Archive for the ‘Living Dandys’ Category
Pee-wee Herman
Pee-wee Herman is a comic fictional character created and portrayed by American comedian Paul Reubens. He is best known for his two television series and film series during the 1980s. Pee-wee is commonly portrayed like an impatient and fun-loving child with dainty, effeminate mannerisms and quirky facial expressions. His age has never been explicitly stated; although, he once proclaimed on The Pee-wee Herman Show, “I’m the luckiest boy in the world.”
David Letterman once said of the character, “What makes me laugh…is that it has the external structure of a bratty little precocious kid, but you know it’s being controlled by the incubus — the manifestation of evil itself.” While the character is typically cheerful and flamboyant, Pee-wee has indeed displayed an aggressive side, including his vicious pool battle with Francis in Pee-wee’s Big Adventure. He also played vengeful tricks in the aforementioned film and occasionally threw childish tantrums on Pee-wee’s Playhouse.
Erik von Markovik AKA "Mystery".
Canadian author and entertainer Erik von Markovik is also known as “Mystery”. Well known in the “seduction community”, he is one of the main characters in the non-fiction book “The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists” by his “best friend” Neil Strauss.
He was featured in the 2007 VH1 reality television series The Pick-up Artist. Mystery is the self-proclaimed “world’s greatest pick-up artist” and was introduced as the “world’s most successful pick-up artist” during the premiere of his VH1 show.
Mystery has also received several notable awards within the seduction community. Mystery has been ranked as one of the Top 10 Pick-up Artists Of The Year for the last seven years, and one commercial website awarded him the top spot in 2007.
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Boy George
Boy George is an English singer-songwriter who was part of the English New Romantic movement which emerged in the early 1980s.
He helped give androgyny an international stage with the success of Culture Club during the 1980s.
His music is often classified as blue-eyed soul, which is influenced by rhythm and blues and reggae. His 1990s and 2000s-era solo music has glam influences such as David Bowie and Iggy Pop. He also founded and was lead singer of Jesus Loves You during the period 1989–1992.
In addition to songwriting Boy George spends his time DJing, writing books, designing clothes and photography.
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Rip Taylor
Taylor is known for his high-voiced yells, wacky toupée, and handlebar moustache over a perpetually toothy grin. He often enters a venue tossing handfuls of confetti from a paper bag onto his audience and laughing hysterically, while the band plays his theme song, “Happy Days Are Here Again.”
Taylor’s comedic style includes puns, often in conjunction with props (for example, holding up a plastic fish full of holes and exclaiming “Holy Mackerel!”) and miming along to novelty records (including the works of Spike Jones). If he gets little or no reaction following one of his jokes, he stops for a moment and yells at the audience: “I don’t dance, folks! This is it!” Or, “Hello? Can you people hear me?”
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