| Writing Fanmail to Down's Syndrome Kids |
[Jan. 15th, 2008|07:58 pm] |
Good evening people,
This weekend, at the ripe old age of 39, I wrote my first piece of gushing fanmail - and I sent it to a guy with Down's Syndrome who stars in a series of videos entitled, "Retarded Policeman".
Read that sentence again if you need to, because I assure you it's all true.
His name is Josh Perry, aka "Ponceman", and he and his brother have produced a number of vids that are without doubt, the funniest 90 second shorts I've seen in the last year.
Ladies and Gentlemen, I humbly present Josh Perry in "Retarded Policeman - Episode 3". Watch this before you read any further:
He's a comedic genius - and I almost squealed like a little girl when he responded to my fan mail this afternoon thanking me for my letter and support:
"your funny also and thank you"
That's all there was to it - but I didn't need more than that. The guy has Down's Syndrome so I didn't expect a reply to rival War and Peace in length.
Now it seems that a lot of people who suffer from a surfeit of knee-jerk political correctness posted a batch of ill-considered negative comments in response to Josh's video. They claimed it was exploitative, evil, unfunny and on par with raping kittens.
Josh himself posted this 30 second response:
This guy is a genuine, bona fide inspiration to us all, and that's what the gist of my drooling, gibbering piece of fanmail to him was about. Seriously, I gushed like a pubescent 12 year old girl with a crush on Justin Timberlake.
Far too often on LJ, I'll come across attention-seeking posts from people who are unnecessarily wallowing in their own misery and blaming it on their parents, their partner, their friends, their priest or the fucking Energiser Bunny. You know exactly what I'm talking about. Those sorts of posts should all be entitled "I'm Feeling Insecure (again), so Please send me Hugs and tell me I'm Popular".
Consider a guy like Josh. Josh was born with Down's Syndrome, so if he wanted, he really could justify blaming the world and bitching about it like a little kid with a scraped knee - But he doesn't, does he?
He's taken what he's been given and he's run with it.
And he's one seriously talented, bitchin' Down's Syndrome Motherfucker.
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yep, all those others are f*****g retarded.
a lot of people could learn a lot from Josh.
you have BOTH made me laugh so i think i will look further on youtube today for more clips ..
thankyou for sharing
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From: (Anonymous)
2008-01-17 08:35 am (UTC)
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"you have BOTH made me laugh so i think i will look further on youtube today for more clips .. "
Thanks - and yes, there are a stack of other clips that Josh and his brother have posted apart from the "Retarded Policeman" series - and they're all worth watching.
Hope your good self and Mr G are doing well.
SD
PS. #4 is great!
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mr
From: (Anonymous)
2008-01-17 07:31 am (UTC)
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Yeah:
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