# I'm with Busey-- he's faking it, right? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 12, 2003, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-with-busey-hes-faking-it-right/187997 "2003-07-12T17:16:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2003, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-with-busey-hes-faking-it-right/187997/1 "2003-07-12T17:16:47Z")
Let’s spend the night in the desert without any food-- Magic Indian will provide. They’re out to kill your mother Adam. Best Buy-- warehouse of mass destruction. Not your turn to speak, time for painful tackle. I’ve got an idea for a cookbook-- roadkill! Here’s a dead badger to sell the idea. ---
**Author:** ![Tertius01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e99b99/32.png) [@Tertius01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tertius01)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2003, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-with-busey-hes-faking-it-right/187997/2 "2003-07-12T17:21:19Z")
I think thats most of the fun…not really being sure if he is faking it or not. ---
**Author:** ![Intaglio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/71e660/32.png) [@Intaglio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intaglio)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2003, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-with-busey-hes-faking-it-right/187997/3 "2003-07-12T20:40:43Z")
I think Gary Busey’s has had too much Head Trauma - cause by not wearing a Helmet, when riding a Motorcycle. This guy is nuts, have you seen him in Drag? ---
**Author:** ![Bandanaman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3ab097/32.png) [@Bandanaman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bandanaman)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2003, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-with-busey-hes-faking-it-right/187997/4 "2003-07-12T20:51:05Z")
I think he was crazy before the accident. Some people just are. ---
**Author:** ![KidCharlemagne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ed8c4c/32.png) [@KidCharlemagne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KidCharlemagne)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2003, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-with-busey-hes-faking-it-right/187997/5 "2003-07-12T23:17:28Z")
I think he started nuts, became nuttier from head trauma, and became nuttier yet when the cameras were put on him for a show that was supposed to show how nutty he was. ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2003, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-with-busey-hes-faking-it-right/187997/6 "2003-07-12T23:20:55Z")
I read an article about Busey. He claims that he’s got multiple personalities and that he keeps them somewhat under control now, thanks to therapy. He “turns them loose” for the show. Or, perhaps he knows that a TV show about a famous person who’s really a pretty normal guy wouldn’t get watched or talked about. ---
**Author:** ![TeaElle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8491ac/32.png) [@TeaElle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TeaElle)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2003, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-with-busey-hes-faking-it-right/187997/7 "2003-07-12T23:38:14Z")
One day while channel surfing, I saw Busey (who was, at the time, claiming to have had a Born Again experience) on the 700 Club, chitchatting with Pat Robertson and his chickybabe co-host. This was maybe three years ago or so. The interview was so painfully incoherent and bizarre that I couldn’t stop watching. Busey said that he thought of the word “faith” as an acronym for “ **F** antastic **A** dventures **I** n **H** is **T** rust” and Robertson’s co-host was visibly restraining herself from trying to suggest “how about **T** rusting **H** im, since you know, it’s spelled FAITH, not FAIHT.” She never did, but you could see that she wanted to. When the show came back from the commercial break that immediately followed the interview, Robertson made some very subtle comment about how Busey should be prayed for. It was beyond belief. I don’t think it’s an act. ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2003, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-with-busey-hes-faking-it-right/187997/8 "2003-07-12T23:56:39Z")
Did anyone see/hear him tackle Robin on Howard Stern? I’m pretty sure he’s mostly crazy, even if he exaggerates it a bit for the cameras. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2003, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-with-busey-hes-faking-it-right/187997/9 "2003-07-13T00:28:06Z")
I have my doubts about someone who is just the right amount of crazy to be entertaining _on cue_. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2003, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-with-busey-hes-faking-it-right/187997/10 "2003-07-13T00:35:29Z")
He seems to cutsie crazy to me. Most of the nutty things he does look like rejected stunts from Punked or The Jaime Kennedy Experiment. ---
**Author:** ![Skillet38](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8797f3/32.png) [@Skillet38](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skillet38)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2003, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-with-busey-hes-faking-it-right/187997/11 "2003-07-13T01:56:45Z")
has he reached the Burt Reynolds/Andy Kaufmann stage yet ? I haven’t seen him lately. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2003, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-with-busey-hes-faking-it-right/187997/12 "2003-07-13T02:11:04Z")
I think Busey is Andy Kaufman faking it. I wasn’t aware that Burt Reynolds has started acting particularly crazy. If you want to see Busey acting like a lunatic just turn to I’m With Busey on, um-- Comedy Central maybe? ---
**Author:** ![j.c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/73ab20/32.png) [@j.c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/j.c)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2003, 7:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-with-busey-hes-faking-it-right/187997/13 "2003-07-16T07:56:10Z")
KidCharlemagne and subsequent posts on the nuts, to nutty to nuttiest when the cameras are rolling ring true for me. Who is the other guy? How did he pitch the show? That’s what I want to know… ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2003, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-with-busey-hes-faking-it-right/187997/14 "2003-07-16T15:07:37Z")
I know Busey was a speaker for Promise Keepers till the police in L.A. were called for domestic incidents. ---
**Author:** ![syncrolecyne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f08c70/32.png) [@syncrolecyne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/syncrolecyne)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2003, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-with-busey-hes-faking-it-right/187997/15 "2003-07-16T19:57:52Z")
I get him, Jan Michael Vincent, and Nick Nolte confused all the time. He’s the _really_ crazy one right? ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2003, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-with-busey-hes-faking-it-right/187997/16 "2003-07-16T21:07:00Z")
You mean his whole career? * * * Sodomy: Not just for Democrats anymore! ---
**Author:** ![clayton\_e](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c57346/32.png) [@clayton\_e](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/clayton_e)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2003, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-with-busey-hes-faking-it-right/187997/17 "2003-07-17T00:18:36Z")
He was on Howard Stern?! I would’ve killed to have heard that!!