Saturday, November 15, 2008

Lacy Burbank Ups the Pathetic Factor with the Increasing Nonsense of His Poor Man's Jimmy Fallon Routine


We've previously covered the many documented cases of Lacy Burbank liberally "borrowing" schtick from other radio / tv programs for his little AM radio snoozefest.

What is often more pathetic, though, is when the man-child finds something too well done and then tries to put his chubby thumbprints all over it by (1) dismissing it with a haughty nod, and, (2) attempting to salvage some remote, tortured, stretched connection between it and himself. It is important to Lacy Burbank that, if he can't be Dr. Pepper, he can at least be Mr. Pibb.

This was in evidence in a recent blog post on the creepy, overweight hack's blog in which the man-child regaled us with a recap of some past instance of his "genius", then provided actual content of some creative humor (created by someone other than himself, naturally) and finished it off by pointing out his connection to it - in this case the fact that one of his lame ass, (also overweight) public access radio friends happened to have appeared for 2 seconds in the background by accident -- embarrassingly noting that this stretched connection would be, for his reader, the most interesting part of his post. (This particular "friend" we've covered in a prior report.)

It's Lacy's weird, pathetic, creepy, self-esteem absent, attention-grabbing, formula we see time and time again:

1 - remind everyone who the "star" is

2 - provide some actually entertaining content created by someone who is actually entertaining

3 - link the listener/reader back to #1 by asserting some remote connection "the star" has to #2

The total lack of self-awareness of this guy is thrillingly amazing.

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