Hey, remember how I said all along that this Joaquin Phoenix rap thing felt like a put on? Do you? Because I did. Are you done taking me for granted now, you selfish bastards? Well hey, guess what:
Following his widely panned three-song debut as a rapper at a Las Vegas nightclub on Jan. 16, two competing theories emerged: Either Phoenix is perpetrating an elaborate Andy Kaufman-style hoax (with an assist from his friend and brother-in-law Casey Affleck), or he’s truly lost his marbles. The truth, it seems, is closer to the former. “He said, ‘It’s a put-on. I’m going to pretend to have a meltdown and change careers, and Casey is going to film it,’” says one source who recently worked with Phoenix.
…with this supposed career reboot he is evidently trying to both lampoon pompous actors and punk the media that covers them. Whatever his motivation or ultimate endgame, don’t expect him to break character anytime soon. “It’s an art project for him,” says a source. “He’s going full out. He probably has told his reps that he’s quit acting. Joaquin is very smart. This is very conscious. He has a huge degree of control.” [HollywoodInsider]
I’ve never been to prison so I’m not exactly sure how this “punk” thing works, but if involves helping the punkee make a ton of money, this is a total success. As peformance art, I’m not so sure. I was under the impression that performance art should involve human excrement.
[Thanks to BDarbs for the tip]
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I always thought proformance art had something to do with duct tapping babies to a wall and shooting them with paint balls, this totally just blew my mind
Call me when he puts scuba masks on lions.
Actually, this makes me hate him even more.
TMZ has an update: “Joaquin’s prank on Hollywood is so good, in fact, that sources tell us that the whole prank angle is actually another prank. It turns out that Joaquin’s brain is so drug-addled and stripped of all merit that people close to him are actually just sticking their hands up his ass and using him as a puppet.”
If you pull the Joaker Texas Ranger lever a clip of a monkey fingering its butt plays.
I’d rather see him try a Kafka-style hoax and start covering Paul McCartney songs.
And I thought him trying to act with a hare-lip was a prank
I’d rather see him pull a Kaffir-style hoax and try to fight for equal rights in South Africa.
Some say he was born to play Johnny Cash in “Walk The Line”.
I say he was born to play the character role in a Bugs Bunny biopic.
Hes a Joaker, hes a Smoaker, hes a midnight Toaker
It would be pretty brilliant to have a nervous breakdown where you say you give up acting, only to come to your senses later and play it off as an elaborate prank… but only I know what you’re really about, Joakey. When you said “Bye! Good” you meant it.
You may have 2 out of 3 right, but he’s no Joaker.
It’s all been downhill since “Space Camp.” I feel like he never really blossomed as an actor. He started as a creepy, hare-lipped, child actor and wound up a creepy, hare-lipped actor. Life is full of these tragic missed opportunities.
On the other hand, Larry Scott’s career has just skyrocketed.
I’d like his next “prank” to be him parking in Paula Abdul’s driveway.
The Mighty Feklahr understands Joaq will have the lead in the upcoming Peyton Manning biopic.
Perhaps Sug Knight will only be joking when he pops a cap in Joaquin’s ass for mocking rap.
Man, I was really lookin forward to hearing the line “get off my joaq”
So he’s going full retard on this one.
He’s the real life Simple Joaq
(licks finger after touching this board) Hmmm…Iocaine I’d bet my life on it.
Actually, I taste the taint of spin on this and his shitting their pants managers trying to put the JoaqExpress back on the rails. Good luck.
It’s sort of like the time that guy married Britney Spears while they were drunk in Las Vegas. After sleeping with her one time, he said “You know this was just a ‘prank’ right?”
Department of “I Told You So, Too”–if you go back to the post about his Las Vegas “debut,” you will notice that I asked “Where’s Asshton Kutcher?”
PS: Elvis will soon reappear and explain his “death” as a “prank.”
I am mad because I have to work today. I had to chisel an inch of ice off my car to get to my damn job.
You know, if I were famous, I’d probably do the same thing. Wait, are we still talking about Eddie Murphy?
I just re-read my earlier comment. Should’ve said that he’s no Jo
aker.I think the next time I get caught being an ass I’ll pay a friend of mine to say that it’s cause I’m smart.
Well played T-N-T.
Notice how even his mustache avoids his harelip? It’s like when invading armies would salt the earth, so nothing would ever grow again.
“I was under the impression that performance art should involve human excrement.”
Not much else to do in Fresno but listen to GG Allin and frot.
If a douche-y actor falls in the woods, will anyone give a shit?