Dear Kevin Farley,
I imagine its hard to follow in a pop icon's footsteps and I certainly wish you no ill will in making a living. You don't deserve to be ignored "just because", even at those times when you were blatantly trying to channel the ghost of Chris in those creepy Hertz commercials.
They only cast you because they wanted you to channel him. Ok, I understand. Its tough being a Farley. I can't imagine how much it must sting to have the relevant "news" items listed in IMDB under your name be about David Spade's divorce. Its hard to get heard and I've always rooted for you to succeed.
However, with the imminent opening of "An American Carol", I have to say this: No, Kevin Farley.
You've forever tied your family name to this project and lets see what illustrious company it will forever join:
Kelsey Grammar (ass)
Leslie Nielson (1988: demented. 2008: dementia)
David Zucker (has been)
Lewis Friedman (THE brains behind the 2005 Radio Music Awards)
Bill O'Reilly
This is not going to be a satire about the left wing, liberal movement. This is going to be a racist homo-Zeno-phobic train wreck. And worst of all, its unfunny.
This is the challenge facing satire these days - everything has been lampooned, so the subject and devices don't really matter. After all, Blazing Saddles is arguably one of the most offensive racist homo-Zeno-phobic movies ever made. Yet, we love it. The true genius of Blazing Saddles is that through exploiting line after line of racial and sexual stereotypes, Mel Brooks was able to show who was really the village idiot: the antagonists - and the idiots making the film itself (hence the shattering of the fourth wall in the climax of the movie). In no way did they ever take a second to ever celebrate themselves. South Park - probably the harshest critic of the left out there - does the same thing.
Your movie, American Carol, fails to do that and instead, takes its jokes more seriously than itself and unintentionally, just goes to prove that far from funny, these guys are just sad. Its a 90 minute conservative circle jerk and a giant mirror on the ceiling for folks like O'Reilly and the rest of the Murdoch bunch.
THAT is the true nature of the crime, sir. You've tied your name to what will go down as one of the worst satires of all time. It won't be long until the makers start claiming that they meant it to be a skewer of how the right views the left in the first place. By sucking so much ass.
Your curse Mr. Farley, will be the same as this guy's.
Sincerely,
Jacob
Class of '99
Comments