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I suppose you could just post episodes of Family Guy.

http://tryingtoohard.ytmnd.com/

I thought we'd decided that Lady Gaga was the poster girl for trying too hard.

Who's "we"?

Me. About 2 weeks ago.

This thread.

Jakester wrote:

This thread.

I wasn't sure who would wind up making this comment. The smart money's always on Dalty in these cases, but you never know.

Dalty would have made the comment, but he's on vacation.

The smart money's even more on Dalty when he's on vacation.

That money's not so smart.

Dalty finds a way.

The person trying too hard is Letterman, of course.

(Not really.)

She doesn't come across as very quick-witted in interviews. She reaches for jokes, but she never quite grabs any. (Boy, do I know what that's like!) She defaults to forcing sexual tension for laughs when it's clear she's coming across poorly--and when it's clear Dave's getting the better of her. There are some clear Gaga fanfolk in the audience lapping up her every word, but she gets polite laughs for the most part. 

It reminded me of that one interview Dave did with Madonna. (Yet again, Madonna did it first.)

I think this is the one:

Guess how hard you're trying, Madonna. Here's a hint: you're trying more than one hard and less than three hard. (In other words, you're trying exactly as hard as I just tried to make that joke work.)

She crosses her legs like a man.  I think this is considered a good sign for sexual prowess in a woman.

A man dressed as Darth Vadar wearing a kilt riding a unicycle whilst playing the Star Wars theme on bagpipes.

That is it. I have finished the Internet.

I'd never seen that Madonna interview, but I think I remember it getting press because of her swearing.  She looks like she was in a goth phase at the time.  I remember she came out with that sex book around 1990, so maybe this interview was part of her S&M period.  It's funny how different of a persona Letterman adopts in this interview as opposed to the Gaga one.  I suppose both are indicative of Letterman from those time periods: he's younger, more energetic, trying to be more "with it" in the Madonna interview.  His Gaga interview seems to be generally in line with how he is these days, an old curmudgeon who is deliberately removed, maybe at least partly because he expects people to view him as old and square.

Thinking of Madonna and the 'Sex' book brings my mind back to a program I remember seeing on Public Television years ago, about the history of rock music.  The two things that stick out in my mind were the narrator's snarky comments about Elvis, and about how his fans in whatever decade wanted him to get back to making good records and stop making crappy movies.  The other thing I remember is footage of Madonna in concert walking down a slender stage that extended into the audience; she undid her top and let her breats out, and let some fans touch them.  That blew my adolescent mind, and left me agog at the possibility that they could show nudity on Public Television.  At the time I did not understand the idea of how a person's sexuality could affect the way they viewed themselves and wanted other people to view them.  I remember she also had a big bodyguard with a comical red and white striped, long-sleeved shirt with her, and he almost immediately started swatting back the fans who were trying to squeeze her breasts.

Another youthful Madonna memory was when I was in sixth grade and she had a concert special on HBO, and, poor as we were, there was a period of several years that my family inexplicably had HBO.  I remember reading about the program in the monthly HBO schedule booklet, and repeatedly, over the period of that month (maybe longer), trying to find some way that I could watch it when nobody was around.  If I'd been more clever, I probably would have set a tape to record some night, since I'm sure there must have been some middle of the night showings.  I can't remember what they called that special.  It might've been 'The Girly Show' (I remember there was a concert video for Madonna with that title, I think).  Anyway, the other thing that I remember about that Madonna concert was one of my sixth grade teachers talking about watching it and how she liked Madonna, but some of the things she did in that concert were sick.  My eyes must've been like silver dollars listening to this strange encroachment of perversion into the realm of the asexual classroom.  I was more desperate to see it at that point than ever; now I'm sure it's easy to find, but is probably not all that stimulating.

I remember beating it to the mini poster of Madonna that came with the I'm Breathless cassette. I taped it to the wall behind my bed, and would turn around and face it when it was time to do the deed.

That's probably my fondest Madonna memory.

I think you should bury that memory deep down where I never have to find it, Thursty.

I have just the place for it.

*wink*

"Open your heart" did it for me when I was but a young buck.

Fuckin' de Caprio. Didn't know what he was into...