# The Most Awful Person in Entertainment **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 13, 2010, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-awful-person-in-entertainment/539309 "2010-05-13T16:12:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Nzinga\_Seated](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b5ac83/32.png) [@Nzinga\_Seated](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nzinga_Seated)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2010, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-awful-person-in-entertainment/539309/61 "2010-05-14T14:39:04Z")
> [@MostlyClueless](#): > > Doesn’t he run with the Scientology freaks? Yeah. But that’s not it. The reasons I hate him are all dumb and hard to explain and entrenched in hip hop culture that would bore you. The thing is, I don’t judge stars as real people. I mean, I would if I had to deal with them on any real level, but I don’t. So I view them on Hollywood terms. That’s why when I hear they are nice in real life, it doesn’t effect whether or not I like them. They chose showbiz for a profession, where they are judged by Hollywood standards. I see all Hollywood as a big fakey fake fake. So when I say I hate Will Smith, I don’t mean the nice guy he may be in real life, but I mean the Hollywood Star, Will Smith. Hate him. ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2010, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-awful-person-in-entertainment/539309/62 "2010-05-14T14:56:46Z")
Lindsey Lohan. Arrogant, ugly, unpleasant, drugged up bitch making a public spectacle of herself, every day, and amply rewarded and egged on, for simply being one of the most photographed and gossiped about train wrecks ever, as if it’s cute or something. ---
**Author:** ![GoShawdy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/5daacb/32.png) [@GoShawdy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GoShawdy)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2010, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-awful-person-in-entertainment/539309/63 "2010-05-14T15:03:19Z")
I have to agree about Will Smith being the worst, seeing as he coined the term and concept of “Haters” on the Getting Jiggy With It single. It just gives the insecure an excuse to act as if they are empowered. The people that are saying that the haters are insecure are usually projecting their own insecurity, thus calling these invisible people “haters”. Thanks a load, Will Smith, you raving douchebag. ---
**Author:** ![pancakes3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ba9def/32.png) [@pancakes3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pancakes3)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2010, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-awful-person-in-entertainment/539309/64 "2010-05-14T15:14:31Z")
i’m shocked at the hate for the fresh prince. confused. speechless. ---
**Author:** ![Nzinga\_Seated](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b5ac83/32.png) [@Nzinga\_Seated](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nzinga_Seated)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2010, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-awful-person-in-entertainment/539309/65 "2010-05-14T15:17:51Z")
> [@GoShawdy](#): > > I have to agree about Will Smith being the worst, seeing as he coined the term and concept of “Haters” on the Getting Jiggy With It single. It just gives the insecure an excuse to act as if they are empowered. The people that are saying that the haters are insecure are usually projecting their own insecurity, thus calling these invisible people “haters”. Thanks a load, Will Smith, you raving douchebag. Not only is that a perfect example of my hate for him, but there’s a bunch of similar crap. For instance, saying at his Oscar acceptance speech (he won over much better hip hop artists, and he won for Summertime, I think) that he doesn’t have to ‘cuss’ in his raps to be successful. Wow, what a way to try to discredit tons of rappers that are way better than you lyrcially, but also happen to be grittier, more raw, and yes, more potty mouth than you. Well, guess what, Will. Rakim doesn’t really ‘curse’ much at all. You remember him don’t you? The man whose voice you stole for your Oscar winning single? Anyways, curse you for making me say, \*“IT’S \*your _birfday_” every time I read your username. ETA: And this isn’t a reason to hate him, but I wasn’t surprised to see him jump to ‘change’ his name to Will Smith. I love the hip hop artists that keep their name and make the film industry respect that. Go Queen Latifa! ---
**Author:** ![MPB\_in\_Salt\_Lake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c0e974/32.png) [@MPB\_in\_Salt\_Lake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MPB_in_Salt_Lake)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2010, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-awful-person-in-entertainment/539309/66 "2010-05-14T15:42:25Z")
> [@Max\_Torque](#): > > Beg to differ. Andy Dick is a horrible, horrible person. A short list of stuff he’s done: > > [LIST] > [li]Gave cocaine to recovering addict Brynn Hartman, who relapsed into addiction, went batshit insane, and killed her husband (Phil Hartman) and herself five months later.[/li][li]Was the last person seen in the company of David Strickland before he killed himself. So, that’s two suicides on his CV.[/li]. With these two examples, I feel that his reaction after the deaths was reprehensible—He joked and gloated about the deaths, claiming he had some kind of hoodoo in influencing people to take their own lives after spending time with him… Andy Dick said someting along these lines to Jon Lovitz, (who was very close to Phil Hartman) “I cursed Phil, watch it or your next” before Lovitz attacked him and beat him pretty good at the Comedy Store. ---
**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2010, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-awful-person-in-entertainment/539309/67 "2010-05-14T15:51:40Z")
> [@MPB\_in\_Salt\_Lake](#): > > Andy Dick said someting along these lines to Jon Lovitz, (who was very close to Phil Hartman) “I cursed Phil, watch it or your next” before Lovitz attacked him and beat him pretty good at the Comedy Store. The fights I _really_ want to see are never on PPV. To heck with Mayweather vs. Pacquiao, I’d fork out $100+ to see Lovitz vs. Dick. ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Tildrum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e95f7d/32.png) [@Tom\_Tildrum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Tildrum)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2010, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-awful-person-in-entertainment/539309/68 "2010-05-14T16:12:44Z")
> [@pravnik](#): > > Charlie Sheen wrote an imaginary conversation with President Obama in which he flatly stated that Ted Olson lied about his final telephone call from his wife Barbara moments before she died when Flight 77 crashed into the Pentagon on 9/11. He claimed this was impossible because there was no record of such a call from her cellphone, and that American Airlines confirmed that their Boeing 757’s did not have onboard phones. His source for this statement was a book called _Debunking 9/11 Debunking_ by fellow truther David Ray Griffin. > > Trouble was, Griffin was wrong and [admitted it](http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17659.htm) more than two years before Sheen wrote his imaginary conversation. Among other things, Griffin realized his error when he saw [this 1998 photo](http://www.airliners.net/photo/0020665/L) of an AA 757. His error stemmed from a 2004 phone call made by two colleagues which confirmed that AA did not have onboard phones on 757’s. They didn’t - _in 2004_. Onboard phones were discontinued in 2002; they were very much in use in September of 2001. > > So to further a pet 9/11 truther theory, Charlie Sheen publicly, smugly, and wrongly called Ted Olson a liar about the last telephone converation he ever had with his wife moments before she was murdered in one of the most horrible ways imaginible. That, and he beats his wife. That’s why Spencer Pratt is high on my list, too. He basically makes his living by emotionally abusing his wife on national TV. ---
**Author:** ![cactus\_waltz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/74df32/32.png) [@cactus\_waltz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cactus_waltz)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2010, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-awful-person-in-entertainment/539309/69 "2010-05-14T16:28:07Z")
I’ve always felt intense dislike towards Andy Dick, but I didn’t know he was actually evil or that he was responsible for the murder of Phil Hartman. I mean, that’s classic villain material. ---
**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2010, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-awful-person-in-entertainment/539309/70 "2010-05-14T17:00:26Z")
> [@MPB\_in\_Salt\_Lake](#): > > Andy Dick said someting along these lines to Jon Lovitz, (who was very close to Phil Hartman) “I cursed Phil, watch it or your next” before Lovitz attacked him and beat him pretty good at the Comedy Store. Man, not only did he get his ass beat, he got his ass beat by _Jon Lovitz_. ---
**Author:** ![Enderw24](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ba9def/32.png) [@Enderw24](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enderw24)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2010, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-awful-person-in-entertainment/539309/71 "2010-05-14T17:13:36Z")
> [@pancakes3](#): > > i’m shocked at the hate for the fresh prince. confused. speechless. I don’t mean to burst your bubble. But the Freshest of Princes ain’t nothin’ but trouble. ---
**Author:** ![Moonchild](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@Moonchild](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moonchild)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2010, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-awful-person-in-entertainment/539309/72 "2010-05-14T17:38:02Z")
Can somebody give me the scoop on Jenny McCarthy? I met her once found her really sweet. She maybe goes overboard on the autism thingy, but an overzealous celebrity does not = awful, IMHO and is hardly news. My vote goes for \*\*Russel Hantz \*\*of Survivor. Charles Manson lookin’ little troll. \*\*Courtney Love \*\*probably wants to get us all in a room and talk to us about why she hasn’t been mentioned until we all kill ourselves. ---
**Author:** ![Enderw24](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ba9def/32.png) [@Enderw24](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enderw24)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2010, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-awful-person-in-entertainment/539309/73 "2010-05-14T18:24:49Z")
> [@Moonchild](#): > > Can somebody give me the scoop on Jenny McCarthy? I met her once found her really sweet. She maybe goes overboard on the autism thingy, but an overzealous celebrity does not = awful, IMHO and is hardly news. She took a study\* that linked autism to vaccinations and used her pulpit as a celebrity to ensure that as many people as possible no longer get ANY vaccinations. Because of this effort, aside from the uncounted deaths from children around the USA (and world), there have been significant upswings in breakouts of previously controlled diseases because of a lowering of “herd immunity” among the population. \*This study was unable to be duplicated, discredited by the scientific community, redacted by the very journal that originally published it, and the study itself was paid for by anti-vaccination groups, one of whom is where the author of the study is currently employed. ---
**Author:** ![descamisado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@descamisado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/descamisado)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2010, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-awful-person-in-entertainment/539309/74 "2010-05-14T19:13:11Z")
> [@pancakes3](#): > > i’m shocked at the hate for the fresh prince. confused. speechless. Pancakes Just Don’t Understand. ---
**Author:** ![Sailboat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sailboat/32/461_2.png) [@Sailboat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sailboat)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2010, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-awful-person-in-entertainment/539309/75 "2010-05-14T19:29:54Z")
> [@Enderw24](#): > > She took a study\* that linked autism to vaccinations and used her pulpit as a celebrity to ensure that as many people as possible no longer get ANY vaccinations. Because of this effort, aside from the uncounted deaths from children around the USA (and world), there have been significant upswings in breakouts of previously controlled diseases because of a lowering of “herd immunity” among the population. It ain’t over yet, either. There’s always the future potential for some gigantic pandemic to sweep through humanity, killing hundreds of millions, that _possibly_ got its foothold because anti-vaccination zealots made too many people afraid to get vaccinated. She could eventually be up there with Hitler and Stalin in body count. ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2010, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-awful-person-in-entertainment/539309/76 "2010-05-14T19:37:46Z")
I’m bemused by the idea that’s it’s less legitimate to useone’s birth name as to self-aggrandizing juvenalia like “Queen Latifah.” ---
**Author:** ![zamboniracer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e9a140/32.png) [@zamboniracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zamboniracer)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2010, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-awful-person-in-entertainment/539309/77 "2010-05-14T20:06:07Z")
As long as it is pile on Will Smith day, I was turned off by him personally when he and his wife Jada Pinkett Smith awarded the child role in “The Pursuit of Happyness” to their own son, after claiming that their child had had to audition just like everybody else. Yeah, sure, tell me another one. Nepotism certainly isn’t a crime, but it rubbed me the wrong way. ---
**Author:** ![Nzinga\_Seated](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b5ac83/32.png) [@Nzinga\_Seated](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nzinga_Seated)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2010, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-awful-person-in-entertainment/539309/78 "2010-05-14T20:13:44Z")
> [@acsenray](#): > > I’m bemused by the idea that’s it’s less legitimate to useone’s birth name as to self-aggrandizing juvenalia like “Queen Latifah.” Who says it’s not legit? I didn’t even list it as one of my legion reasons for hating him. As a lover of hip hop, it is a blast to see names like “Ice Cube” being mentioned alongside names like “Robert Deniro”. And I think it takes a certain something to be willing to keep the name that the hip hop fans know you by, especially when there are so many people jumping at the chance to belittle hip hop culture. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Excellent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f19dbf/32.png) [@Mr.Excellent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Excellent)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2010, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-awful-person-in-entertainment/539309/79 "2010-05-14T20:18:09Z")
> [@Enderw24](#): > > She took a study\* that linked autism to vaccinations and used her pulpit as a celebrity to ensure that as many people as possible no longer get ANY vaccinations. Because of this effort, aside from the uncounted deaths from children around the USA (and world), there have been significant upswings in breakouts of previously controlled diseases because of a lowering of “herd immunity” among the population. > \*This study was unable to be duplicated, discredited by the scientific community, redacted by the very journal that originally published it, and the study itself was paid for by anti-vaccination groups, one of whom is where the author of the study is currently employed. This. Perhaps I hold celebrities to too high a standard in this regard, but I genuinely believe that if you have the ability to get your words in the public sphere whenever you want, you have a responsibility to take those words very, very seriously. On complicated issues, like autism, that requires actual research. Do I blame Jenny McCarthy for speaking out against vaccinations shortly after that discredited study came out? Not really. It was premature - but she’s not a scientist, and I can understand why she might not realize that a single study doesn’t necessarily mean all that much. However, a responsible person with McCarthy’s pulpit wouldn’t still be backing antivax nonsense years after it’s been debunked. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2010, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-awful-person-in-entertainment/539309/80 "2010-05-14T20:46:06Z")
Yes, McCarthy is a real sweetie - but let’s not forget the powerhouses in entertainment who provide her with a soapbox to spread her poisonous nonsense - particularly [Oprah](http://www.newsweek.com/id/200025/output/print) (who is giving Jenny McCarthy an opportunity to do her own show, and who early on plugged McCarthy’s antivax beliefs. _“…on the Oprah show, McCarthy’s charges went virtually unchallenged. Oprah praised McCarthy’s bravery and plugged her book, but did not invite a physician or scientist to explain to her audience the many studies that contradict the vaccines-autism link. Instead, Oprah read a brief statement from the Centers for Disease Control saying there was no science to prove a connection and that the government was continuing to study the problem. But McCarthy got the last word. “My science is named Evan, and he’s at home. That’s my science.” Oprah might say that McCarthy was just sharing her first-person story and that Oprah wasn’t endorsing her point of view. But by the end of the show, the take-away message for any mother with young kids was pretty clear: be afraid.”_ Oprah has also promoted Suzanne Somers’ unscientific claims for “bioidentical” hormones among other forms of quackery. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-awful-person-in-entertainment/539309.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-awful-person-in-entertainment/539309.md?page=5)