All I want for Christmas is to be able to poke fun at Gary Busey

VH-1 has a show called Celebrity Rehab...Celebrity Rehab kills me. Generally I don’t like to make fun of real people and their problems unless those real people are me, James , or people who made fun of me first. But Celebrity Rehab makes it really, really hard. I mean, on the one side, rehab is pretty serious business and you’ve gotta applaud anyone willing to take the steps to better their life. On the other hand, if you sign up for a reality t.v. show you have to know that you’re going to be portrayed as a trainwreck – it’s probably in the contract. So I’ve been doing battle in my head about openly laughing at Celebrity Rehab…like, am I a bad person if I make fun of it? Because you know I struggle with the whole being a bad person thing…or at least projecting the image of a good person so that I can con more people into liking me but whatever, same thing. Anyway… Gary Busey thinks he’s some sort of mentor sent by angels to help the other celebrities get through rehab…to get better…to get better like Gary Busey….

COME ON! I’m a bad person if I point out that that’s funny? Or that he spent an entire episode speaking to the other patients in acronyms? Or Tawny Kitaen deciding that she wants to be called Julie (her real name) and everyone awkwardly saying how cool “Julie” is while sad music plays in the background (ok, I admit it…I got a little teary the first 17 times I saw this…but after I got over the whole emotional caring about people hump I was able to enjoy the moment for what it was…pure comedic genius). So I’m struggling…walking that fine line between “this is really f#%&ing funny” and “this is totally f%$#ing inappropriate and you are a HUGE douchebag for even mentioning this with the tiniest glimmer of a smile.” It’s like snarkiness is my own addiction and this blog is rehab…only not on t.v. …and I don’t get to hang out with Gary Busey…and I’m probably never really going to be cured.



"You know what `FEAR` stands for? It stands for `False Evidence Appearing Real.` It`s the darkroom where Satan develops his negatives." – Gary Busey

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