# What's the dumbest thing a celebrity has ever said? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 26, 2001, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-dumbest-thing-a-celebrity-has-ever-said/89859 "2001-10-26T20:45:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Billy\_Baroo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/76d3ee/32.png) [@Billy\_Baroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Billy_Baroo)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2001, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-dumbest-thing-a-celebrity-has-ever-said/89859/61 "2001-10-31T23:01:58Z")
\Streisand’s first name is spelled ‘Barbra’\ One of the funnier bits they do on the Stern show is goofing on celebrity real audio during Robin’s news report. Apparently the media and/or public want to hear celebrity opinions on many subjects, including current events, and the Wack Pack don’t hesitate to mine that comedy gold. Warms my schadenfreude heart. F Jackie! ---
**Author:** ![middleman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9a140/32.png) [@middleman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/middleman)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2001, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-dumbest-thing-a-celebrity-has-ever-said/89859/62 "2001-11-01T14:29:16Z")
After his first game back the other night, MJ had this to say: [paraphrase] They (referring to the Knicks) are a veteran team. Like any veteran team they know that the third quarter is the most important part of the beginning of the second half.[/paraphrase] Now granted this man had just run up and down the court for 48 minutes… ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2001, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-dumbest-thing-a-celebrity-has-ever-said/89859/63 "2001-11-01T15:55:39Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Biggirl \* > \*\*Brooke Shields, paraphrased from memory: > > It’s a terrible thing to die because when you die you lose a big part of your life. \*\* Close. The actual quote was this: “Smoking kills. If you’re killed, you’ve lost a very important part of your life.” -Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking campaign. [sub]And it was the first thing I thought of, too.[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Blacksheepsmith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f19dbf/32.png) [@Blacksheepsmith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blacksheepsmith)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2001, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-dumbest-thing-a-celebrity-has-ever-said/89859/64 "2001-11-01T16:11:47Z")
This post has been floating for a while now, and I think Jennifer Love takes it, by sheer weight and accumulation. ---
**Author:** ![cmburns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4491bb/32.png) [@cmburns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmburns)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2001, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-dumbest-thing-a-celebrity-has-ever-said/89859/65 "2001-11-01T17:51:14Z")
I don’t know if either of these are true, but they are pretty funny. Tabitha Soren of MTV, when Thelonius Monk was mentioned: “Who is the loneliest monk?” Jason Kidd, when traded to another franchise: “We’re going to turn this team around 360 degrees.” ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2001, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-dumbest-thing-a-celebrity-has-ever-said/89859/66 "2001-11-01T20:58:44Z")
Bush the elder once claimed that September 7 was Pearl Harbor Day. And Quayle’s version of the UNCF slogan was, “What a waste it is to lose one’s mind. Or, having no mind can be very wasteful. How true that is.” Dubya once stated that Jeb was the governor of Texas. Did he take your job away from you, George? ---
**Author:** ![KarlGauss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/karlgauss/32/3713_2.png) [@KarlGauss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KarlGauss)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2001, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-dumbest-thing-a-celebrity-has-ever-said/89859/67 "2001-11-01T21:15:16Z")
Taken from [this site](http://www.recordonline.com/archive/2001/09/17/rdp16.htm): > [@](#): > > “This **crusade** , this war on terrorism, is going to take awhile. And American people must be patient,” Bush said. > > (emphasis added) The fall out from that one word continues. ---
**Author:** ![PunditLisa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/4af34b/32.png) [@PunditLisa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PunditLisa)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2001, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-dumbest-thing-a-celebrity-has-ever-said/89859/68 "2001-11-02T14:38:27Z")
Funny, my contribution is also from Barbra Streisand who has the dubious distinction of being both the biggest nose AND the biggest mouth in Hollywood. Gushing about the youthful Andre Agassi, whom she had been following around like a love-sick puppy: “(Agassi) is mature beyond his linear years.” So was Lolita, Babs. It still makes you one sick chick. ---
**Author:** ![Janet\_O](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d07c76/32.png) [@Janet\_O](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Janet_O)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2001, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-dumbest-thing-a-celebrity-has-ever-said/89859/69 "2001-11-03T16:49:58Z")
I believe it was Lyndon Johnson who referred to **Malcolm X** as **Malcolm the 10th** ---
**Author:** ![Punchdrunk\_Lovesick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/9fc29f/32.png) [@Punchdrunk\_Lovesick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Punchdrunk_Lovesick)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2001, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-dumbest-thing-a-celebrity-has-ever-said/89859/70 "2001-11-03T19:07:03Z")
I don’t know about the validity of this one, since there are so many variations out there, but says Shaq: “My game is like the Pythagorean Theorem. It can’t be solved.” Variations: There is no answer. No one has an answer. It’s unsolvable. No one understands it. No one knows the answer. No one has found the answer. ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2001, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-dumbest-thing-a-celebrity-has-ever-said/89859/71 "2001-11-03T21:50:04Z")
Melanie Griffith, after researching a role she was to play in the WW II spy movie Shining Through, said, “Hey, do you know the Nazis killed 6 million people? Umm, that’s a lot of people!” ---
**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2001, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-dumbest-thing-a-celebrity-has-ever-said/89859/72 "2001-11-04T04:40:05Z")
lieu, Bizarrely enough, the story about Al Gore being the inspiration for _Love Story_ is mostly true. See the following URL (or any of a number of others that you can find in a Google search): [http://www.coxnews.com/2000/news/cox/040900\_list.html](http://www.coxnews.com/2000/news/cox/040900_list.html) Erich Segal knew Al Gore and Tommy Lee Jones when they were roommates at Harvard, and he did base the character of Oliver on them. He didn’t base the character of Jennifer on Tipper, though. ---
**Author:** ![psychogumby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c0e974/32.png) [@psychogumby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychogumby)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2001, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-dumbest-thing-a-celebrity-has-ever-said/89859/73 "2001-11-04T20:59:05Z")
The schoolteacher aboard Space Shuttle Challenger: “um, what does this button do?” ---
**Author:** ![5\_time\_champ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/5/278dde/32.png) [@5\_time\_champ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/5_time_champ)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2001, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-dumbest-thing-a-celebrity-has-ever-said/89859/74 "2001-11-05T00:51:13Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Mahaloth \* > \*\*Al Gore, when watching Michale Jordan play in 1998: “Wow! That Michael Jackson is amazing!” > > \*\* Hey, Mahaloth, we all make mistakes, don’t we? ---
**Author:** ![carpoon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bc79bd/32.png) [@carpoon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carpoon)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2001, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-dumbest-thing-a-celebrity-has-ever-said/89859/75 "2001-11-08T18:35:52Z")
I’ve heard one atributed to Rebecca Romjin-Stamos: “I feel like Louie Armstrong when he first stepped on the moon” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-dumbest-thing-a-celebrity-has-ever-said/89859.md?page=3)