Pauly Shore from Encino Man

Comedian Pauly Shore’s unscripted, deadpan style of everything-but-the-kitchen-sink humor gropes around until something funny develops.  Problem is that the journey is often not worth the punchline.  Shore is not without his fans, but it as an actor, and under some control that Pauly’s personality flourishes just fine.  And now with his new mockumentary Adopted, Shore has found a vehicle where the journey is the punchline.

The unconventional methods of Hollywood family-building is the over-lurching theme of the film.  His satire focuses on why so many of the famously pampered scour the third-world for adoptions.  With celebrity adopted ‘child-pets’ (critics harshly termed), Madonna made it radical chic, trendy left.  But Pauly is puzzled why celebrities overlook American children of color who might prefer a mansion to an orphanage as well.   Shore takes potshots at celebrities in general but is especially drawn to Brangelina.  “Celebrities want to save the world,” he told Fox News.com “Look at Angelina (Jolie), she has a Mother Teresa quality.  She wants to do good and adopt one child at a time.”

By poking his finger in the eyes of Hollywood’s protected media darlings, Shore may be back-watering himself into a shadow blacklist, but he seems to welcome the controversy.  If Adopted is any foreshadow, then Pauly may have yet another career.  This time as a clever, even valuable social critic and satirist.