Thursday, January 10, 2008

The Late Richard Jeni Comments on America's "Horse With No Name"

"You're in a desert. You got nothin' else to do. NAME THE FREAKIN' HORSE."

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

He really went with "freakin'"? Because the Richard Jeni I know (never knew) would have gone the whole nine yards if he got close to that word.

Tom Nawrocki said...

I found that quote in "Dave Barry's Book of Bad Songs," which I cited elswhere. Perhaps Dave cleaned it up in deference to the proprieties of Sunday magazine readers.

Anonymous said...

On "The Boy From New York City" special, Rich goes with "g_dd_mned" (don't know how clean you want to keep it). "Freakin'" was the clean, non-offensive public TV version he'd backtrack to.

Tom Nawrocki said...

Thank you for the clarification. It's a shame Richard himself isn't around to weigh in.