# Who is this person?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-this-person/337178>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [December 25, 2005, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-this-person/337178 "2005-12-25T18:09:32Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![cmkeller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmkeller/32/118_2.png) [@cmkeller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmkeller)\
**Post date:** [December 25, 2005, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-this-person/337178/1 "2005-12-25T18:09:32Z")

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The guy whose photo is the face, on the bottom line. Maybe if I recognized the face, I’d get the joke.

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[http://www.comics.com/comics/monty/archive/monty-20051225.html](http://www.comics.com/comics/monty/archive/monty-20051225.html)

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**Author:** ![cmkeller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmkeller/32/118_2.png) [@cmkeller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmkeller)\
**Post date:** [December 25, 2005, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-this-person/337178/2 "2005-12-25T18:12:41Z")

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Make that [http://www.comics.com/comics/monty/archive/monty-20051225.html](http://www.comics.com/comics/monty/archive/monty-20051225.html)

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**Author:** ![Brynda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e79b87/32.png) [@Brynda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brynda)\
**Post date:** [December 25, 2005, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-this-person/337178/3 "2005-12-25T18:15:20Z")

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Simon Cowell, the often-mean judge on Americal Idol.

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**Author:** ![Nic2004](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/4491bb/32.png) [@Nic2004](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nic2004)\
**Post date:** [December 25, 2005, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-this-person/337178/4 "2005-12-25T18:15:51Z")

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American Idol judge Simon?

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**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\
**Post date:** [December 25, 2005, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-this-person/337178/5 "2005-12-25T23:14:46Z")

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The joke being, of course, that he’ll judge their carol singing too harshly.

Ahaha.