Tony Kornheiser is Famous, Crabby About Crabs
Media Gossip/Musings July 15th. 2008, 2:55pm
No need to try and get cute with this item that, if true, has to go down as one of his finest quotes ever: (via the Wilmington Journal via Deadspin):
While at the restaurant, Kornheiser didn’t make too many friends, a source told me. After announcing that he was “too famous to be here,” a staffer finally found him a corner table to keep him from, ahem, all his fans. Once there, the type of crabs he wanted weren’t on the menu and he allegedly said, “I want what I want when I want it.”
My source swore he said that, but I’d be surprised if anyone could be such an ass. Staffers had to go next door to the Big Fish Seafood Market to get Kornheiser his precious crabs.
Pithy tangent: We’ve spent time in Dewey Beach (our buddies swears that the Starboard is the greatest – and by greatest, he means most debaucherous – bar in the country) and Ocean City (Secrets!), but we’ve largely avoided prissy Rehoboth, which actually has a funny but unprintable nickname. Gosh we hope TK said this. “I’m too famous to be here,” might just be the new, “don’t you know who the F I am?”
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July 15th, 2008 at 2:59 pm
TK…being an ass? Norman Chad must be disappointed.
July 15th, 2008 at 3:00 pm
To be fair soft shell crabs are a bitch to find this time of year.
July 15th, 2008 at 3:02 pm
I have to admit I’m a big Kornheiser fan, whether it is PTI, his old show on ESPN Radio, or his current show on 3WT. But this is the side of him that drives me nuts. This isn’t an act – I’ve heard about his outbursts on PTI, that the smallest thing will make him want to fire someone. This isn’t gumpy old man, this isn’t sarcasm, this is elitism.
I’ll call it now – in the next few years, there will be a video on YouTube of him throwing a massive tantrum, a la Bill O’Reilly from A Current Affair, or whatever the hell that show was.
July 15th, 2008 at 3:02 pm
Let’s play Oddsmakers on the percentage of people in the restaurant who cared TK was there.
I’ll go with the big squadoosh.
July 15th, 2008 at 3:03 pm
Please share the nickname of Rehoboth. All three of those beach towns make me want to gag.
July 15th, 2008 at 3:04 pm
TBL: you have his number. call him to confirm or deny the story.
July 15th, 2008 at 3:06 pm
TK has crabs? Did A-Rod stripper GF give them him?
July 15th, 2008 at 3:06 pm
should of gone to Red Lobster TK
July 15th, 2008 at 3:08 pm
Let’s play Oddsmakers on the % of people who knew he was anybody.
10%
July 15th, 2008 at 3:12 pm
Absolutely Love Tony-K…
And I thought Stars are suppose to be demanding??
And Bill O’Jack-off is completely Unlikable-n-Unbearable
July 15th, 2008 at 3:12 pm
If I was famous I would do that shit. Not TK famous more like Stuart Scott famous. Sounds like he had a drink or two.
July 15th, 2008 at 3:17 pm
I shall call bullshit on that story. Unnamed sources to a celebrity gossip column? He may be comically pompous and aloof in public, but he is well too self-aware to say that. I mean, come on, Tony is a booth guy. He’d never sit at a corner table.
July 15th, 2008 at 3:17 pm
i love TK. and i don’t believe he would throw a fit in the town where he has a beach house and wants to retire to. “don’t piss where you eat” is how the saying goes, right.
July 15th, 2008 at 3:17 pm
I bet it was Larry David without his glasses. He’s always getting in these kids of crazy misunderstandings…
/do do-do do-do da do boop boo!
July 15th, 2008 at 3:20 pm
Stu Scott keeps one eye on his food and one revolving around the room to see if anybody is paying attention.
July 15th, 2008 at 3:21 pm
I call BS on this one. Tony can be an ass, but this sounds just a bit out there.
July 15th, 2008 at 3:24 pm
fuck this restaurant for not seating Tony wherever he wanted. and if he made you go next door, so be it. at least you didn’t have to go catch the crabs first.
July 15th, 2008 at 3:25 pm
So this is what’s considered news? Someone said that someone said that they heard Kornheiser say…… Please, no wonder journalists hate blogs.
July 15th, 2008 at 3:26 pm
Does Reali have to tell us if this story is inaccurate?
July 15th, 2008 at 3:26 pm
I don’t think you can call BS on this one, given how sarcastic this guy is on both radio and TV. If anything, I wonder if he was saying this with a smile on his face. I hope so, because who knows what the cook or waiter “added” to his meal if he was being a serious prick.
July 15th, 2008 at 3:31 pm
TBL – wtf is going on with the server today? Is the server operating out of somebody’s closet in Estonia?
This is making it very difficult for me to avoid working.
July 15th, 2008 at 3:39 pm
because who knows what the cook or waiter “added†to his meal if he was being a serious prick.
How grown ass people don’t see how dumb it is to be a dick to the under-paid, over-worked people who handle your food behind closed doors, I’ll never understand.
My bet is TK has a faint idea of how somebody’s ass tastes now…
July 15th, 2008 at 3:46 pm
Waiter – “Ohhh I’ll get you some crabs alright”.
July 15th, 2008 at 3:52 pm
“Please, no wonder journalists hate blogs.” I pulled a Groin
TBLs blogpost for this linked a newspaper article that was supposedly written by a journalist.
July 15th, 2008 at 4:46 pm
God I hate the all-star break.
July 15th, 2008 at 5:03 pm
I know a kid whose dad went to high school w/ TK. Every year they go down to Tk’s house in Rehoboth and play golf and hang out. I had just been down there for Memorial Day weekend and asked where they went out. He told me they cooked in every night because TK didn’t want to go out be bothered by all his “fans”. By the way Starboard = ridiculousness
July 15th, 2008 at 6:37 pm
That line is something he says on his radio show about “being Mr. Tony.” He may have said it, and it may have been meant in jest, but there was a communication breakdown.
For my encounters in public with Mr Tony, he always seems to know to act in public. In private, not necessarily the same thing.
Also, I think he knows how to behave in restaurants, given that he likely will soon be footing the bill for his daughter to start one.