The Rude Pundit
…teacher, performer and the rudest blogger in the history of the world!
The Rude Pundit is Lee Papa, a writer, professor, and performer. His two-year old blog (see below) has tens of thousands of readers each week, from all over the world. The New York Times called Papa "a tornado of a writer" and "a child of Lenny Bruce, Richard Pryor and Hunter S. Thompson" whose "ferocious column" attracts "shrewd, passionate fans." His one-man performance, The Rude Pundit in The Year of Living Rudely, was the first show to sell out before it opened in the history of the New York International Fringe Festival. The Rude Pundit has been cited by CNN, The Washington Post, and other media outlets.
Lee Papa
The Rude Pundit has to be seen to be thoroughly appreciated. Oh, you can go to his site, (http://www.rudepundit.blogspot.com), but that will only give you a hint of the outrageous riffs that emanate from this most politically incorrect human. So whet your appetite, if you will. Then decide whether you and your audience want a dose of lecture or one-man performance or both.
The Rude Pundit On Stage
By the way, Mr. Papa is a Professor of Drama and Creative Writing at the City University of New York/College of Staten Island. He has taught drama in Denmark, developed work at the Steppenwolf Theatre in Chicago, and directed outdoor Shakespeare in Tennessee.
What others say about The Rude Pundit:
"The only commentary about this sick and scary election season that makes me laugh. Who knew obscenity could be so healthy?"
--Michael Schnayerson, Contributing Editor, Vanity Fair
Listed with Robert Kennedy, Jr., Bruce Springsteen, and Michael Moore as ones "who stood up for democracy" - "He reduced politics to the playground. Is there a bully's nose he didn't bloody?"
-- Jesse Kornbluth, Swami Uptown, Former Contributing Editor,
Vanity Fair
"The Rude Pundit is seriously rude . . . and seriously eloquent and intelligent" -- The Reader
"The Nietzsche of the Blogosphere" -- Culture Kitchen
The Rude Pundit is available exclusively through the MasterMedia Speakers Bureau.
coffin_dodger » Mon Nov 07, 2016 11:34 am wrote:slad link:So my final words to them are this: You are wrong. Everything you believe is wrong. It isn't just that it conflicts with my ideology. It's that you are factually, demonstrably wrong, about Hillary Clinton, about Barack Obama, about Donald Trump, and your candidate consistently, flagrantly lies. He is utter shit. The fact that you don't care about this makes you shit. You should be whipped out of the public sphere like vermin-infested dogs until you only occupy the hinterlands and can live in your compounds of shit. The rest of us are done with you.
I am going into this election with my eyes wide open to my candidate's flaws. That makes me more honorable than the lot of you combined. So take your pathetic hatred of everything that has helped America progress and fuck yourself with it.
Adios, motherfuckers. The country is about to tell you to fuck off. And when next Tuesday is over, crawl back to your deplorable lives, eat shit, and disappear.
http://rudepundit.blogspot.com/2016/11/ ... wrong.html
That you are blinded to the sheer hatred emanating from this piece of writing is shocking. I doubt you'll enjoy reaping what you have sown.
.just leave me alone please..I really regret ever thinking you were a friend....your thoughts about me are really getting old....you've proven that you are not to be trusted ..you use of me as some kinda chew toy is childish and bolstering your street creds here by hating me is hilarious
I know you are clamoring for the Fascist to win...but I'm not
here's is some more headlines from The Rude Pundit....maybe these will make you faint
I FUCKING LOVE THE RUDE PUNDIT
Jason Chaffetz Thinks He Can Take Just the Tip of Trump's Dick
Republicans Will Shit on Your Lawn and Tell You It's Your Fault
Brief Note to Anti-Semites for Trump: Your Candidate Is More of a "Jew" Than Any Real Jew
"I've Got Guns" and Other Stupid Shit Sniveling Sore Losers Say About the Election
Donald Trump Gropes Innocent American Flag
Photos That Make Me Want to Shake Up a Bottle of Fullsteam Beer and Spray It in a Legislator's Face
Random Observations From Watching Hillary Clinton Sodomize Donald Trump Repeatedly Last Night
Melania Trump: Narcissist Wife Defends Narcissist Husband in the Most Narcissistic Way Possible
Yeah, Sorry, But Fuck Donald Trump's Supporters (and the GOP)
Trump Didn't Start the Fire, But You Fuckers Can Still Burn
Random Observations on Last Night's Debate Between Hillary Clinton and an Inflamed Asshole
Unless You're a Wizard, Shut the Fuck Up, Matt Drudge
By the way, Mr. Papa is a Professor of Drama and Creative Writing at the City University of New York/College of Staten Island. He has taught drama in Denmark, developed work at the Steppenwolf Theatre in Chicago, and directed outdoor Shakespeare in Tennessee.
Lee Papa: The Rude Pundit
Louisiana-raised Lee Papa — better known as the Rude Pundit — has a few IMPOLITE OBSERVATIONS about BP, THE GULF OIL DISASTER, Katrina and the Louisiana legislature.
By Kevin Allman @KevinAllman
What's wonderful about the Louisiana legislature is that its timing is awesome," says Lee Papa. He's just getting wound up. "Within months of Katrina, they were debating and passing an abortion ban that would go into effect only if Roe v. Wade was overturned, a bill that helps approximately nobody. Now, with the oil creeping onto the shore like a stoned Blob, they actually debated whether or not to allow concealed weapons in church. Again, just awesome.
"It's not just fiddling while Rome burns. It's using the flames to smoke crack."
It's observations like those — witty, angry, often as not profane — that put Papa in business as the Rude Pundit, which is also the name of the blog he launched in 2003 (rudepundit.blogspot.com). In the seven years since, Papa — by day, a drama professor at the College of Staten Island in New York — has become a regular on radio's syndicated Stephanie Miller Show (introduced by the Rivingtons' "Papa Oom-Mow-Mow"), issued his first comedy CD and performed a one-man show titled The Year of Living Rudely, which led The New York Times to dub the Pundit "a child of Lenny Bruce, Richard Pryor and Hunter S. Thompson." (The paper also could have mentioned Sam Kinison, Lewis Black and Rolling Stone's Matt Taibbi.) And this fall, Papa's first book, The Rude Pundit's Almanac, will be published.
Not bad for a man who moved to Cajun country at the age of 4 from Queens, N.Y., grew up in Lafayette, and studied at Tulane ("briefly") and the University of Southwestern Louisiana.
As a Carencro High School sophomore, Papa's contribution to the local science fair consisted of two dioramas: one representing creation, the other representing evolution. As he remembers it, a judge wanted him to reconcile the two concepts — "which is, you know, stupid," Papa remembers. "So I said, 'Well, I guess you could say that God created the Big Bang and sort of got things going,' and that pleased him to no end.
"Of course, being a cocky bastard, I added, 'But that's not what happened.'"
Though he may share the politics of a better known Cajun country pundit, James Carville, the resemblance stops there. Papa says his blog "probably (has)become a bit less profane, if only for the sake of not becoming boring. I mean, there's only so many sodomy jokes one can make." And Carville is unlikely, as Papa has, to recommend setting the CEO of BP on fire, or to tell his readers, "The entire 'I Want My Country Back' meme is such a lie because that crazy woman with that sign never had her country. And it ain't going back because what she wants to go back to never existed."
Papa's inspirations, he says, were the protest publications of the 1960s, "old-time muckrakers" and comedian-turned-pundit-turned-Sen. Al Franken. "When Franken's book Lies (and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them) came out, there was this uproar over how Franken was 'lowering the level of political discourse,'" Papa says. "I read it and found Franken thoughtful, reasonable, and vaguely profane at times.
"So I thought, 'That's not lowering political discourse. Let me show you what lowering political discourse is.'" Thus was born the Rude Pundit.
Papa came by his jaundiced eye for politics naturally; he lived in Louisiana until 1990 and has visited family and friends here many times since. "My memories are everything from taking public elementary school French classes," he says, "to celebrating the turn of the millennium at the Masonic Temple in New Orleans with Galactic playing, to wandering ruins after (Hurricanes) Andrew and Katrina."
The Rude Pundit was making verbal mincemeat out of the Bush-Cheney administration long before Katrina, but "Katrina was a game changer for my older brother," Papa says. "He had been a happy Rush-listening conservative who didn't give a damn about politics. But he took a trip with me to see the ruins of Slidell, of St. Bernard Parish and of the Lower 9th (Ward). We peeked inside mud-filled houses. We walked past boats in the middle of the street. We talked to grown men who broke down crying. And it made him give up on Bush.
"I'm not going to carpetbag my own reaction to Katrina because I didn't live it on a day-to-day basis," he adds. "But when I walked up to the barge that was in the middle of the street in the Lower 9th, it was staggering. And, really, there was no way to convey that to anyone who didn't stand there, but I felt it was my job to let my readers know that this was not how it was supposed to be."
BP, not surprisingly, is the current target of his rude punditry. On May 25, he wrote, "When (BP) managing director Robert Dudley says that 'there's nobody — nobody — who is more devastated by what has happened' than BP, well, what can one say to such touching human emotion other than 'We hope you get raped by alligators while the pelicans cheer.' For, see, if BP was honestly devastated by the oil gushing out of the hole in the ocean floor in any way other than its bottom line, then why the f— is it resisting or delaying anything asked of it?"
For Papa, it's personal. "I've had friends who work out on the rigs. The parents of friends growing up used to go seven-and-seven," he says. "When I was a kid, we would go down to Grand Isle and to the delta parishes for festivals or fishing. Again, I'm not gonna act like I'm debating whether to put my shrimp boat in dry dock and fire the crew. But it's heartbreaking, for so many reasons, not the least of which, as with the levees, it was preventable, but greed — simple greed — got in the way.
"Like Katrina, though, it's another catastrophe that's going to wreak havoc for years. This is the start. Wait until oil starts appearing in the Atchafalaya."
For those who think the mainstream media are liberal, reading a few entries by the Rude Pundit may be the verbal equivalent of knocking back a shot of gasoline; his invective regarding Ann Coulter and Dick Cheney is only suitable for a family newspaper published by the Manson family. Left though he may lean, however, Papa is no ideologue.
"If it was Bush who was letting BP run the show, the howls from the left would be deafening," he says. "Maybe by the time this interview comes out, things'll change, but the Obama administration, which has been active and involved since day one, needs to treat this like a terrorist attack, bringing everything it has to take care of such an emergency, shoving BP aside until they get the bill." (A few days later, on his blog, the Pundit wrote, "How do you think this plays out? That some f—ing miracle happens? That BP pays every dollar to every fisherman, every shrimper, every marsh tour boat operator, every business that has to cut back or shutter because of lost tourist dollars? That Congress will pass any regulations that have gums, let alone teeth? That President Obama will put on his Aquaman Underoos and dive down a mile to personally shove a cork into it? Hey, if we're gonna fantasize, we may as well have fun with it.")
Still, Papa is wary of being accused of carpetbagging — or carpetblogging — Louisiana's tragedies from his perch in New York. "If any of your readers want to respond with a 'Screw you. You don't live here anymore,' well, you're right," he says. "But my family's there, and your legislators' incompetence is helping them live amidst ignorance and pollution."
And speaking of ignorance, Mr. Pundit: Whatever happened at that science fair in Lafayette?
"I got second place. I think I lost to the volcano," Papa says, adding philosophically, "One always loses to the volcano."
http://www.bestofneworleans.com/gambit/ ... id=1279044
From Blog to Stage, a Pundit Examines the Power of Politics
By MARGO JEFFERSONAUG. 16, 2005
Who knew that the Internet would turn out to be a new frontier for theater; a stage that lets us choose our exits and entrances while playing any part we please? Everyone with a blog is a solo performer. And all theatrical forms are blogworthy, from diarylike realism to explosive satire.
Political theater thrives on the Web. No censorship, no compromise. Mainstream news media writers and cartoonists get to shake off time and tone constraints. New talent shows up regularly.
The Rude Pundit roared into the blog arena two years ago, and his audience keeps growing. His ferocious column (subtitled "Proudly Lowering the Level of Political Discourse") hurls analysis and abuse at the war in Iraq, religious fundamentalism, America's immigration policies, Congressional scandals and press timidity (rudepundit.blogspot.com).
The author's identity is unknown to most readers. Last week, though, he unmasked himself in a one-man show, "The Rude Pundit in the Year of Living Rudely," part of the New York International Fringe Festival. "He" is Lee Papa, a tall, stocky young man in his 30's with long hippie-esque blond hair, who is a writer, professor and sometime actor.
Mr. Papa was seated in a chair with his back to us when the stage lights came up. ("Us" being the 40 or so people who lounged on couches and secondhand chairs at Dixon Place, the hip performance space on the Bowery that looks like someone's vintage living room.)
Naked, pink-flesh figures were propped up on the wall behind him. They wore the masks of the famous: Ronald Reagan; President Bush and the first lady, Laura Bush; Vice President Dick Cheney; the presidential adviser Karl Rove; and the conservative commentators Rush Limbaugh and Ann Coulter. Some had penises, some didn't. You could hear people asking whose was bigger. Why did Mr. Limbaugh and Mr. Rove have breasts instead? And what about Ms. Coulter? Like the versatile Greek prophet Tiresias, she had been granted breasts and a penis, but she bested him, she had both at once.
Mr. Papa is a tornado of a writer. So it was refreshing when he began the show with memories of his adolescence. We're all under some kind of blight as adolescents. His blight was Ronald Reagan, the man who "hounded my life for eight years." In the Rude Pundit's world, Mr. Reagan was the cruel patriarch who set the world on its downward spiral of greed and aggression.
What followed was a set of free-form riffs, separated by blackouts. If you have qualms, prepare to feel them now. I felt fine most of the time, and so it seemed did the rest of the audience. I feel less fine trying to describe the show, because obscenities I am not allowed to quote here burst from almost all his sentences.
Take the Rude Pundit's fantasy of what John Kerry should have said in the presidential debate when Mr. Bush accused him of being a liberal. Mr. Papa hijacks the Republican language of warrior-strength and makes it grotesque. How do we liberals show we're strong, he asks, and answers firmly: "We have to rape Republicans. We have to show them this is what liberals are." Savvy candidates like Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton will benefit, he adds: "Then Hillary can say: 'I am not a liberal. Liberals are people who rape Republicans. I have never raped a Republican."'
Mr. Papa's ruling metaphor is always some form of aggressive to abusive sex. Do you remember that 1970's country hit, "Take This Job and Shove It?" Replace the word "job" with everything from weapons of mass destruction to false information, target someone like Mr. Cheney, Mr. Rove or Mr. Limbaugh, and tell them what to do with it.
The Rude Pundit is a child of Lenny Bruce, Richard Pryor and Hunter S. Thompson. Bruce and Richard Pryor were masters of stand-up comedy as political theater. Mr. Thompson was a master of journalism as performance art.
If you know their work you know that in the right hands, fantasy and obscenity are cathartic. They attack hypocrisy, because hypocrisy lulls us. Fantasy charms us and obscenity shocks us.
Mr. Papa is better on the page than onstage, though. He doesn't yet have the performing chops he needs. He is focused and intense in a boyish way. But he almost never varies his tone or pacing.
I still enjoyed the show. It's just that I enjoy his blog more. As a new fan, I also liked the fact that several members of the Listserv I belong to sent me links to their favorite Rude Pundit columns and discussions of his work that read like short, smart reviews. Those are the kinds of shrewd, passionate fans mainstream theaters would kill to attract. They'll have to take a lot more risks first.
"The Rude Pundit in the Year of Living Rudely" continues through Aug. 26 at Dixon Place, 258 Bowery, between Houston and Stanton Streets; (212)279-4488.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/16/theat ... itics.html
How I Became The Rude Pundit: Lee Papa Presents an Evening of Stories About Political Awakenings
TUESDAY, MAY 31 , 2011 AT 7:00PM
Growing up in the swamps of Louisiana’s Cajun country, Lee Papa was a “poor white bigot” raised on a solid diet of William F. Buckley, Ronald Reagan and “gay-fearful Neanderthal retardation.” Today, he’s a playwriting professor by day and the wildly popular, unapologetically liberal blogger known as “The Rude Pundit” by night. How — and when — does one suddenly figure out they’re a liberal? Join Lee Papa, political humorist David Rees, Sady Doyle, media writer Rachel Sklar and contributors to The Nation, The Daily Show, and more, as OR Books celebrates the release of Papa’s The Rude Pundit’s Almanack with a night of political origin stories.
http://www.housingworks.org/events/deta ... kes-names/
