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He's just doing this to get Eleanor Cliff as a groupie.

...whaa?

Wow. Is his wardrobe budget now such that he's taken to fashioning suit jackets out of picnic blankets?

Also...think of ol' John McLaughlin any time you're tempted to call Tweety insane. McLaughlin makes Matthews look like Charlie Rose.

Nice to have the "Christian" right wishing for the deat of republicans for a change.

@Edward Bulwer-Lytton: Hudson Bay blanket, courtesy of NAFTA.

Andrew W.K. is a guilty pleasure. It falls somewhere between Hillary tears and Lewinsky oral.

How many bagpipes had to die to make that jacket?

Shylock: And others, when the bagpipe sings i' the nose,
Cannot contain their urine: for affection...

Merchant of Venice, Act 4, Scene 1

@SayItWithWookies: Eh, tis something to put in the bagpipe and smoke it.

Once, long ago, I watched the McLaughlin Mob. It's not nearly as entertaining as the Laugh-in Mob. Only a desperate, insane songwriter would draw lyrics from it, and are there any who aren't desperate or isane? Whatevs.

@StoneSoup: Isn't that from the little-known variant, 'The Merchant of Penis'?

..can't spell...brain failing..only a boff from Hillary can save me!..

That is bat-shit crazy genius!

@TGY: Actually, from Hank Ketcham's The Dennis of Menace.

Your daily Dana Carvey [www.zippyvideos.com] with Jan Hooks as Eleanor-gee-I-think-you're-Swellanor, Nealon as Mort-Teeny-Tiny-Table-Top, John Goodman as Jack Germond-a-lona-ding-dong, and Phil Hartman (!) as Patty-patty Buke-Buke.

"Wrong! All the doors are locked from the outside!"

@SayItWithWookies: What's the Scottish definiton of "gentleman?" Someone who can play the bagpipes, but doesn't.

@TGY: You say autistic; I say artistic. Potayto-potahto.

And: Andrew W.K. is a talentless turdbiscuit in some T-shirt an old guy wears around the house.

That show is great. WK should have at least made a proper 3min song out of it. There is GOLD in them thar tv program.

And to everyone else commenting above or below me...I can only say,
"WRONG! the correct answer is Paultardia"

I know you had the hockey photo from the NAFTA story below, but to go with this shot from Coach's Corner is a bit much.

I used to respect Wonkette, until today, when they publicly dissed the most entertaining political scream-fest on tee-vee. Andrew WK is the perfect soundtrack to the mosh pit of senile paranoia that is the McLaughlin Group.

I for one rely on the Metaphysical Certitude (TM) of The Group to bolster me, so that I can face the existential truthiness of this here Wonkerama.

W'ette should take in the show sometime: now that Tony the Tub (Blankety-Blankley) had been dumped, sexy, sexy Monica Crowley's on board, and John McL is doin' the winter/spring thang with her.

Superior viewing.

@StoneSoup: Colour scheme's all wrong. Of course, since HBC is now owned by a Yanqui, perhaps he's made some changes.

I love the song and the inspiration behind it but will someone please point out to Andrew W.K. that, in this instance, McL's amazing artistry with words was actually (inaccurately) swiped from Carl Sandburg?

Not a huge surprise, given WK's dad is a law prof at Michigan.

@katidid913:
I think Pat Buchanan did point it out, actually.

Here's another exchange to consider:

On who should be person of the year...

PAT BUCHANAN: I nominate Ron Paul.
(laughter ensues)
TONY BLANKLEY: He's our man.
JOHN MCLAUGHLIN: Our leader! Our (inaudible... could be 'guy' or 'God')
ELEANOR CLEFT: Michael Duncan... (changes the subject.)

@SayItWithWookies: That reminds me of that joke about the musical octopus and the bagpipe. "Play it? I'm going to make love to it as soon as I figure out how to get it's pajamas off!"

I'm glad to see that I am not the only one who misses the SNL McGlaughlin Group. The best was when he came out as death and killed the actor playing him. I would also like to say: Jack Germo - Wrong!

@norbizness: Although the phrase "your daily Dana Carvey" gives me the dry heaves, again, your selection brought me joy. Thanks, dude.