# Growing Class of "Celebrity": the Professional Guest Star.

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/growing-class-of-celebrity-the-professional-guest-star/130419>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [October 1, 2002, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/growing-class-of-celebrity-the-professional-guest-star/130419 "2002-10-01T16:04:49Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Yossarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/9de0a6/32.png) [@Yossarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yossarian)\
**Post date:** [October 2, 2002, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/growing-class-of-celebrity-the-professional-guest-star/130419/21 "2002-10-02T21:53:10Z")

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Ted’s more of a professional “replacement”, isn’t he?

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**Author:** ![Wumpus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8c91f0/32.png) [@Wumpus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wumpus)\
**Post date:** [October 2, 2002, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/growing-class-of-celebrity-the-professional-guest-star/130419/22 "2002-10-02T23:11:28Z")

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Grace Jones started out as a model, incidentally, which makes her subsequent career(s) much more comprehensible.

Dr. Joyce Brothers is the quintessential famous-for-being-famous celebrity. As a child, I foolishly assumed she was famous for, y’know, psychology or something. I was well into adulthood before I learned her real claim to fame was winning a bunch of money on a game show.

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**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\
**Post date:** [October 2, 2002, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/growing-class-of-celebrity-the-professional-guest-star/130419/23 "2002-10-02T23:48:16Z")

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I submit for your approval the all-time champion nobody guest stars: **Charlie Brill and Mitzi McCall** , an allegedly married celebrity couple. I say allegedly because I never heard of them before OR after their long-running gig on the old _Match Game_.

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**Author:** ![Yossarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/9de0a6/32.png) [@Yossarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yossarian)\
**Post date:** [October 3, 2002, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/growing-class-of-celebrity-the-professional-guest-star/130419/24 "2002-10-03T00:22:03Z")

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Ah! Charlie Brill played Capt. Lipschitz for much of the 1990’s on one of my favorite Made-For-Basic-Cable-TV shows, **Silk Stalkings**! He never had many lines in these shows–mostly some early “here’s the case” lines and some closing “job well done” lines along with a few bits during the episodes, usually showcasing something exciting like his chronic hearburn–and, IIRC, his sometimes-shown TV wife was played by his real-life wife, the above mentioned Mitzi McCall.

But except for that, I’ve got nothing else on him.

And I shoulda thought about Dr. Joyce Brothers. Good one.

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**Author:** ![OxyMoron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/e9a140/32.png) [@OxyMoron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OxyMoron)\
**Post date:** [October 3, 2002, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/growing-class-of-celebrity-the-professional-guest-star/130419/25 "2002-10-03T01:40:44Z")

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:eek: :eek:

From the New York State Board of Regents Office of the Professions. The Board of Regents governs the entire New York state education system from pre-K through university - and its Office of the Professions is the licensing authority for almost every profession other than law.

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> For 30 years Dr. Joyce Brothers, who is a New York State licensed psychologist, has been the dean of American psychologists.

I weep.

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