Posted on 10/30/2006 7:58:14 PM PST by Vasilli22
US comedian's Halloween jab at Irwin
October 31, 2006 - 11:23AM
Bad taste Steve Irwin costumes, which include a bloody stingray barb attached to a khaki shirt, are among the top Halloween costumes in the US this year.
The macabre outfits have split Americans, with some condemning the costumes while others find them amusing.
At least one US celebrity, comedian Bill Maher, has donned the Crocodile Hunter outfit.
Photos of Maher at a Halloween party in Los Angeles on the weekend dressed in khaki shorts and shirt with a bloody barb hanging out of his chest are circulating on the internet.
Posters on Yayhooray.com, where an image of Maher can be found, were split on the comedian's Halloween hit-out.
"Douchebag. No doubt about it now," intoned "Stoavio", while "SCarrier11" said: "Ha ha I hate Bill Maher. I still hate him ... but not as much now."
Poster "Liberal", obviously not a Maher fan, said: "I can't believe he didn't go as a dead Iraqi."
"Mirukono" had a different take. "I'm gonna be a stingray, with a Steve Irwin sticking out of me."
Irwin died just nine weeks ago when a stingray barb pierced his heart as he was filming off the north Queensland coast.
The San Francisco Bay Guardian newspaper recently published an article entitled Great bad ideas for Halloween costumes, with the number one suggestion a Crocodile Hunter outfit.
The article came with an illustration of Irwin with a stingray on his chest.
"Kids and grown-ups alike will stare you down with white-hot horror when you strut around in your khaki ensemble with a pissed off sea creature piercing your chest," the article's authors, Cheryl Eddy and Kimberly Chun, wrote.
"Too soon? Hell, no.
"If Irwin's eight-year-old can get her own Discovery Kids television show, you can certainly make sport of her nature-loving pop's freaky demise."
Last week the creators of the South Park cartoon series defended a new episode that showed Crocodile Hunter Steve Irwin attending a party in Hell with a stingray barb protruding from his chest.
The episode had been scheduled for broadcast in the US on Wednesday and would not play in Australia - if SBS chooses to show it - until the middle of next year.
He's a regular Bob Hope... less.
Bad taste. People dying isn't funny
Maher looks seriously baked in that photo.
Ugly ugly man, inside and out.
He obviously has had too much of something. Maybe just too much of being a lib.
No wonder he's so bitter about women. What woman would have a creature who looks like that? He is furious, hate-filled, humorless, Christless, and sooner or later despairing.
You would think a big time Hollyweird star like Maher could get a real short sleeve khaki, instead of ripping one up like that. Lame costume, lame comedian.
I was going to ask, what in the world kind of drugs is he on? He looks awful.
What an ugly, ugly man...in more than one way.
This does not qualify in that regard.
He really didn't need the stingray for a costume, as ugly as he is.
I am no prude and I think I have a pretty good sense of humor, but that is just plain disgusting.
Bill Maher and bad taste....they just seem so right together.
I predict (based on a quick consultation with my Magic 7-Ball) that Bill Maher won't even be alive at this time next year. His dogma is just about to get run over by his karma.
Yep, makes sense to me....(obvious sarcasm).
But at least Parker and Stone had even Satan saying that it was too soon to mock Irwin.
No wonder he pays for sex.
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