# What celebrities would fit in best (or worst) with the culture of the SDMB? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 16, 2008, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celebrities-would-fit-in-best-or-worst-with-the-culture-of-the-sdmb/441551 "2008-03-16T14:48:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2008, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celebrities-would-fit-in-best-or-worst-with-the-culture-of-the-sdmb/441551/1 "2008-03-16T14:48:40Z")
Occasionally people hereabouts wonder if there are any famous persons among the Teeming Millions. Usually the consensus is “We’ll never know.” But imagine we could. Imagine if a star mentioned on _The Tonight Show_ that he does post hereabouts from time to time, even mentioning his screen name. What stars would fit in well? Who would be the target of endless pittings? My own nominations: Best: John Stewart. Worst: Tom Cruise. Anybody else? ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2008, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celebrities-would-fit-in-best-or-worst-with-the-culture-of-the-sdmb/441551/2 "2008-03-16T15:05:16Z")
I’ve long suspected Alton Brown and the Mythbusters guys (besides the one on the support staff that we know about, of course) are Dopers. If not, they all should be. ---
**Author:** ![Nawth\_Chucka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c57346/32.png) [@Nawth\_Chucka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nawth_Chucka)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2008, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celebrities-would-fit-in-best-or-worst-with-the-culture-of-the-sdmb/441551/3 "2008-03-16T15:07:16Z")
Best : Weird Al Yankovic Worst: John Stossel ---
**Author:** ![Bearflag70](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Bearflag70](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bearflag70)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2008, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celebrities-would-fit-in-best-or-worst-with-the-culture-of-the-sdmb/441551/4 "2008-03-16T15:08:07Z")
GOOD Weird Al Andy Partridge (XTC) William Shatner Drew Carey BAD Hilton, Spears, and the like Bush - Cheney Limbaugh, O’Reilly, Beck, and similar righties UNDECIDED Michael Moore, Huffington, and similar lefties ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2008, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celebrities-would-fit-in-best-or-worst-with-the-culture-of-the-sdmb/441551/5 "2008-03-16T15:14:34Z")
[QUOTE=Bearflag70] BAD Hilton, Spears, and the like [/QUOTE] Spears might be amusing. I seriously doubt she can use a computer and she’d probably dictate her posts to her personal assistant, who would probably hate her, and so would intersperse amusing parenthetical comments the former Mrs. Federline would not uderstand because of the tri-syallabic nature of their words. ---
**Author:** ![Qwertyasdfg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/ecc23a/32.png) [@Qwertyasdfg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qwertyasdfg)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2008, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celebrities-would-fit-in-best-or-worst-with-the-culture-of-the-sdmb/441551/6 "2008-03-16T15:19:17Z")
Best: Alan Alda ---
**Author:** ![koeeoaddi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/koeeoaddi/32/408_2.png) [@koeeoaddi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/koeeoaddi)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2008, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celebrities-would-fit-in-best-or-worst-with-the-culture-of-the-sdmb/441551/7 "2008-03-16T15:21:51Z")
Great potential Dopers: Mike Nelson Anthony Bourdain P.J. O’Rourke Armistead Maupin Poor Doper candidates: Dr. Laura James Frey Jon Edwards Sylvia Browne Kevin Trudeau Terrifying Doper: Florence King ---
**Author:** ![Argent\_Towers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e8c25b/32.png) [@Argent\_Towers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Argent_Towers)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2008, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celebrities-would-fit-in-best-or-worst-with-the-culture-of-the-sdmb/441551/8 "2008-03-16T15:31:26Z")
Dave Barry!!! ---
**Author:** ![Illuminatiprimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/illuminatiprimus/32/11520_2.png) [@Illuminatiprimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Illuminatiprimus)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2008, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celebrities-would-fit-in-best-or-worst-with-the-culture-of-the-sdmb/441551/9 "2008-03-16T15:40:03Z")
If Ann Coulter touched this board it would probably collapse into a black hole. I’d quite like to see the cast of Torchwood here, if only to defend some of their lame acting. ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2008, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celebrities-would-fit-in-best-or-worst-with-the-culture-of-the-sdmb/441551/10 "2008-03-16T17:26:44Z")
I actually disagree with Jon Stewart and William Shatner. I like them both, but I don’t think they’d like it here. Margaret Cho would love it here. Trey Parker and Matt Stone, despite the deluge of South Park fans, would hate it here. ---
**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:** [March 16, 2008, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celebrities-would-fit-in-best-or-worst-with-the-culture-of-the-sdmb/441551/11 "2008-03-16T17:26:52Z")
I have a small suspicion that Max Brooks is a doper—little elements from his books. Things he said. No way of proving it, of course. And I wouldn’t want him “outted” if he didn’t want to. Anyway…TV Tropes comes to the rescue, once again, [under the listing for “Bunny Ears Lawyer,” subsection “Truth in Television.” Mostly under the scientists.](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BunnyEarsLawyer) [Paul Erdos](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Erd%C5%91s) jumps out of the page, particularly. Though some of the others strike me as the sort of guys who’d end up getting banned, eventually, although people’d say for years later about how they kinda missed 'em. ---
**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:** [March 16, 2008, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celebrities-would-fit-in-best-or-worst-with-the-culture-of-the-sdmb/441551/12 "2008-03-16T17:26:52Z")
Wil Wheaton would fit right in. ---
**Author:** ![pbbth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f9ae1b/32.png) [@pbbth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pbbth)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2008, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celebrities-would-fit-in-best-or-worst-with-the-culture-of-the-sdmb/441551/13 "2008-03-16T17:57:01Z")
Christopher Walken would fit in here very well. ---
**Author:** ![bibliophage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bibliophage/32/7615_2.png) [@bibliophage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bibliophage)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2008, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celebrities-would-fit-in-best-or-worst-with-the-culture-of-the-sdmb/441551/14 "2008-03-16T17:58:01Z")
Best: Martin Gardner, Terry Pratchett Worst: my top choices (John Edward, Sylvia Browne, and Ann Coulter) were all mentioned above. I really don’t think Michael Moore would fit in but I wouldn’t rank him among the very worst either. [QUOTE=Ranchoth] [Paul Erdos](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Erd%C5%91s) jumps out of the page, particularly. [/QUOTE] He’s ineligible. You might say his number came up. ---
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2008, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celebrities-would-fit-in-best-or-worst-with-the-culture-of-the-sdmb/441551/15 "2008-03-16T19:25:06Z")
How about Drew Barrymore? I think William Hague would make an excellent Doper, as would Antony Wedgewood-Benn. ---
**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:** [March 16, 2008, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celebrities-would-fit-in-best-or-worst-with-the-culture-of-the-sdmb/441551/16 "2008-03-16T19:25:59Z")
[QUOTE=bibliophage] He’s ineligible. You might say his number came up. [/QUOTE] Ah, but the OP did not, specifically _say_ that dead people weren’t allowed. A reasonable person might have _inferred_ it, and perhaps even _should_ have. But it wasn’t, technically, on the books. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2008, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celebrities-would-fit-in-best-or-worst-with-the-culture-of-the-sdmb/441551/17 "2008-03-16T19:30:36Z")
Good–Bill Cosby Bad–Karl Rove (I don’t think he would approve of the concept of “cite?”) ---
**Author:** ![drachillix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/48db29/32.png) [@drachillix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drachillix)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2008, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celebrities-would-fit-in-best-or-worst-with-the-culture-of-the-sdmb/441551/18 "2008-03-16T20:00:08Z")
Quite a few comedians might be interesting additions, Margaret Cho was already mentioned, although her debating skills are occasionally crippled by drugs/alcohol we know shes willing to fight the good fight. George Carlin might be an interesting addition as well as Chris Rock. Penn & Teller Criss Angel Hardly mainstream celebs but I would love to see the likes of James Randi, and or Michael Shermer here. Wouldn’t shock me to hear either or both have at least cruised the place a time or two. I would actually love to see some of the other side of the fence here too…bring out the Phelps clan, Coulter, Nancy Grace, or Sylvia Browne. Tell me it wouldn’t be fabulous to watch a selection or two from either side of this list crossing swords in GD. ---
**Author:** ![Silver\_Tyger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/fbc32d/32.png) [@Silver\_Tyger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silver_Tyger)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2008, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celebrities-would-fit-in-best-or-worst-with-the-culture-of-the-sdmb/441551/19 "2008-03-16T20:40:02Z")
I dunno about James Randi. I respect him, but he seems like kind of a jerk sometimes. Mark Hamill would be great. And Bruce Timm and Paul Dini. Frank Miller or Rob Liefield would get themselves banned so fast. I’d like to see Kevin Smith or Warren Ellis. Heh, could you imagine a pitting from Mr. Ellis? It’d be the most lyrical bit of swearing ever. ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2008, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celebrities-would-fit-in-best-or-worst-with-the-culture-of-the-sdmb/441551/20 "2008-03-16T22:05:28Z")
[QUOTE=Nawth Chucka] Worst: John Stossel [/QUOTE] Actually, there are quite a few libertarians around…I think he’d be fine. Just once, I’d love for Fred Phelps to start a thread…the trainwreck would be spectacular. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celebrities-would-fit-in-best-or-worst-with-the-culture-of-the-sdmb/441551.md?page=2)