I decided that I needed to put aside for a moment my deep thinking on the state of PR and tech to
explore something really weighty, namely embattled Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich’s hair. It is something bizarrely fascinating, and it seems that even the serious news stories begin or end with an aside about his hair.
So, without further adieu, here are some of the better jokes I have heard (most come from last Saturday’s SNL Weekend Update):
Frank Rich (while being interviewed on the Don Imus radio show this morning): It’s like its own warm up act.
Amy Poehler: It looks like you are wearing a toupee that is also wearing a toupee!
(Badum!)
Seth Meyers:
Is that really your hair or did you grow out your eyebrows and comb them up?
It’s like you have a proceeding hair line
(Badum Badum!)
Amy Poehler:
It’s like someone put the hair on backwards on one of the Fisher Price people.
The first time I saw you I thought you were walking away.
(Badum Badum!)
Little Known Facts about Blago’s Hair
According to the NY Times, Blagojevich does not suffer underlings gladly – he
…can treat employees with disdain, cursing and erupting in fury for failings as mundane as neglecting to have at hand at all times his preferred black Paul Mitchell hairbrush. He calls the brush “the football,” an allusion to the “nuclear football,” or the bomb codes never to be out of reach of a president.
Chicago Sun Times reports that Blago’s hair may be a sign of narcissistic personality disorder.
