John Lennon blows his top at Al Capp (Montreal, 1969)
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Uploaded by baracine on May 27, 2009
It was 40 years ago today... John Lennon blows his top and loses his cool - or does he? - as right-wing Blue Meanie cartoonist Al (Li'l Abner) Capp baits the Beatle and Yoko at their Montreal bed-in in 1969.
(CBC footage)
The bed-in is being commemorated at a Montreal Museum of Fine Arts exhibition called "Imagine: The Peace Ballad of John and Yoko", from April 2 - June 21, 2009.
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Al Capp was such a condescending douche bag that it's hard to to relate this to his life as a cartoonist. He went in to pick a fight and didn't make a single salient point. If his comic strip reflected the man we see here it would have folded in a week. So, the question has to be what was the point of Al Capp's visit? Did anyone else notice how his behavior was like that of Limbaugh and O'Reilly when they're confronted with the fruits of their efforts to piss people off? Back-peddling idiots.
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@GreatDarkSpot Drugs will do that! Make a person a kook. If I'm not correct I think they both were shooting up the heroin back then.
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@reldditmot Well, we know you don't, haha.
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Man Al Capp was playing them like a violin. He was hysterical and you noticed he walked with a limp just gave him more character!
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As Yoko jabbers incoherently at around 4:00 and Al Capp says to John: "I can see now why you want peace, God knows you can't have much." Too funny!
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I adore this man!
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This clip could better be titled "Archie Bunker vs. Meathead and Little Goil." Capp's maturity and experience is the irrresistible force meeting the immovable object that is the Lennons' youthful idealism. All three are professional showpeople and dutifully delivered a fun piece of performance art.
1 month ago 3
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Who gives a fuck anyway!
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@ashman1960 Of course I'm a dick, but Yoko's a bitch on wheels. Always nice to see someone mess with her, even a complete A.H. like Capp. In that, at least, Capp was right. Regardless of what was wrong with him, at least he did not have to live with Yoko like John did.
1 month ago 2
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@jraiv3 Whatever foo
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@xtrmsprts
He walked in looking to ridicule , not to understand or respect them. It seems that you are invested in seeing this as Lennon looking stupid and Capp somehow revealing Lennon as a sham, when in truth he never called Capp out of name nor did he ever insult him. Capp walked in full of nasty insults and ended the conversation with a racist comment toward Yoko "Madame Nhu" wtf? Any man would be within rights to pop Capp in the jaw on that alone. Where have John & Yoko "lost it"?
L0un9ePunk 3 months ago 11
@xtrmsprts How did you see that as John and Yoko "losing it completely"? They completely held themselves in a dignified manner, while he acted like a close minded, blinkered bully. An unerringly arrogant attitude, unwilling to listen... oh and a racist dig to boot. A complete humiliation for Capp.
josephmarshall 3 months ago 9