Ian’s humor is a brand, and it’s one that has gone on untarnished through the ages. I nearly cried laughing a few weeks ago when I suggested finding a certain low grade celebrity on cameo, and his concern was whether or not we could pay them to eat a handful of sand on camera. It wasn’t even Hayden Christensen, which if I were tying it back to this comic, would be the perfect choice for that.
Taco Tom was a staunch believer in the idea that all bosses, managers, and supervisors operated under the “If I didn’t see it, it didn’t happen” model of management. In many ways, he was correct. He was the lynchpin of the mall employee shadow economy, where minimum wage employees struck back at corporate America in the form of stealing. It was beautiful.
The reality TV boom of the whenever-MTV’s the Real Word started-to-the-heat-death-of-the-universe era that was on the rise then was bad for television, and of course it still is. We just live with it now. Did I know what a Kardashian was at the time? Probably. I just didn’t know what the word for one was.
