Having no idea what to write for this blog, and with the attention span of a goldfish hopped up on Red Bull, I instead finished watching an interview on Conan of most of the cast of It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, which is now on the fast track to becoming the next show I binge watch. In this interview they are all talking about the first time that they met Danny DeVito, and how the first thing he told the rest of the cast in this lunch meeting was a story he described as him ‘bullshitting.’ The story was vague and consisted of something to do with a box of teeth and watches, and wouldn’t have been interesting except for one comment DeVito made about it: you’ll never forget that person.
This, to me, ties into a lot of what we have studied this year, and into Casey’s blog post this week. Danny DeVito was lying to manipulate his crew members (to be honest, I think that is a lot of what comedy is), the same way we might lie to someone about their attire to spare their feelings. There is even a reason that we lie to ourselves, as Vonnegut points out with his construction of Bokononism.
The truth about lies is that they are never pointless, otherwise we would save ourselves the trouble and just tell the truth. Think back on any lie that comes to mind that you have ever told, even or especially to yourself, and see if you can’t find a motivation for doing so. I can’t come up with any, but maybe I’m just lying because it supports my argument.
P.S. Here’s the interview: http://www.brobible.com/entertainment/article/danny-devito-it-always-sunny-stories/
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