# Most Beloved Celebrity Who Still Has A Career? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 13, 2013, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-beloved-celebrity-who-still-has-a-career/650196 "2013-02-13T17:21:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![MaxTheVool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MaxTheVool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MaxTheVool)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2013, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-beloved-celebrity-who-still-has-a-career/650196/41 "2013-02-14T22:21:27Z")
I’ve never heard anything even remotely plausibly negative about JK Rowling. Along the same lines: Weird Al both Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert ---
**Author:** ![Filbert](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/filbert/32/3433_2.png) [@Filbert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Filbert)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2013, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-beloved-celebrity-who-still-has-a-career/650196/42 "2013-02-14T22:40:24Z")
In the UK at least, David Attenborough. ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2013, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-beloved-celebrity-who-still-has-a-career/650196/43 "2013-02-14T23:14:35Z")
Before Fred Rogers’ death it was almost certainly him. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2013, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-beloved-celebrity-who-still-has-a-career/650196/44 "2013-02-14T23:20:41Z")
_“God bless us, every one!”_ ——Tiny Tim, who is beloved, and has a comeback every December. (no, not \*\*\*that \*\*\*Tiny Tim. ---
**Author:** ![tim314](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tim314/32/3468_2.png) [@tim314](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tim314)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2013, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-beloved-celebrity-who-still-has-a-career/650196/45 "2013-02-14T23:23:47Z")
Holly, your signature makes me want to end every post with Achoo!!! Tim ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2013, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-beloved-celebrity-who-still-has-a-career/650196/46 "2013-02-14T23:31:42Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > no, not \*\*\*that \*\*\*Tiny Tim. Who, having been dead for 16 years at this point, if he still had a career would be most unsettling. Never heard anyone say a bad thing about him (as a person, anyway), though. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2013, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-beloved-celebrity-who-still-has-a-career/650196/47 "2013-02-14T23:32:53Z")
> [@DMark](#): > > Wow - my own thread and I am already the first naysayer: I think Tom Hanks is a rather pompous asshole who has covered himself in the cloak of solemn spokesman and seems to believe he is singlehandedly memorializing every US soldier and we should all genuflect at his presence. Plus, during his talk show stints for his bomb movie, Cloud Atlas, he proved to be a rather unfunny, obnoxious guest who thought he was hilarious. Sorry - not a huge fan of Tom Hanks. Boo on me. I don’t like him because he cheated on his first wife. Yeah, yeah, he and Rita Wilson are held up as a long-running Hollywood marriage – which began with him cheating. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2013, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-beloved-celebrity-who-still-has-a-career/650196/48 "2013-02-14T23:35:58Z")
> [@Duckster](#): > > There may be a nice person behind the facade. But all I see is a self-promoting, pompous ass Yes. ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2013, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-beloved-celebrity-who-still-has-a-career/650196/49 "2013-02-14T23:47:21Z")
Not sure why beloved-ness isn’t compatible with still having a career. Thread premise made more sense when it was about the most widely disliked. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Second\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbe5ce/32.png) [@The\_Second\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Second_Stone)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2013, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-beloved-celebrity-who-still-has-a-career/650196/50 "2013-02-14T23:54:53Z")
> [@Alessan](#): > > Ringo Starr. Who doesn’t like Ringo? Bingo, it’s Ringo. ---
**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2013, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-beloved-celebrity-who-still-has-a-career/650196/51 "2013-02-15T00:44:50Z")
> [@MaxTheVool](#): > > I’ve never heard anything even remotely plausibly negative about JK Rowling. > > Along the same lines: > Weird Al It takes a really exceptional jerk (like Coolio) to take exception to being parodied, especially given that he splits his royalties with the original songwriter. Chamillionaire may well have made more money from Weird Al’s _White and Nerdy_ than he did from _Ridin’_. Even though the original was a huge hit, the record company always “recoups” all of the costs of creating and promoting the record before the artist gets paid. The Weird Al money, on the other hand, went to Chamillionaire as a songwriter, which pays at a much higher rate. He really does appear to be pretty much universally admired by his peers. The only somewhat negative thing I heard was Flea being disappointed that their parody wasn’t as funny as a lot of others. I’m always amazed at the fact that Al’s career has exceeded the vast majority of the artists he’s parodied. While I’m sure the fact that he’s constantly producing new fans counts for quite a bit, he’s also frequently a better lyricist than originals (_Perform This Way_ is much better written than _Born This Way_). ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2013, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-beloved-celebrity-who-still-has-a-career/650196/52 "2013-02-15T00:56:47Z")
Ron Howard Sally Field ---
**Author:** ![James\_Otto\_Sweet\_Heart](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ac8455/32.png) [@James\_Otto\_Sweet\_Heart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/James_Otto_Sweet_Heart)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2013, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-beloved-celebrity-who-still-has-a-career/650196/53 "2013-02-15T02:37:45Z")
> [@tim314](#): > > Holly, your signature makes me want to end every post with > > Achoo!!! > > Tim Okay. 🙂 🙂 🙂 God bless you always!!! 🙂 🙂 🙂 Holly ---
**Author:** ![denquixote](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9bd4f/32.png) [@denquixote](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/denquixote)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2013, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-beloved-celebrity-who-still-has-a-career/650196/54 "2013-02-15T02:39:45Z")
> [@lieu](#): > > Betty White > > Started to say Doris Day too but her career is pretty much just the Malibu Animal Shelter now isn’t it? I think she just does one radio bit a year, that when they call to wish her a happy birthday. I think they call her in Carmel where she has lived since at least the early '70’s. How about Bruce Springsteen? ---
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2013, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-beloved-celebrity-who-still-has-a-career/650196/55 "2013-02-15T04:21:09Z")
> [@Alessan](#): > > Ringo Starr. Who doesn’t like Ringo? Pete Best? ---
**Author:** ![Askance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/askance/32/8281_2.png) [@Askance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askance)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2013, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-beloved-celebrity-who-still-has-a-career/650196/56 "2013-02-15T04:32:11Z")
Locally I think [Andrew Denton](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Denton)would qualify - probably unknown outside this country though. His kid went to the same school as mine, and he and his famous wife just turned up to parent-teacher nights like everyone else, no mess no fuss. Seemed perfectly down to earth. > [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > Stephen Fry I know someone who calls him “a stupid person’s idea of an intelligent person”, but he has mental health issues. So, yes. > [@bup](#): > > Does Ringo still have a career? I know, I’m a dick. I love Ringo. But he gets to put albums out when he wants, because he’s Ringo Starr. Does that count as a career? He (and his **All Starr Band** - hah!) just filled a major venue here in the last week, [got good reviews too](http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/music/ringo-captivates-with-a-little-help-from-his-friends-20130214-2eex0.html). ---
**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:** [February 15, 2013, 8:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-beloved-celebrity-who-still-has-a-career/650196/57 "2013-02-15T08:19:40Z")
> [@Duckster](#): > > There may be a nice person behind the facade. Not according to Stedman. Oprah related the following in an interview some years ago: > [@](#): > > You know, years ago when I was having an argument with Stedman about somebody saying I wasn’t nice about something. I said, “I have to do this.” And he said, “Why?” I said, “Because, you know, I’m a nice person.” He goes, “But you’re not nice.” I go, “What do you mean I’m not nice?” He goes, “Is that what you think you are, nice? You’re a lot of things but I wouldn’t say nice is one of them.” [Cite](http://www.starpulse.com/news/Fred_Topel/2011/01/10/oprah_winfrey_talks_about_fighting_wit) My guess is that with most people Oprah’s demeanor is more or less impersonal and businesslike. She doesn’t strike me as someone who particularly cares what other people think of her, and most ‘nice’ people I think are that way because they want others to like or think kindly of them. > [@bup](#): > > He [Arnold Schwarzenegger] is not most beloved. Schwarzenegger was on _The Tonight Show_ a month or so ago and got a standing ovation from around 90% of Leno’s audience when he walked on stage, and during the talk segment he received tremendous applause for his opinion about today’s politicos. [Link](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvkOMV1fAOU) Arnold’s movie, _The Last Stand_, tanked, and at first I thought this was because of his unfaithfulness and a reduced national appetite for gunplay in the wake of the Sandy Hook shootings, but Sylvester Stallone and Bruce Willis have both released action flicks since Arnold’s movie came out and they are doing even worse, so I’m guessing it’s Schwarzenegger’s continued popularity that is responsible for the fact that of the three movies his has actually performed the best. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2013, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-beloved-celebrity-who-still-has-a-career/650196/58 "2013-02-15T13:23:42Z")
RE: Doris Day > [@denquixote](#): > > I think they call her in Carmel where she has lived since at least the early '70’s. Even better! Thanks for the correction. RE: Who doesn’t like Ringo? > [@TreacherousCretin](#): > > Pete Best? First good chuckle of the day. If the celebrity didn’t have to be alive I’d nominate Elvis. Graceland and continued sales show beloved and career are still off the charts. ---
**Author:** ![YWalker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/6f9a4e/32.png) [@YWalker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YWalker)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2013, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-beloved-celebrity-who-still-has-a-career/650196/59 "2013-02-17T02:26:55Z")
If you consider news reporters to be celebrities, I’d say Robin Roberts. ---
**Author:** ![Civil\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d78d45/32.png) [@Civil\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Civil_Guy)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2013, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-beloved-celebrity-who-still-has-a-career/650196/60 "2013-02-17T04:19:41Z")
More local to Los Angeles, but sportscaster Vin Scully is greatly (if not universally) respected, and still working after many, many years. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-beloved-celebrity-who-still-has-a-career/650196.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-beloved-celebrity-who-still-has-a-career/650196.md?page=4)