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Bush dominated last year's awards, taking the stupidest man prize and the award for reckless endangerment of the planet. Nerenberg admitted the organizers do limit the number of categories featuring the controversial Texan.
"He would essentially be nominated in every category had we not interfered," Nerenberg said. "We want to give other people a chance. We just feel some of the other great stupidity in the world would go unrecognized if Mr. Bush was allowed to run rampant. But he is doing very well."
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Canada, U.S. vie for crown at World Stupidity Awards in Montreal
Nelson Wyatt
Canadian Press
Friday, July 22, 2005
MONTREAL (CP) - The United States will face tough competition from Canada on Friday but this time it has nothing to do with hockey or softwood lumber.
The two countries are going head-to-head for top honours at the World Stupidity Awards, where doofuses get their due.
"This is a year where Canada could do very well and, as a Canadian, I'm very excited," enthused Albert Nerenberg, of the Main Organization Revealing Obvious Numbskulls, which organizes the event at the Just for Laughs comedy festival.
"The Canadian government has been nominated in the dumbest government of the year category and this is one year where we feel we've got a chance."
Canada will be vying against the United States, Iran, North Korea and the United Nations for that particular Oscar of idiocy crown.
But Prime Minister Paul Martin has already been outshone by President George W. Bush, who is nominated in three categories - stupidest man of the year, stupidest statement of the year, and stupidity award for reckless endangerment of the planet. Martin didn't get nominated for anything.
Bush dominated last year's awards, taking the stupidest man prize and the award for reckless endangerment of the planet. Nerenberg admitted the organizers do limit the number of categories featuring the controversial Texan.
"He would essentially be nominated in every category had we not interfered," Nerenberg said. "We want to give other people a chance. We just feel some of the other great stupidity in the world would go unrecognized if Mr. Bush was allowed to run rampant. But he is doing very well."
Lewis Black, the award show's host, agreed about Bush's contender status.
"He's always a big one and it just gets worse every day with him," said Black, the biting commentator on TV's The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. "His stupidity is almost on a Hall of Fame level."
Nominations and voting are done on the World Stupidity Awards Internet site and Nerenberg said it's not easy to make the cut.
"People usually nominate their exes so we eliminate those first of all," he said. "You can't just show you've done a few stupid things in your life. You have to show some dedication, that you're a professional."
It's the third year for the awards, which will be presented in a lavish ceremony.
Black is a well-known observer of stupidity, ranting at a show Wednesday night about his fellow Americans.
"Canada, help us," he pleaded. "The most watched channel in America is the weather channel. We don't even have the energy to look out the window to check."
Black said in an interview it had been a "spectacular" year for stupidity. "It's rampant."
Nerenberg explained the idea for the awards began as a publicity stunt for a documentary he made a few years ago on stupidity and caught on.
However, the more serious implications of stupidity are not lost on the organizers.
http://www.canada.com/national/nationalpost/news/artslife/story.html?id=1c1b1982-00ed-402d-a0af-f503b8b39ba9
http://www.stupidityawards.com/
"He would essentially be nominated in every category had we not interfered," Nerenberg said. "We want to give other people a chance. We just feel some of the other great stupidity in the world would go unrecognized if Mr. Bush was allowed to run rampant. But he is doing very well."
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Canada, U.S. vie for crown at World Stupidity Awards in Montreal
Nelson Wyatt
Canadian Press
Friday, July 22, 2005
MONTREAL (CP) - The United States will face tough competition from Canada on Friday but this time it has nothing to do with hockey or softwood lumber.
The two countries are going head-to-head for top honours at the World Stupidity Awards, where doofuses get their due.
"This is a year where Canada could do very well and, as a Canadian, I'm very excited," enthused Albert Nerenberg, of the Main Organization Revealing Obvious Numbskulls, which organizes the event at the Just for Laughs comedy festival.
"The Canadian government has been nominated in the dumbest government of the year category and this is one year where we feel we've got a chance."
Canada will be vying against the United States, Iran, North Korea and the United Nations for that particular Oscar of idiocy crown.
But Prime Minister Paul Martin has already been outshone by President George W. Bush, who is nominated in three categories - stupidest man of the year, stupidest statement of the year, and stupidity award for reckless endangerment of the planet. Martin didn't get nominated for anything.
Bush dominated last year's awards, taking the stupidest man prize and the award for reckless endangerment of the planet. Nerenberg admitted the organizers do limit the number of categories featuring the controversial Texan.
"He would essentially be nominated in every category had we not interfered," Nerenberg said. "We want to give other people a chance. We just feel some of the other great stupidity in the world would go unrecognized if Mr. Bush was allowed to run rampant. But he is doing very well."
Lewis Black, the award show's host, agreed about Bush's contender status.
"He's always a big one and it just gets worse every day with him," said Black, the biting commentator on TV's The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. "His stupidity is almost on a Hall of Fame level."
Nominations and voting are done on the World Stupidity Awards Internet site and Nerenberg said it's not easy to make the cut.
"People usually nominate their exes so we eliminate those first of all," he said. "You can't just show you've done a few stupid things in your life. You have to show some dedication, that you're a professional."
It's the third year for the awards, which will be presented in a lavish ceremony.
Black is a well-known observer of stupidity, ranting at a show Wednesday night about his fellow Americans.
"Canada, help us," he pleaded. "The most watched channel in America is the weather channel. We don't even have the energy to look out the window to check."
Black said in an interview it had been a "spectacular" year for stupidity. "It's rampant."
Nerenberg explained the idea for the awards began as a publicity stunt for a documentary he made a few years ago on stupidity and caught on.
However, the more serious implications of stupidity are not lost on the organizers.
http://www.canada.com/national/nationalpost/news/artslife/story.html?id=1c1b1982-00ed-402d-a0af-f503b8b39ba9
http://www.stupidityawards.com/
