John Waters films are definitely not for me, but I enjoy watching any interview with him (I also really enjoyed his book “Role Models”, so maybe that means he can’t be my answer).
And Jerry Springer always struck me as a reasonable person. Why someone would choose to continue on that show when you’ve already got enough money to live comfortably, though, is a mystery to me.
This is a reverse for “you love their work but hate the person” ops
I don’t think John Goodman could act like a plummeting person if you pushed him off a bridge. I still think he’d be a fun person to know.
I can’t really explain why Steve Martin’s acting bugs the crap out of me but it just does. If he want’s to perform, hand him his banjo and tell him to keep his mouth shut. When he pulls back though, acts like a human being and doesn’t “play big”, he’s a delight. The stories he could share would boggle my mind.
Have you read this? It had me LOLing throughout! It’s divided into 3 sections: the best case scenario, the worst case scenario, and what really happened.
I came in here to mention Justin Timberlake. While I’m not a fan of his musical genre in general, I’ve found him to be very entertaining in every interview I’ve seen, and he is funny enough in his appearances on SNL to be a regular cast member. He also seems like he would be a really cool guy to have a couple of beers and hang out with.
I presume writers are eligible for mention in this thread – I’m a heretic who finds Terry Pratchett’s work awful; but from everything I’ve heard, he was “in his private and personal capacity”, a very nice and likeable guy.
Dave Grohl was the first person I thought of, and it’s interesting that two other people have already mentioned him in the thread. Every time I see an interview with him, I think “wow, he seems like a really cool guy and knows what he’s talking about”, but I’ve never been remotely interested in listening to any of his music and couldn’t name a single Foo Fighters song if you put a gun to my head.
Dolly Parton. She seems like a genuinely nice person, and very smart. But to me, her singing voice is like fingernails on a blackboard.
Paul Simon is a total control freak, according to people who have worked with him. The Broadway musical The Capeman had the potential to be great, but insisted it be done his way, despite his total lack of knowledge about how to do a musical.
The show tanked.
If we may include couturiers, Agatha Ruiz de la Prada’s designs are not my cup of tea at all, but I like that what she designs is what she likes to wear/use. I’ve seen too many other designers whose personal clothing was in a different universe as their designs. And her reaction to some of the bad personal stuff she’s had has been, at least publically, more on the “oh well, damn that was unexpected but shit happens!” side than the unrelenting vitriol or mountains of whining you often see.
Good one!
Bruce is mine too. I can’t stand his singing, but he seems like a righteous dude. 
Robin Williams. His coked-up/manic stand-up act always made me want to plug my ears and flee the room. Similarly, when he was trying to heartwarming, I always felt that I would soon need insulin. In his few public appearances I saw where he wasn’t “on,” though, he seemed very personable and even likable.
Like(d) them in interviews, don’t care for their work:
John Denver.
Snoop Dog.
Dwayne Johnson.
Weird Al.
Seems like a nice guy, don’t find him all that funny.
Colleen Ballinger is a Youtuber who does a character called “Miranda Sings” (the Sings is the surname). She’s this hyperannoying character of the Molly Shannon “SUPAH-STAH!” variety, who thinks she is infinitely more talented than the rest of us (and far more than she actually is). A lot of people seem to love the character, but I can’t take more than thirty seconds of Miranda.
Colleen herself, on the other hand, is funny, charming, cute as all hell, just had a baby who is the most precious thing… She has a great family whom I love to watch as well (her sister Rachel is also a YTer and is fun to watch as well). I think Colleen needs to retire Miranda permanently, and hopefully come up with something else, because this is a talented chick and deserves more time in the spotlight.
Interesting. I actually did think of Grohl at first, but I don’t find his stuff “hard.” My complaint about Foo Fighters is that is just sounds, I dunno, “corporate rock” to me, for the most part. Just kind of paint-by-numbers pop songwriting. That said, it is solid, hooky songwriting, and I do like some of their stuff. And he was fantastic in Nirvana, so I had to cross him off the list.
But, yes, he seems like a great guy. He didn’t stop with music after Nirvana, and he didn’t just keep on drumming, but decided to switch to guitar and vocals. And he seems to have a sense of humor (which is very important to me) and just a great sense of fun about it. He comes across as a great dude on all accounts.
Totally agree… I think if you asked a random person today, they’d probably call him an actor before a stand-up comedian. But yeah, I couldn’t stand it, either, but Robin seemed like a very humanistic guy. I saw this interview when it came out, and I remember it as being very cool and uncut.
Nobody ever has anything bad to say about Adam Sandler, other than that he makes terrible movies.
LL Cool J. I’ve met him and he seems like a genuinely good guy. But his music ain’t my thang.
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