Newsmaker: Ron Jeremy sticks it to tech sector

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So you did invest in these?
Jeremy: No I did not. Now the fad may eventually dwindle. Right now it's still at its peak. I am not a good person to discuss these particular things because I find it boring. If I spend more than an hour on the computer I want to throw up. I think the computer is phenomenal for raising my little pet tortoise. You learn about how to find out where you're going. You research current events...I love the computer for that. But for looking at people's Web sites or e-mailing...oh, give me a break...boring to pieces.

Have you made an investment in Internet porn?
Jeremy: No. A lot of my friends did and took a bath, and I got the last laugh. Most of my money is sitting in banks and condominiums and doing very well.

Has the porn industry totally revamped the Internet?
Jeremy: Yes, it was great for the women. Look, I'm glad it's there. I'm not knocking it. I'm just bored with it. I'm glad that it exists because it's made women into millionaires. It's helped the guys too. It's no more a matter of getting paid by the distributor, the producer, the public, the video store. Now the girls are being paid directly by the public.

Have you wanted to get into this? Can't you start your own service or site? You've got a good name in this business, right?
Jeremy: I have some sites that are doing pretty well. Myspace.com/ronjeremy is a very enjoyable site. My agent works it. I don't touch it. But he's put in some great music videos with me, my MTV commercial, skits with Steve-O from Jackass, celebrity photographs, good little stories. It's all free.

I'm glad the computer exists, but when I see my friends spending hours chatting in chat groups, dating and this or that I say, "My God!"

I think there will be a day when you will plug into a computer and put it on your genitalia and you'll actually feel things.

That's not sexy to you?
Jeremy: God no, I hate to be so negative. But the thing is I feel like going out and doing things, seeing people, going to comedy clubs, rock 'n' roll events. Sitting by a computer all night I find horrifying, and so many people do it. However, that's why I really--let me do a good segue here--really enjoy working for Heavy.com. It is entertaining. But the best part of it is I got to satirize and poke fun at all these things that are so big on the Internet. My favorite thing is to satirize a lot of the things that have been getting millions of hits on YouTube...like that Lonelygirl15.

I see this, and I see these guys and girls on YouTube are getting contracts with William Morris and CAA, and getting film offers. And then I go to see a show called Wicked on Hollywood Boulevard, a big Broadway sensation, see all these actresses who can sing and dance and are phenomenally gifted, have beautiful voices and they can't get a job--and some yutz on the Internet is getting all this work? Makes me want to vomit! So I just love that I can do these satires on them and poke fun at them because...you should.

And again people can poke fun at me and say 'Look who's talking? Porn star and reality star.' However, I did my stage, got my equity card, stage union, I got my bachelor's degree in theater, did 68 mainstream films and 12 music videos...at least I earned some of my right to be theatrical. And I taught theater in New Jersey.

So you're not excited about the possibility that YouTube could be this new venue, a new Internet stage?
Jeremy: YouTube? No. I'll say it again: makes me want to vomit!...We are going to hell in a handbasket. We are celebrating mediocrity. The future of the entertainment world of America is seriously doomed. When you look at a billboard advertising some big giant TV series based on an extra; the tagline was "Hundreds of interesting people in America. This isn't one of them." That's perfect. That's typical. When you see those people on American Idol, the ones who fail abysmally, and yet get recording contracts like that Chinese fellow, what was his name? Good lord--all these gifted voices out there.

Now, I get the joke. I get the goof. And I'm fine with it. But when they can make millions and those who really can perform make (nothing), it's very funny. That guy who did the martial arts on YouTube, who screwed up, fell down and almost hurt himself. He's now more famous for failing than if he had done it properly. If he had done a perfect flip and a great martial art fly through the air and if he twirled the nunchuk sticks he might have passed the audition, but he would not be famous. He fell down and banged his knees and now he's actually more famous. That is bizarre.

I get it. I get the joke and I understand pop culture very, very well. I'm part of it. But I also think that in some ways we're screwed.

More Newsmakers

[ChrisSpence]

Here is the martial arts video Ron mentioned

It's been combined with a few more clips...
http://www.martialdevelopment.com/blog/secret-mma-demo-video/

[herkamur]

inventor of radio

There's long been a controversy over who invented radio. Both Marconi and Nikola Tesla were working on the subject at around the same time. Some good information may be found on PBS here:

http://www.pbs.org/tesla/ll/ll_whoradio.html

I just think that Tesla's work ought to be recognized.

[ajlane83]

Texting?

I dunno about anyone else, but I hate checking voice mail on my cell, I'd much rather read a text, and that's one of the reasons I prefer texting to voice.

[shoffmueller]

What jeremy fails to see is...

...that texting allows messages to be stored for the recipient to read when he's got time, it allows for threaded conversation, and allows for faster access to saved snippets of conversation. This guy compares text'ing to morse code, and says somehow suggests that text messaging is going backwards. This interview was completely worthless.

[ajlane83]

Texting?

I dunno about anyone else, but I hate checking voice mail on my cell, I'd much rather read a text, and that's one of the reasons I prefer texting to voice.

[uptown81w]

Orgasmatron & Barabarella?

The Orgasmatron was the orgasm-producing orb in Woody Allen's "Sleeper". Barbarella had sex by playing patty cake (no orb needed), until she discovered a more old fashioned method, which she came to prefer.

[catbus99]

Historically correct

I was at what was one of the first World Wide Web "trade shows" at the San Jose Convention Center back in the early 90's. To be honest, it was in one of the center's smaller halls with a lot of open space remaining. It was at that point in time where the few of us who knew about the Web thought it was a pretty good idea, but nobody (including me) could see how it could ever be commercially useful. As I remember it, between a quarter and a third of the handful of exhibitors were what we would call today "porn sites."

Give Mr. Jeremy some credit as a futurist. If holographic projection ever becomes a viable entertainment medium, holo-porn will be what gets it into the living room (or wherever).

And thanks, Ron, for all your "hard work." You were always the babe magnet for the rest of us!

[fcekuahd]

Oh yeah, if Ron Jeremy is reviewing a gadget...

I'm going to want it. NOT.

[azareus]

brain inside

Worthwhile commentary. Does he boost his brain?
http://brain.com

[AlienEric]

Ron sucks. - http://www.mobdown.com/

According to some users of http://www.mobdown.com/ , Ron is a terrible actor, really stupid, and really disliked. Just check out his videos at http://www.mobdown.com/ and you'll understand their frustrations.