Let’s put this into context – if you didn’t know, Randy Quaid is the less-famous brother of Dennis Quaid.

Less famous than Dennis Quaid. Less famous than Dennis Quaid. We’ve worn shoes more famous than Dennis Quaid. We’ve seen squirrels more famous than Dennis Quaid. We’ve eaten bogeys more famous than Dennis Quaid. And yet Randy Quaid is somehow less famous than Dennis Quaid. Even though we’ve chewed on belly button fluff more famous than Dennis Quaid. By this estimation, Randy Quaid is legitimately the least famous man ever to walk the face of the Earth.

Anyway, Randy Quaid and his wife – who must, by rights, be even less famous than Randy Quaid; a fact that DEFEATS SCIENCE – spent a few hours in jail yesterday. We’ll tell you why after the jump. As if any of you actually care.

We’ve been unfair to Randy Quaid. He’s been in some very good productions in his time, from The Last Picture Show to Kingpin to Independence Day to Caddyshack II to Stanley’s Dinosaur Round-Up to Balls Out: Gary The Tennis Coach. But he won’t be remembered for any of those. He won’t be remembered for any of those because he won’t be remembered at all. Because he’s Randy Quaid. We really can’t spell that out clearly enough for you.

However, maybe – just maybe – Randy Quaid will be remembered. Maybe he’ll be remembered as the man who spent a very short amount of time in jail with his wife on April 26 2010 because he kept not turning up to court to discuss a hotel bill that might not have been paid for six months. But maybe he won’t. Oh, we don’t know. ABC News reports:

Santa Barbara Sheriff’s Department said Quaid and his wife were booked into the country’s main jail on Monday after being remanded in custody during a court appearance earlier in the day. A statement from the department said the Quaids were in court after missing several court dates on charges of defrauding an innkeeper, burglary and criminal conspiracy that date back to last September.

Randy Quaid says that he didn’t turn up to court before his brief jail time because a) the hotel bill has been paid – something that the hotel itself backs up – and b) the whole thing was down to a series of misunderstandings that have resulted in his reputation being tarnished. So we can’t even remember Randy Quaid for not paying his hotel bill any more. Thanks a lot Randy. You’re not exactly helping.

Still, at least the stint in prison was an unexpected treat. Not for Randy, you understand, but for all the other prisoners. After all, thanks to the unofficial rule stating that celebrities must be given preferential treatment in jail, they all got moved to swankier cells for a few hours. Because they’re all more famous than Randy Quaid. Obviously.

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