Wednesday, December 30, 2009

Celebrities Who Are The Same People As Other Celebrities

Did you ever notice that many celebrities pretend to be two or more different people? There are a few different possible reasons why a celebrity would create a false identity, but in all of the cases I have discovered, it is most likely that their minds have become warped by their fame and they desire to prove that they can start over as a normal person and become just as famous as their original celebrity persona was. Here are some of the cases that I have discovered:

Marlon Brando / James Dean
This is the earliest known example of two celebrities secretly being the same person.

Jeff Bridges / Jeff Daniels
Jeff Bridges-Daniels (sometimes known as Jeff Daniels-Bridges) does a very poor job of maintaining two distinct identities. They are both actors, they are both named Jeff, and everybody keeps forgetting which one was supposed to be in which movie. I just know him as "that Jeff guy that was in Dumb and Dummer, Tron, Gettysburg, The Big Lebowski, and Iron Man."

Leonard Nimoy / LeRoy Neiman
This one was a little more tricky to figure out, and the celebrity in question would have had me fooled except for the completely unrealistic mustache disguise in his alternate painter identity.

Jack Nicholson / Jack Nicklaus
I'm confused by this one, too. Wouldn't Jack find that if he combined his two separate personalities into his one true identity, his ability to balance two sets of incredible abilities in wildly different areas would make him more popular than the mere sum of the popularities of the two identities?

Robert de Niro / Richard Gere / Dustin Hoffman
It was pretty clear that Robert de Niro and Dustin Hoffman were the same person right after The Graduate, The Godfather Part II, and Taxi Driver were released, and it became more and more obvious over time. However, Mr de Hoffman later invented a third persona, Richard Gere, in an attempt to throw us off track. It is currently unknown how Joe Pesci fits into all of this.

See also
Tom Berenger / Tom Bergeron
Earl Warren / Warren Earl Burger
Chad & Jeremy / Peter & Gordon
Oprah Winfrey / Harpo Marx

Wednesday, December 9, 2009

Secret Messages

Did anyone else notice the secret messages that cartoonist Lynn Johnston snuck into this Sunday's For Better or For Worse? Take a close look at the two panels in question:

In the first panel, Johnston uses "BRAACK" as a disgusting sound effect. This could only mean one thing: Lynn Johnston considers Barack Obama to be no more than human vomit. You know what Lynn Johnston? Your smears disguised as comic lettering disgust me!

But that's not all! In the very next panel, she includes the sound effect "ZARRAPPPPPPPP" along with other violent noises. To the thinking man, the second hidden message is obvious: Lynn Johnston considers Frank Zappa to be no more than a violent assault on humanity. Hey Lynn Johnson, what did Frank Zappa ever do to you?

Have you no shame?