Nov 06 2008
Gary Busey Is Hilarious On “Celebrity Rehab With Dr. Drew” - Celebrity Rehab With Dr. Drew
It’s Gary Busey vs. himself, his demons and all of the cameras pointing at him in VH1’s Celebrity Rehab 2 With Dr. Drew, and so far the cameras seem to be winning. But the medication he’s on is definitely helping. By helping I mean it’s making the show more funny.
And that’s not easy; he’s got some serious competition in Rodney King (yeah, THAT Rodney King) and Tawny Kitaen, who has never seen a VH1 reality show she didn’t like.
Perhaps the most interesting part of Celebrity Rehab 2 is Busey, who has long had a history of drug abuse, does not think he’s part of the show. By that I mean he doesn’t think he’s in there to seek counseling. So he marched into the rehab center armed with a briefcase, a slew of highlighters that would make a lawyer jealous and some odds and ends. You see, he’s already been to rehab. Ha! You’re kidding, right? This is Gary Busey, you know, the poster child for what not to do when you’ve had a really good time out on the town. But the first thing he told everybody in the rehab center was, “I’m not here to get help.”Instead he told everybody he was there to be a drug counselor. Heh. He told everyone this, even though he admitted he did use a little Mary Jane before entering the facility. But hey, marijuana’s totally legal, right?
Uh, whatever. What I will say is Busey is the show. If at any point he is booted the show will then become what it was last season: The Jeff Conaway Show, you know, the dude from “Taxi” who bottomed out and is now on so many painkillers for his ailing back he doesn’t even know which day it is, let alone the hour. By the way, Jeff is back, too, so it will be a real treat when he and Busey clash. I give it three weeks.
It’s kind of a shame Jeff’s crazy-ass girlfriend got admitted to a different wing of the facility, but the bottom line is you have to be a celebrity to be on this show and there is no fraternizing with a patient, even if you sleep with him or her. Them’s just the center’s rules.
Gary Busey will be able to help these patients out as much as Cheech & Chong helped people say no to drugs back in the 1970’s. Asking somebody like Busey to lend a hand is trouble, because Jeff may not know what day it is, but Busey doesn’t know what year it is, and I’m pretty sure he’s forgotten what planet we’re on.
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