# 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:** 5
**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:** [May 14, 2010, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-awful-person-in-entertainment/539309/81 "2010-05-14T20:54:27Z")
> [@pepperlandgirl](#): > > I can see why you’d think that some dude who has the tendency to speak before he thinks is worse than a guy who raped a child. Whoa there now. Those are meant to be mutually exclusive statements. If I thought about it I could easily come up with someone “worse” than Kanye, but like I said, it’s the first thing that popped into my head. I’m not particularly touched by Mr. Polanski’s drama one way or another but I know lots of folks are (rightfully ) enraged by it. ---
**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, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-awful-person-in-entertainment/539309/82 "2010-05-14T21:26:10Z")
This – > [@Nzinga\_Seated](#): > > I wasn’t surprised to see him jump to ‘change’ his name to Will Smith. – makes no sense unless it’s a criticism of Will Smith. I’d think a 40-year-old man would look silly calling himself “the Fresh Prince.” And, yes, I think it’s silly for Queen Latifah to keep calling herself a name she made up when she was a teenager to make herself sound important. ---
**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, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-awful-person-in-entertainment/539309/83 "2010-05-14T21:30:59Z")
> [@acsenray](#): > > This – > > – makes no sense unless it’s a criticism of Will Smith. I’d think a 40-year-old man would look silly calling himself “the Fresh Prince.” And, yes, I think it’s silly for Queen Latifah to keep calling herself a name she made up when she was a teenager to make herself sound important. Okie dokie. ---
**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 15, 2010, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-awful-person-in-entertainment/539309/84 "2010-05-15T00:27:31Z")
> [@WOOKINPANUB](#): > > Whoa there now. Those are meant to be mutually exclusive statements. If I thought about it I could easily come up with someone “worse” than Kanye, but like I said, it’s the first thing that popped into my head. I’m not particularly touched by Mr. Polanski’s drama one way or another but I know lots of folks are (rightfully ) enraged by it. As it happens, an actress has come forward just today claiming that she too was raped by Roman Polanski when she was just a tender 16 year old, sometime back in the 1980’s. Dont know WHY she is coming forward only now, but she has that paragon of truth and virtue Gloria Allred as her representative, so Lord knows that $$$ COULDN’T be a factor… 😉 ---
**Author:** ![kidneyfailure](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9f8e36/32.png) [@kidneyfailure](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kidneyfailure)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2010, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-awful-person-in-entertainment/539309/85 "2010-05-15T02:03:27Z")
Andy Dick certainly seems like a sleazebag now, but is it just me or didn’t he (at one time several years ago…back in the 90’s, perhaps) actually seem normal at one point? Well, I mean, “normal” for Hollywood: some good TV and film roles, showing up on talk shows, mostly coherent, etc etc. Did he go to shit or has he always been creepy? I’ve never paid him much mind, actually. ---
**Author:** ![A\_Dodgy\_Dude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a87d85/32.png) [@A\_Dodgy\_Dude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/A_Dodgy_Dude)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2010, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-awful-person-in-entertainment/539309/86 "2010-05-15T02:24:18Z")
Bill Maher or Rosie O’Donnell ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2010, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-awful-person-in-entertainment/539309/87 "2010-05-15T02:30:23Z")
I propose we build a Giant Space Ark. Then we put all of these people on board and send it off, telling them that there will be two more Giant Space Arks close behind, but we’re sending them off first because we want them to be there and be ready when the rest of the colonists join them. Then we program it to crash into the Sun. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2010, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-awful-person-in-entertainment/539309/88 "2010-05-15T02:35:06Z")
> [@robgotabingbang](#): > > 1. Miley Cyrus- Entitled, self-important bitch. And so the Sacrifice is chosen. [For harvest.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Britney%27s_New_Look) ---
**Author:** ![rayman5321](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85f322/32.png) [@rayman5321](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rayman5321)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2010, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-awful-person-in-entertainment/539309/89 "2010-05-15T12:28:13Z")
> [@FriarTed](#): > > Keith Obermann? > > Andy Dick was my first thought. I used to watch Olbermann, but now it seems as if he’s gone off the deep end. Bill Maher is a close second. ---
**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 15, 2010, 12:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-awful-person-in-entertainment/539309/90 "2010-05-15T12:38:16Z")
You know, it’s funny. Bill Maher is one of those guys that I really like; but I can totally see why folks would dislike him. I completely see his flaws, and I like him anyways. When he starts with the nutty health/food issues that he has, he is nearly intolerable, I know. But overall, I like the asshole. ---
**Author:** ![Justin\_Bailey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justin_bailey/32/8792_2.png) [@Justin\_Bailey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Bailey)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2010, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-awful-person-in-entertainment/539309/91 "2010-05-15T12:53:29Z")
> [@Nzinga\_Seated](#): > > 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. OK, but Will Smith never changed his name to Will Smith. He always kept his acting and his rapping separate and was always credited as Will Smith when acting. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Miskatonic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mr.miskatonic/32/310_2.png) [@Mr.Miskatonic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Miskatonic)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2010, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-awful-person-in-entertainment/539309/92 "2010-05-15T12:56:42Z")
> [@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. The ‘study’ should have never seen the light of day - but the fact is that a lot of anti-vax liars already hated vaccines even before Wakefield’s ‘work’. Jenny just became their loudest spokeswoman. Before we think she’s all sweetness but deluded I remind folks that she did hint at mob violence at Amanda Peet for daring to disagree with her ‘mommy instincts’. Fun Links: [http://www.jennymccarthybodycount.com/Jenny\_McCarthy\_Body\_Count/Home.html](http://www.jennymccarthybodycount.com/Jenny_McCarthy_Body_Count/Home.html) ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2010, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-awful-person-in-entertainment/539309/93 "2010-05-15T13:00:44Z")
This is why I’d make a terrible celebrity. My free time would be too full of calling room service to deliver more bacon-extract massage oil to concern myself with autism, 9/11, pesticides, etc. ---
**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 15, 2010, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-awful-person-in-entertainment/539309/94 "2010-05-15T13:04:57Z")
> [@Justin\_Bailey](#): > > OK, but Will Smith never changed his name to Will Smith. He always kept his acting and his rapping separate and was always credited as Will Smith when acting. Yeah, you’re right. His name is his parent-given name. Dumb reason to hate him. ---
**Author:** ![ivan\_astikov](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/58f4c7/32.png) [@ivan\_astikov](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivan_astikov)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2010, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-awful-person-in-entertainment/539309/95 "2010-05-15T13:08:22Z")
If Bill Maher and Keith Olberman didn’t offend the people they do, I probably wouldn’t like them. ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2010, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-awful-person-in-entertainment/539309/96 "2010-05-15T13:10:50Z")
Jeez…Andy Dick was the first person\* who came to mind, too. > [@Chimera](#): > > I propose we build a Giant Space Ark. Then we put all of these people on board and send it off, telling them that there will be two more Giant Space Arks close behind, but we’re sending them off first because we want them to be there and be ready when the rest of the colonists join them. > > Then we program it to crash into the Sun. That’s really unnecessary…we could send it to Venus instead. It’s artistically appropriate, and the lower temperatures means they’d be spared being outright vaporized. They’d merely be encased in a melting steel tomb, under an acidic atmosphere with more crushing pressure than at the bottom of the ocean. [Aint it pretty?](http://wanderingspace.net/wp-content/uploads/2007/09/c_venera_perspective_colorbthumbnail.jpg) \*? ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Miskatonic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mr.miskatonic/32/310_2.png) [@Mr.Miskatonic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Miskatonic)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2010, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-awful-person-in-entertainment/539309/97 "2010-05-15T13:18:30Z")
> [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](#): > > That one took me aback too. The only “awful” thing I know about him is that he’s big-headed enough that he took out an [injunction](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spike_(TV_network)#Spike_Lee_lawsuit) against the Spike network for using “his” name. There is his constant recent tendency to race bait more talented directors who don’t put a sufficient number of token black people in them to his satisfaction. Movies like ‘Letters from Iwo Jima’. There’s also his gross overinflated sense of his own talents and his own works way beyond their deserved level (“Malcolm X is beyond the Oscars”) and his attacks on Tyler Perry and his works. Plenty of insiders also say he almost no respect for the medium and heaven help you if you commit the crime of being half-black around him (excepting his wife, for some reason). ---
**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 15, 2010, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-awful-person-in-entertainment/539309/98 "2010-05-15T14:01:43Z")
> [@Chimera](#): > > I propose we build a Giant Space Ark. Then we put all of these people on board and send it off, telling them that there will be two more Giant Space Arks close behind, but we’re sending them off first because we want them to be there and be ready when the rest of the colonists join them. > > Then we program it to crash into the Sun. Simpsons did it first. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Satchmo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/satchmo/32/4223_2.png) [@Satchmo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Satchmo)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2010, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-awful-person-in-entertainment/539309/99 "2010-05-15T14:22:52Z")
I thought Douglas Adams did it before the Simpsons. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![MTCicero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a4c791/32.png) [@MTCicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MTCicero)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2010, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-awful-person-in-entertainment/539309/100 "2010-05-15T15:44:18Z")
> [@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.” Agreed. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-awful-person-in-entertainment/539309.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-awful-person-in-entertainment/539309.md?page=6)