Mike Love's Humor

[Ron]

I've always liked Mike.  He tends to let it all hang out.  He's ignorant in an obvious way, he doesn't hide it, he just lies about it and everybody knows he's lying about it.  For instance when he claims credit for something he didn't do... that would only be an affront if it wasn't obvious that he's full of it. 

It's like the old adage about how if you have a pet alligator, don't get mad when he tries to bite you... Mike Love is Mike Love, anybody who gets upset or thinks ill of him because of something he does has too thin of a skin.

My favorite ever Mike moment is when they had Brian playing the demos for "Love You", on that bootleg that's floating around.  After all of the years that I've heard people say how Mike didn't respect Brian, blah blah blah Mike's so horrible, blah blah blah if you listen, after Brian plays one of the particularly great songs in that destroyed voice (It may have been Airplane) you can here Mike say to somebody in the background "That's a MOTHERF&CKER!"

It's classic Mike... crass, rude, but loving and respectful in his own way.  He's like an old grandfather who acts like an asshole to everybody, and then dies that way leaving his family to wonder if he ever loved them.  He can't help it, and he's not going to to change... but that doesn't mean that he doesn't love and appreciate his family like everyone else does. 

I've always found him fascinating, and all of his jokes, bad as them may be, interesting. 

[smile-holland]

My favorite ever Mike moment is when they had Brian playing the demos for "Love You", on that bootleg that's floating around.  After all of the years that I've heard people say how Mike didn't respect Brian, blah blah blah Mike's so horrible, blah blah blah if you listen, after Brian plays one of the particularly great songs in that destroyed voice (It may have been Airplane) you can here Mike say to somebody in the background "That's a MOTHERF&CKER!"

That would be right after BW played "I'll Bet He's Nice".

[Slow In Brain]

I always thought the Brains and Genius team would have been more more suited to the sitcom treatment...just think of all the hair brained antics this modern day odd couple could get up to. Write a rap song, switch identities but then again back in the day a movie called the Couch Trip was susposedley about such a duo.

[bgas]

I always thought the Brains and Genius team would have been more more suited to the sitcom treatment...just think of all the hair brained antics this modern day odd couple could get up to. Write a rap song, switch identities but then again back in the day a movie called the Couch Trip was susposedley about such a duo.

I don't think I ever saw that, or heard of it; were Brian and Mike really in it?