Back when I was living in LA, the rumor mill was so full of stories about him that it got to the point that nobody even bothered listening to, or repeating the stories.
BTW, he is just as much an asshole jerk when he is sober as when he is wasted.
Clearly, the ‘hex’ rebounded…
I’ve often had a misplaced tolerance for ne’er-do-wells. While I think people do need to be appropriately punished for breaking the law, I’ve felt that we should avoid locking people up for the crime of repeated jerkish behavior. To my thinking, such is the price we pay for liberty.
Well, Andy Dick has managed to change my whole political philosophy. This man is a goddamned menace and offers absolutely nothing positive to society at large. We, as Americans, tend to give the most creatively brilliant among us one hell of a lot of rope (example: Robert Downey) before we finally throw up our hands and say “The Hell with it! This fucker is beyond redemption!” Well, this Dick 1) has been given way more rope than anyone else I can think of, and 2) ain’t even remotely creative or brilliant, much less humorous.
I would pay money to be the sentencing judge upon his convictions for assault, sexual battery, mayhem, etc. I’m thinking about 3 to 5 in San Quinten might straighten his ass out (so to speak). Alternatively, we could get an angry, torch bearing mob together to drag his punk ass down to the UPS Store and mail him to downtown Saudi Arabia.
But we all know how this is going to work out. He’ll do some bullshit celebrity drive-thru rehab, pretend to be sorry for what he’s done, throw some money at the 17 year old girl he accosted, and get probation. And Comedy Central will keep hiring him to ruin future tapings of Celebrity Roast.
Maybe. There is such a thing as losing all your credit. Dick may find himself without any friends soon. And while my heart usually hurts for that sort of person – heck, I even feel a little bad for Michael Jackson and don’t like the idea of him dying alone – Dick is the freakin’ devil.
OK, we surrender.
You lucky, lucky man.
*On December 4, 2004, Dick was arrested for indecent exposure when he “mooned” friends at a local McDonald’s. He claims that “getting arrested isn’t too bad, since I’m Gay, I don’t have a problem with angry men having sex”.
In 2005, Dick stirred controversy in Edmonton, Alberta, at Yuk Yuk’s comedy club when he dropped his pants and exposed his genitals to the audience.
On December 2, 2006, he angered an audience at the Improv Club in Los Angeles by shouting “You’re all a bunch of niggers!” *[referencing the Michael Richards incident…I guess he thought hilarity would ensue]
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On August 29, 2007, Dick slapped a reporter in the face outside a Los Angeles nightclub
On May 15, 1999, Dick drove his car into a telephone pole in Hollywood. He was charged with possession of cocaine, marijuana, drug paraphernalia, and driving under the influence of alcohol/drugs and hit-and-run driving.
In 2006, Dick made a widely-publicized appearance at the Comedy Central Roast of William Shatner. He licked the faces of Farrah Fawcett, Carrie Fisher, and Patton Oswalt, and groped and bit the hand of New York Post reporter Mandy Stadtmiller backstage.*
Um, yeah, I’d say he has problems.
Sounds like Robert Downey Jr. and Mel Gibson need to stage an intervention.
I actually liked him on “News Radio”; guess it was a matter of an actor getting just the right part. Also, I knew nothing about him personally at the time (and working with really talented performers like Phil Hartman, Dave Foley and John Lovitz). Haven’t seen him do anything else worthwhile.
Maybe they could also get Bobby Brown.
I hope you’re wrong. I hope sexually assaulting a teenager gets the attention of a whole new level of official life fucker uppers.
Ok, now that you put it that way, maybe he is kinda funny.
My thoughts exactly. Was he as much of a dick back in those days?
[Judge Smales] The man’s a menace! [/Judge Smales]
Aaarrrggghhh!
NewsRadio (one word) is simply one of the great all-time sitcoms. It’s one of those few shows in where every cast member is perfect, yet totally unlike one another. They used actors from a number of different comedy traditions - sketch players like Dave Foley from Kids in the Hall and Phil Hartman from SNL, a stand-up like Joe Rogan, and the sui generis Andy Dick. Dozens of other comedy names made appearances as guests. Vicki Lewis was so good that Kathy Griffin slavishly copied her part on Suddenly Susan. Stephen Root’s station owner is as magnificent a creation as Mr. Burns. Poor Khandi Alexander only had to talk sassy and look good because the writers never figured out her role, but she did both of those as fine as anyone could.
The show started out snarky and then got progressively surreal. (One season-ender had the show broadcast from space in the future.) When people today praise the quirkiness of the “one-camera” comedies like 30 Rock or Arrested Development, they forget that NewsRadio did it just as well, and in front of a studio audience.
It’s true that in real life Andy Dick is a real dick. (Oddly, my freshman roommate’s last name was Dick, and he was also a dick. Go figure.) But he was brilliant on the show, doing physical comedy in almost every episode that steals the scene from the great dialog.
I have to say a word about the dialog. There is a certain type of sitcom-y dialog that is clichéd and stilted and probably one of the reasons that sitcoms have been dying for a long time. NewsRadio never had that dialog. The standard set-up and punchline got twisted so that the punchlines were never predictable, but were funnier than anything you expected. That’s a big point for me, since as a writer I can often see things coming because no one bothered to put the extra work necessary into improving the lines.
All five seasons are available on DVD. The show starts getting truly weird in the third season, so if you want to sample it you might start there. Phil Hartman was murdered just after the show was picked up for the fifth season and his friend Jon Lovitz took his place. Not his fault, but the show never recovered its rhythm.
Hate Andy Dick all you want. Go ahead. Please. But give NewsRadio a try. It’s wonderful.
South Park did a joke about him, I think in about 2000, where Satan was making room for him in hell. The fact that he’s lived as long as he has is miraculous.
thank god- andy dick creeps me out!
Just looking at the mug shot, if we needed a new Joker, he would need minimal makeup.
Outside of Newsradio, I’ve only seen Andy Dick once, when he visited the Surreal Life house in the Estrada/Messner/Jeremy season and tried to escort a falling-down drunk Trishelle (from one of the Real Worlds) to her bedroom, ostensibly to make sure she got safely to bed…riiiiiight. It was possibly the creepiest ten minutes of television I’ve ever watched, even in a season that had Ron Jeremy sharing the house…
This is exactly what supervenusfreak said, that someone should photoshop that mug shot into Joker makeup…