Detective Munch on the economy? Yep, you read right

[thatcrazycajun]

Comedian-actor Richard Belzer, in addition to being an author of three books and playing one of the most popular fictional cops on TV, turns out to also be one of those annoying Hollywood actors who won't just shut up and do his work, but has to have a political opinion or two...and blog about them on the Huffington Post website. Check out his latest rant here.

Wikipedia notes that Belzer's character, erudite NYPD (and former Baltimore PD) Detective John Munch, is the only fictional character played by a single actor to appear on seven (!!) different television shows on three different networks: NBC (Homicide: Life on the Street, the Law & Order shows), Fox (The X-Files, Arrested Development), and the now-subsumed UPN (The Beat). Not bad for a guy who used to play dives as a stand-up comic.

(Bonus trivia: Belzer also played a recurring role as a muckraking TV reporter on a now-cancelled TV show in our favorite genre 16 years ago. Which one? And what was the character's name?)

Comments

[sdelmonte]

He was Joe Kline (IIRC) on The Flash, and also briefly played Inspector Henderson on Lois and Clark.

DING! We have a winnah!

[thatcrazycajun.livejournal.com]

Points to you! As Ed McMahon used to say, "You are correct, sir!"

Rant?

[a-phoenix-afire.livejournal.com]

I'm curious. Which part of Mr. Belzer's exposition do you disagree with?

Re: Rant?

[thatcrazycajun.livejournal.com]

I don't disagree with any of it. Sorry about that; guess I forgot to turn on the sarcasm tags.

Re: Rant?

[a-phoenix-afire.livejournal.com]

That's great to hear. I thought maybe you'd fallen and hit your head or read an economics book or something.










oh yeah...I almost forgot too.[/sarcasm] _____________________________________________ J/K :-)

[lemmozine.livejournal.com]

Enjoyed Belzer's blog. Thanks. Reminded me of the last 2 lines of a favorite Utah Phillips song, which can be found at http://utahphillips.org/songbook/larimerstreet.html