Imagine that you’re George Clooney. You’ve always been known as either the cute guy from ER or the worst-ever Batman. Then, suddenly, you’re taken seriously. To celebrate, you make a masturbation joke.
After writing and directing Goodnight And Good Luck and starring in Syriana, George Clooney was starting to get genuine acclaim as the voice of the resurgent left wing, shooting off warnings to George W Bush at every turn. But with power comes great responsibility, and George Clooney has just learnt that if you’re going to make a joke about wanking during a Golden Globes acceptance speech, you should expect people to get a bit stroppy.
To be fair to George Clooney (DVDs), he didn’t make an out-an-out wank joke
when he accepted the award for Best Supporting Actor at the Golden Globes – he
didn’t just bound on stage and start making cracks about nuns having a
stroke on Palm Sunday or anything. That would be tasteless.
Instead, George Clooney made a dig at disgraced US lobbyist Jack
Abramoff – who recently pleaded guilty to all kinds of federal corruption
charges for trading gifts of money, travel and meals in exchange for political
influence. During his speech, Clooney said of Abramoff:
"Who would name their kid ‘Jack’ with ‘off’ at the end? No wonder the guy’s screwed up."
And now the very people who named their kid ‘Jack’ with
‘off’ at the end have unsurprisingly taken issue with Clooney. The Desert Sun newspaper published a furious open letter to George
Clooney from Frank Abramoff, the father of Jack Abramoff, which reads:
"Your glib and ridiculous attack on my son, Jack,
coupled with your obscene query as to the choice his mother and I made
in naming him brought shame and dishonour on you and your profession. What drove you to this lapse in lucidity, I can never
know, but you need to know that your words were deeply hurtful to many
innocent and decent people."
George Clooney’s rep has declined comment, saying that Clooney has not yet seen Abramoff’s letter. Although we think that George probably isn’t saying anything because he hasn’t thought up a glib and ridiculous attack he can make out of the word ‘Frank’ yet.
Read more:
Clooney ‘upset’ lobbyist’s family – BBC
[story by Stuart Heritage]
Eq says
Ha. ‘Frank’ rhymes with ‘wank’.
Brick says
Wand rhymes with stupid-ass joke. That mullet would get him jumped in this building.