Opie was the boss, Norton and Cumia his disgruntled employees

[satanssockpuppet]

And the only reason you even know he’s a squirming, nervous, anxious wreck of a manlet in a GTA 4 tshirt is because he insists on having a visual element so he can pretend he’s on Fox News.

All of the political pundits wear designer suits and run a comb through their hair, Nana. Fuck, even Patrick S Tomlinson knows enough to wear a cheap jacket when he goes on that science show.

And still he wonders why he gets no respect.

And that too. He likes to think he's Jack Paar, the witty, erudite host, and he's dressed like he's going outside to pick up a dead squirrel on the lawn.

 

[Meownaw]

I've said it before but the shows where it's Jim and Anthony are a mess and only saved if they have comedians in like Vos, Bobby, Derosa, Colin etc. The bit about Anthony hating Space Balls is an example of this only working because a comedian was in studio. Now look at the shows with just Anthony and Opie. They had structure even if it boiled down to them just reminiscing or shooting the shit. Opie was his best when Jim wasn't there and those shows are still listenable to today.

 

[ShockJockRobot]

The Opie love bit sucks.

 

[DMAN]

I don't want to be too down on Opie or Anthony in their solo efforts. They are powerless by their lonesome. It's not an insult. That ampersand is the reason for their success. Nopie shows have a following because Norton and Cumia have a homoerotic relationship and they could flirt without supervision from the decision maker and breadwinner of the company.

You can't hate Opie for doing what needed to be done, and for the choices he made for the company. Opie made the deals, Opie made demands and took a stand when it was needed. It might not have been pretty, but it was necessary. Sometimes you have to do things that people don't understand, for the benefit of the very people who will criticize you. The Christopher Columbus of Anthony Cumia's Life. Without Opie, the snake would be sitting on a rotting porch. Car still up on blocks in the unkempt driveway.

Cumia is floundering and wasting all that Opie Money. Opie knows better than to bother getting a studio. Opie is verified on twitter, his original account with 200k followers. Opie does things the right way. He skates, because he plays by the rules with the fake apology... but he does it for the show. He did it in 98 when that dwope Menino acting like a monarch refusing to accept the fake apology. So Opie got them fired UP to a better gig in a better city. Opie willingly took on the mayor. Anthony winced.

Opie always had jobs. He was always working somewhere. Anthony? Hired and fired mostly by his own relatives. Cumia got lucky that he was handpicked out of obscurity like an American Idol contestant with a weepy backstory. But Anthony has no concept of business, hence him washing his hands of any of the business decisions at his own company. If Anthony felt left out, he should have attended the meetings, but Stunt Boy Cumia was too busy taking a nap.

 

[Doctor Coom]

I've said it before but the shows where it's Jim and Anthony are a mess and only saved if they have comedians in like Vos, Bobby, Derosa, Colin etc. The bit about Anthony hating Space Balls is an example of this only working because a comedian was in studio. Now look at the shows with just Anthony and Opie. They had structure even if it boiled down to them just reminiscing or shooting the shit. Opie was his best when Jim wasn't there and those shows are still listenable to today.

Yeah, a "Jim and Ant" show would need to include an entire roster of regulars to be salvageable. At the absolute minimum, Sam would need to be involved. And when Sam fucking Roberts is the secret ingredient in making your chemstreee work, it's not even worth doing.

 

[LingerLonger]

Cumia is floundering and wasting all that Opie Money. Opie knows better than to bother getting a studio.

Opie always had jobs. He was always working somewhere. Anthony? Hired and fired mostly by his own relatives.

Opie went to college and worked professionally pretty much his entire life. Anthony was a high school dropout and drunk and drug user who never held a job for long and had no career ambitions. Norton was another dropout who worked at a box factory for five years until being fired then was on unemployment for almost a decade.

Opie took Anthony on and gave him a career. And it was Brother Joe who made the song parody and sent it in to Opie not even Anthony who did anything. Dice took Norton on and gave him a career then became sick of him and basically dumped him on O&A. Dice had another comedian cancel on him and needed a last minute replacement and got Norton.

So it is no surprise that Anthony and Norton cannot do anything on their own without very competent managers or bosses around them. Norton on his own is too degenerate for mainstream acceptance. Without someone cultivating his image he taking PREP and AIDS medication publicly and admitting to having tranny hookers take dumps on him. And Anthony is basically just as unhinged. These two were always maniacs but Opie and Sirius-XM basically kept them in line enough to the point that not even the fans realized how sick these two were in their personal lives.

 

[BootyJuice]

Opie took Anthony on and gave him a career. And it was Brother Joe who made the song parody and sent it in to Opie not even Anthony who did anything.