More on Dangerism

After its initial appearance on the world stage, a period of great popularity will follow, A number of Hollywood celebrities will convert to Dangerism and the faith will leave an indelible  mark on pop culture:

• Tom Cruise will abandon Scientology and cure his daughter, Suri of a really bad head cold by reciting lines from Back to School over her bed while she sleeps. Ex-wife, Katie Holmes -- never a fan of stand up comedy -- will immediately file for divorce again.
• Amy Grant will write songs about her personal relationship with "Lord Rodney" and record albums with Steven Curtis Chapman and Michael W. Smith. She will perform frequently at Dangerist church services and become a charter member of the Church's "Ladybug" women's auxiliary group.
• Mel Gibson will produce and direct a film entitled The First Engagement of the Rodney about the brutality of the audience the first time Dangerfield played Vegas in the mid-1960s. The film will by panned by critics who will object to both it's overall "sweatiness" and it's repeated use of the word "flatulence" but will still win several Academy Awards, including those for sound editing and costumes.
• South Park will feature Rodney as a semi-regular character who hosts his own radio talk show. The character will eventually become unpopular and, subsequently, only appear in the occasional background shot; yet will never be dropped from the show officially.

• The church will start its own cable television network and run a twenty-four hour Easy Money marathon every St Rodney's Day's Eve. The event will become a SRD tradition. WROD-TV will later become the sole sponsor of the Comedy Olympics and be purchased by Turner Broadcasting.
• No Respect, a new musical with music by Andrew Lloyd Webber and lyrics by Dangerfield himself will play for a record 6,000 performances on Broadway, before going on a triumphant world tour. Later, an all-black version of the show -- retitled You're Disrespecting Me, Sucker and staring Damon Wayans as Rodney and Whoopi Goldberg as his wife, Clarice -- will open in London to critical acclaim.
• Bono will cause a firestorm of controversy when, during a Rolling Stone interview, he inadvertently states that at the height of their popularity U2 was "bigger than Rodney." His recording contract will subsequently be canceled by Island Records and U2 albums will be bonfired by angry crowds in every major U.S. city. The term "Bonofire" will be coined to describe the phenomenon and the word will eventually find its way into Webster's Dictionary of American English.