# Most Despised Celebrity Who Still Has A Career? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 12, 2013, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-despised-celebrity-who-still-has-a-career/650097 "2013-02-12T17:39:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 9
**Author:** ![B.Serum](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/b.serum/32/14266_2.png) [@B.Serum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/B.Serum)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2013, 7:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-despised-celebrity-who-still-has-a-career/650097/161 "2013-02-22T07:46:31Z")
Post 161 and nobody has mentioned Chevy Chase?!? Google “chevy chase is a” and see what comes back. ---
**Author:** ![MsWhatsit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb8c5e/32.png) [@MsWhatsit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsWhatsit)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2013, 12:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-despised-celebrity-who-still-has-a-career/650097/162 "2013-02-22T12:37:27Z")
> [@B.Serum](#): > > Post 161 and nobody has mentioned Chevy Chase?!? > > Google “chevy chase is a” and see what comes back. I’m not sure Chase qualifies under the “still has a career” part. ---
**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2013, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-despised-celebrity-who-still-has-a-career/650097/163 "2013-02-22T14:04:58Z")
> [@Leaffan](#): > > Hey, let’s sit around and judge people we don’t know because we’ve seen their image on the movie screen! What a cool game! > > And no Twickster, I’m not threadshitting. I’m pointing out how ridiculously disingenuous it is to judge people we don’t know. I still stand by this. Why are you going to war over this? You’ve received one official warning, and yes this is a continuation of threadshitting because you’re “just” pointing out that the topic is, in your opinion, ludicrous. No more posts from you on this subject. ---
**Author:** ![SuperNelson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7feea3/32.png) [@SuperNelson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuperNelson)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2013, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-despised-celebrity-who-still-has-a-career/650097/164 "2013-02-22T17:06:01Z")
> [@MsWhatsit](#): > > I’m not sure Chase qualifies under the “still has a career” part. For the last four years, he’s been a regular cast member of a prime time network television sitcom. _Community_ may be struggling, and is probably in it’s last season, but its not dead yet. It was on last night. And I liked it. So he’s about to turn 70, he’s currently employed (and presumably well paid) in a prominent position in the same industry he’s worked in for the last several decades, and according to IMDB, he’s already working on his next two jobs. In any other industry, we’d call that a career. ---
**Author:** ![MsWhatsit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb8c5e/32.png) [@MsWhatsit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsWhatsit)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2013, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-despised-celebrity-who-still-has-a-career/650097/165 "2013-02-22T17:30:17Z")
> [@SuperNelson](#): > > For the last four years, he’s been a regular cast member of a prime time network television sitcom. _Community_ may be struggling, and is probably in it’s last season, but its not dead yet. It was on last night. And I liked it. :smack: For some reason, I always forget that he’s on that show. ---
**Author:** ![TommyTutone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c4cdca/32.png) [@TommyTutone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TommyTutone)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2013, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-despised-celebrity-who-still-has-a-career/650097/166 "2013-02-22T17:39:13Z")
He isn’t anymore, and he hated working on the show and found it ‘not funny’. Still despised even at 70. > **[Chevy Chase Is Leaving 'Community'](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/chevy-chase-leaving-community_n_2173969)** > > Chevy Chase Is Leaving 'Community' ---
**Author:** ![meanoldman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@meanoldman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/meanoldman)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2013, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-despised-celebrity-who-still-has-a-career/650097/167 "2013-02-22T18:25:21Z")
Oh, Og forgive me. Regarding the OP. James Otto :):)🙂 Please, the rest of you forgive me too. ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2013, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-despised-celebrity-who-still-has-a-career/650097/168 "2013-02-22T21:09:43Z")
> [@Starving\_Artist](#): > > I wouldn’t put too much stock in anything Mia Farrow has to say as she’s quite a devious and manipulating person. Read _Mr. S: My Life with Frank Sinatra_, written by Sinatra’s longtime valet, George Jacobs. In it he relates tales of how Mia Farrow (not that much older than Soon-Yi when the affair with Allen began) in a see-through dress deliberately set about seducing Sinatra as part of her master plan to create a master race of offspring by different fathers, starting with Sinatra and moving on to Leonard Bernstein, Picasso, JD Salinger and Bob Dylan. I got no dog in this fight, but I am curious as to why we should put no stock in Mia’s word, but _should_ put stock in the word for Frank Sinatra’s valet? ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2013, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-despised-celebrity-who-still-has-a-career/650097/169 "2013-02-22T21:13:36Z")
The only celeb I have heard of as being despised by pretty much everyone they have ever _worked with_ is Chevy Chase. I have it _rumored_ of Val Kilmer, but have never seen it in a publication. ---
**Author:** ![pancakes3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ba9def/32.png) [@pancakes3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pancakes3)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2013, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-despised-celebrity-who-still-has-a-career/650097/170 "2013-02-22T21:14:45Z")
> [@B.Serum](#): > > Post 161 and nobody has mentioned Chevy Chase?!? > > Google “chevy chase is a” and see what comes back. I’ll raise you a Jeremy Piven. ---
**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:** [February 23, 2013, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-despised-celebrity-who-still-has-a-career/650097/171 "2013-02-23T02:30:00Z")
> [@Ellen\_Cherry](#): > > Why are you going to war over this? You’ve received one official warning, and yes this is a continuation of threadshitting because you’re “just” pointing out that the topic is, in your opinion, ludicrous. While it may be inappropriate in this thread, I think it’s a legitimate topic for discussion. So I started a new thread [Should we care about celebrities?](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=683238). ---
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2013, 8:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-despised-celebrity-who-still-has-a-career/650097/172 "2013-02-24T08:23:53Z")
I think it’s weird that Tom Arnold has been working more or less steadily and Roseanne Barr hasn’t. ---
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2013, 8:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-despised-celebrity-who-still-has-a-career/650097/173 "2013-02-24T08:25:57Z")
> [@Typo\_Negative](#): > > The only celeb I have heard of as being despised by pretty much everyone they have ever _worked with_ is Chevy Chase. > > I have it _rumored_ of Val Kilmer, but have never seen it in a publication. I’m not sure Kilmer is still working, since he puffed out like popcorn and started picking fights with tourists. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2013, 10:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-despised-celebrity-who-still-has-a-career/650097/174 "2013-02-24T10:52:21Z")
> [@lisacurl](#): > > I find it utterly hilarious that someone is seriously contending that Ronan Farrow – a former child prodigy who graduated from college and was accepted to Yale Law School at age 15, who is near universally regarded by those who know him as the kind of genius that comes along perhaps once a generation – is too swayed by his mommy to make his own decisions about his father’s reprehensible actions. You really think there’s a direct correlation between high intelligence and emotional stability? ---
**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:** [February 24, 2013, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-despised-celebrity-who-still-has-a-career/650097/175 "2013-02-24T15:32:00Z")
> [@Krokodil](#): > > I think it’s weird that Tom Arnold has been working more or less steadily and Roseanne Barr hasn’t. I suspect in her case it’s a matter of choice. She probably has enough money that she needn’t work again. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2013, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-despised-celebrity-who-still-has-a-career/650097/176 "2013-02-24T18:52:30Z")
> [@Starving\_Artist](#): > > Funny, I could have sworn Mia brought it to light when she went ballistic over the affair and chose to isolate Allen from his children, therefore necessitating the lawsuit from Allen, which speaks highly in my opinion of his love for his children given that he was willing to suffer the publicity slings and arrows he undoubtedly knew he’d be in for plus the financial hit that suing Mia for custody would And as long as we’re on the subject I might as well open up another can of worms and question whether Ronan himself is in fact Woody Allen’s biological son. If so, the genes are very deeply hidden. (Don’t forget Mia’s propensity for seeking out geniuses to sire her children. To me it’s quite within the realm of possibility that someone else is actually Ronan’s father.) No, the whole mess came to light when Woody sued Mia for custody and held a press conference about it. Before that, Mia’s only request was that Woody not have unsupervised visitation with their children. They met with their attorneys to work the situation out in private. It was Woody who later dragged his three children’s lives into the public light and into court with no regard for how it would affect them. When the judge decided that Woody should only have visitation with his biological son, he said he would only accept unsupervised visitation with all three children. Woody is the one who was screwing around, not Mia. Show me one bit of evidence that she ever cheated on Sinatra, Previn or Allen. > [@Typo\_Negative](#): > > I got no dog in this fight, but I am curious as to why we should put no stock in Mia’s word, but _should_ put stock in the word for Frank Sinatra’s valet? A book that was written over 50 years ago. Apparently **Starving Artist** doesn’t believe Mia has changed in fifty years, despite her adopting nine “unadoptable” children. And right–the young Mia “seduced” the older, richer, more famous, handsome and very street smart Sinatra. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2013, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-despised-celebrity-who-still-has-a-career/650097/177 "2013-02-24T19:03:58Z")
> [@Starving\_Artist](#): > > No, people just believe a shit ton of erroneous stuff about Woody Allen as it pertains to Mia Farrow, Soon-Yi, and the rest of their family, and, being a fan of his and believing him to be the victim of a huge misinformation campaign, I like to try to do my part to keep the record straight. So give us the a list of the facts, NOT opinions, on how Woody Allen was wronged. You have already given us two bits of “misinformation” (Woody didn’t meet Soon-Yi until she was an adult, and Mia brought the matter to light), so please check your facts out before posting. And don’t forget Allen’s crack about “adoptive” children being different from “biological” children. I wonder how his two “adopted” daughters with Soon-Yi feel about that remark. ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2013, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-despised-celebrity-who-still-has-a-career/650097/178 "2013-02-24T20:40:00Z")
> [@Krokodil](#): > > I think it’s weird that Tom Arnold has been working more or less steadily and Roseanne Barr hasn’t. Well, if you look at her IMDB page, there aren’t really too many gaps in there. It’s just a lot of her stuff is just her being her on talk shows and reality dreck. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-despised-celebrity-who-still-has-a-career/650097.md?page=8)