# Who's your favorite Grade C celeb? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 4, 2006, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-your-favorite-grade-c-celeb/359420 "2006-06-04T23:39:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2006, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-your-favorite-grade-c-celeb/359420/1 "2006-06-04T23:39:36Z")
CBS’s \*[Gameshow Marathon\*](http://www.cbs.com/primetime/game_show_marathon/#) offers a nice selection: Ricki Lake, Lance Bass, Baige Davis, Tim Meadows, Kathy Najimy, Leslie Nielsen, and Brande Roderick. (The last is an alum of _Baywatch Hawaii_. The others, I must admit, are all familiar to me.) I’m just glad celebrity “reality” shows and competitions like this and my beloved _Dancing with the Stars_ are providing employment opportunities unmatched since the heyday of _Love Boat_. ---
**Author:** ![Fish\_Cheer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fish_cheer/32/17179_2.png) [@Fish\_Cheer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fish_Cheer)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2006, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-your-favorite-grade-c-celeb/359420/2 "2006-06-05T00:20:49Z")
> [@twickster](#): > > Leslie Nielsen Excuse me? That man is a bloody hero! ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2006, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-your-favorite-grade-c-celeb/359420/3 "2006-06-05T00:23:08Z")
I was a little surprised to see him on **Celebrity Gameshow** – but there he is, so Grade C, QED. ---
**Author:** ![Queen\_Tonya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/4491bb/32.png) [@Queen\_Tonya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Queen_Tonya)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2006, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-your-favorite-grade-c-celeb/359420/4 "2006-06-05T00:24:04Z")
Kathy Najimy would be my favorite, always wished better for her somehow. Does Sandra Bernhard count as C-list? She fascinates me in a trainwreck sorta way. ---
**Author:** ![Fish\_Cheer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fish_cheer/32/17179_2.png) [@Fish\_Cheer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fish_Cheer)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2006, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-your-favorite-grade-c-celeb/359420/5 "2006-06-05T00:24:24Z")
Hmpf. ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2006, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-your-favorite-grade-c-celeb/359420/6 "2006-06-05T00:32:54Z")
I pity the fool who don’t pick Mr. T! The poor guy has cancer, but God bless him, he still does his job well (and his job is playing his tough-guy character). I just saw him in a Hanes magazine ad today. The guy may not have had a real job since _The A-Team_ was cancelled, but he’s still going strong for a washed-up celeb. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2006, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-your-favorite-grade-c-celeb/359420/7 "2006-06-05T00:53:06Z")
How about Gilbert Gottfried? He made a couple of cameos on the _Let’s Make a Deal_ segment on _Gameshow Marathon_ the other night – surely that’s worth something. ---
**Author:** ![Rube\_E.Tewesday](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f0a364/32.png) [@Rube\_E.Tewesday](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rube_E.Tewesday)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2006, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-your-favorite-grade-c-celeb/359420/8 "2006-06-05T00:54:27Z")
Tia Carrer - still Baberaham Lincoln after all these years. ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2006, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-your-favorite-grade-c-celeb/359420/9 "2006-06-05T01:18:50Z")
> [@twickster](#): > > How about Gilbert Gottfried? He made a couple of cameos on the _Let’s Make a Deal_ segment on _Gameshow Marathon_ the other night – surely that’s worth something. Not to mention the voice of the AFLAC duck. AFLAC! ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2006, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-your-favorite-grade-c-celeb/359420/10 "2006-06-05T01:25:51Z")
He’s not very active any more, but I have a soft spot for [Gary Collins.](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0004833/) Never a star, he was content to play the opposing counselor in legal shows, the guy who wasn’t the killer in mysteries, and host a beauty pageant or minor parade. He always came off with the attitude that it was an honor just to be asked – and paid. Along the way, he also married a former Miss America. ---
**Author:** ![cactus\_waltz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/74df32/32.png) [@cactus\_waltz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cactus_waltz)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2006, 1:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-your-favorite-grade-c-celeb/359420/11 "2006-06-05T13:01:26Z")
> [@Rube E. Tewesday](#): > > Tia Carrer - still Baberaham Lincoln after all these years. That’s a good one. I remember playing a CD-ROM sci-fi game with her on my Macintosh in the early 90’s, thinking “Yeah, this will be the last thing I ever see her in.” ---
**Author:** ![Trunk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/87869e/32.png) [@Trunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trunk)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2006, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-your-favorite-grade-c-celeb/359420/12 "2006-06-05T13:06:42Z")
Jeff Gillooly. . .synergist of a mobland kneecapping and women’s figure skating. Just awesome. Only potential disqualifier from this thread: he might be more like Grade D ---
**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:** [June 5, 2006, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-your-favorite-grade-c-celeb/359420/13 "2006-06-05T13:52:21Z")
Jen Tilly ---
**Author:** ![Raguleader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/258eb7/32.png) [@Raguleader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raguleader)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2006, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-your-favorite-grade-c-celeb/359420/14 "2006-06-05T15:18:51Z")
Is Casper Van Dien (of StarShip Troopers fame) B List or C List? I like him because he shows up in lots and lots of low-budget sci-fi movies, and apparantly he’s not doing it because he needs the money (evidently the Van Diens are one of the richest families in the US). Thus, I have to assume he shows up in all these cheezy, often quite bad sci-fi epics (Dracula 3000 anyone? :D) because he ENJOYS it. And it’s hard NOT to appreciate someone who enjoys their work. Also, if you play Wing Commander 4, you’ll note that he plays a guy who’s entire role in the game is to carry Mark Hamil’s duffel bag at the end of one scene. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Raguleader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/258eb7/32.png) [@Raguleader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raguleader)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2006, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-your-favorite-grade-c-celeb/359420/15 "2006-06-05T15:21:42Z")
> [@cactus waltz](#): > > That’s a good one. I remember playing a CD-ROM sci-fi game with her on my Macintosh in the early 90’s, thinking “Yeah, this will be the last thing I ever see her in.” Heh, and apparantly there’s an adult actress who was a big enough fan to base her stage name off of Tia Carrere’s. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2006, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-your-favorite-grade-c-celeb/359420/16 "2006-06-05T16:10:07Z")
William Shatner. Although, since he got his Emmy, maybe he’s worked his way up to Grade B…? Nah. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2006, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-your-favorite-grade-c-celeb/359420/17 "2006-06-05T16:13:46Z")
> [@Elendil's Heir](#): > > William Shatner. Although, since he got his Emmy, maybe he’s worked his way up to Grade B…? > > Nah. Yeah, actually I think anyone who’s starring regularly on a prime-time show is automatically at least a B. We’re talking about the pool of people who they go to for guest shots. You know, you hear the name and think “Damn, I haven’t thought of that person in years…” ---
**Author:** ![Governor\_Quinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d26b3c/32.png) [@Governor\_Quinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Governor_Quinn)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2006, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-your-favorite-grade-c-celeb/359420/18 "2006-06-05T16:46:14Z")
Before I offer any nominees, one question: Do they have to be still alive? ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2006, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-your-favorite-grade-c-celeb/359420/19 "2006-06-05T17:03:26Z")
> [@Governor Quinn](#): > > Before I offer any nominees, one question: Do they have to be still alive? Yes, for the current discussion – we could start a Hall of Fame for posthumous inductees, though… ---
**Author:** ![Push\_You\_Down](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/push_you_down/32/9095_2.png) [@Push\_You\_Down](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Push_You_Down)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2006, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-your-favorite-grade-c-celeb/359420/20 "2006-06-05T21:01:06Z")
> [@Queen Tonya](#): > > Kathy Najimy would be my favorite, always wished better for her somehow. Decent if not small film career and a major role on a long running animated series (She’s Peg on King of the Hill) I think her career’s been pretty damn solid. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-your-favorite-grade-c-celeb/359420.md?page=2)