# Who would you vote for as the stupidest real person on television? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 5, 2008, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-you-vote-for-as-the-stupidest-real-person-on-television/448210 "2008-05-05T23:11:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![DiggitCamara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/df788c/32.png) [@DiggitCamara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DiggitCamara)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2008, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-you-vote-for-as-the-stupidest-real-person-on-television/448210/41 "2008-05-06T15:32:20Z")
[QUOTE=Sampiro] Living proof that a reasonably well trained beagle could get a law degree. [/QUOTE] Nope. Snoopy never was trained. (And he was thrown out of school when he tried to attend classes) ---
**Author:** ![D\_Odds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/d_odds/32/2882_2.png) [@D\_Odds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Odds)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2008, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-you-vote-for-as-the-stupidest-real-person-on-television/448210/42 "2008-05-06T15:41:58Z")
I wasn’t aware of Sherri Shepherd before this thread. Though I watch _30 Rock_, I never paid attention to the actress who played Tracy Jordan’s wife, and don’t even know her first name on the show, let alone the name of the actress playing her. Plus, you couldn’t pay me to watch _The View_…okay, you could pay me to watch it, but it wouldn’t be cheap. Now I’ve read this thread, and I’m wondering how this woman finds work more challenging than emptying trash cans. Her level of stupidity is astounding. It’s not like she was being asked tough questions, nor should a “professional” get flustered in front of a camera like a _Wheel of Fortune_ contestant. Is she on to make the viewers feel better about themselves? Or is there a large enough segment of the population to whom she connects? If the latter, can someone stop the world so I can get off? ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2008, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-you-vote-for-as-the-stupidest-real-person-on-television/448210/43 "2008-05-06T15:58:21Z")
[QUOTE=Sampiro] Speaking of Homer Simpson- :smack: Doh! [/QUOTE] I’m sorry. You must have him confused with a character in a fictional TV show. ---
**Author:** ![WolfpackJeep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpackjeep/32/2921_2.png) [@WolfpackJeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WolfpackJeep)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2008, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-you-vote-for-as-the-stupidest-real-person-on-television/448210/44 "2008-05-06T16:18:09Z")
I came in to mention Sherri Shepherd and Elisabeth Hasselbeck…though I think Shepherd deserves the “stupidest real TV person” award. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2008, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-you-vote-for-as-the-stupidest-real-person-on-television/448210/45 "2008-05-06T18:45:15Z")
[QUOTE=Starving Artist] Kendra Wilkinson…Hugh Hefner’s youngest dingbat on _The Girls Next Door_. [/QUOTE] Holy crap, how did I forget about her? It takes a lot of stupid to make OTHER Playboy bunnies look smart, but Kendra does it. Compared to her, the other two are like Marie Curie and Rosalind Franklin. ---
**Author:** ![iamthewalrus\_3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/258eb7/32.png) [@iamthewalrus\_3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iamthewalrus_3)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2008, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-you-vote-for-as-the-stupidest-real-person-on-television/448210/46 "2008-05-06T19:00:43Z")
I vote for Sherri Shepherd as well. A few Youtube links to bring the doubters over. [Sherri on the flat earth](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNC117UYsHs) [Sherri on ancient history](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4JQJ-2EIDk) ---
**Author:** ![D\_Odds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/d_odds/32/2882_2.png) [@D\_Odds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Odds)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2008, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-you-vote-for-as-the-stupidest-real-person-on-television/448210/47 "2008-05-06T19:23:38Z")
Does that woman not realize how stupid she is? If I had any inkling I was half as stupid as she is, I would not broadcast it worldwide daily. ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2008, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-you-vote-for-as-the-stupidest-real-person-on-television/448210/48 "2008-05-06T20:03:04Z")
Last time I saw an episode of the View, it still had its original panel, don’t watch 30 Rock, etc, so I had no idea who Sherri Shepherd was until this thread. … My lord, that woman is a turnip. Kind of a cute turnip, but still a turnip. ---
**Author:** ![Swallowed\_My\_Cellphone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9d8465/32.png) [@Swallowed\_My\_Cellphone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Swallowed_My_Cellphone)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2008, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-you-vote-for-as-the-stupidest-real-person-on-television/448210/49 "2008-05-06T20:35:58Z")
[QUOTE=Fiver] Sherry “There were no people before there were Christians” Shepherd. In a walk. [/QUOTE] Oh, yeah. I have to a agree with Sherry “Flat Earth, I never voted because I never knew the dates or anything” Shepherd too. Dumber than a box of hair. ---
**Author:** ![Rick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9f8e36/32.png) [@Rick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2008, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-you-vote-for-as-the-stupidest-real-person-on-television/448210/50 "2008-05-06T22:20:27Z")
[QUOTE=iamthewalrus(:3=] I vote for Sherri Shepherd as well. A few Youtube links to bring the doubters over. [Sherri on the flat earth](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNC117UYsHs) [Sherri on ancient history](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4JQJ-2EIDk) [/QUOTE] Good lord. I don’t watch most of the programs listed in this thread, but after watching those two clips, I am at a loss to understand how that woman’s brain generates enough electricity to keep one foot falling in front of the other. ---
**Author:** ![Cardinal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cardinal/32/4000_2.png) [@Cardinal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardinal)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2008, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-you-vote-for-as-the-stupidest-real-person-on-television/448210/51 "2008-05-06T22:45:16Z")
[QUOTE=Larry Mudd] My money remains on Larry King, who at a glance _appears_ to be a senescent old man selected at random from a nursing home – except that as near as I can make out, he’s been dribbling out his senile nonsense since… when was it he first entered my consciousness as the Archetype of babbling senility? Was it really _1983?_ [/QUOTE] My friend interviewed Larry for Japanese tv in Larry’s studio and I got to go along. He pointedly said that he just asks questions and listens to the answers. This is the kind of thought-out style that lets him nod along as Paris Hilton tells him that she’s never done drugs. Oh vey. ---
**Author:** ![WolfpackJeep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpackjeep/32/2921_2.png) [@WolfpackJeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WolfpackJeep)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2008, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-you-vote-for-as-the-stupidest-real-person-on-television/448210/52 "2008-05-06T23:09:23Z")
[QUOTE=Starving Artist] Kendra Wilkinson…Hugh Hefner’s youngest dingbat on _The Girls Next Door_. [/QUOTE] Is she the one with that really horrible laugh? ---
**Author:** ![MaxTheVool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MaxTheVool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MaxTheVool)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2008, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-you-vote-for-as-the-stupidest-real-person-on-television/448210/53 "2008-05-06T23:41:37Z")
Is she dumber than that Miss Teen South Carolina person from a while back with the youtube answer about why education is important? Because my lord she was dumb. ---
**Author:** ![Swallowed\_My\_Cellphone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9d8465/32.png) [@Swallowed\_My\_Cellphone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Swallowed_My_Cellphone)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2008, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-you-vote-for-as-the-stupidest-real-person-on-television/448210/54 "2008-05-07T00:32:37Z")
[QUOTE=MaxTheVool] Is she dumber than that Miss Teen South Carolina person from a while back with the youtube answer about why education is important? Because my lord she was dumb. [/QUOTE] If you’re referring to Shepherd, during early election coverage she said she has never once voted because she “didn’t know the dates and stuff”. So, I would say “yes”. Yes, she is dumber than Miss Teen What’s-Her-Dumbass. A teenager freezing on live TV and having a monumental brainfart, is a comical one-off. Sherpherd’s stupidity is a chronic condition. ---
**Author:** ![OtakuLoki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ac8455/32.png) [@OtakuLoki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OtakuLoki)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2008, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-you-vote-for-as-the-stupidest-real-person-on-television/448210/55 "2008-05-07T01:13:54Z")
I wish I could believe that Sherri Shepard had been carefully chosen after a thorough search meant to find the most embarrassing, cringe-producing, ignorant, and just plain wrong Christian as part of some Machiavellian plot to discredit Christians in general. Unfortunately, as they didn’t select one of the women in the Phelps clan, that’s more than sufficient to discredit that scenario. Egads. I’d love to get her to fill out a short essay about the history of the world. Really. Just to figure out what she does think happened. ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2008, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-you-vote-for-as-the-stupidest-real-person-on-television/448210/56 "2008-05-07T01:24:40Z")
Flavah Flav, hands down. ---
**Author:** ![Frostillicus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Frostillicus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frostillicus)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2008, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-you-vote-for-as-the-stupidest-real-person-on-television/448210/57 "2008-05-07T02:04:55Z")
[QUOTE=D\_Odds] Does that woman not realize how stupid she is? If I had any inkling I was half as stupid as she is, I would not broadcast it worldwide daily. [/QUOTE] She had better shape up before the \*\*Black Crusaders \*\* get on her ass. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![PunditLisa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/4af34b/32.png) [@PunditLisa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PunditLisa)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2008, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-you-vote-for-as-the-stupidest-real-person-on-television/448210/58 "2008-05-07T02:10:01Z")
[QUOTE=Sitnam] Flavah Flav, hands down. [/QUOTE] 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2008, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-you-vote-for-as-the-stupidest-real-person-on-television/448210/59 "2008-05-07T02:30:44Z")
[QUOTE=Sitnam] Flavah Flav, hands down. [/QUOTE] As mind numbingly stupid as Flav **or** Flav is, the women on his show are much, much less intelligent than he is. (Yeah, I watched it a few times. I’m unemployed and bored silly. Then this scummy material started seeping through my TV and I had to bleach my entire apartment to get rid of it.) ---
**Author:** ![JThunder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e95f7d/32.png) [@JThunder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JThunder)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2008, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-you-vote-for-as-the-stupidest-real-person-on-television/448210/60 "2008-05-07T02:41:42Z")
[QUOTE=Jeep’s Phoenix] > [@Starving Artist](#): > > Kendra Wilkinson…Hugh Hefner’s youngest dingbat on The Girls Next Door Is she the one with that really horrible laugh? [/QUOTE] I believe that she’s the vacuous blonde. Does that help? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-you-vote-for-as-the-stupidest-real-person-on-television/448210.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-you-vote-for-as-the-stupidest-real-person-on-television/448210.md?page=4)