This morning America was introduced to its new hero early in the week, some random recent college grad named Max Rice. Rice was booked to appear on Fox & Friends — Fox News’ hilariously unbalanced morning gabfest where three folksy raw vegetables relentless bash Obama — to talk about how awful the economy is for recent college grads under Obama, so awful that Max had to move back in with his parents. But Max had other plans for the segment, obviously — namely to hijack it.
This thing goes off the rails almost immediately when our boy Max greets painfully blonde former pageant queen Gretchen Carlson with a “S’up” and “Hello, Miss USA, it’s an honor.” Carlson’s eyes immediately turned vacant — much moreso than they typically are, in fact — before correcting him by saying, “Miss America actually.” Max, obviously a smooth gentleman, responds by saying that she’ll always be “Miss Universe in my book.” It was all downhill from there.
Cable news needs more people like Max Rice making fun of it. Enjoy…
And here’s who I think is the same Max Rice giving a graduation speech to his fellow students in 2010. Certainly sounds a lot like him, anyway.
If anyone knows anything about our new hero Max, feel free to fill us in on him.
UPDATE: Turns out, Max appears to be an aspiring stand-up comic…
UPDATE #2: Raw Story tracked down Max Rice for his side of what happened this morning and how it all came to be.
Rice said that the opportunity to go on national television “kind of fell into my lap” when “a friend of a friend” got a text message asking if anyone knew a recent college graduate who can’t get a job and is voting for Mitt Romney. “I’m like, hell yeah I’m a college graduate. Eff Obama!” he said. “20 emails later with the producer at Fox, they’re telling me what to say. It’s such bullshit. It’s so ridiculous.”
Rice told Raw Story that he in fact dropped out of college, but lied to Fox News about it just to see if they’d do their homework.
“The first thing that shocked me is that they were that desperate to find someone that fit that category,” he added. “What they were seeking is someone who voted for Obama in 2008, then somewhere in the last four years got disenfranchised and now is a huge Romney supporter…They were so happy that I fit the mold and that I was Caucasian,” he continued. “They were just casting a part in a show. They were so stupid. I’m a kid messing around.”
(HT: Mediaite via Paula Froelich)
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I want to gay marry Max on top of Mount Rushmore.
And this is exactly what all men will want to do in OBAMA’S SOCIALIST ANTI-COLONIAL KENYAN AMERICA.
Signed,
Dinesh D’Souza
Oh Dinesh you D-Bag…I heard someone at work say, and I quote, “The guy’s from India, so you know he’s gotta be speakin’ the truth. I mean why would he lie??”
Anti-imperialism is un-American.
All hail Emperor Romney!
Give this man a medal.
Disappointed he wasn’t able to bring it home with a Jon Stewart on Crossfire esque monologue. But props to him for being morning drunk.
Best quote: “Wait… waiwaiwaiwaiwai…wait… why not?”
Meh. I mean, it’s great that he got to fulfill his dream of being a dick/True Bro on national TV, but there is no short supply of 18-24 year olds who can fill that roll.
Are you mad because he’s not voting Romney 2012? I mean, that’s it, right?
Argh – so many missed opportunities to troll better than this. Why not just launch into some tirade of embarrassing statistics about FOX News viewers? Or go for the Victoria Jackson ultimate level troll and say that Obama is a Muslim, over and over?
Dude his stand up sucked somethin’ awful
*nods*
I dunno. I kinda of respect the level of anti-comedy commitment it must take to repeatedly say unfunny things and then repeatedly follow it with ‘Fuck all y’all’. His little notebook must look like Jack’s writing from The Shining.
Painful…I want my 4 min back
Trolls, take notes! Thats how it’s done!
LOL well done
Best reason to vote for Romney ever. If you loose in a bet.
Sweet bumper sticker:
“Don’t blame me, The Patriots lost to the Cardinals”
If you are interested there is much more to this story. Maybe because today is Rosh Hashana and Max did not want to be lie on National TV. Someone should contact Max and get the rest of the story. It is much funnier and interesting than what transpired on TV.
whatevs. Like you could possibly know anything about him, Mark.
He’s still smarter than Carlson’s two co-hosts.
Glad he punked Gretchen Carlson, but it was like watching Ali G if he had zero material. Also I can’t believe I watched this kid’s standup too that was painful. Heard it takes 10 years to become a good standup though so who knows…gotta give him credit for trying, I guess.
Is this was qualifies as “GLORIOUSLY PUNKED” these days? Seriously? He came of as a total idiot on national TV. Maybe the blame for that wasted segment should fall on Fox for not doing a better job vetting their interviewees. His demeanor and lack of basic verbal skills saddens me. Please tell me he isn’t the “best and brightest” representative of this generation. I’m just embarrassed thinking that people from other countries are listening to him thinking that this is how far America has sunk. Truly sad.
Why do these shows have “average citizens” on anyway? You’re a news program, you should have access to knowledgeable experts, not “Some guy who had to live with his parents”
Dude, he was putting on an act — acting like a jackass intentionally when they thought he would come on and affirm their notion that young people are swinging toward Romney. Do you completely lack the ability to grasp that?
“Do you completely lack the ability to grasp that?” Did you watch his “act”? I just did…and it was somehow even worse.
I don’t usually appreciate trolling, but when I do (I’m not finishing that ;)..This guy deserves a medal.
Sounds like a pretty crazy plan to me dude. Wow.
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I want to go to there and do that too.
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That looking sideways thing he was doing was either a nervous habit or maybe it’s a physical dysfunction. Either way, it was distracting and made him look like he was high.
This stuff makes me cringe. But Im happy he did it.
TREMENDOUS
This is actually pretty tacky.
I too find Fox & Friends crass; cheaply vulgar; tasteless; crude.
You don’t get on a talk news show without agreeing with the host. They don’t like their egos bruised. If your views differ from the host, you only get on if you’re an idiot.
Gold. Added a year to my life.
this kid is awesome
The write up had me expecting so much more. In the end it’s just some kid being a dick.
Max Rice is an idiot. Picking on ‘Fox and Friends’ is like picking on kids smaller and younger than yourself, ‘Fox and Friends’ has the least qualified individuals to talk about the news out of the Fox News channel and if you objectively look at all cable news channels and cancel out your own political bias they are possibly the worst. That said Max Rice appears to be so desperate to be funny that he bombs his graduation speech, and later misses an opportunity to discuss how either of the presidential candidates can either help or further hurt his age group. The two points I would like to make are that 1) I gave a better graduation speech leaving high school and I was neither a valedictorian (my school had more than one) or the class president, yet I said more insightful and inspiring things in less time that did not influence anyone in the audience to feel their hard work was cheapened unlike how I would have felt I had been in Max Rice graduation class. 2) further more our generation not just the age group listed above is disproportionately affected by the high unemployment, yet Max Rice felt acting like a clown instead of addressing an issue was more helpful or satisfying; during the Bush administration I had no college degrees the entire time, but through the entire time I was employed and the last 3 years of his administration I made the same money as a college graduate of my same age, yet in the Obama administration I have finished my bachelors degree and completed my masters degree, yet the two times I have been on unemployment in my life is under the Obama administration despite having a masters degree, being a Marine OIF combat vet, being able to speak 2 foreign languages, and working full time while going to school full time for the majority of my college career.
In short I feel my strife through this difficult time, where in hard work and intelligence isn’t enough to stay employed have been cheapened by the not funny Max Rice. I think Max Rice should do himself and the world a favor and kill himself, he will never make it as a comedian, and at some point he may realize that he has wasted great opportunities in his life to be a voice of concern or hope for other, but instead wasted those opportunities on a feeble attempt to attract positve attention towards his craft he is terrible at.
2) further more our generation not just the age group listed above is disproportionately affected by the high unemployment, yet Max Rice felt acting like a clown instead of addressing an issue was more helpful or satisfying; during the Bush administration I had no college degrees the entire time, but through the entire time I was employed and the last 3 years of his administration I made the same money as a college graduate of my same age, yet in the Obama administration I have finished my bachelors degree and completed my masters degree, yet the two times I have been on unemployment in my life is under the Obama administration despite having a masters degree, being a Marine OIF combat vet, being able to speak 2 foreign languages, and working full time while going to school full time for the majority of my college career.
Holy shit, what a sentence.
Also, it’s nice to know that you consider yourself inspirational while at the same time advising people to commit suicide.
This bored the hell out of me, but I did make it as far as the part where you were talking about how he should have been talking about the candidates and blah blah blah. It’s not like nobody is doing that and he blew our only chance. If he had, he probably wouldn’t have gone viral at all. At the end of the day he did a good job of exposing some bullshit, and having the balls to do that on live TV is commendable and not something just anyone would go through with,
you would be right if you weren’t so terribly wrong. fox news is evil and preys on the stupid dumber children of america. they take advantage of the upper-middle class white vote to get what they want. they’re panderers and swindlers. they’re not kids. they know what they’re saying. they’re just bad people. i approve of this guy trolling them.
You sir, are also terrible
Fox News has long been proven to be a joke, but it is nice to be reminded of their absurdness from time to time. Bravo Max Rice.
I don’t see how this is funny? Further proof that people with the minds of thirteen year olds run this site.
It’s funny because the people who run this show went out of their way to find someone to prove their point, and the only person they could get went on the show exclusively to mock them and prove what a joke they are.
If they had done even the tiniest bit of research (as is expected for a supposed news program), they would see this guy making baby rape jokes and possibly reconsider allowing him to speak on national television for the sole reason that they couldn’t find anyone else to agree with them.
What Nacho said.
This humor blog run by “people with the minds of thirteen year olds” was able to figure out who Max Rice was.
The alleged news organization with billions of dollars behind it was not able to do that.
Guess which one’s the real joke?
@Otto Took the words right out of my mouth.
Has anyone else noticed he seems like a random character out of the movie Idiocracy? So he dropped out of college and lied to some tv folks to get 15 minutes of fame.. “Whoa! This is so weird. I can hear you but I can’t see you!” This guy is a doofus. What am I missing?
The update, apparently.
Yeah, I saw that he was trying to be “a comic”. I guess I just don’t get retard bro humor.
Hey there Max , do you know what’s going on ? How old are you …wake up boy.
she is a dumb.