Last night on the trainwreck – er – hit show, “I’m a Celebrity” on NBC, Patti Blago said:
“My husband had this campaign where he was running against this woman who was a little bit like her,” Patti told him quietly. “And he thought of her as, as like a crazy old aunt. That he had to kind of like suffer and kind of like, and kind of just like, roll your eyes at. Like she’s the kooky old aunt. You had to be respectful to her because she’s your old aunt.”
For the record – we believe she was talking about Judy Baar Topinka, and for a few years now, we’ve been referring to her as “Your crazy Aunt Judy” – as evidenced in the following clips.
You decide? Should we petition Patti for a few bucks for our intellectual property?
(FYI – that clip was uploaded on 10/06)
Formed in 1997, Schad began performing sketch comedy on Chicago’s north side. The troupe has since performed at countless venues around the world including The Goodman Theatre, The Second City, Steppenwolf, Lollapalooza, ImprovOlympic, the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre (LA), HERE (NYC) and the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
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Is it a crime for the Blagojevich’s to like schadenfreude? I mean Schadenfreude ™?
crazy Aunt Judy was on WGN 9 PM News last night “commenting” on Miss Patti’s remarks, rambling on and on about how things would be if SHE had been elected Governor, still crazy after all these years
No, but at least say to John Salley “Yeah, there’s this awesome comedy troupe in Chicago called Schadenfreude”
Salley: Schadenwhat???
Patti: Schadenfreude. Don’t wake Janet. They do this show at a dive bar in Bucktown. Anyway, the point is that we saw them making fun of Judy during the campaign where they called Judy Baar “Crazy Aunt Judy” and it stuck.
Salley: Cool. I was on the Pistons.
“Crazy Aunt Judy, meet your kooky cousin Patti. This is Patti’s crooky husband Rod. Rod, I’m sure you’ve met Brother George. No? George maybe you could talk to him. He has some questions regarding your current housing arrangements. Everyone know Richard? I’m not sure how’s he related to us, his family has just been around for ever we’ve forgotten what’s the connection. No, we don’t talk about the black sheep of the family. Don’t you just love family reunions?
I’ll say it…Patti stole your bit.
I haven’t seen the bit, but I’m willing to bet there’s been more than one standup act using the “crazy old aunt” theme… lol@ kjones trademarking “schadenfreude.”