Stephen Colbert - We're All In This Together

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Folks,

The Lonely Guy (1984) is a fanatastic romantic comedy. Steve Martin portrays a greeting card writer who goes through a period of bad luck with women. In his despair, he writes a book titled A Guide for the Lonely Guy, which changes his life. This is perfectly recognisable for this lonely guy in the Netherlands, this poor old bachelor in the Netherlands. I say this with a tongue in the cheek (with great irony, before you mistake me). I am really fond of or love the American actor, comedian, writer, and musician Steve Martin. He has enlightened sombre evenings and lonely nights when I stayed up, watched a movie of his and laughed until I was nearly crying. I prefer British humor, but some American comedy I can appreciate very much. I love the American sense of humor and American atmosphere of his movies. For us Europeans American movies and comedies are a short vacation sometimes. Watching the movie we are outside Europe. And like the music of George Gershwin these movies and comedies are very American. We are out off our European daily lives and stress for a moment, outside the narrow streets and densly populated Dutch society and see broad lanes, boulevards, lovely apartments and American landscapes. We see space, we see air, we hear a different kind of English accent which isn't Euroepan and we see beautiful American women that are liberated from the European straitjacket of their ancesters, because most often they are pan-European mixes of many European ethnicities. And sometimes thank god there is even Native American, Asian (Eurasian), and exotic Southern Italian, Portuguese, Italian, Greek, Yugoslavian, Sephardic jewish, Lebanese, Egyptian, Iranian, Armenian, Georgian (that country in the Caucasus region of Eurasia) and even African-American (Black/coloured) blood in these people. Like the wonderful American actress Halle Berry (born Maria Halle Berry; August 14, 1966), a top class actress of movies like Monster's Ball (2001) and Perfect Stranger (2007). So, American actresses and comedians look European, but are American due to their Pan-European heritage. Secretly in my mind they (you) are the New Europeans, like Autralians, New Zealanders and White South-Africans.


Dressed down Halle Berry went make-up free to catch up with her mother Judith Hawkins at Cafe Med in West Hollywood on Sunday 21th 2016

Ofcourse we Europeans also are fond of male actors like Marlon Brando, Robert DeNiro, Al Pacino, Bruce Willis, Johnny Depp, well-known rough diamonds like Mickey Rourke, Robert Mitchum, Clint Eastwood, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sylvester Stallone, Samuel L. Jackson, Harvey Keitel, Robert Duvall, Gene Hackman and Roy Scheider. And comic, melancholic or funny actors like Bill Murray, Jim Carrey, Steve Martin and Adam Sandler (Punch-Drunk Love (2002)).

In LA, Las Vegas, Loughin, Palm Springs, Salt Lake City and New York I felt an enormous amount of liberty as a European in 1999 and 2008. I was released of the European heritage, reality, heavy layers of history, social hierarchy, densly populated Netherlands, Dutch customs, Dutch social etiquette for a moment and I felt that I was in the set of an American movie, comedy and sitcom and documentary for one moment.

As a lonely guy you have most often other lonely guys (bacherlors) as friends, because couples and families are to confrontational to visit. I hate birthday parties. Dislike couples and families you have to visit as a lonely guy. Often these parties or gatherings are a trap, because they (the people with relations, families and kids) want to lure you into a arranged date.

The worst what can happen to you is entering such a terrible birthday party and seeing a full house and one lonely girl sitting in the corner. You Straightdar (Hetro version of Gaydar) immediately turns on and shines out a red light and sirene. WARNING SOCIAL GATHERING MATCHMAKING ATTEMPT. It could be funny if you weren't the victim of this yourself. In such occasions I always try to find out an excuse to leave the birthday party as fast as possible. Matchmaking doesn't work with me.

I have to bump into a woman in a Steve Martin way, because that is the way it works for me. Sense of humor and an indirect way. I am honest with you due to this world situation and it is time to be honest and clear. So, I have quite a few matchmaking scenes in my life. The very kind, warm, funny and typical jewish (black hair, black eyes) hairdresser of mom in Cape Town (South Africa) in the jewish neighbourhood Sea Point where we stayed wanted to match me with a fat blond German girl, because she pittied me as a poor lonely guy, but that wasn't a good match indeed. My taste was formed by the Fashion magazines of my mother, the pretty teenage girlfriends of my sister in Vlissingen (I was a terrible late blossomer, but passed that distance later on), the European and American actresses and female pop stars of the seventies and eighties and of course the girls I fancied at my kindergarten (as a little fellow), primary school, high school and vocational university and my early jobs in restaurants in Zeeland and Amsterdam. Later friends, family and colleagues continued this matchmaking attempts with me and other girls and women. In that way they contined the attempt of that nice hairdresser in Cape Town, who believed she acted in my best interest, not being aware of my allergy towards matchmaking.

The last one was a very nice Redhead at my job. I was a little bit typsy at the New years party of the office and this was one of the few times I liked the lady and she liked me, but she just had just met her new partner before me. I am not a Hindu nor a Muslim or a jew, these people have matchmaking in their communities. And some christians denominations too. But I am not that kind of fellow. In the South-African case I felt like being a character in a Woody Allen Manhattan movie in the seventies.

To put things in perspective people. I am fond of people, love people, also couples and families. Do I know how to deal with them. No, not always or not all the time. But I am human and others are too. With sense of humor, conversation, my own way of doing things and working together with other folks I keep connected to the world.







Cheers,
Pieter
Arnhem
The Netherlands

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