This is a very important time for Mel Gibson. He’s got an awful lot riding on new movie Edge Of Darkness.
If it succeeds? Great – it’ll be proof that the public has forgiven him for all of his troubles. If it fails? Well, then Mel Gibson will go down in history for being the drunk old Jew-hating Sugartits guy and nothing more. So when it comes to promoting Edge Of Darkness, it’s best behaviour all the way. And definitely no ending interviews by bitterly muttering the word ‘asshole’ at the interviewer. That would be an impossibly stupid mistake to make.
Wait, what? Mel Gibson’s done what? To his face? On television? Oh boy. Video after the jump…
Poor old Mel Gibson. He;s always saying the wrong thing at the wrong time. Like when he said “yes,” in response to the question ‘would you like to star in a film called What Women Want?’ or when he said?“My life is fucked. I’m not going to get in your car? You motherfucker. I’m going to fuck you? Fucking Jews? The Jews are responsible for all the wars in the world. Are you a Jew?” and “What do you think you’re looking at, Sugartits?” when a policeman tried to arrest him for DUI.
Honestly, he’s just like Mr Bean. If Mr Bean was a raging drunken bastard with slightly suspect racial views, of course.
No, that’s unfair. Sorry. What happened during Mel Gibson’s DUI arrest was a one-off incident that has never been repeated. In fact Mel Gibson has spent the last three and a half years working tirelessly to revive his reputation and prove to the world that he isn’t just a hair-trigger bully who speaks before he thinks. Let’s leave all that in the past.
Because now it’s much more fun to talk about the video of Mel Gibson throwing a childish strop and calling Chicago entertainment reporter Dean Richards an ‘asshole’ live on television. Oh, we can’t keep teasing you with it. Here’s the video, in all its glorious beauty…
Sure, it might not have the same visceral ability to shock as the Jewish rant, or the neologistic dazzle of his Sugartits, but there’s just something about Mel Gibson’s asshole that’s so impressive. Maybe it was the tossed off delivery, or maybe it’s the little sniff that followed it, but you can’t deny that Mel Gibson’s asshole has got a lot going for it.
And you know what? This is why people like Mel Gibson. They like that he can say whatever’s on his mind, whether he thinks that Dean Richards is an asshole or that the Jews are to blame for every molecule of human suffering in the history of existence. That’s just his USP. Because, you know, it isn’t really his ability to make decent films any more, is it?
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Wench. says
I actually really loved this.
While I think it’s a fair question, if some bald guy came at me asking “do you think your housemates are ready to forgive you for taking the last bits of bacon and blaming it on the Lithuanian girl from upstairs in 2006”, I’d definitely call him an arsehole.
lapsedCatholic says
I think Mel was referring to himself at the end. He might have said “republican”, or “movie maker” or “believer in really weird ego-religicism”, but he summed it all up instead.