# Who's that guy next to Whoopi? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 25, 2009, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-that-guy-next-to-whoopi/511451 "2009-09-25T01:48:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![voguevixen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b5ac83/32.png) [@voguevixen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/voguevixen)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2009, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-that-guy-next-to-whoopi/511451/21 "2009-09-26T15:58:06Z")
> [@KneadToKnow](#): > > She’s the center square. That’s Paul Lynde, MORON! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Bijou\_Drains](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bijou_drains/32/2814_2.png) [@Bijou\_Drains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bijou_Drains)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2009, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-that-guy-next-to-whoopi/511451/22 "2009-09-26T18:06:40Z")
I did not recognize Jesse James at first and I’ve seen him a lot before. ---
**Author:** ![gardentraveler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gardentraveler/32/3576_2.png) [@gardentraveler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gardentraveler)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2009, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-that-guy-next-to-whoopi/511451/23 "2009-09-26T19:11:08Z")
Thank you for asking this, **Serenata67**! It’s been bugging me too. I should have recognized Phil Jackson. Jesse James, not so much. I knew his name, and that he was married to Sandra Bullock, but didn’t know what he looked like. ---
**Author:** ![Serenata67](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/serenata67/32/10646_2.png) [@Serenata67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Serenata67)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2009, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-that-guy-next-to-whoopi/511451/24 "2009-09-27T02:17:00Z")
> [@voguevixen](#): > > HA! > > The tragedy is that we all know who Whoopi is. That _is_ tragic… ---
**Author:** ![Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tim_r.mortiss/32/142_2.png) [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_R.Mortiss)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2009, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-that-guy-next-to-whoopi/511451/25 "2009-09-27T17:17:14Z")
I only know Whoopi from _Star Trek_. Has she done anything else? 😉 …TRM ---
**Author:** ![Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a9a28c/32.png) [@Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oslo_Ostragoth)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2009, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-that-guy-next-to-whoopi/511451/26 "2009-09-29T05:11:30Z")
> [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](#): > > That’s funny because I didn’t recognize Jessie James in the ad either. I’ve seen enough of Apprentice that I shoulda known. Jesse was on The Apprentice?!?!? And the Donald still walks among us?!?!? Surely he beat him to a pulp and the whole thing was covered up… ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2009, 5:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-that-guy-next-to-whoopi/511451/27 "2009-09-29T05:57:24Z")
The Coach would’ve fired The Donald with a barely-interested glare. ---
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2009, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-that-guy-next-to-whoopi/511451/28 "2009-09-29T14:50:42Z")
I only recognized Whoopi but figured the other two were supposed to be minor celebs of some sort. ---
**Author:** ![StGermain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stgermain/32/2868_2.png) [@StGermain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StGermain)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2009, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-that-guy-next-to-whoopi/511451/29 "2009-09-29T17:38:25Z")
See, I thought Phil Jackson was Tom Selleck, and the beach scene was Hawaii. StG ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2009, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-that-guy-next-to-whoopi/511451/30 "2009-09-30T18:42:28Z")
What I can’t figure out is why they didn’t get Bud Cort for this commercial. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2009, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-that-guy-next-to-whoopi/511451/31 "2009-09-30T22:49:00Z")
> [@KneadToKnow](#): > > What I can’t figure out is why they didn’t get Bud Cort for this commercial. Have you seen him lately? Ruth Gordon would be as good a choice. I’m just surprised Cat’s licensing his music to I-Phone. ---
**Author:** ![Serenata67](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/serenata67/32/10646_2.png) [@Serenata67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Serenata67)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2009, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-that-guy-next-to-whoopi/511451/32 "2009-10-01T02:59:37Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > Have you seen him lately? Ruth Gordon would be as good a choice. > > I’m just surprised Cat’s licensing his music to I-Phone. I couldn’t believe that either. Even he needs to eat, I guess. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2009, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-that-guy-next-to-whoopi/511451/33 "2009-10-01T03:27:53Z")
> [@Serenata67](#): > > I couldn’t believe that either. Even he needs to eat, I guess. More surprising: he and Dolly Parton are friends. I doubt it’s the “call me at 3 a.m. just to chat” variety, but they’ve been photographed in London and seem to have bonded when she recorded Peace Train a few years back. Can you think of an odder twosome? ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2009, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-that-guy-next-to-whoopi/511451/34 "2009-10-01T04:55:41Z")
(sullen) I like Bud Cort, despite “Harold and Maude,” which required a recasting of “Maude” to be interesting. ---
**Author:** ![palindromemordnilap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/db5fbb/32.png) [@palindromemordnilap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/palindromemordnilap)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2009, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-that-guy-next-to-whoopi/511451/35 "2009-10-01T13:17:37Z")
> [@StGermain](#): > > See, I thought Phil Jackson was Tom Selleck, and the beach scene was Hawaii. > > StG Funny, I thought Whoopi was Selleck. Never could tell those two apart. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Skammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skammer/32/143_2.png) [@Skammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skammer)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2009, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-that-guy-next-to-whoopi/511451/36 "2009-10-01T14:01:33Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > This thread echoes the conversation at Casa Silenus when we first saw this ad: > > Wife: “Who is the guy next to Whoopi?” > > Me (amazed): “That’s Phil Jackson, you philistine. Who is the guy on the end?” > > Wife: “That’s Jesse James, you moron.” 😃 This is almost verbatim the exchange I had with my wife. Me: Who the hell is that guy? Wife: I have no idea. Weird they would put him in there with Whoope and Jesse James. Me: 😕 Jesse who? ---
**Author:** ![LurkMeister](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3da27b/32.png) [@LurkMeister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LurkMeister)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2009, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-that-guy-next-to-whoopi/511451/37 "2009-10-01T15:09:00Z")
I didn’t know either one of them, at least by sight. Now that I know who they are I recognize their names. I don’t follow sports so even though I’m a (former) life-long Chicagoan I wouldn’t know Phil Jackson by sight, having only seen him in passing on the news. And I vaguely remember seeing commercials for some show that Jesse James was on, and the name stuck in my mind because it was the same as the old outlaw. I had no idea he was married to Sandra Bullock, though, since I wasn’t invited to the wedding (probably something to do with that restraining order). ---
**Author:** ![jackdavinci](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackdavinci/32/3259_2.png) [@jackdavinci](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackdavinci)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2009, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-that-guy-next-to-whoopi/511451/38 "2009-10-01T23:43:53Z")
I just find it amusing that I knew exactly what the OP would be based on the title! ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2009, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-that-guy-next-to-whoopi/511451/39 "2009-10-02T00:01:50Z")
I suspect Phil Jackson would be the #1 answer to a Feud question: “Name a professional basketball coach.” (Leave out the word “professional” and Bobby Knight might well beat him.) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-that-guy-next-to-whoopi/511451.md?page=1)