The Resume

(January 4, 1973- )
Directed 'Gummo' (1997), 'Julien Donkey-Boy' (1999) and 'Above the Below' (2003)
Wrote screenplays for 'Kids' (1995) and 'Ken Park' (2002)
Wrote the novel 'A Crack Up at the Race Riots' (1998)

Why he might be annoying:

When 'Gummo' premiered at the Telluride Film Festival, much of the audience walked out during an early scene of a cat being drowned.
Critic Janet Maslin called 'Gummo' the 'worst film of the year.'
He appeared in blackface as O. J. Simpson for a video project called 'The Devil, The Sinner and His Journey.'
He was banned from 'The Late Show with David Letterman' after shoving Meryl Streep in the green room (1998).
He recorded a CD, 'SSAB Songs' (1999), and said, 'I think it's the kind of album I'd only listen to once.'

Why he might not be annoying:

'Gummo' won awards at the Venice Film Festival and Rotterdam International Film Festival.
Roger Ebert said he 'belongs on the list with Godard, Cassavetes, Herzog, Warhol, Tarkovsky, Brakhage and others who smash conventional movies and rearrange the pieces.'
His documentary 'Above the Below' actually made David Blaine sitting in a plexiglass box look interesting.

Credit: C. Fishel

Featured in the following Annoying Collections:

• Appeared in Black Face
• Artsy/Fartsy Directors
• C. Fishel's Profiles [Series 01]
• David Letterman Doesn't Like Me
• I Opposed Roman Polanski's Arrest for Statutory Rape (September 2009)
• Liquid Generations 10 Craziest David Letterman Interviews (Ranked: 5)
• Look at Me, I'm Thirsty
• Profiles 19001-19250 (Ranked: 19238)
• Pussy Posse
• USA Today Pop Candy's 100 People of the Year [2010] (Ranked: 88)

Year In Review:

For 2024, as of last weekly ranking, Out of 2 Votes: 100% Annoying
In 2023, Out of 14 Votes: 78.57% Annoying
In 2022, Out of 9 Votes: 88.89% Annoying
In 2021, Out of 17 Votes: 76.47% Annoying
In 2020, Out of 18 Votes: 33.33% Annoying
In 2019, Out of 9 Votes: 44.44% Annoying
In 2018, Out of 3 Votes: 100% Annoying
In 2017, Out of 4 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
In 2016, Out of 1 Votes: 100% Annoying
In 2015, Out of 5 Votes: 80.0% Annoying
In 2014, Out of 18 Votes: 55.56% Annoying
In 2013, Out of 16 Votes: 62.50% Annoying
In 2012, Out of 25 Votes: 76.00% Annoying
In 2011, Out of 10 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
In 2010, Out of 90 Votes: 63.33% Annoying
In 2009, Out of 817 Votes: 73.19% Annoying
In 2008, Out of 24 Votes: 62.50% Annoying
In 2007, Out of 98 Votes: 75.51% Annoying
In 2006, Out of 172 Votes: 74.42% Annoying