OmZ, Darrell HAMMOND, just too utterly painful

[UTUSN]

Now this is a fellow I had mixed feelings about: Undeniably brilliant, but he always seemed a tad Wingnut and then he would say on talk shows, "My god people it's only comedy," and others here would say that comedians cut both ways, O.K. fine.

I loved his zinging Tweety the first few times he "did" him (from my Tweety file) : Darrell HAMMOND "Doing" Tweety on SNL. Tweety's ego was massively stroked after the debut of HAMMOND's impersonation of him, either in 2001 or 2002. He said, "I am now an ICON: I have been 'done' on Saturday Night Live'." The funniest line in the debut was HAMMOND as Tweety, cracking himself up with, "For the...FIFTY...people who watch this show (Hardball, not SNL)..." In the first few times HAMMOND featured him, the target was Tweety himself--manically interrupting, spitting, and drooling. However, the characterization evolved, not true to the original, where Tweety became the "rational" character surrounded by oddball, extremist "guests", with HAMMOND-Tweety shaking his head in disbelief at their partisan spin.



Never could I have imagined the psychotic abuse he now reveals, stabbing him in the tongue for pity's sake! Or the psychiatric conditions he then has had --drug use, oh yeah, totally imaginable. But strait jackets at SNL?

Now Piers MORGAN is a total toady for fatcats, but even he showed some humanity when HAMMOND broke down in their interview. Good grief.


Jonathan WINTERS comes to mind with his personal history. This thing is so extreme that even the fleeting thought was, Could this be a scam, so incredible as it sounds, like the Andy KAUFMAN thing?

But then HAMMOND went on about how much he admires TRUMP and would like to work for him, and I'm like stuck in different directions. Good grief.

[orion007]

1. Excellent analysis

There was something so scripted about how he described his mother and avoided questions on both her and his father...kept repeating how his mother was creative, a great mimic,from the South and repressed like many Southern women.
There was no info.given on just what his life was like in between her cruel acts,where were the relatives, friends, teachers in all of this abuse?
I seemed as though he was just repeating these horrific events by rote from his childhood that are in his book for the shock effect.
It was very bizarre how he made excuses for his father who he said was still back in the days of WW11 and what he experienced there and supposedly was unaware of his mother's actions.
Something is very off.
He certainly did plug "The Donald".
Maybe he's had too,too much therapy?
I don't mean to come across as being insensitive to any abuse he suffered but it was strange and left me with more questions.

[UTUSN]

2. Totally great post: Yours!1 n/t

[UTUSN]

3. Here're a couple more tidbits (and questions) from a MURDOCH rag today

More fly-in-the-soup questions: He wrote his book in a diner?!1 Like the Harry POTTER writer?!1 Is that attention-getting while it's done or what. I mean, I "get" the POTTER-writer's then poverty and the joys of a local neighborhood "safe place" where people know you and will leave you alone, but with HAMMOND's heavy duty cathartic re-living of the material as-you-write, HUH?!1


And he is injured from a recent car accident, hmmm...



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http://www.nypost.com/p/entertainment/crack_up_Sm3pTEUtiYnpWdVDngSqPL

Crack up!

.... The comedian, 56, candidly tells his story in the dark new memoir “God, If You’re Not Up There, I’m F - - ked,” which he wrote in Upper East Side diner Gracie Mews. Hammond, who is recovering from a summer car accident, spoke to The Post from his Upper West Side apartment.


Did you have reservations about revealing your addictions?

I didn’t. The last time I was in the hospital, I woke up and realized I didn’t feel ashamed of it anymore. All of us were there because of something that had happened to us, something that had knocked us down and we’ve spent the rest of our lives trying to haul ourselves up again off the canvas. Suddenly, I didn’t feel depressed about it anymore. ....



Was there anything you enjoyed about “SNL”?

No. I felt half the time I left there that I had disgraced myself. You’re on the clock there, and you sometimes run out of time. From the moment you walk in the building on Monday, you’re thinking about 11:30 on Saturday night. Who is this person they want me to play? What does he sound like? What’s his dialect? There’s no time. I had the sense that I was putting something out there that was unfinished. ....

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[Maccagirl]

4. There was always something about his impression of Clinton

that just reeked of contempt. Whatever...just my take on Mr. Hammond.

[Patiod]

5. His "Fresh Air" interview with Terry Gross was also painful

A lot was off in his story.