You all know exactly who I’m talking about. The end of February brought with it a television actor who took ego-driven delusion to a whole other level. This particular person has had troubles for decades, but the last year and a half has been … not so good. From the ranting interviews to the anti-Semitic insults to the god-complex-filled Twitter account, I don’t think any of us expected what we got in the last few weeks. Even Keith, aka my boss here at CliqueClack, has been almost compulsively sending his writers the latest scoop in this insane ice cream sundae with extra nuts.
I’ve seen my share of celebrities going off the deepest of deep ends, but this dive is a whole different level of wacko. And it comes with an onslaught of response from the media, late night talk shows and the almighty internet. The large majority of responses (including tweets from our own Jay Black) are pure mockery. The problem is, Crazy Celebrity 2011 doesn’t think we’re making fun of him. He really, really believes we have his back. This is different from Crazy Celebrity 2010 (who was probably more racist, but also slightly more focused in his crazy), when it was quite clear that no one was backing him up. The 2011 hashtag sweeping the nation — you know the one — is just too positive out of context, and I really think Crazy Celebrity 2011 believes we’re pro-him.
I know this will all die down in a while, but the longer this particular Crazy Celebrity with national media attention thinks we as a public condone and even support his asinine behavior, the more encouragement we’re giving other stupid, ego-tripping famous people for doing more stupid crap. Can you imagine the next version of this situation? Can you imagine the next level we’re going to see and how bad it will be if we encourage this man, accidentally or not?
Fellow Clacker An recently wrote a post asking him to knock it off already. Honestly, I think the only thing we can do as decent human beings — assuming everyone reading this is a decent human being — is to just ignore him. I know its easy to mock him (lord knows I’ve laughed at a joke or two), but by mentioning his name or any of his crazyland quotes, we’re just bringing more attention to the guy. And honestly, with him unceremoniously getting sacked on Monday, its getting to the point where he’s more sad than funny anymore. Believe it or not, the best way to move forward from now on is to absolutely, positively stop referencing Crazy Celebrity 2011. It’s for the betterment of everyone — trust me.
Oh, and if you’re reading this sometime in the future and have no idea what I’m talking about, that’s a good thing.
Clacked by Katie Schenkel 
on Mar 08, 2011 @ 12:02 EST5EDT
I couldn’t agree more!
I think that someone needs to help him. not ignore him.
To the average “everyman”, Crazy Celeb is a folk hero. I work in the tech field and I service a firm that has brokers and lawyers and I would say 90% of them adore Crazy Celeb. They have homemade hashtag banners all around their desks and they pass around audio clips like trading cards.
One person in my office did cocaine right out of college (well I’m sure a lot did it, but he was one who admitted it) and he said, after a night of partying back then and not sleeping, he was an absolute wreck at work the next day. And yet Crazy Celeb has been doing Coke so long that some of his teeth fell out, yet has only missed a handful of days of work and turned in some of the best comedic performances on network television. Functional addiction at that level is the stuff of legends. You know how there’s always one guy or girl at the bar who says that they drive better after they’ve had a few drinks?…. well that person LOVES Crazy Celeb.
He’s also unapologetic about his drug use and sexual life. When you have people like L. Lohan who have never admitted doing drugs in public or in a court of law and who sneak around with vodka in Vitamin Water bottles, or people like T. Woods who may not even know HIMSELF how many whores he slept with, someone who owns up to their vices is almost …refreshing. Any person who has a “Rehab is for Quitters” shirt (or perhaps any tshirt with a witty quote on it,) or any person that buys into any of the Playboy Mansion culture, or who has ever been on or applied for a realty show, thinks Crazy Celeb is the MAN.
And seriously… who amongst us has never wanted to tell our bosses to “fuck off?” Or tell them that we were going to “cut off their faces and wear it and then go on a very tightly budgeted shopping spree in stores that don’t even exist yet?” Because I sure have. I’m not quite sure what he was going for there, but I stopped paying attention after the cutting off of faces part anyway. For getting fired and then having the most highly polished and balanced brass balls to say that he would only come back to work if they gave him a million dollar raise, I secretly give Crazy Celeb HIGH FIVES when no one is looking.
I have to admit, I have only seen about an hour’s worth, total, of his rantings (everyone goes out of their way to show you tube clips of his stuff to everyone else at work) but from what I’ve seen we’re not even CLOSE to the point of him being more sad than funny. He’s like “S**t My Dad Says” in real life. Some of the stuff is so off the wall, that you just have to believe that this is mostly a level. That he’s “turning up” the crazy like some kind of Jaoquin Phoenix experimental piece.
But that’s my speculation. I really just wanted to chime in that a large portion of the population, from what I’ve seen, is actually pro-CrazyCeleb. It’s mostly men. It’s mostly kept secret in mixed company. But it’s largely positive.
You want to see more sad than funny, watch even five minutes of his uStream show. If you still find that more funny than sad … my opinion of you has not changed. :P
I can only assume by what you typed, that you mean you have a negative opinion of me, and that’s a little disappointing seeing as we’ve never had a dialog. It feels a little stuffy in here all of a sudden… I guess it’s back to TWoP. Anyway:
I appreciate what little I’ve seen of CS, in the 20-30 second clips that are passed around, for the comedy that it is. I think people who are getting CS overdose are actively seeking out the material and consuming it. My advice: don’t do it. I saw ads for the varioius interview specials of his over the last couple of weeks, but seeing as I’ve never been a CS fan and never watched his 2.5 Men, I just shrugged and never watched those interviews. Moving forward, I’ll probably do the same. Maybe this allows me to see all of his antics as comedy, maybe not. I just posted above to say that if you poll the general population, you might find that CS is trending very positively amongst males in the 20s-50s range, and to give you reasons why.
Someone in the office said it best: The reason why CS isn’t as sad or threatening a figure as the media is making him out to be is that no one is trying to be CS. They get a kick out of his antics, but no one is saying that they want to see how much coke they can snort before their heart explodes. No one wants to Marry a Pornstar. No one wants to drink blood. Every tweener is trying to be the next Teen Mom by getting pregnant so they can be on a reality show, or the next Kardasian by putting out a sex tape. Compared to these things, CS hardly registers as relevant.
At the very worst, he’s a younger but slightly more coherent Gary Busey with a worldwide audience and some unstable sister-wives; at the very best, he’s an old Jaoquin Phoenix and everyone has missed the joke.
HAH I thought you were the other Sebastian — with an “a.” So, sorry about that! But, you can still go to TWOP and CliqueClack — we have two vastly different ways of writing.
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<——— watched less than two minutes of it, Keith.
And … you are absolutely correct.
The sooner we start ignoring Crazy Celeb 2011 the less hard it will be for him when the publicity train dies. The more we pay attention to him the higher his complex builds and the harder he will fall… onto a pile of cocaine.
And judging by the 4 minutes of KrazyCeleb Korner I watched he already built himself up a nice God complex. Its the little snips of clips you see beaten to death because thats all he has that is even remotely coherent to say. It made me after a week of mocking the living hell out of the guy to decide to step away and ignore his future rants. I might of watched more but whenever one of the people shouted winning I felt a needle like pain deep within my brain.
Also since when were brokers and lawyers “everymen” Sebastian? Though based on the brokers I have met I’m not surprised they are Sheen fans.
I know his problem is a bit different from some of the other versions of Crazy Celebrity – those that just fit into the Fame Whore category – but you have to kind of blame the media for all of his exposure. They can’t say no to something they know will goose their ratings, from the morning and nightly news casts to all of the celeb infotainment shows. Like that old news adage goes, “If it bleeds, it leads” and Crazy Celebrity 2011 is a big, metaphorical bloody mess at the moment. Maybe once the media stops tweeting him for interviews or just putting him on TV at any chance they get, someone can actually step in and help him before it’s past too late … if it isn’t already. The media finally ignored Heidi and Spencer and they’ve gone away, so how about ignoring CC2011 for a while and let him get help? Once the bright lights are no longer outside of his house, maybe he’ll realize just how bad things have gotten.
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That is a really good point. I think it really leads into what I was saying at the beginning… if we stop talking about him, maybe the media will move on, too. And then the guy can get his head clear and get some help.
Oh guys you are so naive.
Charlie yeah i call him by his name, know the medias and maybe you also who can’t stop watching, talking about him whereas you despise him or his behaviour. He doesn’t need the medias, he can create a media platform for his own publicity..no matter what people can think (laugh at him like you want but it would more clever in this case to just ignore him) the guy manages to play the medias and create a new way to interact with his audience.
p.s: i am a woman and have lot’s of feminist ideals but it doesn’t stop me to think that this guy is brilliant.