The Wit and Wisdom of Tammy Faye
I'm taking a break from Shark Week and watching Tammy Faye Messner on Larry King.
Here are some highlights.
And there's my whole set-up, y'all.
Larry mentions how he'd interviewed Billy Graham recently, and Billy Graham had told Larry that he was at peace, looking forward to paradise, and that he'd be happy if he died that night. So Larry asks Tammy Faye, whose lung cancer has just recurred, if she, too, felt ready to...well, die. Like NOW.
Gah, Larry! Harsh!
So TF gazed at him kind of blankly at first, as if he'd lost his mind, then composed herself and outright giggled. And she chirped, "well, I'd rather not be in the first busload. I mean, how old is Billy...eightysomething, almost ninety?" No shit! Tammy faye Messner has THINGS TO DO!
A woman called in, commending TF on her role in VH1 program The Surreal Life, and admiring her tolerance of those whom other evangelical Christians routinely condemn. And TF nods seriously, and talks really earnestly and well about a minister friend of hers who was excluded from a religious conference due to his, well, "love of the gays," TF says. When the next caller asked if TF keeps in touch with her former housemates, TF said she's still good friends with Ron Jeremy, adding "hi, Ron!" Aww. What do they talk about, do you think? Cancer? Jews? Jesus? Porno? What?
A British woman called in, and reflected that American Christian women wear a lot more make-up and more elaborate hairdos than Christian women in Britain, and why did TF think that is? TF laughingly said "I gotta get over there and do some makeovers--I've never noticed English women wearing makeup whether they were going to church or not!" Take that, you plain-ass Jesus limeys!
PIECE DE RESISTANCE: She wants to be cremated, and for her ashes to be placed in maracas.
Here are some highlights.
And there's my whole set-up, y'all.
Larry mentions how he'd interviewed Billy Graham recently, and Billy Graham had told Larry that he was at peace, looking forward to paradise, and that he'd be happy if he died that night. So Larry asks Tammy Faye, whose lung cancer has just recurred, if she, too, felt ready to...well, die. Like NOW.
Gah, Larry! Harsh!
So TF gazed at him kind of blankly at first, as if he'd lost his mind, then composed herself and outright giggled. And she chirped, "well, I'd rather not be in the first busload. I mean, how old is Billy...eightysomething, almost ninety?" No shit! Tammy faye Messner has THINGS TO DO!
A woman called in, commending TF on her role in VH1 program The Surreal Life, and admiring her tolerance of those whom other evangelical Christians routinely condemn. And TF nods seriously, and talks really earnestly and well about a minister friend of hers who was excluded from a religious conference due to his, well, "love of the gays," TF says. When the next caller asked if TF keeps in touch with her former housemates, TF said she's still good friends with Ron Jeremy, adding "hi, Ron!" Aww. What do they talk about, do you think? Cancer? Jews? Jesus? Porno? What?
A British woman called in, and reflected that American Christian women wear a lot more make-up and more elaborate hairdos than Christian women in Britain, and why did TF think that is? TF laughingly said "I gotta get over there and do some makeovers--I've never noticed English women wearing makeup whether they were going to church or not!" Take that, you plain-ass Jesus limeys!
PIECE DE RESISTANCE: She wants to be cremated, and for her ashes to be placed in maracas.
posted by sarahfisch at
6:44 PM
5 Comments:
I think that Tammy Faye and Ron Jeremy talk about the human duality that their relationship represents. And then he flashes her "the hog" and she giggles like a schoolgirl.
It's exactly the same relationship model as Hepburn and Bogart used before them*.
*If they were ever together, which I'm not sure they were.
i hope heaven is something like reading your commentary on Tammy or... sharks.
Umm, is she aware that ashes are not gonna be that percussive, in them there maracas?! C'mon, Tammy Faye, you'll have to add some rice, at least. Or how about your eyelashes? Add those too, you'll get some noise.
Dude, you *have* to see The Eyes of Tammy Faye. Immediately.
I love her.
Says Dodge.
When I was studying once ( once of the 6 times it took to finish a degree). I used to enjoy the graffiti in the toilets. Some kind soul interested in making my day bearable had written..
"Jesus loves me this I know"
and then under this it said
"You mean the last word you had from him was 2,000 years ago and you're still believing?"
then someone else wrote
"Jesus saves, he's the only one who can afford to!"
.. I also liked
"To be or not to be" shakespeare,
"Do be do be do" Frank Sinatra
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