# Which of these MALE celebrities is least like the others? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [April 1, 2015, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-of-these-male-celebrities-is-least-like-the-others/716517 "2015-04-01T17:03:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2015, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-of-these-male-celebrities-is-least-like-the-others/716517/1 "2015-04-01T17:03:10Z")
With the relative success of [Which of these female celebrities is least like the others?](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=752952) maybe we can let the guys in on the fun. Again, use your own criteria and pick the ONE who is/was least like the others on the list. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2015, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-of-these-male-celebrities-is-least-like-the-others/716517/2 "2015-04-01T17:30:00Z")
Lance Armstrong: Least Entertaining. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2015, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-of-these-male-celebrities-is-least-like-the-others/716517/3 "2015-04-01T17:37:21Z")
> [@Ethilrist](#): > > Lance Armstrong: Least Entertaining. Guy’s shot out to an early lead already! ---
**Author:** ![JKilez](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e5b9ba/32.png) [@JKilez](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKilez)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2015, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-of-these-male-celebrities-is-least-like-the-others/716517/4 "2015-04-01T17:45:52Z")
Gus Grissom is the only one who has first and last names starting with the same letter. Obviously, the oddball of the group. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2015, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-of-these-male-celebrities-is-least-like-the-others/716517/5 "2015-04-01T18:02:26Z")
Easy. Only one of these is an actual hero and contributed anything of real value in my opinion. ---
**Author:** ![MrSquishy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b9e5f3/32.png) [@MrSquishy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrSquishy)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2015, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-of-these-male-celebrities-is-least-like-the-others/716517/6 "2015-04-01T18:38:36Z")
John Holmes. He’s the only one whose cock I’ve seen pictures of. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2015, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-of-these-male-celebrities-is-least-like-the-others/716517/7 "2015-04-01T19:02:44Z")
> [@MrSquishy](#): > > John Holmes. He’s the only one whose cock I’ve seen pictures of. Most Excellent username / post combination. FYI there are pills now that can actually improve “squishiness” 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2015, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-of-these-male-celebrities-is-least-like-the-others/716517/8 "2015-04-01T23:33:01Z")
> [@MrSquishy](#): > > John Holmes. He’s the only one whose cock I’ve seen pictures of. Does this mean you’ve seen some of the others _in person?_ :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Hail\_Ants](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/dc4da7/32.png) [@Hail\_Ants](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hail_Ants)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2015, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-of-these-male-celebrities-is-least-like-the-others/716517/9 "2015-04-02T02:32:43Z")
Pretty easy distinction here: **John Holmes**. All the others had significant talent in some way or the other. Having a huge schlong isn’t a talent, just (sort of) lucky genetics. He wasn’t even that great of a porn performer. His hog was so big he could never really get it ‘up’. Plus he was a low-life criminal drug addict, and hedonistically died of AIDS… ---
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2015, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-of-these-male-celebrities-is-least-like-the-others/716517/10 "2015-04-02T02:46:19Z")
Tom Cruise. He’s the only superhero. ---
**Author:** ![Kiros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/439d5e/32.png) [@Kiros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kiros)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2015, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-of-these-male-celebrities-is-least-like-the-others/716517/11 "2015-04-02T03:23:28Z")
Alan Ladd, because he’s the only one I had to Wiki to know WTF he was. High standards, here. ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2015, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-of-these-male-celebrities-is-least-like-the-others/716517/12 "2015-04-02T03:29:19Z")
Rush Limbaugh, because as least as many of his Google hits are “hate” hits as like hits. Even Lance Armstrong’s sad decline has left him more to be pitied than censured. Limbaugh actively seeks to piss off people because it ensures him of an audience. It’s less that he’s intrinsically unlikable, as that he’s built his career around “love me, or hate me, but you keep coming back.” ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2015, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-of-these-male-celebrities-is-least-like-the-others/716517/13 "2015-04-02T16:40:18Z")
John Holmes. All the others had to exercise their talents to achieve success. Holmes pretty much fucked his way through life. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2015, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-of-these-male-celebrities-is-least-like-the-others/716517/14 "2015-04-02T18:44:25Z")
> [@JKilez](#): > > Gus Grissom is the only one who has first and last names starting with the same letter. Obviously, the oddball of the group. Why did the GG not jump right out at me?! :smack: I said Lance because he’s the only criminal there. That I know of. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2015, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-of-these-male-celebrities-is-least-like-the-others/716517/15 "2015-04-02T18:53:43Z")
I’m impressed with the OP’s talent for picking a diverse pool of contestants. Each is unique in some obvious way, but none are standout uniquer (?:eek:) than the others. I’m going to say Will Rogers. Why? Both in his own time, and still to the present day he’s uncontroversial. AFAIK, and I admit showbiz & celebrity gossip is far from area of expertise. All the others are in some way a fallen angel. Or as **RivkahChaya** said so well about Limbaugh, controversy is his stock in trade. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2015, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-of-these-male-celebrities-is-least-like-the-others/716517/16 "2015-04-02T19:08:39Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > I’m impressed with the OP’s talent for picking a diverse pool of contestants. Each is unique in some obvious way, but none are standout uniquer (?:eek:) than the others… Thanks for the compliment, but it was a more or less random selection of names. If it matters, my pick was Limbaugh. 🙂 It’s interesting that thus far, nobody has picked The Babe. ---
**Author:** ![BlankSlate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blankslate/32/80_2.png) [@BlankSlate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlankSlate)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2015, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-of-these-male-celebrities-is-least-like-the-others/716517/17 "2015-04-02T19:11:38Z")
Abraham Lincoln ---
**Author:** ![MrSquishy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b9e5f3/32.png) [@MrSquishy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrSquishy)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2015, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-of-these-male-celebrities-is-least-like-the-others/716517/18 "2015-04-02T19:58:04Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > Does this mean you’ve seen some of the others _in person?_ :eek: Hmm, I wasn’t sure how to word it. I was afraid if I just said “whose cock I’ve seen”, **that** would make it sound like I had seen it in person. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2015, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-of-these-male-celebrities-is-least-like-the-others/716517/19 "2015-04-02T19:59:52Z")
> [@BlankSlate](#): > > Abraham Lincoln The only thing unique about him is that he’s not on the list. But he shares that distinction with about 3.5 billion alive guys & another umpteen billion dead guys. So he’s not as unique as all that. ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2015, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-of-these-male-celebrities-is-least-like-the-others/716517/20 "2015-04-02T21:02:49Z")
I went with Gus Grissom as the others are, at least in part, famous for being famous; being a celebrity is one of their major accomplishments. I don’t see Gus Grissom as falling into that pattern. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-of-these-male-celebrities-is-least-like-the-others/716517.md?page=2)