Oh. Well. Goodness. I heard him talking about his songwriting and he sounded very kind and empathetic to people’s troubles. I don’t know anything about his politics, except that yes he did mention being for gay marriage, but not IMO in an asshole way.
But the main thing I find interesting is that you had a big Twitter conversation with him! That seems so astonishing to me. But then, I only use it to send text messages to my daughter.
At least among famous comedians, he certainly is. I don’t think people realize just how many of his jokes are stolen or how despised he is for it.
But he’s a terrifically gifted actor all the same.
I heard him explain the fatwa (at the interviewer’s request); I’ve never heard him endorse it. In these troubled times, a little interfaith dialogue is a good thing, not grounds for boycotting a guy’s music.
Hilary Swank is the devil’s spawn in real life and I will never ever see another movie with her in it regardless of how amazing a job she does. It is sad, because she really is a terrific actress but the way she treated me and fellow co-workers at the clothing store I used to work at makes her the lowest of the low in my world. You can tell a lot about a person by how they treat people in the service industry, and Hilary Swank is a horrible human being.
I don’t like Andy Dick and cannot understand why people are still offering him any work at all.
I didn’t even understand how he got work before I found out about his personal issues. He’s annoying drags down everything he’s in and by many accounts is hated by just about everyone. You know you’re a waste of life when Jon Lovitz kicks your ass.
Did he sell his soul to the devil or something?
Okay, you can’t say this and then not give details. Spill spill!
And was Chad Lowe with her or was this since the split?
Oh c’mon. Not even Satan wants Andy Dick hanging around.
Although it would make Hell more Hellish for the Damned…
“Yes, yes, all your friends are here, you can get laid any time, smoke anything you want, drink all the beer you want. But Andy Dick is here too.”
Kirk Cameron for being an obnoxious fundie asshole.
Almost any that want to preach to me.
Jenny McCarthy.
Bill Mahar seems like a complete and total asshole on and off the camera - even when I agree with him. I no more want to hear about his views on religion than I do Pat Robertson’s. I get it, you’re an atheist, shut up about it already. His interview in Playboy last year made him seem like such a smug asshole I’m guessing I’d want to punch him just for walking in. (want to, not would.)
I try to know as little as possible about celebrities’ private lives to avoid these issues.
Lindsay Lohan. I loathe her very existence.
Demi Moore (not lately since she basically disappeared from public view) and her little hubby Ashton.
Does Bill O’Reilly count? I only mention him because while channel surfing this morningI saw him flapping his gums in an interview with Paul Anka. Paul Anka! (nothing against PA, but come on!)
In the past - Huey Newton (though he’s disappeared, too) - just the sight of his watery eyes and wrinkled face, trying to be “cool” - get lost, old fart!
Amen to that. He also seems to be under the delusion he’s A-List. On a recent Larry King interview he made some comments like “I go to a couple of parties at the Playboy mansion and the next day all that anyone talks about is ‘did you see that Bill Maher was at the Playboy mansion’ as if everyone things I’m a total horndog”. Watching this I was wondering “who in the hell talks about Bill Maher’s sex life one way or the other?”
A bit behind Maher in line but for much the same reasons is Penn Jillette (of Penn & Teller). The TV show Bullshit! contains as much misinformation as they claim to be combating, leaving out facts that don’t support their findings (e.g. “Yes, there are more acres covered in trees today than there were a century ago, but they’re different kinds of trees and their effects on the environment/the ecosystems around them, etc., are completely different” or “Yes, etiquette coaches are a ridiculous elitist waste of time if by etiquette you mean someone should give a shit exactly how to hold a water glass, but not when you’re talking about common manners and things that people from other cultures find offensive [and may influence their decisions in a business lunch], etc.”. His blog on cracked dot com is as smug and self important as Maher.
His stupidity and ignorance deserve a twisting of his unseen nipples. When I particularly want to kick his nads is whenever he says “I used to be an atheist so I know how they think!”
He was 17 when he was supposedly an atheist (and what he was I’m guessing was far closer to irreligious). When I was 17 I lived on a farm so I guess that makes me an expert on the mindset of farmers everywhere. Plus, if he was an atheist and his critical thinking was on par with what it is today (the infamous “banana” proof, the use of Pascal’s Wager and Watchmaker as if he has absolutely no clue he’s not the one who came up with them or that there are refutations to both, or the Crockoduck) then his conviction was probably based on a coin toss in the first place.
What’s frustrating with people like him is that they have the time and presumably the money to actually study the subject they decide to devote the rest of their life to. He could go to seminary, take courses in theology, at very least read Christian and atheist apologetics to better know his arguments, but nope- no need to, he’s enough of an expert to have TV shows and try to proselytize without having a clue what he’s talking about. (At least Jenny McCarthy apparently read the abstracts of some scholarly articles on vaccines and autism, Kirk didn’t do that.)
Crockoduck?
Also: Like no atheists, conversely, used to be religious?
I think I could bring her back around to that bright, irrepressible pixie from Mean Girls!
Okay, I’m kidding myself.
Um, any chance you mean Huey Lewis?
So do I, but sometimes celebrities are invited to speak about issues I care about, or (worse) are trotted out as authorities/people I Should Pay Attention To, or they thrust themselves into issues that they clearly know nothing about (antivax). I would vastly prefer to hear nothing about them, but during the past several days, it seems that I can’t turn to any media and NOT hear about various aspects of Michael Jackson and how his life and death have affected the whole damn world. I didn’t care about him or his music when he was alive. I’m just not that into that genre. Now that he’s dead, I STILL don’t really care about him. But even a respected newspaper like the Dallas Morning News is running front page headlines and teasers about him.
Should they not? Regardless of whether you or I cared for him or his music, he was a figure with worldwide influence, and many others are reacting quite strongly to his death, which would seem to make it a major news story. I’d hardly consider that to make a newspaper non-respectworthy.
Here’s a relevant video (forward to about 2:05 to see the picture of this hypothetical creature).
For those who can’t access YouTube: Cameron suggests that because the crocoduck doesn’t exist, Darwin’s theory of evolution is refuted.
