The Bill O'Reilly Opera - Mackris v O'Reilly
By Logan Murphy Friday Dec 14, 2007 12:31pm
(courtesy of TheZoo, h/t nwmuse in the comments)
John wrote a post about this a little over a year ago, and now C&L is proud to present the Bill O'Reilly Opera! Using the transcript of telephone calls taken from Bill O'Reilly's 2004 sexual harassment case, Igor Keller composed the opera, Mackris vs O'Reilly -
The piece is a setting of the sexual harassment complaint lodged against Fox News pundit, Bill O’Reilly, by staff producer, Andrea Mackris, in October 2004 and recorded at its world premiere in January 2007. It includes all memorable moments from the original complaint and more – paranoid rants, clumsy sexual innuendo, and the famous falafel fantasy. Composer Igor Keller has produced this concert-length work in the form of a baroque oratorio, in the style of an updated Handel’s Messiah, for 28-piece chamber orchestra, 26-voice chorus and three soloists. It’s an oratorio for the 21st century! Read on...
Rated C, for Creepy - viewer discretion advised. :)
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That was just wrong on soooo many levels!
Too weird.
Lordy, is it possible to do a spit-take and vomit at the same time?
Perfectly awful. Makes the painful stylings of the Neocon choir's "Twelve Nights" almost tolerable.
You need to see this. To understand the hole Bush has dug for us.
http://www.charlierose.com/shows/2007/12/14/1/an-hour-with-former-presid...
I hate O'Reilly, but I think this is really lame, like a really bad Comedy Central show.
I saw this performed at the University of Washington last year. There were moments of brilliance, but...... way too long.
Well ... it did explain what the falafel thing was all about. Not being a BO listener (just a listener) I never knew what that was all about. So he gets falafel and loofa mixed up i guess.
My take is, it gives too much publicity to someone i would hardly ever hear about. I'd rather they just ignor ignoramus' like Bill. Same goes for Rush and that Jewish guy who seems to hate jews, mike Savage?
The media is mostly our biggest problem in this country. The television has become the make=believe friend that keeps people in their houses instead of going out and talking to their neighbors over the fence, or sitting on the porch, or just plain being friendly.
I'm not in America, so I don't watch TV cause i wouldn't understand what they were saying anyway. So being out in sidewalk eateries and gabbing is still my past-time, but I hate to see what TV is doing to not only America, but the world,
BRAVO!!!
Fuck all the little bitch boys that don't bring up Mackris when Billo does the talk show circuit to promote his mouth-breather tomes
Nate @ 1:
Beautifully sung, beautifully played (oboes were sharp in places), but yeah, something in me is still thinking that pundit phone sex (more like phone rape) is really not quite the stuff for the "loftiness" of opera, but then, who knows where that work will be in fifty years?
Imortalizing BO in an opera, instead of leaving him to the dungheap of history where he richly belongs: that is wrong.
hey meatheads. this is something called satire, i don't think it begs an artistic critique. laugh, it's FUNNY!
brilliant. Bravo!
Great. Pay back's a bitch, huh Billo?!
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NO NO NO NO, it was cool. You spokeholes for the GOP can keep your nerdy geeky twelve day of Uncoolness. You guys can't be funny.
This was cool. Cause we are.
Gawdammit! You've spoiled my appetite for the whole f*ing day! How am I supposed to erase those images from my mind?
(Note to others with the same problem: Jumping head first off a second floor balcony doesn't work. Trust me).
really, really, really really, really, you have really, you have really, spectacular boobs!
oh, feelawful boy.
Gee, looks like I'm in the minority but I think this is rather brilliant...
i dont get why a composer would waste his time on this. o'lielly's words do not deserve to be immoralized forever.
so many more deserving stories could have been told.
how about The Rape of Lucreztia in Bagdad?
Perhaps the fat lady has sung
sweet
This is fn brilliant on so many levels.
another vote for brilliant
the "really, really, really, really spectacular boobs"
was just made for this sort of score
did Bill O get credit for the libretto?
Bravo!Setting the moronic advances of a certified asshole against an operatic background puts O'Reilly's disgusting stupidity in stark relief.
On one hand High Culture.On the other:a Polk Award winning putz.
That was f*ckin' hilarious!!
BRAVO!!
O'Reilly's tawdry, embarrassing phone sex, sung operatically. Brilliant satire.
I look forward to a production of "Cakewalk", the story of Saddam's yellowcake, WMDs and the US invasion, presented in the style of a Gilbert and Sullivan operetta.
OMFG, I'm dying in here...(wipes away tears of laughter).
I like the serious musicians in the background...
Best of all, is the "Culture Warrior" ad banner on the right-side of this web page...
Oh yeah...hey O'Dildo, Mr. "I've been in combat", please go take a long walk off a short pier.
Thank you.
When will the tour start. I love to get some operatic culture. (snark)
After all, Billo is a CULTURE warrior!
it doesnt sound so bad when sung
wonder if the culture warrior will take in some culture and go see it
I think this is very very funny! Those danged classical musicians think they can set ANYTHING into an opera. Maybe they're right.
One April 15, I heard a similar operatic presentation on PBS of the text of the IRS 1040 income tax form done with musical recitation and orchestra.
kometes @ 3:
My feelings exactly. If I'd known about this, I'dve gone. But it's totally creeped me out.
yeesh. He said that shit to her. It sounds just as nasty sung in baroque operatic style. But hilarious.
As a musician myself, I have no idea how those people were able to breath normally and keep playing without bursting out laughing. It was the funniest thing I have heard in a long time.. Billo brought it on himself for being such a condescending, hypocritical gasbag..
Bravo!
The singer is an old friend of mine. He's a fabulous performer and probably got a huge kick out of doing this. He loves to do weird, over the edge kinds of things. However, his wife is probably cringing with embarrassment! I love it!
It's still disgusting.
Dammit, they stole my idea...
I thought I was the new Neo-Baroque composer of the 21st century.
aaahaaaahahaahahahaha.
oh i love that.
and here i thought good modern opera was dead.
Funny Stuff. I hope it plays the Met.
Can they do Larry Craig and Mark Foley next with Jeff Gannon doing a creative dance?
oh wow i always thought this was a joke but its real! hahahah whatta freak that loofa guy with the big head and the show where he yells and lies..
Some sordid details from the O'Reilly / Makris case courtesy of the Smoking Gun:
I'll try that again: Some sordid details from the O’Reilly / Makris case courtesy of The Smoking Gun
It's worse when you think about O'Reilly trying to seduce anything at all. Yuk!
There was someone else in the shower with Makris and Bill...
some guy named Loofamitts. He was doing Bills back.
That cost Loofajerk 10 million smackaroos, was it worth it Billy boy?
Oh man.
I haven't ever liked opera, except for when Bugs and Elmer Fudd had a whack at it. But that was great.
That piece needs to be sent off into the universe, next time we put stuff aboard a space mission.
What does NASA charge for that? We could put the idea on the 'net and probably raise enough dough in a couple of weeks to send a five-pound object to Alpha Centauri.
What progressive wouldn't kick in a tenner to immortalize BillO in such a fantastic and deserving way?
"Bill O'Reilly - TO JUPITER, AND BEYOND!"
JF
That's just really, really, really bad. It was bad enough when BlathO said it. Putting it to opera just makes it 1000 times worse.
That's several levels of awesome. I think it would wear thin over time, but as a short piece, it's fantastic.
Whatever amount Bill-O paid his employee, it wasn't nearly enough.
Dennis Miller !! Pay attention !!
Now this is funny.....................................................!
Who said opera can't be relevant for modern audiences! It's no "Un Bel Di" but fun. Well sung too.
Does anyone know why the piece has been pulled, from YouTube, I guess? As the tiny white kyron (sp) super in the viewing window says, "This piece is no longer available."? Drat! I miss all the fun.
It's on YouTube, but check out Igor's website:
http://www.mackrisvoreilly.com/index.html
There are some killer T-shirts for sale there!
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