Bret Michaels not amused by NPH, The Tonys, or the fact that Liza didn't faceplant in solidarity

Bret Michaels and Lauren Graham on the red carpet (Pic: Getty)

Here's a fun one: Bret Michaels, whose on-air near-lobotomy was the highlight of Sunday's Tony Awards, is looking an entire stable of gift horses in the mouth by lashing out at host Neil Patrick Harris, the Tonys producers, and anyone else involved in the show who didn't have enough commitment to their craft to be nailed by a piece of scenery immediately following a bad lip-sync routine.

According to this statement from the publicist for Michaels (and, presumably, his Whore Bus):

“I feel had this incident happened to Liza Minnelli, Dolly Parton or Elton John the Tonys would have at least issued a letter of concern,” the statement reads. “It is unfortunate that the show’s host made light of the situation without having any knowledge of the severity of Bret’s injuries. Comments that Mr. Harris was doing shots backstage with Mr. Michaels and that Bret was completely fine were untrue considering Bret never saw Mr. Harris prior to, during or after the Tonys but in fact was being attended to by medical personnel backstage.”

Um, that's where you're wrong: If this had happened to Dolly she'd have bounced off the stage and into the front row of the balcony, and had the setpiece gotten that close to Liza or Elton it would have run screaming for its life. Hell, there were entire decades where this probably happened to both Liza and Elton on a nightly basis, and they just did another shot and kept going. At any rate, this reaction is certainly different than the one that his rep reportedly gave immediately after the show, which said that Bret thought the whole thing was funny. (We haven't received either statement directly ourselves; perhaps the carrier strippers dispatched with them have been caught up in revolving doors.)

Anyway, it's certainly unfortunate that the guy suffered an injury, and I can understand that braining oneself on live television must be terribly embarrassing for a man whose current career consists entirely of being lap-danced by vomit-stained strippers while wearing a dirty cowboy hat. I mean, really ... show some respect, people!

Michaels will apparently be releasing an official statement tomorrow, and it will likely smell like hydrocortizone cream and Curious by Britney Spears.