# People you think are hot whose names don't usually come up on "sexiest" lists **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 30, 2016, 7:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-you-think-are-hot-whose-names-dont-usually-come-up-on-sexiest-lists/764468 "2016-08-30T07:09:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2016, 7:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-you-think-are-hot-whose-names-dont-usually-come-up-on-sexiest-lists/764468/1 "2016-08-30T07:09:39Z")
As a counter-point to the list of people generally considered attractive, but you don’t, who are the people you like that other people don’t generally consider sexy. Jim Parsons Leslie Hendrix (the red-headed ME on\* Law & Order\*) Jerry Orbach Barbara Bel Geddes (she always played the friend-who-was-a-girl, not the girlfriend) Jack Black Adam Sandler (I will forgive him a lot of bad movies because he wrote “The Hanukkah Song”) Deborah Harry\*\* now\*\* (of course she was sexy in 1977, but I think she still is) Alan Cumming Kathy Bates ---
**Author:** ![davey77](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/90ced4/32.png) [@davey77](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davey77)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2016, 7:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-you-think-are-hot-whose-names-dont-usually-come-up-on-sexiest-lists/764468/2 "2016-08-30T07:15:25Z")
Kathy Najimy, mmm, nice. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2016, 10:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-you-think-are-hot-whose-names-dont-usually-come-up-on-sexiest-lists/764468/3 "2016-08-30T10:12:34Z")
I’m going to come up with something different: apparently, a lot of people will declare someone attractive or not depending on whether the glossies say so. Me, I like who I like and it’s got nothing to do with who their agent is. Dudes that I declared attractive either without knowing who the hell they were, or before my classmates and coworkers saw them in a cover and decided they were faint-worthy include Johnny Depp (saw him in Crybaby), Morten Harket (used a picture from a German mag on my new class folder on Friday, my classmates declared him ugly; a-ha was on TV that Saturday so by Monday they were all drooling over him), Robert Urich back when his character in SWAT was considered unattractive on account of being “too serious”. The Bestest Boyfriend had what we call “moorish eyes”, which is a polite way of saying he always looked like he’d been in a fight, but at least he was big enough to look like he’d won it. I was laughing my ass off when Benicio del Toro and Javier Bardem became fashionable 😛 ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2016, 11:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-you-think-are-hot-whose-names-dont-usually-come-up-on-sexiest-lists/764468/4 "2016-08-30T11:27:52Z")
Christine Baranski Judy Greer Connie Britton Catherine Keener ---
**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2016, 11:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-you-think-are-hot-whose-names-dont-usually-come-up-on-sexiest-lists/764468/5 "2016-08-30T11:46:32Z")
Keep your stinkin’ paws off the lovely Ms. Hendrix! She’s mine, dammit! I’ll also second Judy Greer. But, in what world is Connie Britton not considered attractive?? ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2016, 11:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-you-think-are-hot-whose-names-dont-usually-come-up-on-sexiest-lists/764468/6 "2016-08-30T11:52:12Z")
> [@BrotherCadfael](#): > > Keep your stinkin’ paws off the lovely Ms. Hendrix! She’s mine, dammit! > > I’ll also second Judy Greer. But, in what world is Connie Britton not considered attractive?? You know - I almost added a comment for her that she is thought of as beautiful, but doesn’t seem to make those lists. But since I only know about the lists based on a headline I might read, I could be wrong and she’s in all of them. ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2016, 12:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-you-think-are-hot-whose-names-dont-usually-come-up-on-sexiest-lists/764468/7 "2016-08-30T12:00:31Z")
Mary Lynn Rajskub. I admit to having a slight crush on Cloe (From the show 24). ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2016, 12:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-you-think-are-hot-whose-names-dont-usually-come-up-on-sexiest-lists/764468/8 "2016-08-30T12:12:00Z")
I’ve had a crush on Michael Shannon since watching him in Boardwalk Empire when we used to call his character “Agent Blockhead”. He’s big and menacing and odd looking and damn if he doesn’t make my heart go pitter patter. I don’t know if Rami Malek is making any sexiest lists, despite the popularity of \*Mr Robot.\*I don’t like the show nor his character but he’s got a little sump’n sump’n going on. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2016, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-you-think-are-hot-whose-names-dont-usually-come-up-on-sexiest-lists/764468/9 "2016-08-30T13:42:11Z")
Joan Cusack, perpetually typecast as the best friend/sister/schoolmarm. _Addams Family Values_ was the only movie I’ve seen to recognise the hotness, not just the quirkiness. ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2016, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-you-think-are-hot-whose-names-dont-usually-come-up-on-sexiest-lists/764468/10 "2016-08-30T14:18:10Z")
Megan Mullally, when she was Ron Swanson’s evil ex-wife on _Parks and Recreation_. ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2016, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-you-think-are-hot-whose-names-dont-usually-come-up-on-sexiest-lists/764468/11 "2016-08-30T14:19:19Z")
> [@WOOKINPANUB](#): > > I don’t know if Rami Malek is making any sexiest lists, despite the popularity of \*Mr Robot.\*I don’t like the show nor his character but he’s got a little sump’n sump’n going on. I get the appeal - he’s handsome, articulate, conflicted - but I am always waiting for his eyes to _blow out of his head_ - they always appear to be bugging out and \*just \*on the verge. One too many cups of coffee and blammo! Sorry, carry on 😉 ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2016, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-you-think-are-hot-whose-names-dont-usually-come-up-on-sexiest-lists/764468/12 "2016-08-30T14:24:01Z")
Mayim Bialik. ---
**Author:** ![joyfool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2016, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-you-think-are-hot-whose-names-dont-usually-come-up-on-sexiest-lists/764468/13 "2016-08-30T14:29:43Z")
> [@WOOKINPANUB](#): > > I’ve had a crush on Michael Shannon since watching him in Boardwalk Empire when we used to call his character “Agent Blockhead”. He’s big and menacing and odd looking and damn if he doesn’t make my heart go pitter patter. I had never thought of him much one way or the other, until I saw him on Lip Sync Battle, of all things. I think he did _Rapper’s Delight_ or something else really fast paced with a million words, and killed it. He was just so surprisingly goofy and into it, that it was not only adorable, but kind of hot. I’ve been a fangirl ever since. And he has great, expressive eyes too. ---
**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:** [August 30, 2016, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-you-think-are-hot-whose-names-dont-usually-come-up-on-sexiest-lists/764468/14 "2016-08-30T14:45:14Z")
Kristen Schaal. ---
**Author:** ![Jennshark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Jennshark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jennshark)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2016, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-you-think-are-hot-whose-names-dont-usually-come-up-on-sexiest-lists/764468/15 "2016-08-30T14:49:57Z")
Kevin Spacey Detective on older SVU who looks like an eagle (Christopher ??) Rachel Maddow (though I’m sure a lot of people think she’s hot) Kathy Najimy Michael Williams (Omar on The Wire) ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2016, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-you-think-are-hot-whose-names-dont-usually-come-up-on-sexiest-lists/764468/16 "2016-08-30T15:28:14Z")
Rachel Bloom maybe? Or is she already too hot? I mean, pretty much anyone on US TV is. Doesn’t seem like the type that would come up on sexiest lists, though. ---
**Author:** ![ISiddiqui](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/97f17d/32.png) [@ISiddiqui](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ISiddiqui)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2016, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-you-think-are-hot-whose-names-dont-usually-come-up-on-sexiest-lists/764468/17 "2016-08-30T15:33:20Z")
> [@pulykamell](#): > > Rachel Bloom maybe? Or is she already too hot? I mean, pretty much anyone on US TV is. Doesn’t seem like the type that would come up on sexiest lists, though. Yeah, the ‘sexiest’ lists would probably say she was too fat or something, but I agree with you that she is really hot. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2016, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-you-think-are-hot-whose-names-dont-usually-come-up-on-sexiest-lists/764468/18 "2016-08-30T15:39:19Z")
Oh, and Alison Brie, of course! ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2016, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-you-think-are-hot-whose-names-dont-usually-come-up-on-sexiest-lists/764468/19 "2016-08-30T15:54:48Z")
Our local weekend news anchor, [Nina Mehlhaf](http://content.kgw.com/photo/2015/12/11/1407279409000-Nina-Mehlhaf-Cropped_1449875292298_15111_ver1.0_640_360.jpg). Rowr. ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2016, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-you-think-are-hot-whose-names-dont-usually-come-up-on-sexiest-lists/764468/20 "2016-08-30T15:57:09Z")
> [@faithfool](#): > > I had never thought of him much one way or the other, until I saw him on Lip Sync Battle, of all things. I think he did _Rapper’s Delight_ or something else really fast paced with a million words, and killed it. He was just so surprisingly goofy and into it, that it was not only adorable, but kind of hot. I’ve been a fangirl ever since. > > And he has great, expressive eyes too. Adorable! [QUOTE=Jennshark] Kevin Spacey **Detective on older SVU who looks like an eagle (Christopher ??)** Rachel Maddow (though I’m sure a lot of people think she’s hot) Kathy Najimy Michael Williams (Omar on The Wire) [/QUOTE] [Chris Noth](http://cdn.breitbart.com/mediaserver/Breitbart/Big-Hollywood/2013/10/22/noth/chris-noth.jpg) ? [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-you-think-are-hot-whose-names-dont-usually-come-up-on-sexiest-lists/764468.md?page=2)