# great Kardashian news - seriously **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 17, 2013, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-kardashian-news-seriously/671512 "2013-10-17T18:41:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Kimballkid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b5a626/32.png) [@Kimballkid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimballkid)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2013, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-kardashian-news-seriously/671512/21 "2013-10-18T16:27:14Z")
So, you’re saying, if we get rid of Seacrest, this kind of crap won’t be polluting my tv? But then we wouldn’t have ‘The Soup’ either. Tough call. ---
**Author:** ![voltaire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voltaire/32/313_2.png) [@voltaire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/voltaire)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2013, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-kardashian-news-seriously/671512/22 "2013-10-18T20:21:40Z")
> [@Kimballkid](#): > > So, you’re saying, if we get rid of Seacrest, this kind of crap won’t be polluting my tv? But then we wouldn’t have ‘The Soup’ either. Tough call. LOL, unless you’re making a funny about how often _The Soup_ rags on him, Ryan Seacrest ≠ Joel McHale. ---
**Author:** ![Kimballkid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b5a626/32.png) [@Kimballkid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimballkid)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2013, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-kardashian-news-seriously/671512/23 "2013-10-18T21:21:38Z")
I thought Seacrest produced ‘The Soup’, but I was wrong. So it’s alright to get rid of him. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![handsomeharry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9c0ed/32.png) [@handsomeharry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handsomeharry)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2013, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-kardashian-news-seriously/671512/24 "2013-10-28T05:29:42Z")
> [@Green\_Bean](#): > > If this gives you hope for humanity, then you have mighty low standards, my friend. Well, we \*are \*talking about humanity. And, those bolder than me may say that you’ve been whooshed. Well, not really whooshed…you just don’t get wit. ---
**Author:** ![handsomeharry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9c0ed/32.png) [@handsomeharry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handsomeharry)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2013, 6:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-kardashian-news-seriously/671512/25 "2013-10-28T06:12:54Z")
> [@Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](#): > > Leaving aside the flawed logic in your statement, can’t a dude even stick up for his wife any more? Speaking of flawed logic, what on earth makes you think he was sticking up for her? He was making up bullshit nonsense that he expected people to swallow, and nobody was having any of it, not sticking up for her. ---
**Author:** ![installLSC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/54ee81/32.png) [@installLSC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/installLSC)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2013, 6:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-kardashian-news-seriously/671512/26 "2013-10-28T06:29:14Z")
> [@Avulsed Brainstem](#): > > Because the stars are awarded by a private organization whose primary criterion is someone ponying up the money for the star, its placement and the dedication ceremony. It’s an award about in a class with a WORLD’S GREATEST DAD coffee cup. It is heartening that a talentless, useless SELLebrity doesn’t qualify, though. Just check out this [enlightening Wikipedia article](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_Walk_of_Fame) for proof. The likes of Clint Eastwood and Julia Roberts aren’t there because they either won’t put up the money or show up at a ceremony, but companies like Victoria’s Secret will and thus do get a star. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2013, 6:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-kardashian-news-seriously/671512/27 "2013-10-28T06:29:54Z")
On SNL’s Weekend Update this weekend there was a joke about the Kardashian/West engagement: something to the effect of “Kanye asked for her brand in marriage”. It got one of the biggest of the night (not that that is saying much) but I didn’t get the joke. Does anybody here? ---
**Author:** ![installLSC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/54ee81/32.png) [@installLSC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/installLSC)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2013, 6:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-kardashian-news-seriously/671512/28 "2013-10-28T06:40:48Z")
Gee the list of people left out is even more impressive than I thought. From a LA Times article: > [@](#): > > Among other big names missing from the walk: George Clooney, Julia Roberts, Robert Redford, George Lucas, Francis Ford Coppola, Al Pacino, Robert DeNiro, Michael Douglas, Sean Connery, David Lean, Angelina Jolie, Kate Winslet, Leonard Dicaprio, Diane Keaton, Denzel Washington and Woody Allen. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2013, 7:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-kardashian-news-seriously/671512/29 "2013-10-28T07:04:11Z")
> [@FlyingDragonFan](#): > > Not that I really care one way or the other, but an article I read said that the group who awards the stars is dismissing the possibility of her getting a star because they’re awarded for _performing_, and Kim is simply being filmed living her life (staged as that may be). Couldn’t the same be said of Bugs Bunny? And he got a [star](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/55/Bugs_Bunny_Walk_of_Fame_4-20-06.jpg). ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2013, 7:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-kardashian-news-seriously/671512/30 "2013-10-28T07:16:16Z")
_Film Threat_ magazine once did a promotion where they unsuccessfully tried to get a star for Traci Lords. (Lords was in on it and had agreed to appear at the dedication ceremony.) That’s the only other occasion when I can recall hearing about somebody being turned down. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-kardashian-news-seriously/671512.md?page=1)