Sunday, January 23, 2011

Steve Carell: Secrets from His Butler (me)


I was visiting home for the weekend, which is quite a convenient place to get the flu. The night went badly; I was achy and I had horrible chills. This kept me from ever fully sleeping, so I stayed stuck in a kind of half-awake half-asleep limbo for most of the night. What made it more interesting, though, is that I was dreaming.

This wasn’t the first time I’ve dreamed about Steve Carell. He was actually Steve Carell in this one, not Michael Scott from The Office. And with quite a different economic status, too. In this dream, he needed help taking care of his humongous, gaudy, centuries-old mansion adorned with dusty paintings and bear rugs, and I was lucky enough to be hired as live-in butler. 

[I would do this constantly.]

Now here’s something that not a lot of people know, but I do because I was his personal butler: Steve Carell, when he comes home, actually becomes three very large, very old rich women in satin bathrobes with golden fringe. 

Hard to believe, I know.

He—well, they, feminine—is/are less funny, too. They just lie in their lavish beds adorned with overstuffed down comforters with floral patterns and numerous pillows with tassels on them, and moan while stroking their a**hole Pomeranians, at least twelve to a bed.

My job was to run from room to room to room taking care of the massive moaning triplets.

But remember what I said before: I was half awake the entire time, but still dreaming. As the butler, they way I would tend to these three dames was to lie on my left side, my back, or my right side. And at the moment of successfully repositioning, I would become one of them, lie uncomfortably in my extravagant bed and moan in influenzalic agony. After tending to one for a while, I would switch positions to become another, and then another. 

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[All Pomeranians are a**holes.  They're the only kind of dog I would be willing to strangle. Just looking at my drawing makes me all, "Pffft. A**hole.]





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So in a way I was those three whale-like women. And in some bizarre, fluish way…I was Steve Carell.

Note to Mom and Dad: Listen, can we get some NyQuil up in here so I don’t have to become morbidly obese triplets when I’m sick at home? They’re really a bare to take care of. And bitchy.

2 comments:

  1. oooooo. I read this right after watching Steve Carell on SNL, in which he brags about his success an wealth.

    I really like your drawings. You should do comic strips.

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  2. First of all...Good Job ending another entry with the word 'bitch' (or a form of it, anyway).

    HEY....I had Nyquil! I can't help it if the protective/safety/security seal was broken and leaked all over your desk.

    Really funny entry, bub! You started my Monday morning off with a laugh (and you know how hard it is to get a laugh out of me first thing in the morning...especially on a Monday!)

    Your drawings made me laugh too! I don't know how you can make a simple stick person drawing so expressive!

    I have to agree about Pomeranians. They're furry little bat-faced dogs with baaaaaaad attitudes! Ick.

    Love ya,
    Mom

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