Michael Ian Black is a Very Famous Celebrity

[voodoolily]

I totally heart Michael Ian Black, and schild reminded me of such with his Stella post. So you should read these hilarious pieces he did for McSweeney's.

WHAT I WOULD
BE THINKING ABOUT
IF I WERE BILLY JOEL
DRIVING TOWARD
A HOLIDAY PARTY
WHERE I KNEW THERE
WAS GOING TO BE
A PIANO.
BY MICHAEL IAN BLACK
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I'm not doing it. I'm just not. I know I say the same thing every year, but this time I mean it—I am not playing it this year. Seriously, how many times can I possibly be expected to play that stupid song? I bet if you counted the number of times I've played it over the years, it probably adds up to, like, a jillion. I'm not even exaggerating. One jillion times. Well, not this year.

This year, I'm just going to say, "Sorry, folks, I'm only playing holiday songs tonight." Yeah, that's a good plan. That's definitely what I'm going to do, and if they don't like it, tough cookies. It'll just be tough cookies for them.

But I know exactly what'll happen. I'll sit down, play a few holiday songs, and then some drunk jerk will yell out, "'Piano Man,'" and everybody will start clapping, and I'll look like a real asshole if I don't play it.

I wonder if they'll have shrimp cocktail.

[WayAbvPar]

MIB thinks we is much funnier than he actually is. He is mildly amusing, but his smug act wears thin eventually.

[voodoolily]

Men in Black?

Lies! He is teh funnies. And when you see him get banged by Mrs. Santa Claus wearing a strap-on, you will know my name is the lord.

[WayAbvPar]

You just think he is dreamy.

[voodoolily]

Guilty as charged. Snide = hawt.

Seriously, though I think he reads kinda like David Sedaris, who I think is a genius.

[Pococurante]

Sedaris is the bomb.  But his schtick with his family is wearing a bit thin.

[voodoolily]

True, but his essays are good. I generally find the stories about his childhood to be the funniest, followed by when he was an adult living in NY.