Muggle-Goblin? Hahahahahahahahaha. Well played, sir.

Huh? He didn't know he was a pimp?

he has a wife??

A pimp in Paris = exchange student living in Montmartre.

@KarenUhOh: No, Karen, just like maybe you could take .002 seconds to READ THE FUCKING HEADLINE.

Ooh these idiots, STEAM ME!!

Apparently, Lipton's bouillon de culture has a musky aroma.

I'm totally using the "Voyage of Discovery" excuse the next time I get caught coming out of the Asian massage parlor near my apartment.

@KarenUhOh:

Karen, you have to stop and smell the bullshit.

It's hard out there for a mec (which is what he actually was, apparently).

If you really stop and think about it, JL would be the scariest pimp ever. Can you picture him drilling into you with that steady gaze as he calmly asks you "where the money at, ho"? Sometimes the scariest timebombs are the ones that don't go off.

@TheHonJudgeSmails: I seriously just spit out half of my ginger ale because of that comment. With that being said, why is that Shepard lady wearing a t-shirt?

It's hard out there for a pimp

Props to Sherri on "30 rock." James should do a bit on that show.

@Trampoline: sorry, didn't refresh soon enough

Some guys will do anything to sell a book.

@spielarama: Pimpin' the view merchandise. Whoopie has one on too. It looks like a Warhol-esque of the gals.

If there's one thing I hate more than The View, it's James Lipton.

James Lipton looks quite uncomfortable being surrounded by all those catbags.

Jimmy Lip 's the name, bitch!

@BalknChain:
Hey, no sweat. It can't be emphasized enough.

(BTW, meant to include mec link)

The question came off more hopeful than inquisitive. After all, there's not much job security for a panelist on The View.

Idea: Let's start a campaign to have Tionna Smalls take over "Inside" hosting duties while Lipton goes on his book tour.
Who's with me?!?

Does "voyage of discovery" = around the world?

Lipton says: "I had to accompany my clientelle to the Rue Pigalle, which is where these things occurred. And then I'd take them up to the room and I had to remain there because they were very nervous, they were young Americans for the most part... and they didn't speak French."

And when I blew some of them it was all just part of the gig, really!

"When I wrote this chapter and gave it to my wife to read, she said 'you're not going to put that in the book, are you?' And I said, 'Bitch, Iceberg Lipton will put whatever the f*ck he wants in his book,' and then I cut her."

Didn't know he was a pimp? I guess that explains why he doesn't know he's a tool either.

Isn't he still a pimp?

Hey, did you guys know this dude is fucking 81 years old? shocking.

My favorite part of his interview was when he admitted (via his painfully rehearsed answer to the when-you-reach-the-pearly-gates-what-do-you-hope-god-says question they turned back on him) that he's an atheist. Anybody else catch that? Atheists: the last socially acceptable target of prejudice in the mainstream United States. Discuss if you're bored.

Rapists are a socially acceptable target of prejudice too

And racists

@GayatriSpivak: Oh, damm you and your keen analytical mind! I concede.

Still, atheists are mad as hell, and they're not going to take it anymore. Witness the recent cottage industry of atheist-themed books (Hitchens's God Is Not Great being but one of them), and former SNL-er Julia Sweeney is doing a lot of ballsy stuff about her journey to disbelief. Anyway, I'm just saying that I'd welcome James Lipton to the (non)flock.

A voyage of discovery? C'mon Jimmy you couldn't wait to write about slapping hos like you done did.

Well, most pimps seem to be kind of faggy. Maybe it's like when you work at McDonald's and grow to hate burgers within the first month.

Have any of witnessed the Will Ferrel impression of him? I think it's an extra on the Anchorman or Old School DVD. He's so good at doing him even James had to agree.

It's really not all that different than his current profession.

“Talk About Infectious Television! Right, You Guys?!” by Tyler Coates Project Runway Week 5 If this season of P-Run is successful at anything, it’s making me feel guilty for being an asshole.