His ‘shoot first, ask questions later’ approach isn’t the only thing that separates him from his colleagues, for Assy is in fact a walking pair of buttocks who has his own animated show on Adult Swim, the genius American cable network that’s also responsible for the likes of Metalocalypse, Robot Chicken and Aqua Teen Hunger Force.
“Dirty Harry without the sensitivity training” is how Assy is described by the Boston stand-up who puts the words in his, er, bum cheeks, Larry Murphy. “Before I auditioned they specifically asked for a voice that was out of breath. I just kept thinking about the fat, sweaty, boozy Police Captain Orson Welles played in Touch of Evil. Not necessarily the voice but the character Hank Quinlan. The guy was tremendously disgusting.”
You can meet Assy and his co-stars Sanchez, The Mayor and The Chief at www.adultswim.com/shows/assy
There’s more cartoon fun to be had at www.codeblackentertainment.com/Products.aspx?productID=67 where you can peruse the trailer for The Adventures Of Tha Blue Carpet Treatment, “a psychedelic stream-of-consciousness trip through the magical mind of Snoop Dogg, which takes you on a sexy, violent and slightly twisted musical journey to Long Beach and beyond.”
There’s more surrealism to be had at www.cernpodcast.com where Brasseye man Chris Morris dons a hard hat and visits the world’s largest particle physics laboratory, CERN. Their 2,600 full-time employees include Brian Cox who in a previous life played keyboards on D:Ream’s ‘Things Can Only Get Better’.
New York’s latest craze are ‘flavor tripping’ parties where punters are charged $15 a pop for a small red berry that makes everything taste sweet.
“Stout beers taste like chocolate milkshakes, Tabasco like hot doughnut glaze,” enthuses King of the Flavor Trippers Franz Aliquo on his flavortripping.wordpress.com blog.
If you fancy having a go, www.tastetrips.com are a British company mail-ordering Miracle Fruit all over the world.
Which just leaves time for quick visits to www.youtube.com/user/RiversCuomoAlone (the Weezer mainman mislays more of his marbles); blog.23x.net/?p=5 (Glaswegiam haute cuisine); and pornfortheblind.org/audio/cumoverload.mp3 (“not-for-profit organisation dedicated to producing audio descriptions of sample movie clips from adult web sites”).