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Ill-advised or disastrous career turns by famous artists (in any medium/genre).

  1. MC Hammer goes gangsta: MC Hammer Pumps in a Bump Music video Unedited - YouTube
  2. Charlie Sheen, stand up comic: http://www.ew.com/article/2011/04/02...en-tour-review
  3. Garth Brooks creates rock-and-roll persona Chris Gaines: - YouTube
  4. Casey Affleck producing his brother-in-law Joaquin Phoenix’s faux insanity
  5. Jennifer Grey reached a degree of fame with Dirty Dancing, but had plastic surgery and no longer resembled the face that the audiences knew.
  6. Madonna tries to be a Bond Girl: - YouTube
33365

Ill-advised or disastrous career turns by famous artists (in any medium/genre).

  1. MC Hammer goes gangsta: MC Hammer Pumps in a Bump Music video Unedited - YouTube
  2. Charlie Sheen, stand up comic: http://www.ew.com/article/2011/04/02...en-tour-review
  3. Garth Brooks creates rock-and-roll persona Chris Gaines: - YouTube
  4. Casey Affleck producing his brother-in-law Joaquin Phoenix’s faux insanity
  5. Jennifer Grey reached a degree of fame with Dirty Dancing, but had plastic surgery and no longer resembled the face that the audiences knew.
  6. Madonna tries to be a Bond Girl: - YouTube
  7. Dennis Miller becomes a color commentator on Monday Night Football. http://www.jokeindex.com/joke.asp?Joke=3148

Sample quips:

“Concussion? How the hell can they tell? They’re football players, for chrissakes!”

“I haven’t seen someone so overmatched since Mike Tyson tried to recite the alphabet.”

“Of course he needs to renegotiate his salary – the guy buys more snow than Seward did when he bought Alaska from the Russians.”

“I haven’t seen anyone rely on the ground game this much since the battle of Verdun.”

“Ray Lewis knifed through those offensive linemen like a sucker-punch switchblade slicing between the ribs of some inebriated trash-talking punk outside a sports bar.”

“That field goal attempt was so far to the left it nearly decapitated Lyndon LaRouche.”

Yeah… LaRouche, Seward, and Verdun references, combined with disparaging the players and the product don’t make for a popular football commentator, especially for the league that killed Playmakers. Though I liked him. :slight_smile:

33366

Ill-advised or disastrous career turns by famous artists (in any medium/genre).

  1. MC Hammer goes gangsta: MC Hammer Pumps in a Bump Music video Unedited - YouTube
  2. Charlie Sheen, stand up comic: http://www.ew.com/article/2011/04/02...en-tour-review
  3. Garth Brooks creates rock-and-roll persona Chris Gaines: - YouTube
  4. Casey Affleck producing his brother-in-law Joaquin Phoenix’s faux insanity
  5. Jennifer Grey reached a degree of fame with Dirty Dancing, but had plastic surgery and no longer resembled the face that the audiences knew.
  6. Madonna tries to be a Bond Girl: - YouTube
  7. Dennis Miller becomes a color commentator on Monday Night Football. http://www.jokeindex.com/joke.asp?Joke=3148
  8. Roseanne Barr sings the National Anthem

One of the greatest misfires of all time, followed by her sudden “revelation” that she had multiple personalities and could remember being molested as an infant (in an imo transparent and unsuccessful bid for sympathy).

33367

Ill-advised or disastrous career turns by famous artists (in any medium/genre).

  1. MC Hammer goes gangsta: MC Hammer Pumps in a Bump Music video Unedited - YouTube
  2. Charlie Sheen, stand up comic: http://www.ew.com/article/2011/04/02...en-tour-review
  3. Garth Brooks creates rock-and-roll persona Chris Gaines: - YouTube
  4. Casey Affleck producing his brother-in-law Joaquin Phoenix’s faux insanity
  5. Jennifer Grey reached a degree of fame with Dirty Dancing, but had plastic surgery and no longer resembled the face that the audiences knew.
  6. Madonna tries to be a Bond Girl: - YouTube
  7. Dennis Miller becomes a color commentator on Monday Night Football. http://www.jokeindex.com/joke.asp?Joke=3148
  8. Roseanne Barr sings the National Anthem
  9. Michael Jordan takes two years off in the prime of his basketball career to be a bad minor league baseball player.

Thus leaving the door cracked open to the discussion of “Who is the greatest basketball player ever?” when he could well have slammed it forever.

33368

Ill-advised or disastrous career turns by famous artists (in any medium/genre).

  1. MC Hammer goes gangsta: MC Hammer Pumps in a Bump Music video Unedited - YouTube
  2. Charlie Sheen, stand up comic: http://www.ew.com/article/2011/04/02...en-tour-review
  3. Garth Brooks creates rock-and-roll persona Chris Gaines: - YouTube
  4. Casey Affleck producing his brother-in-law Joaquin Phoenix’s faux insanity
  5. Jennifer Grey reached a degree of fame with Dirty Dancing, but had plastic surgery and no longer resembled the face that the audiences knew.
  6. Madonna tries to be a Bond Girl: - YouTube
  7. Dennis Miller becomes a color commentator on Monday Night Football. http://www.jokeindex.com/joke.asp?Joke=3148
  8. Roseanne Barr sings the National Anthem
  9. Michael Jordan takes two years off in the prime of his basketball career to be a bad minor league baseball player.
  10. David Caruso/Chevy Chase/Shelly Long/Suzanne Somers leaving a hit TV series to try for a movie career.
33369

Ill-advised or disastrous career turns by famous artists (in any medium/genre).

  1. MC Hammer goes gangsta: MC Hammer Pumps in a Bump Music video Unedited - YouTube
  2. Charlie Sheen, stand up comic: http://www.ew.com/article/2011/04/02...en-tour-review
  3. Garth Brooks creates rock-and-roll persona Chris Gaines: - YouTube
  4. Casey Affleck producing his brother-in-law Joaquin Phoenix’s faux insanity
  5. Jennifer Grey reached a degree of fame with Dirty Dancing, but had plastic surgery and no longer resembled the face that the audiences knew.
  6. Madonna tries to be a Bond Girl: - YouTube
  7. Dennis Miller becomes a color commentator on Monday Night Football. http://www.jokeindex.com/joke.asp?Joke=3148
  8. Roseanne Barr sings the National Anthem
  9. Michael Jordan takes two years off in the prime of his basketball career to be a bad minor league baseball player.
  10. David Caruso/Chevy Chase/Shelly Long/Suzanne Somers leaving a hit TV series to try for a movie career.
  11. Pee Wee Herman goes to the movies.
33370

Ill-advised or disastrous career turns by famous artists (in any medium/genre).

  1. MC Hammer goes gangsta: MC Hammer Pumps in a Bump Music video Unedited - YouTube
  2. Charlie Sheen, stand up comic: http://www.ew.com/article/2011/04/02...en-tour-review
  3. Garth Brooks creates rock-and-roll persona Chris Gaines: - YouTube
  4. Casey Affleck producing his brother-in-law Joaquin Phoenix’s faux insanity
  5. Jennifer Grey reached a degree of fame with Dirty Dancing, but had plastic surgery and no longer resembled the face that the audiences knew.
  6. Madonna tries to be a Bond Girl: - YouTube
  7. Dennis Miller becomes a color commentator on Monday Night Football. http://www.jokeindex.com/joke.asp?Joke=3148
  8. Roseanne Barr sings the National Anthem
  9. Michael Jordan takes two years off in the prime of his basketball career to be a bad minor league baseball player.
  10. David Caruso/Chevy Chase/Shelly Long/Suzanne Somers leaving a hit TV series to try for a movie career.
  11. Pee Wee Herman goes to the movies.
  12. Fonzie (Henry Winkler) jumps the shark

Trope namer!

33371

Ill-advised or disastrous career turns by famous artists (in any medium/genre).

  1. MC Hammer goes gangsta: MC Hammer Pumps in a Bump Music video Unedited - YouTube
  2. Charlie Sheen, stand up comic: http://www.ew.com/article/2011/04/02...en-tour-review
  3. Garth Brooks creates rock-and-roll persona Chris Gaines: - YouTube
  4. Casey Affleck producing his brother-in-law Joaquin Phoenix’s faux insanity
  5. Jennifer Grey reached a degree of fame with Dirty Dancing, but had plastic surgery and no longer resembled the face that the audiences knew.
  6. Madonna tries to be a Bond Girl: - YouTube
  7. Dennis Miller becomes a color commentator on Monday Night Football. http://www.jokeindex.com/joke.asp?Joke=3148
  8. Roseanne Barr sings the National Anthem
  9. Michael Jordan takes two years off in the prime of his basketball career to be a bad minor league baseball player.
  10. David Caruso/Chevy Chase/Shelly Long/Suzanne Somers leaving a hit TV series to try for a movie career.
  11. Pee Wee Herman goes to the movies.
  12. Fonzie (Henry Winkler) jumps the shark
  13. Just about all of Elvis Presley’s movies

“New” Topic: MORE Bad Career Moves

  1. Beatles “Magical Mystery Tour” TV show (the soundtrack album, however, was okay)
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“New” Topic: MORE Bad Career Moves

  1. Beatles “Magical Mystery Tour” TV show (the soundtrack album, however, was okay)
  2. Judas Priest, Turbo (1986)

Judas Priest, godfathers of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal, respond to the challenge of American thrash by recording…a weird album full of electronic drum sounds and synthesizers.

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“New” Topic: MORE Bad Career Moves

  1. Beatles “Magical Mystery Tour” TV show (the soundtrack album, however, was okay)
  2. Judas Priest, Turbo (1986)
  3. Leonard Nimoy, “The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins”
33374

“New” Topic: MORE Bad Career Moves

  1. Beatles “Magical Mystery Tour” TV show (the soundtrack album, however, was okay)
  2. Judas Priest, Turbo (1986)
  3. Leonard Nimoy, “The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins”
  4. KISS removing their makeup

Unless you think they were playing the long game by setting themselves to put the makeup back on 15 years later, it was a disaster. Exacerbated by its accompanying their worst musical output ever.

33375

“New” Topic: MORE Bad Career Moves

  1. Beatles “Magical Mystery Tour” TV show (the soundtrack album, however, was okay)
  2. Judas Priest, Turbo (1986)
  3. Leonard Nimoy, “The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins”
  4. KISS removing their makeup
  5. Bruce Willis records “The Return of Bruno.”
33376

“New” Topic: MORE Bad Career Moves

  1. Beatles “Magical Mystery Tour” TV show (the soundtrack album, however, was okay)
  2. Judas Priest, Turbo (1986)
  3. Leonard Nimoy, “The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins”
  4. KISS removing their makeup
  5. Village People remake themselves as Renaissance Men
    Village People - Do You Wanna Spend The Night OFFICIAL Music Video 1981 - YouTube
33377

New" Topic: MORE Bad Career Moves

  1. Beatles “Magical Mystery Tour” TV show (the soundtrack album, however, was okay)
  2. Judas Priest, Turbo (1986)
  3. Leonard Nimoy, “The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins”
  4. KISS removing their makeup
  5. Village People remake themselves as Renaissance Men
  6. Dennis Miller (redux)- making George Bush off-limits in his stand-up
33378

“New” Topic: MORE Bad Career Moves

  1. Beatles “Magical Mystery Tour” TV show (the soundtrack album, however, was okay)
  2. Judas Priest, Turbo (1986)
  3. Leonard Nimoy, “The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins”
  4. KISS removing their makeup
  5. Bruce Willis records “The Return of Bruno”
  6. Village People remake themselves as Renaissance Men
  7. Dennis Miller (redux)- making George Bush off-limits in his stand-up
  8. Sean Connery stops making movies altogether.
33379

“New” Topic: MORE Bad Career Moves

  1. Beatles “Magical Mystery Tour” TV show (the soundtrack album, however, was okay)
  2. Judas Priest, Turbo (1986)
  3. Leonard Nimoy, “The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins”
  4. KISS removing their makeup
  5. Bruce Willis records “The Return of Bruno”
  6. Village People remake themselves as Renaissance Men
  7. Dennis Miller (redux)- making George Bush off-limits in his stand-up
  8. Sean Connery stops making movies altogether.
  9. MacLean Stevenson leaves*** MASH** (thought he’d eventually replace Johnny Carson- HA!!!)
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“New” Topic: MORE Bad Career Moves

  1. Beatles “Magical Mystery Tour” TV show (the soundtrack album, however, was okay)
  2. Judas Priest, Turbo (1986)
  3. Leonard Nimoy, “The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins”
  4. KISS removing their makeup
  5. Bruce Willis records “The Return of Bruno”
  6. Village People remake themselves as Renaissance Men
  7. Dennis Miller (redux)- making George Bush off-limits in his stand-up
  8. Sean Connery stops making movies altogether.
  9. MacLean Stevenson leaves*** MASH** (thought he’d eventually replace Johnny Carson- HA!!!)
  10. Joan Rivers- took a talk show opposite her friend/mentor/vindictive bastard Johnny Carson
33381

“New” Topic: MORE Bad Career Moves

  1. Beatles “Magical Mystery Tour” TV show (the soundtrack album, however, was okay)
  2. Judas Priest, Turbo (1986)
  3. Leonard Nimoy, “The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins”
  4. KISS removing their makeup
  5. Bruce Willis records “The Return of Bruno”
  6. Village People remake themselves as Renaissance Men
  7. Dennis Miller (redux)- making George Bush off-limits in his stand-up
  8. Sean Connery stops making movies altogether.
  9. MacLean Stevenson leaves MAS*H (thought he’d eventually replace Johnny Carson- HA!!!)
  10. Joan Rivers- took a talk show opposite her friend/mentor/vindictive bastard Johnny Carson
  11. Pat Boone goes heavy metal.

It was meant as a joke, but the humorless Trinity Broadcasting Network fired him anyway.

Well, considering that Lick It Up and Animalize rescued them from the cut-out bins and restored their platinum-selling status, I’d say it was a mighty successful move from a marketing standpoint.

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MORE Bad Career Moves

  1. Beatles “Magical Mystery Tour” TV show (the soundtrack album, however, was okay)
  2. Judas Priest, Turbo (1986)
  3. Leonard Nimoy, “The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins”
  4. KISS removing their makeup
  5. Bruce Willis records “The Return of Bruno”
  6. Village People remake themselves as Renaissance Men
  7. Dennis Miller (redux)- making George Bush off-limits in his stand-up
  8. Sean Connery stops making movies altogether.
  9. MacLean Stevenson leaves MAS*H (thought he’d eventually replace Johnny Carson- HA!!!)
  10. Joan Rivers- took a talk show opposite her friend/mentor/vindictive bastard Johnny Carson
  11. Pat Boone goes heavy metal.
  12. Jennifer Grey’s nose job

Amazing how such a minor change could change a distinctive, attractive face into something ordinary and forgettable.

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MORE Bad Career Moves

  1. Beatles “Magical Mystery Tour” TV show (the soundtrack album, however, was okay)
  2. Judas Priest, Turbo (1986)
  3. Leonard Nimoy, “The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins”
  4. KISS removing their makeup
  5. Bruce Willis records “The Return of Bruno”
  6. Village People remake themselves as Renaissance Men
  7. Dennis Miller (redux)- making George Bush off-limits in his stand-up
  8. Sean Connery stops making movies altogether.
  9. MacLean Stevenson leaves MAS*H (thought he’d eventually replace Johnny Carson- HA!!!)
  10. Joan Rivers- took a talk show opposite her friend/mentor/vindictive bastard Johnny Carson
  11. Pat Boone goes heavy metal.
  12. Jennifer Grey’s nose job
  13. Mickey Rourke’s bad plastic surgery.

We could do a whole topic on celebrities with bad plastic surgery. In fact…

NEW: Celebrities who’ve had bad plastic surgery (pix optional, but recommended)

  1. Carrot Top