Charlie's a Rock Star From Mars - [website] Published: 9th of Mar 2011 by: (c) Staff Training Reporter
Charlie Sheen is fast becoming one of the most quotable people on the planet, causing thousands of fans (and even more ex-fans) to look at each other in surprise and ask, “Did he really just say that?”
It’s hard to not feel a little embarrassed for Charlie (he quite obviously feels none for himself) as he comes out with line after line of his funny, idiotic and sometimes downright scary thoughts that have now seen him sacked from the extremely popular TV sitcom Two and a Half Men.
However, Sheen would have had comedy writers (excluding Chuck Lorre, the creator of Two and a Half Men) kicking themselves for not thinking of some of these little gems first.
Asked about the ‘natural high’ that he was on whilst being interviewed by 20/20, Sheen said, “I am on a drug. It’s called Charlie Sheen. It’s not available. If you try it once, you will die.”
On his day-to-day life he said, “It’s perfect. It’s awesome. Every day is just filled with just wins. All we do is put wins in the record books. We win so radically in our underwear before our first cup of coffee, it’s scary. People say it’s lonely at the top, but I sure like the view.”
But I don’t think the view that Ol’ Winning Charlie’s got is really the view from the top, not anymore at least, and his drug and alcohol problems seem be crippling his life piece by piece.
Despite having “tiger blood” and “Adonis DNA”, Sheen is not infallible, and in the same way as Lindsay Lohan he’ll start finding himself with fewer job offers and more and more court appearances (drink and drugs tend to do that) as time goes on.
I daresay it all looks downhill from here for the 45-year-old actor. Does your foot taste good Charlie?
But he evidently feels differently.
“I’m tired of pretending I’m not special,” he said. “I’m tired of pretending I’m not a total bitchin’ rock star from Mars.”
Whether that’s hyperbole or delusion I’ll leave for you to decide.
But it was his comments about Chuck Lorre that finally saw him removed from the show officially.
Among them was a reference to Lorre’s “desperate need to be liked” and his “bitchy smile”, as well as making fun of his name with words that rhyme with Chuck.
Childish. Narcissistic. Obtuse.
These adjectives are probably all quite fair.
If one thing’s for sure it’s that Charlie Sheen has lost the plot somewhere. Maybe it was mixing sitcoms with war movies and slapstick comedies that finally did it, who knows?
