Friendly Fire Co-host Ben Harrison hates Mel Gibson. How can we tell?

Well, it's like that old joke about firefighters.

How do you know when there's a firefighter at your party?

Oh, he'll let you know.

Ben hates Mel Gibson so much that at the mere mention of his name,

he lets out an indignant half laugh

to indicate that whenever you get done saying what you're saying, he is going

to remind you, in case you'd forgotten since the last time he did this, the last time someone

mentioned Mel Gibson's name, that Mel is not approved for consumption.

This is a bit tricky for us since Mel Gibson has made quite a few war movies, some edge case,

some not, and the old Friendly Fire 120-sided dye has been mercilessly serving them up lately.

Did you know Mel Gibson is an anti-Semite?

No?

Well listen for the half laugh.

Mel likes to make big bloody movies. Remember in Road Warrior how he maintained a completely low affect through the whole movie?

He was playing a guy who'd seen some bad shit and as a result he hardly raised an eyebrow as all around him

Australian repertory theater actors dressed in the classic post-apocalyptic

uniform of leather and feathers were impaled and burned alive but by the time

he made Braveheart he'd modified that acting technique

slightly so that instead of hardly raising an eyebrow, he contorted his mug into a clown

mask of crazy face such that his eyebrows danced like caterpillars in a fry pan.

That became his action movie signature, but by the time he got to the Patriot, he'd settled his face

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