…which would likely explain the maturity level of some of the jokes and cartoons.
Valentine’s Day is the The Bay Area Brit’s one-year anniversary. And what better way to celebrate by giving fake awards to Brits who have popped up on the American radar in the last year.
Award For The Funniest And Meanest Way To Get Back At Your Celebrity Wife
Russell Brand exposed his wife, Katy Perry to the TwitWorld sans makeup. Normally this would be a “so-what” situation: a woman without makeup–big deal. I like to see it as the first layer of exposure. Next comes Brand’s homemade audio files of her singing off key in the shower and then of course the inevitable porno tape. Who knows what started it? Perhaps a fight over whose maid should do the dishes, or maybe there was a verbal joust regarding whose 15 minutes would be up first. Either way, we here at the Bay Area Brit commend Mr. Brand’s efforts to prevent boys aged 13-77 from lusting after his wife.
Award For Putting Your Foot In Your Mouth And Then Not Only Failing To Remove It, But Trying To Cram The Other Foot In There As Well.
Jeremy Clarkson is the host of a popular British TV show called “Top Gear.” On a recent episode, he referred to Mexicans as “lazy, feckless, flatulent oafs” and Mexican food as “refried vomit.” Understandably, Mexicans are angry at the comments, and Clarkson has failed to apologize; in fact he continued to make even more racist comments that he believes is “humour.” To make matters worse, he claims that, “the Mexicans have no sense of humour.” Which is kind of like me taking a crap on his floor and telling him that, “he’s only mad at me because he hates cleaning his carpet.”
We here at The Bay Area Brit think that Jeremy Clarkson’s the one lacking a sense of humor.
Award For Pissing Off Hollywood Celebrities By Making Fun Of Them
Ricky Gervais hosted the Golden Globes for the second year in a row. It’s refreshing to see an awards show host who is secure and comfortable enough to fearlessly make fun of the irritating pomposity that these affairs usually bring. I mean he’s drinking a beer at the podium for God’s sake. He skewered some easy targets but even went after the guy that signed his paycheck that night: the President of the Hollywood Foreign Press. One of his best lines made fun of the Cosmo-swilling cougars from Sex In The City.
“I was sure the Golden Globe for special effects would go to the team that airbrushed that “Sex In The City” poster. Girls, we know how old you are. I saw one of you in an episode of Bonanza.”
The distinction between Gervais and Clarkson is that Gervais targets himself as much as others. Plus, Gervais went for the jugulars of the wealthy and famous, Clarkson cruelly generalized and negatively stereotyped an entire nation.
Award For Most British, British Movie Star : Colin Firth
Colin Firth’s portrayal of King George VI sealed this year’s award of being the “Most British, British Movie Star.” Cheerio, pip, pip and all that rot, Colin. Good luck winning a real award at the Oscars for “The King’s Speech.” We are all counting on you.
Award For Best Attempt At Killing Your Career Just As You Were Making Money And Achieving “C”…Maybe “D-List” Status In America
British soccer analyst Andy Gray covered the 2010 World Cup in the United States and received positive acclaim and attention with his excitable, yet no-nonsense approach and analysis. He was recently fired by Sky Sports for making sexist comments regarding a soccer official during the broadcast of an English Premier League game. “Can you believe that? A female linesman. Women don’t know the offside rule.”
Well done, Andy; women don’t know how to drive a car, change a flat tire, fly a plane, be an astronaut, or lead a country, and they certainly couldn’t possibly understand the complicated offside rule. Idiot!
Happy Birthday, Bay Area Brit, here’s to another year. Oh, and in case you missed it–here you go.
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the problem with The Bay Area Brit is that it doesn’t appear in my RSS reader often enough.
please be more frequent in your second year.
kthxbye
Thanks, Hobbit,
I will take that as a compliment.
This was my 52nd post of the year…which, any wizard of the mathematical variety, could tell you averages one a week.
I’m not sure if my semi-adoring public could take more than that without hurling angry “cease and desist” e-mails at me.
Thanks for reading.
Cheers
Happy Birthday Bay Area Brit! Funny you should mention it – Russell Brand was my favorite celebrity-being-a-dick moment of the year. Strangely, his silly behavior did nothing to stop my lusting for either his wife or him. Carry on B.A.B. I need these laughs and, of course, unintended insights into my own little world!
Thanks Ms. S
I couldn’t have done it without you and of course all the hundreds of little people who worked so tirelessly so that I could receive this award. I’d also like to thank the Academy…and…oh, wait. Wrong speech.
good one, Matty!
Thanks, Delene.
Ricky may get my human of the year award, not as shit cool as Colbert’s White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner, but really great, I love your stuff dude, keep a penning! Whop bop a doo wop a lop bam boom.
Is it too late to bet good money that Piers Morgan will make it onto your list next year?