# Stephen Baldwin is making me laugh **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 23, 2009, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stephen-baldwin-is-making-me-laugh/503997 "2009-07-23T15:04:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2009, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stephen-baldwin-is-making-me-laugh/503997/41 "2009-07-25T01:27:46Z")
Billy and Alec need to sit him down and talk to him, and then kick his ass. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2009, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stephen-baldwin-is-making-me-laugh/503997/42 "2009-07-25T01:40:54Z")
I dunno. Stephen is in pretty good shape, and he’s even crazier than they are. ---
**Author:** ![kjckjc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e36b37/32.png) [@kjckjc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kjckjc)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2009, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stephen-baldwin-is-making-me-laugh/503997/43 "2009-07-25T02:22:57Z")
He was in “The Young Riders” which, while a total “Young Guns” ripoff, was a pretty cool show. ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2009, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stephen-baldwin-is-making-me-laugh/503997/44 "2009-07-25T04:55:45Z")
> [@MeanOldLady](#): > > That was a joke. > > But now I’m laughing even harder because he was in a 2008 film called _Shark in Venice_. Here’s the plot: > > _The seemingly tranquil waterways of Venice are terrorized by the perfect killing machine. In search of his father who has mysteriously disappeared diving in the city, David stumbles across the cryptic trail leading to the long-lost fortune of the Medici. As the unwitting pawn in a Mafia plot to recover the treasure, David’s girlfriend is kidnapped at gunpoint, plunging him into a desperate race against time. If he has any hope of saving her he must enter the deadly waters. Can David out-gun the Mafia assassins and survive the voracious sharks laying in wait beneath the surface, or will he succumb to the same fate as his father?_ > > Ha ha ha! One of the most entertaining B-movies of the year. All the shots of sharks are stock footage: different lighting, different grain, different species, just totally random filler of probably public-domain, discarded footage of sharks. Inserted randomly into the plot to pad the running time. A frikkin hilarious movie. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2009, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stephen-baldwin-is-making-me-laugh/503997/45 "2009-07-25T04:57:38Z")
> [@lissener](#): > > One of the most entertaining B-movies of the year. All the shots of sharks are stock footage: different lighting, different grain, different species, just totally random filler of probably public-domain, discarded footage of sharks. Inserted randomly into the plot to pad the running time. A frikkin hilarious movie. I love movies like that. ---
**Author:** ![Talon\_Karrde](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Talon\_Karrde](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Talon_Karrde)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2009, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stephen-baldwin-is-making-me-laugh/503997/46 "2009-07-25T05:35:42Z")
I thought he was perfect for his part in The Usual Suspects. He was supposed to be kind of crazy in that. Isn’t he now affiliated with Way Of The Master? That’s Kirk Cameron’s thing- there was as thread about it here a few years ago. They are the ones who did the banana thing. ---
**Author:** ![JThunder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e95f7d/32.png) [@JThunder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JThunder)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2009, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stephen-baldwin-is-making-me-laugh/503997/47 "2009-07-25T17:22:33Z")
> [@RickJay](#): > > I feel bad for him. I don’t really give a shit what he does on his own time, so what’s so funny about someone going bankrupt? I have to agree with this. Some of you guys are being positively mean-spirited. ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2009, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stephen-baldwin-is-making-me-laugh/503997/48 "2009-07-25T18:30:09Z")
Well, he seems to care what others do on their own time, what with him trying to close that porn store. > **[God Doesn't Like Pornography: Stephen Baldwin and America's Culture War](https://www.spiegel.de/international/spiegel/god-doesn-t-like-pornography-stephen-baldwin-and-america-s-culture-war-a-430094.html)** > > A battle over a sex shop in a small town near New York shows how a local problem can quickly turn into a culture war in America. At the center is a famous actor who became a born-again Christian after the Sept. 11 terror attacks. ---
**Author:** ![JThunder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e95f7d/32.png) [@JThunder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JThunder)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2009, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stephen-baldwin-is-making-me-laugh/503997/49 "2009-07-25T20:55:53Z")
He’s taking a stand against pornography. You might not agree with his viewpoint, and that’s your prerogative. To revel in glee at another person’s bankruptcy, on the other hand, is just hitting way below the belt. ---
**Author:** ![Equipoise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/equipoise/32/151_2.png) [@Equipoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Equipoise)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2009, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stephen-baldwin-is-making-me-laugh/503997/50 "2009-07-25T23:21:59Z")
Who’s reveling in glee at his bankruptcy? It’s his Jesus Crazy\* that makes him a target. \*one can be into Jesus and be perfectly sane and reasonable and credible. Jesus Crazy people are anything but. I know, my brother used to be Jesus Crazy and was insufferable to be around. Luckily he got better (well, with that part of the Crazy anyway). Now he’s a normal Christian. ---
**Author:** ![JThunder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e95f7d/32.png) [@JThunder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JThunder)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2009, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stephen-baldwin-is-making-me-laugh/503997/51 "2009-07-25T23:25:13Z")
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**Author:** ![Equipoise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/equipoise/32/151_2.png) [@Equipoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Equipoise)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2009, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stephen-baldwin-is-making-me-laugh/503997/52 "2009-07-25T23:26:37Z")
I thought she was laughing at the Crazy web site. ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2009, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stephen-baldwin-is-making-me-laugh/503997/53 "2009-07-26T02:47:21Z")
> [@JThunder](#): > > He’s taking a stand against pornography. You might not agree with his viewpoint, and that’s your prerogative. To revel in glee at another person’s bankruptcy, on the other hand, is just hitting way below the belt. His “stand against pornography” is trying to block a legal business from selling its legal wares to consenting adults. If we aren’t supposed to care about his personal life, he shouldn’t care about those people’s personal lives. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stephen-baldwin-is-making-me-laugh/503997.md?page=2)