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Motown legend Berry Gordy said: “He was awesome, the King of Pop was not big enough. I think he is simply the greatest entertainer that ever lived.
I heard this along with the other hero-worship claptrap and thought “huh”?
Greatest entertainer?
No fuckin’ way.
I remember a party back in ’82 or so (some of my readers may recall) when a certain chick brought Thriller to the scene. We were on an island somewhere outside of Peterborough, ON and we were all die hard rockers…
The MJ tape ended up in the bonfire while Zep II roared its mighty roar.
So in the interest of the public service, here are 50 entertainers I consider “greater” than the child molester.
- George Carlin
- The Clash
- Led Zeppelin
- Robin Williams
- Jon Stewart
- The Beatles
- Bruce Springsteen
- Madonna
- My son Owen
- Bart Simpson
- The Police
- The Canadian police forces who like using Tasers
- RCMP (see above)
- Frank Sinatra
- Alex Ovechkin
- Supertramp
- Pink Floyd
- Thierry Henry
- David Bowie
- My daughter Addy
- My teenmonster T
- The Eagles
- Stephen Harper – in robot mode
- Janis Joplin
- Jim Morrison
- Jimi Hendrix
- Bob Marley
- Queen
- Kim il Jong
- Kermit the Frog
- Kaka
- Vlad Putin
- My 4th year Pol Sci Theory prof
- Pierre Trudeau
- Sir Richard Branson
- Sir Paul McCartney
- John Lennon
- Lenin
- The cast of Coronation Street
- Che
- Ronaldo
- Johnny Ramone
- Sid Vicious
- Leonardo da Vinci
- Anna Kournikova
- Meagan Fox
- Mike Tyson
- The guy who asks for change at the corner of Holland and Scott
- Peter Gzowski
- Isaac Asimov
I could do another 100 or so, but am getting tired.
You get the point though, right?
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