Awesome Celebrity Birthday Of The Day: Harold Ramis

Posted at 12:00 PM Nov 21, 2008

By Kenny Herzog

Welcome to NCDSUV's newest daily feature, where we acknowledge another turn of the calendar for a member of Hollywood land, even if it's a celebrity who often goes overlooked by the rest of the blogosphere, and regardless of whether we have a huge affinity for their body of work.

Yesterday, we blew out the candles for the burning desire Bo Derek invoked in cornrow-craving men everywhere, and today we put the Ecto-Plasm on the cake for an actor/director who, along with Woody Allen, helped make nerds sexy in the '80s.

Today's Awesome Celebrity Birthday Belongs To:

Harold Ramis
Age: 64
Why He's Sort Of Awesome: How exactly do I count the ways? He was the Eraserhead-haired nerd troop leader of the Ghostbusters, played naughty barracks games with Sean Young in Stripes, directed Groundhog Day, got unexpectedly-but-awesomely rotund and gray-haired in his middle-age, and can just pop up from time to time when he feels like it in choice bit parts like Seth Rogen's philandering father in Knocked Up. Actually, fuck Allen. Ramis is the geek god (or maybe I just need to convince myself of this, given I was oft called "Egon" during my still-developing high school days).
Most Likely Celebrity Status 20 Birthdays From Now: Hopefully receiving long-overdue praise as a Carl Reiner for the 1990s and early 21st century, with something akin to the Mark Twain Prize (I mean, if Billy Crystal can get it....), but either way sitting unapologetically on a tanning deck in Malibu with a white Russian in one hand and his flaccid dick in the other. Egon forever!
All Apologies To: Bjork, Goldie Hawn, Jena Malone, Dr. John

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