# Celebrities everyone likes **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 23, 2015, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-everyone-likes/732335 "2015-09-23T20:17:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2015, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-everyone-likes/732335/41 "2015-09-23T23:24:29Z")
> [@RealityChuck](#): > > Stan Musial. Word on the street is he was the man. ---
**Author:** ![D18](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c57346/32.png) [@D18](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D18)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2015, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-everyone-likes/732335/42 "2015-09-23T23:26:06Z")
> [@Thudlow\_Boink](#): > > I hadn’t heard that about Handel, though I have heard he had quite a temper. (At one time he supposedly picked up one of his divas who was being temperamental and threatened to throw her out the window.) > > Is it possible you were thinking of Joseph Haydn? I get the impression that everybody loved him, except possibly his wife. He and Beethoven had a rocky relationship during the time that Lou studied with Joe. ---
**Author:** ![seal\_cleaner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e274bd/32.png) [@seal\_cleaner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/seal_cleaner)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2015, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-everyone-likes/732335/43 "2015-09-23T23:39:02Z")
Aaron Rogers. Edit: and I’m a Bears fan. ---
**Author:** ![D18](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c57346/32.png) [@D18](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D18)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2015, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-everyone-likes/732335/44 "2015-09-23T23:48:13Z")
Very Canada specific, but I’d nominate football great [Pinball Clemons](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinball_Clemons). He was so respected as a human being that even the dispicable Hamilton Tiger-Cats used to print signs for the fans that said: ARGOS SUCK. EXCEPT PINBALL. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2015, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-everyone-likes/732335/45 "2015-09-23T23:51:23Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > Nope. Don’t care for him. > > Sorry. She needs to go away now. > > Ugh! Can’t stand him! > > For starters, her acting. > > Nailed it! 😃 Wow, so you know all these people personally? ---
**Author:** ![purplehearingaid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@purplehearingaid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehearingaid)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2015, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-everyone-likes/732335/46 "2015-09-23T23:52:16Z")
Jay Leno Johnny Carson ---
**Author:** ![not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/not_what_you_d_expect/32/3246_2.png) [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2015, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-everyone-likes/732335/47 "2015-09-23T23:53:32Z")
> [@bobot](#): > > Jennifer Anniston. Sorry, no. Not a fan. Not even a little bit. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2015, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-everyone-likes/732335/48 "2015-09-23T23:53:51Z")
Everybody liked Johnny Unitas. So much so that, when he was on film at the end of MASH (the movie) smoking a joint, it was **HEY! JU is lighting up! He’s great!** ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2015, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-everyone-likes/732335/49 "2015-09-24T00:02:52Z")
> [@bobot](#): > > Jennifer Anniston. The extremely believable story Jay Mohr told on his podcast about working with her makes me think a lot of people don’t like her. ---
**Author:** ![Laggard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/9de053/32.png) [@Laggard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Laggard)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2015, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-everyone-likes/732335/50 "2015-09-24T00:07:20Z")
> [@purplehearingaid](#): > > Jay Leno > > Johnny Carson The amount of Jay Leno hate I hear is somewhat surprising. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2015, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-everyone-likes/732335/51 "2015-09-24T00:09:45Z")
> [@purplehearingaid](#): > > Jay Leno > > Johnny Carson I think most Americans loved Carson back in the day, though he was certainly not without his faults, [including some mean-spirited humor, and vindictiveness against people whom he thought had betrayed him, like Joan Rivers.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Carson#Controversies_and_feuds) I’d have a very hard time agreeing that “everyone likes” Jay Leno. He had a lot of fans of his edition of the Tonight Show (personally, I found his monologues terrible, just pandering to his audience for applause and "whoop"s), but the back-and-forth with NBC over his first retirement (and retaking the show from Conan O’Brien) was seen by many as classless. ---
**Author:** ![Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slow_moving_vehicle/32/291_2.png) [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slow_Moving_Vehicle)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2015, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-everyone-likes/732335/52 "2015-09-24T00:18:57Z")
A pair of Neils: Neil Patrick Harris seems to be pretty well beloved by almost all the public. Don’t know what his private personality is like, though. Never met him myself, but I have friends who have, and almost all reports say that Neil Gaiman is a genuinely nice man. Sticking with fantasy authors, I’ve met Christopher Moore twice. The last time was at a book festival where he did a talk (which was, essentially, a 30 minute stand-up routine. Funny, funny guy.) He stuck around signing and personalizing books, and posing for pictures, for two hours afterwards. He stayed until everyone in the long line had had their book(s) signed. I was the very last person, as I was a volunteer at the event, and I told him that sticking around for so long was a very menschy thing to do; he said “Well, it’s my job”, and then stuck around for another half-hour, chatting with the volunteers. So he gets a " Really Nice Guy" badge from me. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2015, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-everyone-likes/732335/53 "2015-09-24T00:43:32Z")
Terry Pratchett Clayton Kershaw ---
**Author:** ![Starving\_Artist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Starving\_Artist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Starving_Artist)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2015, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-everyone-likes/732335/54 "2015-09-24T00:58:02Z")
James Garner comes to mind. Saw him on _The Tonight Show_ once and Johnny Carson alluded to how everyone seemed to like him, and though Garner acknowledged it he also said he had his moments like everyone else and was mystified as to why everybody seemed to think he was just this great guy. It was almost as if he thought the idea was ludicrous. ---
**Author:** ![chacoguy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/50afbb/32.png) [@chacoguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chacoguy)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2015, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-everyone-likes/732335/55 "2015-09-24T01:17:34Z")
Page two and no one has mentioned Bill Murray? ---
**Author:** ![DigitalC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ebca7d/32.png) [@DigitalC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DigitalC)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2015, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-everyone-likes/732335/56 "2015-09-24T01:26:01Z")
Chris Pratt. ---
**Author:** ![Starving\_Artist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Starving\_Artist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Starving_Artist)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2015, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-everyone-likes/732335/57 "2015-09-24T01:30:23Z")
> [@chacoguy](#): > > Page two and no one has mentioned Bill Murray? See post 15. ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2015, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-everyone-likes/732335/58 "2015-09-24T01:34:16Z")
> [@OneCentStamp](#): > > Jennifer Lawrence can’t seem to do much wrong in the public eye. Not among the people whose posts I read. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2015, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-everyone-likes/732335/59 "2015-09-24T01:40:36Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > Wow, so you know all these people personally? :dubious: Requiring people to actually know their choices kind of negates most of the answers in the thread… ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2015, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-everyone-likes/732335/60 "2015-09-24T01:46:08Z")
> [@brovolone](#): > > Don’t think I’ve ever met anyone who dislikes: > > [SNIP] > > Edward Norton I’ve heard otherwise. For example, after he appeared as The Incredible Hulk, the president of production at Marvel Studios sent [the following statement to HitFix](http://www.hitfix.com/blogs/motion-captured/posts/exclusive-marvel-confirms-they-will-hire-new-hulk-for-avengers): “We have made the decision to not bring Ed Norton back to portray the title role of Bruce Banner in the Avengers. Our decision is definitely not one based on monetary factors, but instead rooted in the need for an actor who embodies the creativity and collaborative spirit of our other talented cast members. The Avengers demands players who thrive working as part of an ensemble, as evidenced by Robert, Chris H, Chris E, Sam, Scarlett, and all of our talented casts. We are looking to announce a name actor who fulfills these requirements, and is passionate about the iconic role in the coming weeks.” Edward Norton’s agent [denied](http://www.hitfix.com/articles/exclusive-edward-norton-s-agent-responds-to-marvel-ceo-s-statement?m=k) that he was difficult. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-everyone-likes/732335.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-everyone-likes/732335.md?page=4)