SAC Capital Employee Just Doing His Job
Or: How To Think About Gary Busey's Oscar Antics

Posted by Bess Levin, Feb 25, 2008, 5:04pm

busey.jpgThose watching the E! channel’s Oscar pre-show last may have noticed that Gary Busey interrupted Ryan Seacrest’s interview with Jennifer Garner by screaming "Ryan! Ryan Seacrest! I've been looking for you for years!" and proceeding to suck on Mrs. Affleck’s neck. Some of you may have wondered what that was all about. (Who would want to suck where Ben Affleck hath sucked?) The answer, not surprisingly, lies with SAC Capital.


Recall that in early December, Busey had a gig as a shrimp puff waiter at the Stamford-based hedge fund's holiday party. While others on the waitstaff shied away from Big Guy SC, prefering to serve less intimidating lower ranked employees, the Buse went right up to BGSC, who was standing alone outside of the kitchen where the caterers come out with fresh platters and said, "You look like a guy who enjoys the finer things in life, like the puffiest shrimp puff I've got." And handed him the biggest, flakiest, most tastiest looking sucker on the tray.


While devouring said shrimp, the BGSC couldn’t help but notice that this particular waiter stood out from the rest, not only because of his gumption in serving the boss, but because he was bat shit insanity manifest. There was only one thing left to do—offer him a job. “SAC could use a guy like you, Gar,” he said while grabbing another puff. Which is how Gary Busey came to co-manage SAC's healthcare portfolio.


And in fact did so well with pharmaceuticals, that by mid-January was given the reins of media as well. Which brings us to last night. SAC, known for its aggressive style of information gathering, set the Buse loose on the red carpet with Stevie’s specific instructions to “Go get us some dirt. And some of those delicious-looking cheesity cheesey canapés" (to which the Buse responded, “I’m not your fucking shrimp puff boy anymore. But I’ll see what I can do”). Hence, last night's seemingly "crazy" performance. Classic SAC.


Earlier: It's Entirely Possible That Gary Busey Was At Last Night's SAC Holiday Party


Gary Busey Scares The Crap Out Of Jennifer Garner And Ryan Seacrest [Jezebel]
Crazazy Busey Calls In To "Innocent" Seacrest [TMZ]

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Posted by guest, Feb 25, 2008 5:30PM

why is DB so boring now?

Posted by guest, Feb 25, 2008 5:35PM

you mean why is DB hilarious? cause this was hilarious.

Posted by guest, Feb 25, 2008 5:37PM

@ 5:30 what do you want dude? what would interest you? they hit naked senior exec calendars today and gary busey. perfect storm of awesomeness.

Posted by guest, Feb 25, 2008 5:56PM

It gets better:

On his KIIS-FM morning show, Ryan Seacrest gave Gary Busey a chance to defend the bizarro red carpet assault that left our E! News host, Jennifer Garner and Laura Linney speechless last night.

And what did Gary have to say for himself? Um, we're not sure. This is why he was so excited to see Ryan, so take from it what you will:

Well, what I wanted to do was when I first saw you working, I said, "Who is this guy?" And I said, "Oh God, this isn't going to work." And then you captured me. You are to me, when you're working, an innocent champion of honesty. Your heart has a way to embrace the truth in your delivery without looking like you are reading a script. Everything looks spontaneous. What spontaneity is—spontaneity comes from an invisible idea that is there before the creation began. And you have that naturally, so I just wanted to pay you a compliment. But I didn't know you were in the middle of an interview, I was just moving through there.

Posted by guest, Feb 26, 2008 9:22AM

Busey was really great when he had a bit part on "Entourage" portraying himself. Pure genius.

Posted by Cincinattus C, Feb 28, 2008 1:53PM

busey is one flaky dude.

Posted by Debter, Feb 28, 2008 3:16PM

hahahah, good stuff Bess.

Posted by guest, Mar 05, 2008 12:33PM

i just crapped myself

Posted by guest, Mar 26, 2008 5:37PM

this tremendously rules, busey is a beast of awesomeness

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