# The Stupidest Celebrity in the World **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 27, 2003, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stupidest-celebrity-in-the-world/198057 "2003-08-27T20:23:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![DeVena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dec6dc/32.png) [@DeVena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DeVena)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2003, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stupidest-celebrity-in-the-world/198057/41 "2003-08-28T21:03:16Z")
Nope you’re all wrong… Melanie Griffith So dense light bends around her. ---
**Author:** ![Muldoon\_s\_Squishiness](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/13edae/32.png) [@Muldoon\_s\_Squishiness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muldoon_s_Squishiness)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2003, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stupidest-celebrity-in-the-world/198057/42 "2003-08-28T21:12:10Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by AmericanMaid \* > \*\*Hands down, Jessica Simpson. She thinks tuna is literally chicken of the sea. \*\* No, that’s not what she said. Try not to take things out of context. And her actual comments made perfect sense and were something that any reasonably intelligent person would make. ---
**Author:** ![Governor\_Quinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d26b3c/32.png) [@Governor\_Quinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Governor_Quinn)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2003, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stupidest-celebrity-in-the-world/198057/43 "2003-08-28T21:21:14Z")
Having seen all these selections, I’d like to top them all with this: Virtually everyone who’s ever won a professional boxing title. (BTW, **Anniee** , Gene Kelly directed “Hello, Dolly”, in which Walter Matthau was an actor.) ---
**Author:** ![Anniee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c77e96/32.png) [@Anniee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anniee)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2003, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stupidest-celebrity-in-the-world/198057/44 "2003-08-28T21:22:43Z")
Melanie really is right up there with Babs. But she’s not dumbER. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Bad\_Astronomer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f05b48/32.png) [@The\_Bad\_Astronomer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Bad_Astronomer)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2003, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stupidest-celebrity-in-the-world/198057/45 "2003-08-28T21:39:59Z")
I was thinking along the same lines as you, **BogieBlanca**. The interview said she’s been in hotels for ten (or so) years. That makes her ignorant, not stupid. Her question actually shows a reasonable degree of intelligence: inquisitiveness, for example. Someone who is grossly out of contact with “normal” society should be expected to have some missing pieces. The other factors (laundry, flowers) are to be expected as well. I remember the uproar when George Bush (senior) showed amazement at the automatic price scanner at a store, when they had been around for years (as I recall, he didn’t know the price of milk, either). I mean, c’mon, the guy was President, and had been vice-president for 8 years previously. When did he have time to visit a 7-11? ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2003, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stupidest-celebrity-in-the-world/198057/46 "2003-08-28T21:48:36Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by White Lightning \* > \*\ ***Guin** , silly question, but do you have any cites for those JLH quotes? Particularly the last one… I love it. \*\* Well, the last one was in an online blurb from _Seventeen_ magazine, so I doubt I’d be able to find it. The others, well, here are a few sites from Yahoo: [http://www.jlh-online.com/](http://www.jlh-online.com/) [http://www.jennifer-love.com/](http://www.jennifer-love.com/) (her official site, which has FLASH!!! ANOTHER REASON TO HATE HER!) [http://www.jlovehewitt.com/](http://www.jlovehewitt.com/) Also: [http://members.aol.com/hecubas/hephew.htm](http://members.aol.com/hecubas/hephew.htm) Oh yeah, Mike Tyson is definitely up there. What a fruitcake! ---
**Author:** ![detop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bcef8e/32.png) [@detop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/detop)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2003, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stupidest-celebrity-in-the-world/198057/47 "2003-08-28T23:09:00Z")
Almost 50 posts and I’m the first one to mention **Denise Richards**? ---
**Author:** ![Weird\_AL\_Einstein](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c67d28/32.png) [@Weird\_AL\_Einstein](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Weird_AL_Einstein)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2003, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stupidest-celebrity-in-the-world/198057/48 "2003-08-29T00:25:32Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Cisco \* > \*\*Charlton “Americans are violent because we have a lot of mixed ethnicities” Heston is pretty stupid, but I heard he has alzheimer’s and various other mental problems, so if that’s true maybe it’s not his fault, or at least not run of the mill stupidity. \*\* Virtually anyone can be made to look stupid using Michael Moore-style ambush journalism tactics. Even if they’re not in the early stages of Alzheimer’s Disease. My nomination? Barbara Streisand. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2003, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stupidest-celebrity-in-the-world/198057/49 "2003-08-29T18:19:34Z")
I can’t believe the thread made it this far without a mention of Carson Daly (formerly the love interest of Jennifer Love Hewitt\*): I watched him interview Tom Brokaw one night and it was literally painful. Brokaw was talking about the invasion of Iraq, his books about World War 2, growing up in South Dakota, and other interesting topics and Daly was completely and totally lost and asking non-sequitur unfunny and uninteresting questions. It wasn’t until they started discussing reality TV (a subject Brokaw didn’t particularly want to talk about) that Daly had a remote clue what was going on. \*Actually there are rumors that Hewitt was his beard and his real love interest is Jimmy Fallon; while I believe the rumors to be false, I mention them because it’s a wonderful image. ---
**Author:** ![Intaglio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/71e660/32.png) [@Intaglio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intaglio)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2003, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stupidest-celebrity-in-the-world/198057/50 "2003-08-29T19:12:13Z")
Maybe now that I think about it Justin Timberlake, seeing the shots of Madonna and Britney, and Madonna and Christina, he must be kicking himself for not trying to get that Action. ---
**Author:** ![lesa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/34f0e0/32.png) [@lesa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lesa)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2003, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stupidest-celebrity-in-the-world/198057/51 "2003-08-29T19:28:28Z")
Actually, on the whole Whitney Houston debate - I think the examples you’ve given prove that Bobby Brown is the stupidest. He’s the one who broke his parole by going to another state - to appear on a live TV show! ---
**Author:** ![MrSarcasticus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b487fb/32.png) [@MrSarcasticus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrSarcasticus)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2003, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stupidest-celebrity-in-the-world/198057/52 "2003-08-29T19:37:54Z")
Anyone catch Camryn Manheim on Celeb Jeopardy? She was going to finish in negative money until Alex made the other two contestants put their buzzers down so she could answer one by herself and make it to the final round. Stupefying. All that, and brains, too. ---
**Author:** ![Agrippina](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8797f3/32.png) [@Agrippina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Agrippina)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2003, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stupidest-celebrity-in-the-world/198057/53 "2003-08-29T21:08:58Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by MrSarcasticus \* > \*\*Anyone catch Camryn Manheim on Celeb Jeopardy? She was going to finish in negative money until Alex made the other two contestants put their buzzers down so she could answer one by herself and make it to the final round. Stupefying. All that, and brains, too. \*\* Catagory: “Colors that End in -Urple” ---
**Author:** ![lisacurl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/41988e/32.png) [@lisacurl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lisacurl)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2003, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stupidest-celebrity-in-the-world/198057/54 "2003-08-29T21:18:49Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Cat Fight \* > \*\*What does come as a bit of a surprise, however, is that when Ashton was discovered, he was a biochemical engineering major at the University of Iowa. \*\* Anyone can major in anything for one semester. Except possibly for Jessica Simpson. ---
**Author:** ![joshmaker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a587f6/32.png) [@joshmaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joshmaker)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2003, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stupidest-celebrity-in-the-world/198057/55 "2003-08-29T23:10:59Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Anniee \* > Barbara Streisand > > Her stupidity is pathological and frightening. [http://www.weirdrepublic.com/episode38.htm](http://www.weirdrepublic.com/episode38.htm) Color me skeptical, I would like to see where that web site is getting their facts – specially the one that goes “Bill turned down three offers to put Osama bin Laden in a U.S. prison cell”. ---
**Author:** ![Anniee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c77e96/32.png) [@Anniee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anniee)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2003, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stupidest-celebrity-in-the-world/198057/56 "2003-08-30T00:22:05Z")
Well, if one wants sure proof of Babs’ idiocy, all they need really do is go to her OWN website. If you can make it through without laughing hard enough to pee I’ll give you a quarter 🙂 The woman is brainless. As far as Bill; ugh. Boring; thank god he’s out of office, those days are over. He had chances to catch BL, he COMPLAINED about BL, he passed it up, it’s over and done with. Eesh I don’t care anymore; others can answer it better than I can; I’m just glad he’s gone. ---
**Author:** ![if6was9](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e47c2d/32.png) [@if6was9](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/if6was9)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2003, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stupidest-celebrity-in-the-world/198057/57 "2003-08-30T01:32:00Z")
Not to pile on or anything, but that Babs site seemed a little RIGHT of Rush Lardball… ---
**Author:** ![doctordoowop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecc23a/32.png) [@doctordoowop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/doctordoowop)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2003, 6:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stupidest-celebrity-in-the-world/198057/58 "2003-08-30T06:15:05Z")
Bo Derek- when Letterman asked what high school she went to, she “forgot.” After a commerc ial she remembered. It was Narbonne, near LA. She did go, because he showed her her high school yearbook. I don’t think it was a gag at all. The dummy didn’t know. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stupidest-celebrity-in-the-world/198057.md?page=2)