A guy I work with just got fired.  Well, they didn’t say he was fired, they told us that he ‘decided to pursue other interests’.  I guess that’s interests like looking for a new job!  Don’t you get tired of this kind of ‘corporate code’??  I do.  I mean, if I suck I suck, don’t tell me that my ‘attitude isn’t in compliance’, just tell me that I’m being an asshole!!  Well, anyway, this firing made me think of one thing.  That’s right, Joe Piscopo!  Remember back in the 80s when he was on top of the world?  Alright, maybe you were asleep that week, but, I tell you, he was there!! 

     Anyhow, Joe left SNL to ‘pursue a movie career’.  Which, as we all know, is television talk for ‘get the hell outta here’!  But, Joe fooled them, he did go on to a movie career, granted he only really made one movie that was even half way good, but damn it!  It was a movie!

     It’s called Dead Heat and it stars Joe and Treat Williams as buddy cops.  I guess Joe thought that if Eddie Murphy could be a cop, so could he!  The story is basically a cross between any generic ‘buddy cop’ movie and ‘Dawn of the Dead’!  Yes, I know that seems like an unholy alliance, but it’s no less holy that anything that says on the poster ‘Starring Joe Piscopo’!!  Anyway, Joe and Treat get caught up in a case and end up dead and then brought back to life and that’s basically it!  Not all that entertaining, but still better than Beverly Hills Cop 3.  It’s called Dead Heat and it’s not quite as painful as being poked in the eye with a sharp object, but it’s close!  And remember, the best movies are bad movies!