# What celebrities are complete bastards? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 18, 2009, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celebrities-are-complete-bastards/481827 "2009-01-18T04:38:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 9
**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:** [January 21, 2009, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celebrities-are-complete-bastards/481827/161 "2009-01-21T17:44:06Z")
> [@beanpod](#): > > _[R.L. Stine](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rl_stine)?_ Crappy horror stories for 10 year olds R.L. Stine? His 15 minutes was up 15 years ago R.L. Stine? If he thinks he’s as important as that story makes it sound, the schadenfreude is delicious. His “15 minutes” may have been up years ago. But the Goosebumps series and Stine’s spinoffs from it continue to sell well to this day. The man is richer than god and the financial/popularity envy of every children’s author save JK Rowling. That would more than explain any ego. ---
**Author:** ![beanpod](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a9adbd/32.png) [@beanpod](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beanpod)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2009, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celebrities-are-complete-bastards/481827/162 "2009-01-21T18:20:00Z")
Explain, yes, but in my opinion, not justify. ---
**Author:** ![Labrador\_Deceiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7c8e57/32.png) [@Labrador\_Deceiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labrador_Deceiver)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2009, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celebrities-are-complete-bastards/481827/163 "2009-01-21T18:27:50Z")
> [@ZipperJJ](#): > > Oh, and Kid Rock is an ass, or at least was before he was famous when my friends played a show with him. I can only imagine he’s gotten worse since he made it big… When I ran into him at a bar in Deerborne, MI he was as nice as he could be. I gave him a hat (was working for John Deere at the time) & saw him wearing it on TV several weeks later. ---
**Author:** ![Gulo\_gulo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bcef8e/32.png) [@Gulo\_gulo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gulo_gulo)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2009, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celebrities-are-complete-bastards/481827/164 "2009-01-21T18:49:03Z")
I was in a Subway in Vancouver one day, behind a VERY rude and obnoxious guy who was trying to get his sandwich for free claiming he was Zack from Saved by the Bell. The gal had no idea who he was (or wasn’t impressed) and kept telling him the price. I can’t recall if he finally paid or just left. ---
**Author:** ![Hi\_Neighbor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hi_neighbor/32/494_2.png) [@Hi\_Neighbor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hi_Neighbor)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2009, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celebrities-are-complete-bastards/481827/165 "2009-01-21T19:06:59Z")
I was watching _Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations_ on the Travel Channel, and he ended up visiting a restaurant that the Food Network’s Rachel Ray stopped in to weeks earlier. When Bourdain asked a server if Ray was a good tipper, the server replied that Ray had completely stiffed the waitstaff! What a cheap bitch! ---
**Author:** ![Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troy_mcclure_sf/32/4150_2.png) [@Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Troy_McClure_SF)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2009, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celebrities-are-complete-bastards/481827/166 "2009-01-21T19:09:55Z")
> [@AngelSoft](#): > > I’m surprised no one’s mentioned Robin Williams yet. Residents of San Francisco generally regard him as a total ass monkey. News to me, and I grew up walking distance from his place. I worked at the Coronet movie theater when ILM/Lucasfilm held their Phantom Menace premiere there. Williams was in attendance, and went in and out a couple time to the bathroom, with his kids. We made eye contact and I saluted him, he saluted back. Plenty of people don’t like his onstage schtick, but I’ve never heard he was a bad guy. A FOAF worked on _Serenity_ and said the most diva-ish (though not too bad) was Alan Tudyk. ---
**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:** [January 21, 2009, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celebrities-are-complete-bastards/481827/167 "2009-01-21T19:13:14Z")
> [@Tixenfleaz](#): > > Tommy Lee Jones has a rep as a cranky douche. He certainly came off as a cranky douche on NPR’s _Fresh Air_. ---
**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:** [January 21, 2009, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celebrities-are-complete-bastards/481827/168 "2009-01-21T19:14:22Z")
> [@Stephe96](#): > > No, I wasn’t trying to imply he was a bastard (sorry, OP), but I did think it was kinda funny that he just assumes everyone on the planet knows who he is. Some assumptions are justified. He probably is recognized almost all the time. It was your boss who happened to be the rare exception. ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2009, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celebrities-are-complete-bastards/481827/169 "2009-01-21T19:24:19Z")
> [@Troy\_McClure\_SF](#): > > A FOAF worked on _Serenity_ and said the most diva-ish (though not too bad) was Alan Tudyk. Maybe that’s why they put a spike through his heart in _Firefly_ ---
**Author:** ![Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troy_mcclure_sf/32/4150_2.png) [@Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Troy_McClure_SF)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2009, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celebrities-are-complete-bastards/481827/170 "2009-01-21T19:31:26Z")
> [@ShibbOleth](#): > > Maybe that’s why they put a spike through his heart in _Firefly_ Other way around. The show _Firefly_ was first, the movie _serenity_ second, so that probably wouldn’t have been a consideration. ---
**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:** [January 21, 2009, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celebrities-are-complete-bastards/481827/171 "2009-01-21T19:49:06Z")
> [@Equipoise](#): > > Someone, can’t remember who, insisted that the toilet seats be replaced. Ricky Gervais tells a story about his father, in which a key factor is that Elizabeth II will not use a toilet that has _ever_ been used by anyone else. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2009, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celebrities-are-complete-bastards/481827/172 "2009-01-21T20:17:42Z")
Back in the 80’s, at a sci-fi convention I won, along with one other attendee, a dinner with one of the stars, James Doohan. There was him, we two guests, and the convention organizer. Doohan almost completely ignored us fans, speaking with the organizer. We tried to talk with him, ask questions, but his answers were brief and curt. We both decided he was a jerk. Now, a year earlier, at the same convention, I won dinner, along with three other fans, and got to eat with George Takei. He was great to us, taking time to speak to us individually. He was always laughing, had a great sense of humor. He’d told the organizer that he’d sit naked, on a silver platter, surrounded by parsley, with an apple in his mouth, to help out the con. So she had the waiter bring a little silver dish to the table with the parley and apple, and George bit into the fruit and layed his chin on the dish. I still have the picture he let me take, looking sideways at the camera. ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Lance\_Murdoch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/47e85d/32.png) [@Captain\_Lance\_Murdoch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Lance_Murdoch)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2009, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celebrities-are-complete-bastards/481827/173 "2009-01-21T20:27:09Z")
> [@lissener](#): > > I interviewed Jane Siberry once. She made me feel very small, slightly bruised. She was one of my favorites before she went kind of crackers several years ago. I’d be willing to hear more about this. I have heard from someone who had to interview him that Stephen Merritt can be very difficult to talk to. ---
**Author:** ![Slacker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6bbea6/32.png) [@Slacker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slacker)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2009, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celebrities-are-complete-bastards/481827/174 "2009-01-21T20:39:30Z")
> [@Hi\_Neighbor](#): > > I was watching _Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations_ on the Travel Channel, and he ended up visiting a restaurant that the Food Network’s Rachel Ray stopped in to weeks earlier. When Bourdain asked a server if Ray was a good tipper, the server replied that Ray had completely stiffed the waitstaff! What a cheap bitch! Must have ran a little short with the $40 per day limit. ---
**Author:** ![Starving\_Artist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Starving\_Artist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Starving_Artist)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2009, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celebrities-are-complete-bastards/481827/175 "2009-01-21T20:46:07Z")
> [@Hi\_Neighbor](#): > > I was watching _Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations_ on the Travel Channel, and he ended up visiting a restaurant that the Food Network’s Rachel Ray stopped in to weeks earlier. When Bourdain asked a server if Ray was a good tipper, the server replied that Ray had completely stiffed the waitstaff! What a cheap bitch! I have no idea what sort of reputation Rachel Ray has off camera, but that woman is making money hand over fist and I have a hard time believing she’d care in the slightest about tips. I suspect a flub up of some sort occurred, such as it being up to her crew or producers or whomever to tip the staff and somebody forgot, etc. And unless she and/or her production have a habit of doing this, my guess is Bourdain was just taking a cheap shot at a competitor’s program by airing the server’s complaint. ---
**Author:** ![Labrador\_Deceiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7c8e57/32.png) [@Labrador\_Deceiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labrador_Deceiver)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2009, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celebrities-are-complete-bastards/481827/176 "2009-01-21T20:49:52Z")
> [@Starving\_Artist](#): > > … my guess is Bourdain was just taking a cheap shot at a competitor’s program by airing the server’s complaint. Anthony Bourdain? Naw, never. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![StGermain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stgermain/32/2868_2.png) [@StGermain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StGermain)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2009, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celebrities-are-complete-bastards/481827/177 "2009-01-21T20:52:43Z")
On $40/Day, Rachel Ray often leaves what I consider to be an awfully small tip. Forego the cocktail, Rach, and pay your server! StG ---
**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:** [January 21, 2009, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celebrities-are-complete-bastards/481827/178 "2009-01-21T20:53:52Z")
It’s part of his punk-gone-grey shtik. He goes out of his way to make snarky remarks about other cooking/travel show hosts – Rachel Ray, Emeril Lagasse, Samantha Brown, Tyler Florence, Jamie Oliver, Bobby Flay, the Food Network in general, etc. He’s acknowledged that these people are probably wonderful people in real life, but he thinks their shows suck. ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2009, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celebrities-are-complete-bastards/481827/179 "2009-01-21T21:34:58Z")
As long as he doesn’t dis Alton Brown, I can live with that. ---
**Author:** ![FalconFinder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/51bf81/32.png) [@FalconFinder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FalconFinder)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2009, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celebrities-are-complete-bastards/481827/180 "2009-01-21T22:41:00Z")
No one better dis Alton! 🙂 As far as I’m concerned Davy Jones (of the Monkees) is a complete and utter prick to end all pricks. Back in the 80’s when the Monkees came around for a 25th anniversary tour, a friend and I got to go see them. She is someone who somehow finds out where celebrities will be and will go meet them if possible. Davy was neither of our favorite Monkee (I was a Mickey and Mike fan and she Peter), but he was signing his book in the mall near the venue where they were playing that night and we thought it would be cool to say we met one of the Monkees, so we went. Had to buy the book to be in line. He was nice to us as we got our autographs, so he wasn’t a jerk to me personally, but had I read the book before getting it signed, I probably would have just kicked him in the balls. Judging by what he wrote in this book (“They Made A Monkee Out Of Me”), you’d think that he was the only reason why the Monkees were popular, the show and world revolved around him, and that he was Mr Wonderful. Most of the book he talks about what chick he did and where it was on the set. I was nauseated after reading it. Peter Tork did a lot to overcome alcoholism and Davy would constantly give him crap about it. I heard a story where Peter had finally had enough of his crap and punched him in the face on some talk show. Wish I could have seen that! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celebrities-are-complete-bastards/481827.md?page=8) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celebrities-are-complete-bastards/481827.md?page=10)