who pay the bills. That some is George W. Bush."
-- Texas Gov. George W. Bush, presidential candidate, in
Sioux City, Iowa, 1/22/00
"Is your children learning?"
-- Bush on education, Jan. 2000.
"Sitting down and reading a 500-page book on public policy
or philosophy or something."
-- George W. Bush when asked to name something he isn't good
at (Talk magazine, September 1999).
"This is Preservation month. I appreciate preservation. This
is what you do when you run for president. You've got to preserve."
George W. Bush to several hundred children at an elementary
school in Nashua that was celebrating Perseverance Month (not
Preservation Month).
"Some people have too much freedom."
-- George W. Bush
"There ought to be limits to freedom."
"I hope to show Hispanics that Republicans do have a heart, but
I also want to send a message to people from around the country
as to how to pick up the Hispanic vote"
"Food on the family."
-- George W. Bush listing one of the priorities of his future
administration.
"The Grecians."
-- George W. Bush on Greek people.
"What I'm against is quotas. I'm against hard quotas, quotas that
basically delineate based upon whatever. However they delineate,
quotas, I think, vulcanize society."
-- George W. Bush, meaning to say "balkanize," not "vulcanize"
-- we think -- and something about quotas (Austin American-Statesman
3/23/99).
"... A world of madmen and uncertainty and potential mental
losses."
-- on "potential missiles launches," South Carolina, Jan.
12, 2000
"We must all hear the universal call to like your neighbor just
like you like to be liked yourself."
-- New Hampshire, Jan. 2000
"I think it's important for those of us in a position of responsibility
to be firm in sharing our experiences, to understand that the
babies out of wedlock is a very difficult chore for mom and baby
alike. ... I believe we ought to say there is a different alternative
than the culture that is proposed by people like Miss Wolf in
society. ... And, you know, hopefully, condoms will work, but
it hasn't worked."
--In an interview with Tim Russert on Meet the Press, Nov.
21, 1999.
"Tell them I have learned from mistakes I may or may not have
made."
-- George W. Bush
"Just make sure you put in there, 'He was real tired too.'"
-- George W. Bush on the press reporting his verbal miscues.
Good luck in the coming elections, George -- we comedy writers
need you!!!
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