I admit it. I loved Steve Guttenberg when I was a kid. And I’ve been anticipating a respectable comeback from the Police Academy star for almost two decades now. But after watching this video from Funny or Die, I’m finally ready to close the door on any hope I might have had for the guy. The faux commercial for “Guttenberg’s Steak House” is lame and unoriginal, and not only did I not laugh, I don’t even understand what’s supposed to be funny about it.
Until now, I kind of believed there was an almost win-win benefit to the viral marketing of oneself. A site like FOD is a perfect venue to showcase whatever talent we’ve been missing from a fallen star who otherwise has been trapped within the confines of the Hollywood system. Someone like Guttenberg, who has been stuck bottom feeding in the lowest of low-rent roles, could use this opportunity to be as brilliant as he can be. Unfortunately, maybe this is as good as he gets these days.
Or maybe he was simply low-renting himself out to the uninspired producers of the video and had little to do with the poor concept and execution. However, if that’s the case, I’m still disappointed in his lack of taste in choosing to be involved. More enjoyable, though only slightly, was last month’s Guttenberg-related FOD video, also written by Amy Rhodes, which took the strange idea of remaking Three Men and a Baby with all three men played by Matthew McConaughey. I have to admit, though, that I probably found it funnier than it actually is because I watched it this morning directly after watching the new boob-filled red-band trailer for McConaughey’s new, very ’80s-tinged comedy Surfer, Dude.
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