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Posted Thursday, February 12th, 2009 - 14 Comments »
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Wack-keen On Dave

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14 Responses to “Wack-keen On Dave”

  1. LexG says:
    February 12, 2009 at 1:20 am

    AWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWESOME.
    This clips RUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUULES.
    Phoenix is my NEW IDOL, this is FUCKING AWESOME BEHAVIOR and HILARIOUS AS FUCK and his TMZ RAP VIDEO IS THE BEST THING EVER. FUCK YEAH.
    Actually, I kinda suspect this HAS to be kind of a put-on because Dave is playing along so gleefully and willingly. Historically, when a Crispin Glover or the aforementioned Farrah or Sharon Stone or even Stern or THE GODDESS K-STEW starts FUCKING WITH THE PROGRAM, Dave gets REALLY insecure and testy; He doesn’t generally take shit and this is the kind of thing that, if it’s legit, would piss Dave off… The fact that he’s so giddily playing along suggests it’s all kind of a joke.
    But still, kudos to Phoenix on OWNING.

  2. lazarus says:
    February 12, 2009 at 1:37 am

    Ahh, the irony, right Poland? Like the other Dave, you never should have let him back on the show.

  3. sloanish says:
    February 12, 2009 at 2:14 am

    Laz for the win. I’m not sure if I’m comfortable living in a world where anyone has any doubt that Phoenix is just doing bad Kaufman.

  4. LexG says:
    February 12, 2009 at 3:50 am

    So, every TV message board ever pretty much confirms that this whole “crazy” shtick Joaquin’s running lately is a gag all being filmed by BROTHER IN LAW/BUDDY Casey Affleck for an absurdist doc/mockumentary about J.P.’s alleged retirement and “hip-hop career.”
    It’s almost certainly a Borat/Kaufman ruse.

  5. mysteryperfecta says:
    February 12, 2009 at 5:43 am

    I had only seen/read bits and pieces about Phoenix’s “career change”, so I didn’t have much reason to doubt it, but this interview really spikes the BS meter. Still funny, though.

  6. westpilton says:
    February 12, 2009 at 5:43 am

    I have to agree with Lex on this one. Dave would have cut into him more if he wasn’t in on it. Or at the very least, believed himself to be in on it.
    Where I differ is that I don’t find it as funny. Watching it reminds me of watching a high school play that is supposed to be funny, but that’s just not. I think this kind of thing only really works if it seems real, or at least if there is the sense that this might be real in the mind of the audience.
    I appreciate the effort he’s gone to, and I feel a little sorry for him now that it’s so widely known that it’s fake.

  7. mysteryperfecta says:
    February 12, 2009 at 5:49 am

    I had only seen/read bits and pieces about Phoenix’s “career change”, so I didn’t have much reason to doubt it, but this interview really spikes the BS meter. Still funny, though.

  8. DeafBrownTrashPunk says:
    February 12, 2009 at 7:16 am

    I’m convicned it’s a hoax.

  9. don lewis (was PetalumaFilms) says:
    February 12, 2009 at 8:26 am

    What a bunch of Buzz Killingtons! That shit it FUNNY if fake. And I agree, it’s very likely an act. But still “too soon!” after his brother OD’d?

  10. yancyskancy says:
    February 12, 2009 at 9:29 am

    I dunno, if this is some kind of Kaufmanesque shtick, it’s a pale, watered down version. Kaufman’s genius was in doing stuff that was truly outrageous and off-the-wall and still making a large segment of the audience think it might be real. Even when you got what he was doing, you could appreciate his audacity and marvel at the reactions he provoked. Sasha Baron Cohen is the new millennium equivalent of that.
    If there’s some kind of comic vision behind Phoenix’s career change, maybe it’ll be clearer once Affleck’s film is complete. Maybe it’s a Kaufman-on-Qualuudes thing that will look brilliant in the larger context. I hope so, ’cause right now it just plays as a mildly uncomfortable interview with a subject who can’t or won’t play the standard talk show game of “try to be engaging, tell an amusing anecdote, plug your project.”
    So I’ll call it interesting with an option to OWN later.

  11. rossers says:
    February 12, 2009 at 10:19 am

    “I’m not sure if I’m comfortable living in a world where anyone has any doubt that Phoenix is just doing bad Kaufman”
    I hope there is one, if not many, people like this left in the world. they’re jesus, buddy.

  13. Hopscotch says:
    February 12, 2009 at 11:52 am

    Fake or real. I could give shit.
    He’s a clown, no longer an actor. And no one is going to believe him again in anything.
    Few sadder things then watching talent go to waste. Either by tragedy or self-inflicted.
    Show’s over folks. Move along, move along…

  14. eugenen says:
    February 12, 2009 at 11:08 pm

    “He’s a clown, no longer an actor.”
    Dude. Have you seen “Two Lovers”?

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