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I am completely obsessed with Ted Cruz. Not because of what he is (which is batshit crazy) or what he does (all of which is batshit crazy). And not because he is a strange, awful man who is always getting up to large, awful things. No—I am obsessed with Ted Cruz because I know he looks like someone or something, but I cannot figure out which someone or something he looks like.
So I turned to the internet, because I figured the internet had probably already done some hard thinking about who or what Cruz looks like. And I was right. It offered the following possibilities:
1) Joe McCarthy
2) Quentin Tarantino
3) Bill Murray
4) Punch
But not one of those was quite right. So to this Very Important List, I added the following:
5) Phil Hartman AS Bill McNeil (the photo comparison isn't great, but there was an eyebrowed smarminess in Bill McNeil that I also see in Cruz)
5) Phil Hartman AS Bill McNeil (the photo comparison isn't great, but there was an eyebrowed smarminess in Bill McNeil that I also see in Cruz)
6) Eric Bana (I feel I might have a hitherto unacknowledged animus against Eric Bana)
7. One of the creepy puppets from Mr. Rogers' Neighbourhood (interestingly enough, this puppet is also said to resemble Quentin Tarantino, who is, of course, #2 on this list)
STILL, not one of these is exactly right.
It's someone smug and puffy and disingenuous looking—someone who might have appeared wearing eye makeup and looking intensely up at the ceiling in a headshot from the 1940s. I googled "sad-eyed, old-timey comedian," but the search came back only with photos of (a) Charlie Chaplin, (b) babies, (c) underdressed celebrities, and (d) people holding banjoes.
Or maybe it's something bulbous and squinty moulded out of glistening beige plastic.
Regardless, he's kind of Canadian, so I'm pretty happy and proud.
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8) Downton Abbey's Bates (courtesy of Tim D.)
It's someone smug and puffy and disingenuous looking—someone who might have appeared wearing eye makeup and looking intensely up at the ceiling in a headshot from the 1940s. I googled "sad-eyed, old-timey comedian," but the search came back only with photos of (a) Charlie Chaplin, (b) babies, (c) underdressed celebrities, and (d) people holding banjoes.
Or maybe it's something bulbous and squinty moulded out of glistening beige plastic.
Regardless, he's kind of Canadian, so I'm pretty happy and proud.
Reader input begins now.
8) Downton Abbey's Bates (courtesy of Tim D.)
Although I now think he might also look like O'Brien.
9) Modern-day Boy George (courtesy of Sean B.)
There's certainly a resemblance. Also, this gave me a chance to use my favourite photo of Ted Cruz of all time again.
If I had Photoshop, I'd probably give that photo a fedora and some blue eye-makeup. Of course, if I had Photoshop, I'd probably give a whole lot of photos fedoras and blue eye-makeup.
There's certainly a resemblance. Also, this gave me a chance to use my favourite photo of Ted Cruz of all time again.
If I had Photoshop, I'd probably give that photo a fedora and some blue eye-makeup. Of course, if I had Photoshop, I'd probably give a whole lot of photos fedoras and blue eye-makeup.
10. Richard III (courtesy of Neil M.; originally from Private Eye)
Someone give Ted Cruz a crown. And a hunch. And a Marc Bolan haircut.
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