The Dermot Whelan Comedy Washing Machine Carrot
It appears someone has set up a Google Alert for the term “Dermot Whelan Comedy”, which sends some kind of Googlebot over poking around this site nearly every day, based on a passing reference I made to Dermot Whelan in an old post about The Panel.
Feeling bad for this lone fanatical surfer, I decided to feed the bot. So I drew this bizarre portrait of the man himself. It was a freewheeling, random kind of project. My washing machine was on in the background so I sketched that in, then an ad came on the tv where there were carrots, so (why not?) I incorporated the carrot motif as well. Then as an afterthought, I used iPhoto to make a sort of commemorative plate effect. So here you go my friend, this one’s for you …
[I suppose eventually this will pop up in Google Image Search, perplexing and confounding genuine Dermot Whelan fans]
UPDATE: Dermot Whelan found this post and responded in the comments below …Â
November 12th, 2007 at 10:16 pm
looks like 70s popstar David Cassidy :-)
November 12th, 2007 at 11:02 pm
I very much like the leafy bit on top of the carrot.
I do hope that the google alerter (or should that be alertee?) appreciates your kind efforts.
November 13th, 2007 at 10:23 pm
Peter: Oh yeah, you’re right - That guy from The Partridge Family !
November 16th, 2007 at 4:32 pm
Fantasy space…
November 26th, 2007 at 1:54 am
Stay off the drugs Dave, will you?
November 26th, 2007 at 3:19 pm
Wow. This is Dermot and that makes me feel slightly uneasy but delighted at the same time! My friend just sent me the link. Carrots and washing machines were what I got for Christmas every year since 1981. Coincidence…..?
November 27th, 2007 at 9:55 pm
HA !
Oh hi Dermot, thanks for swinging by. Hope you weren’t too unnerved by the apparent craziness of this post - I swear it seemed funny to me at the time I was doing it. As you can see this is a harmless website, run by a kindly, avuncular figure.
There is absolutely no reason for you to go to the police.
September 12th, 2008 at 9:22 pm
Dermot ? is that you Marmotte ? have been looking for u for ages… waouh! looks like u’re a star now! congratulations.
hope u wont forget ur old unknown french friends…
xx