So Yeah, The Guy From This Week's Obsessed Is A Professional Crazy Person
The first comment on yesterday's Obsessed recap concerned one of the episode's two subjects, Rick, who, commenter ElBomb noted, is named Rick Rosner and has "a documented history of doing stupid crap to get attention." His claims of being the smartest man on earth have landed him a Domino's commercial and multiple appearances on talk shows like Jimmy Kimmel Live and Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?. There is indeed a long documentation of Rosner's stunts, but I couldn't find anything more compelling than his 2000 appearance on Errol Morris's documentary TV show First Person, in which he describes his obsession with scars, being too smart for Harvard, and putting himself on a diet of lettuce and dog biscuits, which gave him hemorrhoids so bad he had to wear a maxi pad. Um, yeah, so basically this guy is just trying to make a living as a professional crazy person.
The producers of Obsessed should have known better than to indulge this guy's pranks, or at least should have included them as part of his backstory. But this video was hilarious, so at least there's that. Bad A&E!
Posted by Lindsay at 5:30 PM in Reality TV
Tags: Errol Morris | Obsessed | Rick Rosner
so so soooo glad i waited until the end of that. the last 10 seconds of this video = amazing.
Score = 9
I feel the same way -- whatever antipathy I felt toward the producers of "Obsessed" for bringing in a ringer is rapidly being dissipated as I learn more about this guy. He is becoming my hero. I am writing him a fan letter right now. In Esperanto.
Score = 1
I watched his entire First Person segment a couple of weeks ago and kept thinking, "yeah, okay, Millionaire didn't phrase the question as perfect as they could have. But you still got it wrong. And had they phrased it correctly, you still would have gotten it wrong."
AM I RIGHT, GUYS?!
Score = 4
Who the fuck needs to feel vindicated by a fucking IQ test?! That's so aggravating! I'm so mad... I'm sorry, I just got horny.
Score = 11
Yeah this guy is awfully stupid. For someone who spends so much time absorbing information it's odd that he missed the part about IQ tests being strongly impacted by many factors that have nothing to do with actual intellect.
Score = 4
was there a conan movie where he bleeds from his ass onto a maxi pad? i would love to have a conversation with this guy to see what he comes up with.. he's like an american karl pilkington.
Score = 5
Yeah, except Karl is sympathetic/funny. This guy is neither.
Score = 7
good point, i don't feel ill will towards karl. so, not a complete adaptation of the monkey news anchor.
Score = 1
Karl Pilkington's got a head like a FUCKING ORANGE
Score = 3
"x number of hours"
You only went to one high school, just say the number of hours. Algebra isn't a factor here, you fucking terrorhawk. Just cool it with the smarts there, Dr. Wangtastic
(His doctorate is in scar aesthetics)
Score = 9
He's crazy. He said on Obsessed that he was a writer. I wonder what he writes about and who the heck buys it. I guess nobody in the real world could work with him.
I am actually from Oceanside, CA, and it was a freaking weird thing to hear him say that he found a cool book there.
Score = 0
I know what you mean. I'm from Boulder and probably went to the same high school as this nut, although several years after him. Knowing I was even that close (not very close) to his brand of crazy gives me the heebie-jeebies.
Score = 0
Well, one of his gigs was as a writer for Jimmy Kimmel Live. Like all ultra-geniuses.
Plus he started on "Remote Control" on MTV. Man, I miss Remote Control.
Score = 1
Proof that IQ tests don't really mean much.
Score = 4
yea - genius and sanity have an inverse relationship. and intelligence is rarely an indicator of potential successes.
this from a margot tenenbaum.
Score = 2
speechless
Score = -1
My IQ? 174. See me talking about it? No.
Score = -12
I think you just did. Talk about it, I mean.
Score = 21
Chicks don't dig dudes who say "chicks dig _____"
Score = 19
He just keeps getting better and better. His imdb listing credits him with writing "World's Funniest Animal Outtakes" (Parts 1 AND 2) and "World's Funniest Party Disasters" (ditto). No word on whether his anal bleeding was one of the disasters.
Score = 5
"farting from my destroyed rectum" is officially a part of my lexicon. thank you, rick rosner.
Score = 8
" I tried to model myself after Barbarino from Welcome Back Kotter"- well clearly if you had followed the Horshack model things would have worked out much better for you.
Score = 4
"and putting himself on a diet of lettuce and dog biscuits, which gave him hemorrhoids so bad he had to wear a maxi pad"
In the top 5 most awful things I've read in my life.
Score = 8
He could have put together the sanest monologue ever in that 7+ minutes but the entire time all I was aware of were THOSE AWFUL HAIRPLUGS!!! To walk around with that on your head...there are no words.
Score = 4
Thanks for providing an image of yourself sporting varicose veins, a raging erection and hemorrhoid blood whilst browsing the card catalogue at a public library, guy. Can’t wait for the inevitable nightmares.
Score = 9
I think I saw a different video than the person writing about it.
I see nothing terribly strange or crazy about him. I hear someone being self-conscious, trying to get out of his low self-esteem problems, trying to convince himself that he's not that bad, but making fun of himself doing it.
Come on, guys. Is this the wackiest person you can come up with? Just go to any state college, and you'll find someone a lot crazier. Only problem is, you'd feel sorry for them. Is he just crazy enough for you to hate, because you think he thinks "he's better than me?"
Score = -2
The guy with the 190 IQ thought it would be a good idea to eat only lettuce and dog biscuts?
Score = 9
They were high in fiber and low in protein! That's a win-win!
Score = 2
One time they aired a behind the scenes special about the staff of Jimmy Kimmel. He was on there as one of the writers profiled. The segment on him was about the fact that he would never turn left. If he needed to go left, he'd just turn 270 degrees right. Then, about a year later he was on the show in a bit on stage and I saw him turn left to exit the stage. What a bad liar.
Score = 0
I need that tattoo - literally.
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