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John Cleese Writes a Poem For Sean Hannity
It's a beautiful poem from the comedy icon of Monty Python fame that perfectly captures the essence of Sean Hannity.
Ode to Sean Hannity
by John CleeseAping urbanity
Oozing with vanity
Plump as a manatee
Faking humanity
Journalistic calamity
Intellectual inanity
Fox Noise insanity
You’re a profanity
Hannity
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Comments (60)
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October 8, 2008 11:37 PM | Reply | Permalink
What a fine idea
October 8, 2008 11:43 PM | Reply | Permalink
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Please encourage your friends and family to vote early.
October 9, 2008 6:18 PM | Reply | Permalink
You're a fucking looney tune. Get the fuck out of my country, foul-mouthed hate-mongering NUT.
October 9, 2008 12:31 AM | Reply | Permalink
Truly concur, if I see Hannity I am going to make orange juice out of tha bitch.
October 9, 2008 9:13 PM | Reply | Permalink
i'm irish -- american you stupid bitches just like o'reilly and mccain and part of palin, even FUCKKING OBAMA, i hate to say it yes he is half irish.but he is a disgrace to irish-america and to ireland itself. i hope he never visits ireland and i hope his cousins in ireland the kearneys disown him. his irish ancestors were wiggers in the 1700's and after wigs went out of fashion so did their income and thats why the kearneys came here in the 1700s. now all you paddy bashing bigots can kiss my royal irsh ass. i grew up in ireland, went to boarding school etc. while my fellow americans and i hate to call ye pieces of shits, fellow americans, but thats whats your stupid dumassses are. although ye came from some where else as well dumasses. and hey bitches, Patrick Maguire was first mate on Columbus' ship, so actually irishmen like me and hannity and mccain and oreilly and palin and oh yes Biden is actually the most irish of all the candidates although i dont like his oh- so -liberal politics. so why dont all ye bitches start officially insulting my fellow Irish americans who are going to be your Presidets and vice presidents? say it to their faces. better yet why dont ye dumasses forward all these bullshits to the candidates and see what they think of yer sorry asses.
so you see all ye dumb bitches, Irish america dominates politics. all 4 candidates are irish to some degree just like me. ya'll are just jealous. and yes. most of the most famous authors are irish. we rock!!! we own america too biches! half all the patriots who died in the WTC were irish extraction. ye only wish to be as successful as rish and irish america!!! Thats one reaosn i wil vote for mccain because of their limited ties to ireland. mccain should come out with a good irish platform. obama has none. he concerns himself more with his black/arab muoolsime background. and he is mostly of arab extraction on his fathers side. and a lil lou african black on his fathers momms side. and dont send me any more Paddy bashing shit anymore.
October 9, 2008 2:20 AM | Reply | Permalink
Nothing like failure to use capital letters appropriately to give a long, ignorant, incoherent rant credibility.
October 9, 2008 9:41 AM | Reply | Permalink
Hannity is Irish? Ah, that explains it. I thought he was retarded.
October 9, 2008 10:32 AM | Reply | Permalink
Hey, we've been missing the fun for years, it seems. All of us who fondly remember JFK could have been bashing His Paddiness all this time.
October 9, 2008 10:51 AM | Reply | Permalink
What the Hell was that all about. Totally incoherent rambling and meandering rant. So that's what a Fox News enthusiast is like. It explains a lot. Where's that Irish mastery of the language.
And its arse, not ass, you eejit.
Hey, I'm Irish too, both parents. Irish fought against Irish in the civil war, so what is your point exactly. It trouble me that there seems to be some stereotyping here of Irish-Americans in politics. We're not all the same or have you forgotten the Kennedy's, the great Irish pride. Name one Catholic home in Ireland that didn't proudly display a picture of JFK.
I'm just saying.
October 9, 2008 11:38 AM | Reply | Permalink
Póg mo thóin!
October 9, 2008 12:07 PM | Reply | Permalink
I am Irish American and I consider McCain, Hannity, and O'Reilly a shame to their ancestors. You? You're just a nut: nothing to be ashamed of, happens in all ethnicities.
October 9, 2008 12:28 PM | Reply | Permalink
Cool it HotGuy. Did you forget your medication this morning?
October 9, 2008 2:22 PM | Reply | Permalink
This basically disqualifies you from posting without adult supervision ever again.
October 9, 2008 3:42 PM | Reply | Permalink
And there I was thinking the Jews were at the helm.
October 9, 2008 6:01 PM | Reply | Permalink
Well, I really am Irish, born in Ireland and live in Ireland. To see you spout incoherent bile in my name is an embarrassment to me. You could at least get your facts straight and learn a bit about punctuation.
Also, the majority of the Irish nation is up for Obama.
October 9, 2008 6:11 PM | Reply | Permalink
Rationality is not your thing, I notice.
October 9, 2008 9:16 PM | Reply | Permalink
This is a comment on Hot Guy's rant!
October 9, 2008 9:17 PM | Reply | Permalink
Hotguy, you certainly fit the McCain type. Very angry. I'm Irish, too, born in Dublin. Doesn't sound like you picked up too good an education at that boarding school. You still seem to be struggling with English or should I say, ye seem. Here's a bit of advice. Give up the drink, get up off your knees and leave your Irish ghetto. Your mental health is at stake. Vote Obama and you'll be forgiven.
Is mise
October 9, 2008 10:12 PM | Reply | Permalink
You bring up a great point - many, many prominent people are Irish. But then there are some complete assjackets like you. Unlike the great Irish playwrights, you can't even master the simple art of writing a sentence. People who can't even be bothered to learn English are unpatriotic - any red meat Republican will tell you that, even if they don't practice what they preach.
October 9, 2008 11:04 PM | Reply | Permalink
Let us reflect on the gift that Sarah Palin has given us all:
http://thetruthburns.wordpress.com/2008/10/09/maybe-i-aint-no-genius-but-is-sure-is-smartern-her/
October 9, 2008 5:58 AM | Reply | Permalink
Great poem. The neocons are getting desperate as their end nears. Poor America, for having to live through the last eight years of Bush. Go Obama!
October 9, 2008 8:04 AM | Reply | Permalink
I love the poem.
As for Irishness being some sort of honor, I cherish mine as much but no more than the rest of my lines (which are many, and include two native nations, so anyone who thinks they OWN America can kiss my butt).
Pride in genealogy is moronic. It's an accident of birth. Better to pride oneself on one's choices and one's character and one's expression of human sympathy, and you, Hotguy, are deficient in all of the above.
October 9, 2008 8:45 AM | Reply | Permalink
We've all seen where excessive nationalism gets us.
October 9, 2008 11:40 AM | Reply | Permalink
BTW, what the hell would an IRISH platform be? St. Patrick's Day as a national holiday? Guinness as the national drink? I've never heard of anything so bizarre.
October 9, 2008 8:48 AM | Reply | Permalink
Have never watched Hannity and don't intend to start any time soon. Good poem though.
October 9, 2008 10:03 AM | Reply | Permalink
"America is the greatest, best country God ever gave man." (Sean Hannity)
"Hannity is a vile, wretched sore on the a$$ of humanity." (Wade Boggs)
October 9, 2008 10:10 AM | Reply | Permalink
God ever gave man? Egads. I knew Hannity was a tool, but since I don't watch I didn't know he was that far off.
America is a testament to what humanity can do when it has the sense to separate church and state. The fact that asshats like Hannity would like to undo that and pretend that our founders intended to create a Christian country is what makes the GOP in its current incarnation so dangerous. We're already too far along on the path to becoming a failed-state theocracy.
I agree wholeheartedly with that second quote.
October 9, 2008 10:16 AM | Reply | Permalink
honestpoet: Thanks. I just came up with it today. Had to edit it down actually. Hannity is disgusting.
Anyway, yeah, Hannity says that first quote all the time. I don't watch either, but I saw a mash-up 6-9 weeks ago where he said it like 10 times. I hope we can find a way for him to lose his radio license.
October 9, 2008 10:27 AM | Reply | Permalink
Inventing a word, here, but:
Mental onanity
October 9, 2008 11:04 AM | Reply | Permalink
Like onanism?
October 9, 2008 11:21 AM | Reply | Permalink
Exactly like onanism, only it rhymes with "Hannity."
October 9, 2008 11:45 AM | Reply | Permalink
I always thought that it was funny that there was a power generator company called "Onan." One of their power units sat outside the art building where I once taught and it had this big pipe coming out of it that went straight into the ground. Every time I walked past it and saw it pumping its energy into the ground, I couldn't help but laugh. Something only an academic or biblical scholar would appreciate, I guess.
October 9, 2008 1:03 PM | Reply | Permalink
Oh, Google... it looks like the company's called "Cummins Onan" now. LOL! What would Beavis and Butthead say?
October 9, 2008 1:30 PM | Reply | Permalink
That was the other name! I forgot. Cummins! LOL!
October 9, 2008 2:27 PM | Reply | Permalink
Huh huh, you said LOL. Cool...
October 9, 2008 5:56 PM | Reply | Permalink
The best part was having Keith Olbermann read this on Countdown last night. Maybe the video is up by now?
October 9, 2008 11:19 AM | Reply | Permalink
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19RiO30O9a8
Here you go.
It was found under McShill.
October 9, 2008 11:45 AM | Reply | Permalink
I believe too much in freedom of speech to urge anyone to revoke his license, anymore than I'd want to censor Hotguy.
Let idiots reveal themselves with their words. At least then we know who and where they are.
October 9, 2008 11:27 AM | Reply | Permalink
honestpoet: Hit "reply" :) I didn't say "revoke". I just hope he misplaces it and has to retire from being the radical right wing hitman that he is.
October 9, 2008 11:38 AM | Reply | Permalink
Thanks for the software tip.
And yes, I share your hope.
October 9, 2008 12:20 PM | Reply | Permalink
Now it's time for Michael Palin to go on the air and demand his good name back.
October 9, 2008 11:35 AM | Reply | Permalink
Hey, does anything rhyme with "self-righteous douchebag"?
October 9, 2008 12:25 PM | Reply | Permalink
No- he's the angry shit stained puss bubble on the ass sore of humanity, that Hannity.
If he's Irish, it only goes to show that some of those the Brits locked in closets for 400 years had offspring with inbred simians.
October 9, 2008 12:28 PM | Reply | Permalink
O'Bama!!!!
October 9, 2008 12:32 PM | Reply | Permalink
I wish Cleese was a little more involved in movies and TV...he's such a comic genius and he's been reclusive ever since Python.
I wonder what he'd say about all the silly Ayers connections: http://tinyurl.com/6xr3b7
October 9, 2008 1:06 PM | Reply | Permalink
I wouldn't say "reclusive," exactly.
October 9, 2008 1:22 PM | Reply | Permalink
I 'effing' LOVED this!!!
It is so hard to do and Cleese is so very gifted with language. I salute Mr. Cleese.
I got to listen to it 7 or 8 times last night thanks to my digital video recorder.
October 9, 2008 2:34 PM | Reply | Permalink
Your cowbell is hurting my ears.
October 9, 2008 3:51 PM | Reply | Permalink
Now, could someone turn this into a limerick?
October 9, 2008 4:15 PM | Reply | Permalink
Plump as a manatee
Ah, but he is thin
With a great big chin
And a swelled noggin
With no brain within
October 9, 2008 4:42 PM | Reply | Permalink
Kudoes to John Cleese! For what it's worth, Cleese's poem is an homage to the W.S. Gilbert patter song, *My Name is John Wellington Wells,* from the operetta The Sorcerer. Gilbert uses the basic form three times:
He has answers oracular,
Bogies spectacular,
Tetrapods tragical,
Mirrors so magical,
Facts astronomical,
Solemn or comical,
And, if you want it, he
Makes a reduction on taking a quantity!
Then, if you plan it, he
Changes organity,
With an urbanity,
Full of Satanity,
Vexes humanity
With an inanity
Fatal to vanity –
Driving your foes to the verge of insanity!
Barring tautology,
In demonology,
'Lectro-biology,
Mystic nosology,
Spirit philology,
High-class astrology,
Such is his knowledge, he
Isn't the man to require an apology!
October 9, 2008 5:07 PM | Reply | Permalink
**Ah, ya NOT hotguy. My Irish granny would kick your sorry ass all the way back to Dublin fer talking such shiite about one o' the most fascinatin' Irish lads to EVER run for American President. Shut yer yap, ya bilious toad!
October 9, 2008 5:35 PM | Reply | Permalink
So I've been thinking about how to talk to my extended family about the election - they're mostly Republican and some are Irish. You know what I really want to say to them?
Welcome to the minority. I hope you hate it. I hope President Obama makes your blood boil for the next eight years, just like W has boiled mine. I hope you, too, have the opportunity to watch your government do the opposite of what you want. I hope you spend the whole time frothing at the mouth about policies you can't change and don't agree with.
Honestly, hotguy? Seeing anger like this makes me really happy. Because what I want, most of all, is to watch you eat your heart out as we succeed in fixing the nation you losers broke.
October 9, 2008 6:13 PM | Reply | Permalink
Ouch.
While I completely sympathize with your sentiment, I'm not sure such a scenario would be productive.
What I hope is that what will happen after the Obama/Biden victory is that there really is a bipartisan effort to improve things, because DANG, things have really gotten messed up.
I'd like to see us be one country again.
October 9, 2008 8:37 PM | Reply | Permalink
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