The end of an era.
Two or three days ago, hard to tell which, I was sitting in a ballet-adjacent parking lot enjoying the hot drafts of Santa Ana whilst scrolling the news on my phone. There were many notable and important stories. The U.S. government shutdown stretching on and on, politicians on both sides of the aisle grandstanding while the poor and vulnerable get told to kick rocks, a continued U.S. military buildup in the Caribbean, experts suggesting a regime-change-style invasion of Venezuela days, if not hours, away and the revelation that Eddie Murphy’s favorite show is MTV’s Ridiculousness.
The Hollywood Reporter broke that little nugget context-free in a piece on the new documentary Being Eddie.
“Pursue peace of mind,” Eddie Murphy says in the trailer (below) for Netflix documentary Being Eddie. “If you’ve got that, then you’ve got it all.” It’s great advice. But then again, it’s coming from the guy who next says that Rob Dyrdek’s MTV clip show Ridiculousness is “the best show on TV,” so weight it as you will.
There was no circling back to when Murphy declared Ridiculousness the “best show on TV” nor why he thinks.
A very sad day for him, then, and those throughout the extreme sport universe as MTV announced, hours ago, that the program would be canceled after 14 years on air. According to TMZ, the decision came straight from the top as ownership is “working to reimagine MTV for the future and is going to be exploring fresh formats, different creative voices, and refreshed programming.”
Ridiculousness aired over 900 episodes during its run.
Rob Dyrdek’s as everyone knows, came up in the skate world, releasing his first signature show with DC in 1995, developing the world’s first “skate plaza” in 2005 and hopping onto music television the very next year with his reality show Rob & Big. He followed that hi with Rob Dyrdek’s Fantasy Factory and then Ridiculousness, the super hot clip show wherein Dyrdek and a cast of crazy cats oooh’d and aaah’d at viral mishaps.
Well, it’s all over now but Dyrdek is a multi-hyphenate, never willing to sit still so maybe he can get involved with that Venezuela regime change business, unless you have a better idea.
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Tosh.o was a superior show
https://www.reddit.com/r/NoShitSherlock/comments/1oc0suz/sermons_at_large_evangelical_church_tend_to/
Rob & Big (RIP Big) was a great show for a brief period before it got overly scripted.
New Ballrooms, Chas !
Ballrooms for all.
Rob’s new show: Ballroom Blitz, in which skateboarders dance Ballet on their boards.
if a man with a sorry sad excuse for a mustache can play Madame Ginger and young children are willing to hide beneath his voluminous skirt …. Hell, why not skaters ? Bonbons with boards!
great song.
little known fact about JSC, legendary author of the preeminent book on surfing…….in high school, Ballroom Blitz was his favorite song.
put that in your Trivial Pursuit pipe and smoke it.
Trivial Pursuit OG.
April 2026 feels like years away
Xmas music started today, it’s just around the corner.
MTV and Eddie Murphy are still alive?
That word cancel has become a by word for a load of twats who think they know better than us.
You prefer kids talking to the creepy GORK AI thingy?
Read a book
Ummm, that was a joke to those that didn’t eat mushrooms this morning.
i have heaps, swing by will give you a bag
Savin’ it til the early evening.
does last weekend count?
I need a new book, any suggestions?
Oranges – John McPhee
My copy of “Oranges” arrived today. Stoked to read this, thanks for the recommendation.
If you are having trouble sleeping I reccomend Barbarian Days.
I made it through half and couldn’t stand it any longer. Hey, Finnegan!…get those files and release them!
Born to Run and/or Natural Born Hero
Every so often there’s a story about some crazed dad who moves his family to another country or way off the grid because of some imagined horror on the horizon, like the Texan dumbass who moved his fam to Russia b/c he feared his kids would be indoctrinated into homosexuality (in Texas!).
Usually, I read these and marvel at the insanity. But AI has me considering this for me and my kids now. Good thing mom calls the shots around here.
I am thrilled to say that I have no fucking clue what this is about.
He could always join the joint taskforce and travel to Scotland alongside the Mucca Madboys and the Fennel Heads Hellmen to stop Ian ‘batty boy’ Battrick and his dastardly mob of Haggis Boys from harassing teen girl semifinalists…
Have you ever put haggis on a pizza?
It’s amazing.