An alert and astute mockdocker sent me an email which asked, in part, “Don’t you think it’s high time we mocked combovers?” After a few seconds of deliberation, I concluded, “YES – it IS high time we mocked combovers.” She’d sent me a few youtube clips but I liked this one best. It appears to be a dude with just CRAZY amounts of hair conducting a combover experiment, VOLUNTARILY shaving his head to form the most hideous combover ever, and gauging people’s reactions to it.
Mr. Mock is gifted in many ways, not the least of which is in the follicular area. He has an absurd amount of hair. And it’s the kind of hair that you just want to have your hands in all the time – soft and thick and fabulous. Hairdressers COVET him as a client. And it’s the kind of hair that requires NO maintenance. Mr. Mock’s entire hair regimen consists of showering, toweling, and moving his hand through his hair ONCE. That’s it. Meanwhile, I have fine hair which requires fancy shampoo and conditioner and thickening gel and styling product and hairspray and curling brushes and shine enhancers. And it still looks nowhere as good as Mr. Mock’s hair. Dammit.
Anyway, back to combovers. My favorite humor writer, Dave Barry, had the best quote ever about the worst combover he’d ever seen, and I think it fits the guy in the video nicely. He said, “His head looks like a spider holding a giant egg.”
LOVE.
Dave Barry is a GENIUS. I’m still depressed that he retired. Sort of. (sort of retired, genuinely sad, in case that wasn’t clear)
I don’t know what it is with these guys that think that is fooling anybody or that it actually looks better than bald. They need to realize that at least people don’t generally laugh at you because you’re bald but they will laugh and make fun of your ridiculous attempts to conceal it. I love it when the wind catches it and it sort of stands straight up.
I agree with Bob. I have never minded a man with a bald/partially bald head. It’s not something the man can help. He just needs to choose an appropriate hairstyle – cropped short, shaved, etc. If a man has confidence in himself, that’s what I respond to. That, and a killer smile! I had an ex who hid his bald spot with an array of ballcaps. He wore them from the moment he woke up until he went to bed. On the rare occasions he couldn’t wear a hat (wedding, funeral, etc) he said people stared at him. I couldn’t get him to understand that they stared because the top of his head was ghostly white & his face was tan. What a schmuck!
A person who “sports” a combover is like a handicapped person you can laugh at.
I work with older engineers that not only combover, but dye, and let the roots grow for a while before touchups! Ugh.
What is as bad as the combovers are the cheap toupees! I can spot one a mile away. If you are vain enough to wear a toupee, then at least invest in one that is natural looking, like Sean Connery’s in “The Hunt for Red October”, or Billy Zane’s in “Titanic”. Do it right!
I personally have never been turned off by natural baldness. To most of the men today that think the shaving of their head looks better, IT DOESN’T! It just looks stupid…
I feel better. Thanks.
I loved this video! His co-worker’s reaction was hilarious! Mock, I too have a husband blessed with gorgeous, thick, curly hair. I have the same problem as you, what with the fine hair, but mine is unruly on top of it. I hate when men have nicer hair than me!
As far as baldness, I like when a man embraces it, not tries to cover it up. I think bald can be sexy. Think Bruce Willis, or even Patrick Stewart. Bob, I love when the wind catches a toupee, and the guy frantically tries to hold it down!
It must be a psychological thing, don’t you think? They want hair on top of their head so badly, they will do anything they can to preserve a younger image. Like an anorexic, you know? They look at themselves in the mirror with their comb over and say to themselves, “Yeah, I look gooood.” Like they would rather have hair on their head no matter what it looks like and they have convinced themselves the comb over actually looks good.
someone needs to ask donald trump about it.
What was even more distracting than the bad combover was the Canadian accent. Nothing against Candadians, I just get ver distracted with the accent.
So distracted, in fact, I forget to add the Y in very.
FYI, his comb over is made of hair extensions.
my favorite combover of all time has to be former head coach at Purdue – Gene Keady. When he coaced his last game in the Assembly Hall at the University of Illinois, my friend and I actually had a moment of silence to pay our respects to it. Seriously, google image him immediately.