Yes, he was the self-proclaimed prince of darkness, and yes, he was called the Sultan of Satan by the tabloid press, but Ozzy Osbourne was anything but. He may have bitten the head off a live bat (he naturally thought it was made of rubber), and yes he once admitted snorting a line of ants in a drunken contest with the lead singer of Mötley Crüe, and yes he once had sex with a groupie in his hotel room while his wife Sharon was lying asleep next to him, but Ozzy was also the funniest man in the room, a man who, if he hadn’t been obsessed with being the biggest heavy metal star in the world (in a genre that his band Black Sabbath practically invented), would have made a pretty good stand stand-up comedian.
Anyone who has watched the reality TV show The Osbournes, which ran on MTV for three years from 2002 will attest to that. And if you missed it, check it out on YouTube immediately. I guarantee you’ll be watching it all day.
