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"He Has an Abnormal Brain"
Posted by Stephen Green  ·  31 March 2003

Separated at birth?

Peter Boyle as the Creature Peter Arnett as the Creature




















The photo on the left is of Peter Boyle as "The Creature" in Young Frankenstein. The picture on the right is of Peter Arnett as The Creature in Baghdad. Explains a lot of the senseless noises, doesn't it?

Comments

I'm glad that I'm not the only one in the world that has noticed that Peter Arnett looks like Peter Boyle.

My vote for worst combover (or whatever the hell that is) so far in the 21st century.

Posted by: marshalldunn at March 31, 2003 10:15 PM

OMG !!!!

Posted by: DustPuppy at March 31, 2003 10:16 PM

Well, now that Arnett has lost his job at MSNBC, I'll bet I know what he's singing.

"If you're blue and you don't know where to go then why don't you go where fashion fits..."

Posted by: Alex Knapp at March 31, 2003 10:36 PM

"Nnngghh-nnghh nnngghhhh nnngghh!"

(Tr.: "Puttin' on the Ritz!")

Posted by: Andrea Harris at March 31, 2003 11:27 PM

Let's not get insulting here. You'd need some pretty third-rate corpses to produce a monstrosity of the level of Lord Pete-Pete. Dr. Frawn-Ken-Steen would never produce such shoddy work.

Posted by: M. Scott Eiland at April 1, 2003 01:59 AM

I bet Arnett doesn't have an enormous schwanschtukka though.

Posted by: Sekimori at April 1, 2003 06:07 AM

Not only did the BBC give him a job, I heard that "Hair Club for Weasels" has hired him as a 'poster child'.

He could also be a poster child for 'pro choice'.

I'll bet he gets all the chicks.

Posted by: Jeff B at April 1, 2003 06:13 AM

Me Too!
"I think that Arnett, in his latest incarnation, resembles nothing so much as Peter Boyle playing The Monster in Mel Brooks' Young Frankenstein. Perhaps Arnett, like the Monster, can go on to a career in show biz. "

Posted by: Robert Schwartz at April 1, 2003 06:21 AM

That was in appalling bad taste.

Keep up the good work !

Posted by: JohninLondon at April 1, 2003 06:27 AM

marshalldunn, that truly is a terrible combover, but the title of worst combover is still firmly in the hands of the Iraqi ambassador to the UN.

I admit, it could simply be a matter of photographic convenience (i.e. when speaking at the UN the top of the guy's head tends to be visible), but I still think he wins.

Posted by: Steve Gigl at April 1, 2003 06:59 AM

Do I smell 'Cloning Gone Wild' ?

Posted by: Jeff B at April 1, 2003 07:14 AM

I guess that's what they mean by "manufacturing opinion"...

Posted by: J. Fielek at April 1, 2003 07:18 AM

ah sweet mystery of life at last I've found you...

Posted by: hudson at April 1, 2003 08:42 AM

For future reference: There is no such thing as a good combover.

Posted by: The Sanity Inspector at April 1, 2003 09:36 AM

Boyle, but with a Zero Mostel hair style

Posted by: Dale at April 1, 2003 09:58 AM

Now, that's a good excuse for an abortion.

Posted by: MaxB at April 1, 2003 10:25 AM

smoke...gooood...smoke...goooood...saddam....gooood....bush baaaaad...

Posted by: mike van winkle at April 1, 2003 10:48 AM

The scary part is the Peter Boyle's character looks positively NORMAL next to Peter Arnett!!

Posted by: amy at April 1, 2003 11:30 AM

Get rid of the rest of Arnett's hair and he would be a dead-on likeness for Marlon Brando in Apocalypse Now.

Posted by: Neal at April 1, 2003 11:44 AM

Hey, don't insult the monster! What did Peter Boyle ever do to you?

Posted by: Barbara Skolaut at April 1, 2003 12:42 PM

Sure, laugh. Now the U.S. is FREE TO BOMB BABY MILK FACTORIES all over Iraq and no one will KNOW!

Posted by: ekw at April 1, 2003 02:25 PM

I guess he has a new reason to grunt, "Fire, bad!"

Posted by: lmk at April 1, 2003 02:59 PM

Who is Mike Jones?????


My album is coming soon. SWISHAHOUSE!

Posted by: Mike Jones at April 1, 2003 03:08 PM

UPDATE: In addition to the Mirror, Arnett has now been hired by PETA for their "I'd rather go naked than wear fur" campaign. A spokesperson for the organization claims that "with Arnett on board, we are pretty sure NOBODY would sell fur again!"

Posted by: chase at April 1, 2003 04:15 PM

Let that be a lesson to all reporters or so called reporters. On this side we at least try to tell the truth. HEY PETER, AL-JAZEERA IS HIRING!

Posted by: Zerep at April 1, 2003 07:31 PM

The horror...the horror...

Posted by: BTY at April 1, 2003 10:54 PM

"PBR Street Gang, this is Almighty, over...
This is Almighty, standing by, over.
This is Almighty, how do you copy, over..."

Posted by: Kurtz at April 1, 2003 11:07 PM

MSNBC: Arnett, pack your gear, you're done.
Arnett/Kurtz: Are you an assassin?
MSNBC: Whazit?! You are insane. You. Are. Fired.
Arnett/Kurtz: You're an errand boy sent by grocery clerks...
MSNBC: [sigh]...Umm...whatever...Just take off the damn black pajamas.

Posted by: Neal at April 1, 2003 11:56 PM

He's so ugly, he'd make a train take a dirt road.

Posted by: Paula at April 2, 2003 05:12 AM

The resemblance is uncanny. Peter Doyle's role in the 1973 flick "The Friends Of Eddie Coyle" is more representative of Arnett's character however. In this film Doyle portrays the prototypical Rat Bastard.

Posted by: John Robinson at April 2, 2003 08:31 AM

Shock and "Augh!", indeed

Posted by: petera at April 2, 2003 10:54 AM

The Mother of All Comb-Overs

Posted by: BTY at April 2, 2003 11:00 AM

I think I might have found a third member of the family...

Posted by: Andrew Duncalfe at April 2, 2003 03:42 PM

I believe that the journalistic career of Peter Arnett has been distinguished by remarkable and, frequently, forthright achievement...a record of so many extraordinary scoops. In this instance, his sin was, indeed, particularly, egregious. It must be viewed or considered, I would contend, in the context of his entire history of outstanding journalistic workmanship. I feel substantial sympathy for his fate.

Posted by: Michael Lee Gradison at April 3, 2003 02:27 AM

Someone needs to revoke Arnett's visa while he is still out of the country, then he could rent a room from AL-JAZERRA just before our Marines and BOMBS arrive!!!

Posted by: Bob Wagner at April 3, 2003 07:11 AM

OH yeah this is funny. I was blocked from AlfredNYC's blog for making an off-handed remark toward Peter A. Guess not everyone can take a joke. But this is great! Thanx. Scriveling sent me this way.

Posted by: freekycheek at April 3, 2003 08:38 AM



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