I’ve never thought of Fred Silverman as an object of ridicule. To be fair to him, he’s also produced such shows as In the Heat of the Night and the Perry Mason movies of the 80s.
Gets my vote. Thanks in part to the historian Tacitus, the name ‘Nero’ is synonymous with incompetence two millennia later.
I originally read the OP’s question as Most Ridiculous and thought immediately of Trump.
I think he’s referring to Lewis Carroll’s manuscript, which say “Keep your head”, as opposed to G.Slick’s song lyrics.
I would go with George McClellan, with special mention going out to Joseph Hooker who made his own name synonymous with whores.
I prefer to hear BLEED your head. We all could use a good head-bleeding every now and then.
Ed McMahon, reading from contents of envelope: “Name the two stages of sex.”
Carnac the Magnificent: “Yahoo, serious.”
So maybe Richard III?
Your problem is that you live in the real world. In the Fox News world, Carter is a weakling who dragged the US down to such depths that only Reagan could save it. He has been the epitome of a weak, ineffective man in the fact-free world of that network since the day it went on the air, and remains so today.
It was especially ironic during the Iraq invasion, when they gushed over draft-dodging, AWOL, Bush 43 as a great War President, while in the same segment referring to Annapolis grad Carter as someone who knew nothing about the military.
WTF??? I can think of thousands of songs that are worse than his worst.
Nixon was never impeached. He resigned before that could happen.
But speaking of impeachment… Monica Lewinsky was ridiculed relentlessly.
If we’re talking about head-slapping stupidity - and politicians - then I guess GWB and Trump have to be up there, and the second of those hasn’t been in power for 100 days.
I guess inherited wealth carries it own burdens.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton. If you don’t recognize the name you’re sure to know of the ridicule he’s been getting for many years. He’s the author of the book that begins “It was a dark and stormy night.”
Not so much ridiculed himself as people who think they are, from jokes about crazy ones who really believe they are the Corsican to little bossy guys being labelled as having a “Napoleon complex”. Same as people who speak of themselves in the third person are asked “what, are you Caesar, Gaius Iulius, now?” Cesar could speak of himself in any person he wanted: people who haven’t conquered Gaul can’t.
Midgets!
No seriously. Have you ever worked with a midget you could take as an equal adult?
Could you handle working for a midget boss?
That you had to struggle NOT to tell a short joke?
Come one. Be honest.
Indirectly, there’s theologian-philosopher John Duns Scotus and Naturalist George Louis LeClerc, Comte de Buffon.
Their names, in the words “dunce” and “buffoon” have now become synonymous with stupidity.