Clearly all that tossed salad and scrambled eggs wasn’t great for Frasier Crane’s stomach – or for his castmates.
Earlier this month, sitcom superstar Kelsey Grammer thrust himself back into the spotlight for all the wrong reasons – or, alternatively, for all the alt-right ones – when he attended this year’s controversial Kennedy Center Honors ceremony, bizarrely hosted by the Commander in Chief himself. “I think he’s extraordinary,” Grammer told Fox News of Donald Trump, “He’s one of the greatest presidents we’ve ever had. Maybe the greatest.” Though Grammer didn’t go into much detail about what, exactly, makes Trump a candidate for the presidential GOAT, perhaps the Kennedy Center Honors had a complimentary bottle of Tums under every seat.
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Following Grammer’s superlative praise of the President, Lauren Holly, star of such classic comedies as Dumb and Dumber and less classic ones like Down Periscope, took to Threads to report that, while she and Grammer worked together on the 1996 naval comedy, the Frasier star and conservative voice of comedy on TV turned the submarine into a hotbox of horror:
In response to the Frasier Fartgate, Dave Foley, the founding of Kids in the Hall who played Kelsey Grammer’s Cat in the short-lived DreamWorks-animated sitcom Father of the Pride, commented, “You’ve made the season bright. Thank you (numerous holiday emojis).”
Kristen Johnston, Emmy-winning sitcom actress and star of 3rd Rock from the Sun, simply wrote, “Phenomenal.”
In Down Periscope, Grammer played the Lieutenant Commander of a cast of misfits manning an obsolete, World War II-era diesel submarine (one for which Grammer apparently provided the exhaust fumes). chief among them Lieutenant Emily Lake, played by Holly. Other legends like William H. Macy, Rip Torn, Harry Dean Stanton and Toby Huss rounded out the cast (along with Grammer’s fellow Fox-aligned comic Rob Schneider), but the star power of Down Periscope couldn’t stop it from being a box office disappointment and a critical stinker to boot.
Stephen Holden of The New York Times wrote that Down Periscope, which happened to be Grammer’s feature film debut, was a crude and awkward attempt at a spoof of films like Mutiny on the Bounty. “The tone of the acting, which is set by Grammer’s blandly laid-back performance, is all wrong for a genre that demands over-the-top hamming,” wrote Holden, suggesting that Grammer could have played up the cheesy qualities of the film instead of cutting them.
Ultimately, Grammer’s gas issues have nothing at all to do with his politics, and there are plenty of serial farters in the world of entertainment who don’t cozy up to wannabe dictators. Alternatively, there are also plenty of publicly known wind-passers who secretly support Trump, but will escape mockery due to their discretion – and, as we all know, the silent ones are often the most deadly.
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