Hatch’s comedy knocks out The Rock
By: Jeff Dufour and Kiki Ryan
Washington Examiner
04/22/09 6:44 AM EDT
Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, was a tough act for Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson to follow Tuesday, as both men spoke at the Motion Picture Association of America’s “Business of Show Business” symposium.
Hatch opened his speech poking fun at himself, saying he “wished [he] had a body like [Johnson’s]” and that he was a “97-pound weakling.” He followed by taking a shot at the moviemakers in attendance for the ridiculous scenarios they love to put in movies.
Some of the things he mocked included:
* How air ducts are always the best place to hide in a building — they are never dusty and you can easily maneuver through any building.
* You can survive any battle unless you made the mistake of showing a picture of your sweetheart.
* Business meetings are always held in strip clubs.
* If there’s a large glass pane in any scene, someone will be thrown through it.
* A single match can ignite a room the size of a baseball field.
And Hatch knows movies: He has his own Internet Movie Database page for appearing in multiple films — including Steven Soderbergh’s “Traffic” — as himself.
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