Special Edition of the Peak Dope About Bono's Latest Award

It’s a special edition of the Peak Dope because I, Heather the Bono Tracker, have tracked Bono to the NAACP Image Awards. He was there Friday night picking up the Chairman’s Award for his efforts to fight the good fight (as Triumph would sing) against AIDS and poverty. This is why I love Bono; he could score a nomination or win an award from any upstanding organization in the world. He was even up for the Nobel Peace Prize. But has he saved the world yet? The work the NAACP honors him for sure puts him close.

If you track Bono like I do, you know some of his acceptance speeches have formerly been filled with curse words and all kinds of rock star-like behavior. And I say God bless him for it – because at least while our boy Bono is a serious do-gooder, he still doesn’t take everything too seriously. I think we all could use a little bit more of that with our coffee in the morning.

There was really only one funny Bono-ism from his NAACP acceptance speech this weekend:

“Tyra Banks, you are gorgeous. I was a finalist in Ireland’s Next Top Model. I look up to you. Literally.”

After that, our hero launched into a very inspirational speech…I think he’s been watching old videos of MLK, actually: