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JGL53 · 02-23-2005, 12:24 PM

I used to watch his show for hours back in the early 90's. My housemates thought I was crazy, but it was as entertaining as it gets - not even Benny Hinn or Ernest Angley, with their goofy vocalizations and smacking sinners in their foreheads could hold a candle. I mean, this guy used to wear a different hat every time, like Chuck Barris of the Gong Show, and would occasionally wear a pair of sunglasses high on his nose and - at the same time - a pair of granny reading glasses on the end of his nose. He sometimes read from the bible, sometimes from a book on UFOs or similar paranormal bs.

When I moved in 1993, I no longer had satellite TV and he wasn't on cable in my area. Now I'll never see him again. Fuck. There may be tapes of him, but he wasn't funny enough to spend money on.

This is his obit from stiffs.com:

Gene Scott (02/21)
This guy was the greatest. Unlike any other televangelist, he came across as a psycho college professor, unkempt and ranting, possibly on drugs. Sometimes he played sax. Once, when he was upset about the paucity of donations, we watched him smoke an entire cigar, without saying a word, for twenty minutes. This was late-night UHF programming at its most riveting, and Dr. Gene will be missed.

sharon45 · 02-23-2005, 01:01 PM

Of course without the same visualization, just read through the book of hebrews or any of paul's writings in the NT and you find he was way behind the times in his showmanship.

nelsondogg · 02-23-2005, 01:50 PM

I got hooked the time they just showed him driving around in his boat with a bunch of hotties in bikinis.

Toto · 02-23-2005, 01:54 PM

LA Times obit

Quote:

At times Scott would stare into the television camera until a fundraising goal was met. "Get on the telephone!" he ordered his viewers. For those who didn't send money, Scott suggested: "Vomit on yourself with your head up in the air."

There was a purpose to the eccentricities, according to Mark Travis, Scott's longtime chief of staff. "All the peculiarities, the horses, the girls, the hats, the cigars … they were props. They were saying, 'Watch me! I've got something to say.' "

Travis said the ministry takes in more than $1 million a month.

It was mentioned on NPR that he got people to give him money as a personal gift - meaning that they could not deduct it, but he did not have to pay taxes on it or account for it to anyone. That's $1 million tax free.

But the irony was that he believed in faith healing, until he got prostate cancer.

EssEff · 02-23-2005, 04:13 PM

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But the irony was that he believed in faith healing, until he got prostate cancer.

I can understand him not wanting to do a laying on of hands there.

sharon45 · 02-23-2005, 04:34 PM

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Originally Posted by Toto

But the irony was that he believed in faith healing, until he got prostate cancer.

I don't see it as ironic, I see it as the same reality from those who claim that god helped them when they were at their lowest. And also with those that bet on black and win big at a roulette table either used to finally get out of their 'hell', or to buy enough drugs for an overdose.

jmem · 02-23-2005, 05:08 PM

Oh man I had forgotten about that guy...I used to watch him with the same morbid fascination...psycho college professor...yeah that's a good description.

thebeave · 02-23-2005, 06:30 PM

Is he that white haired freckle faced nutjob who speaks in front of an audience with a whiteboard behind him that's a maze of multi-colored symbols, lines, arrows, circles and other unintelligible mish-mash? I may be thinking of someone else. If not, then, yeah, Gene is a total whack job. I couldn't ever make out what the f*** he's talking about. Always sketching on that board and connecting this word to that. freakin' weird.

Apocolips · 02-23-2005, 10:53 PM

Hola!

First Hunter S. Thompson and now Gene Scott. I wonder if those two guys knew each other. If they did, I'm sure they hated each other.

I used to smoke pot and listen to Gene Scott on late night TV. He was funny when he talked, but he seemed so angry all the time. Plus, if his phone banks were not ringing, he wont say a word and then show videos of his daughter (or some kid) riding her horse on the farm.

Once (high of course) I called the Gene Scott phone bank. His show was live! The operator SCOLDED me and said that no one is allowed to talk while crazy Gene was talking. Well, I did not have any money to support his psychiarist and cocaine (no basis for this, but he was on something sweeter than those nickel see-gars in his mouth) so I hung up.

I pretty much gave up on Gene Scott because his act wore thin. Who wants to listen to an angry old man, torturing his audience (and me) with a tight teenage girl bouncing straddling her legs on a horse. There were other jokers in that magical box who did not have their hand out.

Senor

ca3799 · 02-25-2005, 10:15 AM

Aww, every man's death diminishes me.... but in this case not that much

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I got into bugging "Dr" Scott in the mid to late 80's when I got off work very late and he was on TV live overnight. His show was creepily hilarious. He would wear the several hats or glasses (already mentioned) or show long boring films of his horse farm. Sometimes he would get petulant and refuse to speak until someone called in with a donation. That was so odd- he'd just sit there with his arms crossed staring into the camera.

I used to call his 1-800 number and jack with him hoping to run up his phone bill. :devil1:

One night he sang a song called "Kill a Pissant for Jesus" ("and then kill a pissant for me"). I called to ask stuff like "What are pissants?" to which he replied that pissants were "the nitty gritty things that bother us" (it was a live show then). So I called back to ask if pissants (as in 'real' ants) weren't god's creatures, too, and should we be killing them?

Every day, I'd tell my then boyfriend what all I had done to annoy Scott the previous night but that I was a little worried that he'd be able to identify me somehow..

One day, I got flowers delivered to my door and the card said "Thinking of You. Dr. Scott"

Man, did I freak for a few seconds until I realized it was my boyfriend who sent them!!

02-23-2005, 12:24 PM	#1
JGL53 Veteran Member Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Outer Mongolia Posts: 4,091	Gene Scott died? Well, fuck.... I used to watch his show for hours back in the early 90's. My housemates thought I was crazy, but it was as entertaining as it gets - not even Benny Hinn or Ernest Angley, with their goofy vocalizations and smacking sinners in their foreheads could hold a candle. I mean, this guy used to wear a different hat every time, like Chuck Barris of the Gong Show, and would occasionally wear a pair of sunglasses high on his nose and - at the same time - a pair of granny reading glasses on the end of his nose. He sometimes read from the bible, sometimes from a book on UFOs or similar paranormal bs. When I moved in 1993, I no longer had satellite TV and he wasn't on cable in my area. Now I'll never see him again. Fuck. There may be tapes of him, but he wasn't funny enough to spend money on. This is his obit from stiffs.com: Gene Scott (02/21) This guy was the greatest. Unlike any other televangelist, he came across as a psycho college professor, unkempt and ranting, possibly on drugs. Sometimes he played sax. Once, when he was upset about the paucity of donations, we watched him smoke an entire cigar, without saying a word, for twenty minutes. This was late-night UHF programming at its most riveting, and Dr. Gene will be missed.

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02-23-2005, 01:01 PM	#2
sharon45 Veteran Member Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Southwest, US Posts: 8,759	Of course without the same visualization, just read through the book of hebrews or any of paul's writings in the NT and you find he was way behind the times in his showmanship.

02-23-2005, 01:50 PM	#3
nelsondogg Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: LA Posts: 645	I got hooked the time they just showed him driving around in his boat with a bunch of hotties in bikinis.

02-23-2005, 05:08 PM	#7
jmem Regular Member Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Texas Posts: 257	Oh man I had forgotten about that guy...I used to watch him with the same morbid fascination...psycho college professor...yeah that's a good description.

02-23-2005, 06:30 PM	#8
thebeave Veteran Member Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Silicon Valley, CA Posts: 4,183	Is he that white haired freckle faced nutjob who speaks in front of an audience with a whiteboard behind him that's a maze of multi-colored symbols, lines, arrows, circles and other unintelligible mish-mash? I may be thinking of someone else. If not, then, yeah, Gene is a total whack job. I couldn't ever make out what the f*** he's talking about. Always sketching on that board and connecting this word to that. freakin' weird.

02-23-2005, 10:53 PM	#9
Apocolips Banned Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Hangzhou, China Posts: 2,402	Hola! First Hunter S. Thompson and now Gene Scott. I wonder if those two guys knew each other. If they did, I'm sure they hated each other. I used to smoke pot and listen to Gene Scott on late night TV. He was funny when he talked, but he seemed so angry all the time. Plus, if his phone banks were not ringing, he wont say a word and then show videos of his daughter (or some kid) riding her horse on the farm. Once (high of course) I called the Gene Scott phone bank. His show was live! The operator SCOLDED me and said that no one is allowed to talk while crazy Gene was talking. Well, I did not have any money to support his psychiarist and cocaine (no basis for this, but he was on something sweeter than those nickel see-gars in his mouth) so I hung up. I pretty much gave up on Gene Scott because his act wore thin. Who wants to listen to an angry old man, torturing his audience (and me) with a tight teenage girl bouncing straddling her legs on a horse. There were other jokers in that magical box who did not have their hand out. Senor

02-25-2005, 10:15 AM	#10
ca3799 Regular Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Upstream of the herd Posts: 189	Aww, every man's death diminishes me.... but in this case not that much . I got into bugging "Dr" Scott in the mid to late 80's when I got off work very late and he was on TV live overnight. His show was creepily hilarious. He would wear the several hats or glasses (already mentioned) or show long boring films of his horse farm. Sometimes he would get petulant and refuse to speak until someone called in with a donation. That was so odd- he'd just sit there with his arms crossed staring into the camera. I used to call his 1-800 number and jack with him hoping to run up his phone bill. :devil1: One night he sang a song called "Kill a Pissant for Jesus" ("and then kill a pissant for me"). I called to ask stuff like "What are pissants?" to which he replied that pissants were "the nitty gritty things that bother us" (it was a live show then). So I called back to ask if pissants (as in 'real' ants) weren't god's creatures, too, and should we be killing them? Every day, I'd tell my then boyfriend what all I had done to annoy Scott the previous night but that I was a little worried that he'd be able to identify me somehow.. One day, I got flowers delivered to my door and the card said "Thinking of You. Dr. Scott" Man, did I freak for a few seconds until I realized it was my boyfriend who sent them!!

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