OK, These two guys make me want to chuck my TV off the balcony and then vomit into the broken glass:
Carrot Top - I don’t how this guy makes a living as a comedian, not being funny and all.
The Dell Guy is some kind male bimbo, “Bill & Ted” wannbee moron who makes me much less likely to buy a Dell.
Both of these seem designed to appeal to 16-25 yr. olds, so I don’t know if it’s a sad commentary on that generation or our brilliant advertising executives.
Oh, come ON, Carrot Top is FAR more annoying. At least the Dell Guy’s voice doesn’t reach a pitch that threatens all the glass in a quarter-mile radius.
Carrot Top, by far. Hands down, no contest. Still, a Celebrity Death Match between him and Dell Dude would be worth what I paid to watch Tyson for 35 seconds.
Further, Carrot Top is a “spotted dick”. This is a term of disparagement amongst us “freckled” folks for a “freckled” person who perpetuates the sterotypes of the montonal culture. We prefer the term “dermally variegated Americans”, by the way.
I only heard something amusing from Carrot Top once:
He had his “props”. One of which was a Crime Watch sign he stole from a neighborhood-to make a point. If you have a crime watch, was was I able to take your damn sign?
At least we won’t have to deal with “Steve” once this crop of Dell commercials is done – that is, unless the actor decides to do like Jim Varney did with “Ernest”. But more likely he’ll want to move on to character parts in sitcoms/soaps, theatre, and production.
OTOH, with Carrot Top this annoying persona IS it. And he’s been making a career of it for years.
But how? How is it possible that they do this? How is it that people can make a good living by being the avatar of obnoxious? Theres that other guy, Gilbert Gottfried, who has haunted me from the days when National Lampoon was funny!
As for “Ernest” - I understand that Varney is negotiating a partnership with Newt Gingrich for dinner theater road shows. Sen. Thompson is rumored to be “interested”.
Prospective projects include a re-interpretation of Inherit the Wind where God wins in court.
I find Carrot Top humorous. I mean, he’s no Denis Leary, but he makes me chuckle. He isn’t that evil. He’s a harmless prop comedian. I have no idea why everybody hates him so much.
The Dell Guy? It isn’t his fault the ad agency who thought it up decided to shill it into the ground.
Although I do get a little annoyed at seeing him interviewed on Tech TV going on about how he’s a serious Shakesperean actor. Fuck, I did Romeo and Juliet in high school. That doesn’t make me John Fucking Geilgud.
You know, back in the day, everybody hated Carrot Top, but I thought he was occasionally funny with his prop comedy. I didn’t see what the big deal was, he seemed tolerable to me.
Then he started doing commercials. Now I hate him and can’t stand the sight of his face.
I’m beginning to loathe Jason Alexander too, for the same reason. Why the hell would any celebrity start doing commercials, when it’s so apparent that every time a celebrity starts doing commercials it ends up making everyone hate them? (besides the fact that it gets them millions of dollars and nobody else will hire them…)
Carrot Top is now the most annoying celebrity, ever, period. Worse than the Dell guy, the Pepsi girl, the Taco Bell chihuahua, and the Geico Gecko put together.
I guess I’m the only one who is annoyed to death by the Dell Guy. He’s not sexy. He’s not cute. He just looks idiotic, with his “hey dude” and dorky grin.
Carrot Top is bad but at least he has muscles. (Just look at the guy’s torso. He’s so buffed!)
Quasi-celebrity telethons - that’s right, a 24 hour telethon with all of 'em, Anna Nicole, Kato, Carrot Top, Pepsi child, former-child- stars- who’ve- been- through- rehab, etc.
Cram 'em all into one 24 hour telethon, where they can blubber and beg and assure us that they’ve really changed, have something important to say etc. We get to call in and help support getting them off the air.
Think of it - we’d only have to deal with them for one day, one day and we wouldn’t have to even watch it! We could just call in and pledge “Yes, I’ll pay $10 to never hear Anna Nicole talk to her dead hubby’s ashes!”