Why Charlie Sheen is Right

I was re-watching my favorite Two and a Half Men episode last night and reflecting on how sad I was that I wouldn't get to see Charlie Sheen and Jon Cryer ham it up on the set of the show any longer.

Have you seen the show? I love it. Have seen every single episode, most many times.

If you've seen the show, you've surely met the character of Charlie Harper. Drunk, insensitive womanizer who makes his living in show business.

Read that last sentence again.

I was describing Charlie Harper.

But  let's think seriously about this, folks.

Didn't Charlie Sheen have a reputation for being a wild guy long before this show debuted?

Yup.

And hasn't Charlie Sheen played the hell out of Charlie Harper these last half dozen seasons?

Isn't he all the more believable, because, well, he was pretty well typecast?

"Television's number 1 comedy" didn't get to that position by using a choir boy to play a bad boy.

Hasn't Charlie Sheen had other issues, particular to his drinking, prior to this?

Hasn't he shot off his mouth in the past?

Even gotten in trouble with the law?

All while on the show.

And yes, it is Chuck Lorre's story lines that the show is dependent upon...

But it's Charlie Sheen's character, Charlie Harper, that carries the show to the heights it has attained.

Asking Charlie to separate from Charlie is pure hypocrisy.  And it makes me angry.

Is it ok to be a drunk, insensitive womanizer?

Apparently only when you're Charlie Harper, not Charlie Sheen.

What say you?