From the closing to George Carlin's comedy special "Back In Town" (slightly edited):
"Everybody complains about politicians. Everybody says they suck. Well where do people think these politicians come from? They don't fall out of the sky. They don't pass through a membrane from another reality. They come from American parents, and American families, American homes, American schools, American churches, American businesses, American universities, and they're elected by American citizens. This is the best we can do, folks. This is what we have to offer. It's what our system produces: garbage in, garbage out. If you have selfish, ignorant citizens, you're going to get selfish, ignorant leaders.
...Because if it's really just the fault of these politicians, then where are all the other bright people of conscience? Where are all the bright, honest, intelligent Americans ready to step in to save the nation and lead the way? We don't have people like that in this country. Everybody's at the mall scratchin' his ass, pickin' his nose, takin' his credit card out of his fanny pack and buying a pair of sneakers with lights on them.
...So I know...you're going to have one of those swell elections that you like so much. You'll enjoy yourselves, it'll be a lot of fun. I'm sure as soon as the election is over your country will improve immediately.
PS for the Doctor Who fans among you: Try to imagine the above video as Simon Lebon's audition tape to replace Colin Baker. I'm serious. Look at the way he's dressed, and count how many images in the video seem reminisent of Doctor Who in the '80s.
And you know what, he would have been great. You can't tell me he wouldn't have been at least as good or better than Sylvester McCoy in his first couple of stories. And Nick Rhodes is auditioning for the part of, apparently, a Tharil.
2 comments:
I don't think Sir Lawrence Olivier could have rescued McCoy's first three stories. There was so much turmoil behind the scenes that it is not a huge shock the stories are as bad as they are.
But once they had stories written to McCoy and for his Doctor, with a more stable behind the scenes crew, his era got vastly better.
Again I agree with you in general but not in the specific. You're right about the behind the scenes turmoil, but I think McCoy's era started to get better somewhere in the middle of Delta & the Bannermen.
It was the "I may have gone too far" cliffhanger I like.
PS: D'yknow JNT asked Olivier to do a cameo on a Colin Baker story?
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