Don’t Order Comedy from the Back of a Comic Book
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Pranking is risky. Improperly done, you look like a douchebag rather than your target. And if you have no satirical intentions to your target, you better make sure the joke isn’t so disruptive that you look like a stupid douchebag. With those rules, it’s amazing to think anyone would think spraying Tom Cruise in the face with water from a squirting microphone would actually have any result other than being arrested. (These same pranksters, who entitled their upcoming(?) show the ultra-urbane Balls of Steel, hit Sharon Osbourne with a squirting camera, what’s next - eyeing Lindsay Lohan with X-Ray specs?) How old are these comics - four?
The saving grace of this dumb attempt at a joke is that it’s given bloggers great post fodder as to what freeze frames of the prank in progress look like.
Updated: Video of the “prank” here.
I totally disagree. The point of a gag like this is not that the act itself is funny, but that the reaction of an overly-serious pompous ass of an actor is funny, and it is!!
If Cruise had laughed this off like anybody with the slightest sense of humor, this bit wouldn’t work at all and I would agree that it was a waste of time, but watching him switch from “Hey, my face is wet” to “Don’t you know that I’m Tom freaking Cruise, the smartest man and greatest actor time has ever known?!!” is friggin’ hilarious.