Ron Jeremy Demands to be Taken Seriously as a Filmmaker

If you didn't already love The Hedgehog, this video will most assuredly change your mind.

In an impassioned plea to the Toronto Jewish Film Festival, Jeremy expresses befuddlement over their rejection of several of his film submissions

"As a cinephile," he continues, now deep in thought as he walks the hills near the iconic Hollywood  sign, "I know what makes great film, but several of my submissions were rejected by the Toronto Jewish Film Festival." Cut to a pile of rumpled screenplays, The Rod Father on the top, and a cutaway to a film canister and the working title handwritten on tape, Woodfellas.

"Were you not aware of the accolades bestowed upon me as a director?" Cutaway of awards, including blurred ones in the apparent shape of a phallus. "That I have worked with Hollywood's elite? And of course, that I am Jewish." Standing behind his desk in his office, he bends over in existential pain, his right hand stuffed in his pants pocket, fumbling with something near his crotch. Cut to Jeremy pulling out his bar mitzvah photo, holding it up by his head as he speaks directly into the camera. "I hope you'll reconsider," he says, his face twitching slightly. "Do the right thing."

The plea is a brilliant piece of satire that conclusively proves that Jeremy has one of the best senses of humor in the industry. It's refreshing to see someone that doesn't take themselves too seriously, particularly when one considers what it is that he does for a living. Let's only hope the Toronto Jewish Film Festival doesn't take themselves too seriously either.

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Via AVN