Bash your favorite local celeb! I’m not talking about legitimate celebrities that you hate, but people with local fame or notoriety that you want to bash (metaphorically and/or physically)
My most hated is a local Chicago guy called “Rusty Nails” who’s somehow become the reigning clown prince of the local movie scene. Total obnoxious douchebag who made one crappy 8mm horror movie and manages to not just show up at but emcee almost every film-related event I go to. I’ve seen him singlehandedly ruin at least three interviews/Q&A sessions with great filmmakers (Crispin Glover, Guy Maddin, Joe Dante) by asking inane questions that made it appear as if he had no idea who he was interviewing and had never seen any of their films. Fuck that guy!
He used to have a late night talk show in Canada and is also a stand up comedian (apparently anyhow, he isn’t funny). The main reason I hate him is that he’s a world class jerk who figures he is much more important than he actually is.
My school made us go to a taping of his talk show (which I assumed they thought we’d enjoy) and literally nobody wanted to go.
I dunno, is he local enough? I did used to live near him but his fame wasn’t exactly local, it was nationwide (sorta)
Michael Stanley is our “local legend.” I’ve always found his music to be boring and pretentious. I mean, he’s a “rock star” from Cleveland - dude takes himself waaaay too seriously. And according to his ticket sales in Cleveland, this area takes him way too seriously too. I think he would qualify as our “reigning prince” of rock. Whee!
When you run into a guy in Cleveland and his greatest claim to fame is having worked with Michael Stanley - and he’s proud of it - you know the guy’s a real douche.
My local loathe is the “Watson’s Girl” for Watson’s pools. I find her vastly annoying, and apparently (from people who’ve met her), she is as dumb as she seems in the commercials. Aaargh.
Apparently the Watson’s people do a very good job making ads that look local, but aren’t. Same ads are here in Nashville - and I once saw her on a local late night talk show. Yep, pretty dim.
Carrot Top doesn’t live far from me, in the suburbs north of Orlando (although I imagine he’s in a lot nicer neighborhood). My best friend sees him working out at the gym all the time. He is apparently quite buff, but wears a lot of makeup. He always struck me as a big weirdo, and I never found him funny.
There is also one guy who does a lot of open mic poetry events who I find really obnoxious, but for reasons I won’t go into here.
Balls. John Rhys Davis wasn’t born here. But he does own a house here.
edit: when I lived in Accrington I lived on the same street as the woman who played Hayley in coronation street. At the same time. She…this is too mundane bye.
Todd Thongdee! His real name is Todd LaVelle. An American farang (white Westerner) in Thailand. A singer. His assumed last name literally means “good gold.” He is one of a breed of farang whom you see here who tries SO hard to be more Thai than the Thais that he becomes a caricature of the Thais. Has appeared on television many times. I just want to crawl away and hide whenever I see him, he’s so embarrassing.
Oh, and he’s a crap singer, to boot. I attended a benefit held in a local bar in support of Aung San Suu Kyi back in I think it was 1995. He was one of the singers there, and he was really, really bad.
Damn, I could’ve SWORN they were based here, but their website says they’re based in Cincinnati. Wow. You’d think they could make better commercials then, or something.
I cringe whenever a commercial for Oliver Jewellers comes on. Russell Oliver is the singlehandedly most annoying quasi-celeb on local TV, and the man’s been making variations on the same awful commercial for at least 15 years (if not longer).
Ask any Torontonian about Russell Oliver, and I guarantee they’ll wince.
