Git-R-Done, Bitch!
Filed Under Stand-Up Comedy
Being a victim of your success is a weird faux Chinese curse (see Dave Chappelle suffering through audiences yelling “I’m Rick James Bitch!”), but being a victim of someone else’s success… that just sucks midget balls. Comic Doug Stanhope has posted a letter to Larry the Cable Guy, requesting that the blue collar comic die to terminate the “Git-R-Done!” catchphrase he’s sparked.
Stanhope points out that he can’t pause a beat for a joke anymore without a “flag-monkey” or “puddle-noggin” or “albino trailer-parrot” repeating Larry’s catchphrase. Stanhope also admits he’s not any exception to “whoring” (a reference to hosting the Man Show, not Girls Gone Wild), but with Larry the Cable Guy throwing the phrase on any number of T-shirts (including a south-shall-rise-again Confederate Flag version) you might see why “1,000 comics curse you nightly.”
Though Larry ain’t my thing at all, I can’t fault him for trying to ride that pony as far as it’ll take him. Stanhope can take heart that though Larry probably won’t die tragically, catchphrases usually take people exactly where they belong… Branson, MO.
If the audience is into your set, they won’t heckle you with other comics material. If you can’t git-er-done, Mr Stanhope, maybe you should get done. No, I won’t wish any kind of death on Mr. Stanhope, but I do wish that he considers giving up comedy, and marrying his more than slighly overwiight, toothless cousin, Earline, and moving to Alabama where he can establish a luctarive new career, selling highly collectable Larry the Cable Guy goods to great, God fearing, red neck Americans, at out of the way flea markets, across the deepest parts of the deepest south.