The Mullet. It’s now so completely uncool to wear this hairstyle; it seems amazing so many cool (so we thought) people used to wear it. Rednecks termed it, “Business in the front and a party in the back.” The Mullet has nothing to do with the fish, does it? Maybe the Beastie Boys’ “Mullet Head” had an influence. Doesn’t matter. What matters is how goddamn ridiculous its wearers look. Let’s see who belongs in the Mullet Hall of Infamy as Wasted Wits “outs” those celebrities who once dared to be dorky:

THE TEN GREATEST MULLETS OF ALL TIME!


10. Paul McCartney

Hey Beatle Paul, some may call you a controller,
But you were cool, even when pushing a stroller.
Then in seventy-six,
You tried bird-dogging the chicks
And they thought you were a Bay City Roller.

9. Dennis Miller

A smartass with a hair dryer
Your eclectic scholarly quips we admire.
Your conservative views may now sound strange
But they aren’t the only noticeable change,
Your mullet’s been replaced by a spare tire.

8. John Stamos

Those years laying pipe in that Hollywood Home
Kept your legend intact and your mullet fully grown.
Then you took it too far,
Alas, your shame a deep scar
When you gave the Olsen Twins the bone.

7. Florence Henderson

Can a woman have a mullet, yes unless they’re a nun
Yes they sure can, even when it’s just for fun.
But we knew she was sick
When she turned a foul trick
And slipped Greg Brady the tongue.

6. Michael Bolton

Like nails on a chalkboard, his voice so strained
Can impair your hearing in a one-mile range.
Combined with those locks
Flowing down to his socks,
Mike Bolton defines the word strange.

5. Richard Marx

Those slow ballads he sang, the kit and caboodle
His music always sounded like a really wet noodle.
In his pictures you see,
Those blow-dried locks flowing free,
And he looked like a full-grown French Poodle.

4. Andre Agassi

There was a time when this tennis-playing mule,
Looked mostly like a goddamned fool.
All his hair is now gone
But at the break of each dawn,
He sometimes finds tennis balls packed in his stool.

3. Joe Dirt

Just a character in a movie, most definitely not rich
But he pulled it all off without even a glitch.
David Spade was his name,
Fleeting was his fame,
A pale, mullet-wearing summummabitch.

2. Mel Gibson

Braveheart, The Patriot, Lethal Weapons too,
There was no wrong that he could do.
A great friend was he,
To either you or to me,
Unless one of us happened to be a Jew.

1. Billy Ray Cyrus

The mullet of all mullets, Billy Ray’s hair dryly
Was worshipped by rednecks most highly.
We forgave his lack of smarts,
Even Achy Breaky Heart,
Till he inflicted on us, daughter Miley.

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