# Why is \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ famous? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 17, 2004, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-________-famous/240566 "2004-04-17T21:13:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Moirai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/96bed5/32.png) [@Moirai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moirai)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2004, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-________-famous/240566/21 "2004-04-18T03:46:59Z")
> [@Diceman](#): > > How about Mark Hamil? You know, the guy with the really deep suntan. What did he do to become famous? Everyone I’ve asked just knows him as the guy with the suntan. Do you mean George Hamilton? Because Mark Hamill made a couple of pretty big movies a while back… Hamilton, on the other hand, aside from one hysterical movie and one cute movie, is merely famous for being tan and famous. ---
**Author:** ![Bambi\_Hassenpfeffer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Bambi\_Hassenpfeffer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bambi_Hassenpfeffer)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2004, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-________-famous/240566/22 "2004-04-18T04:27:17Z")
> [@ftg](#): > > **Bambi Hassenpfeffer** _has_ to be Jackalope in-joke. 😕 Honestly, 😕 . I don’t know what that means. ---
**Author:** ![Oregon\_sunshine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/50afbb/32.png) [@Oregon\_sunshine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oregon_sunshine)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2004, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-________-famous/240566/23 "2004-04-18T04:38:09Z")
Uh, I agree with **Bambi**. Tobey is _good_-lookun!! Mmm-mmm-_mmm!!!_ Thanks for the pics! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Triss](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Triss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Triss)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2004, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-________-famous/240566/24 "2004-04-18T04:48:09Z")
Jennifer Lopez. ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_Rhosis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d9b06d/32.png) [@Sir\_Rhosis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_Rhosis)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2004, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-________-famous/240566/25 "2004-04-18T12:33:27Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > Would somebody please post another link to that photo so I can see what Sampiro is talking about? Angelfire is blocked in China(my part anyway). I hope I’m not unintentionally getting ready to insult you, but I don’t know if you’re familiar with Surratt, so I’ll overexplain and hope I’m not being unkind. The photo shows Ms. McCarthy with her tongue dangling waaaaay out of her mouth, so far as to make Gene Simmons envious, so far as to suggest that she is being hanged by the neck until dead dead dead like Mrs. Mary “Please don’t let me fall” Surratt, one of the conspirators in the death of A. Lincoln. I found **Sampiro** ’s line one of the funniest damn things I’ve read in a long time, but I like that Dennis Miller kind of humor that makes me feel superior for gettin it. Sir Rhosis ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2004, 12:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-________-famous/240566/26 "2004-04-18T12:41:41Z")
> [@JoeSki](#): > > Paris Hilton. What is it that she does exactly? She gives me a woody. And dammit, that’s enough!!! ---
**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:** [April 18, 2004, 12:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-________-famous/240566/27 "2004-04-18T12:44:14Z")
> [@Bambi Hassenpfeffer](#): > > It’s Geocities. Geocities blocks direct access to its links unless your referrer is from a Geocities site, so you have to paste part of the link (like all the way up to the “/041.jpg” or “/032.jpg”) into your browser, let that load, and then put in the whole link in your address bar. Here’s a handy tip, for IE users at least: Click and drag the link to your address bar, and most non-linkable geocities-type images like that will usually work. The other alternative is to add a question mark at the end of the url, which I guess somehow overrides the suppression code. I now return you to your regularly scheduled thread. In which I post my contribution of Martin Lawrence, “The Man Of No Discernible Talent”. ---
**Author:** ![Snooooopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Snooooopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snooooopy)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2004, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-________-famous/240566/28 "2004-04-18T13:09:42Z")
As has been mentioned already, Zsa Zsa Gabor is the queen of “Why is \_\_\_\_\_\_ famous?” Most people on this list might not deserve to be famous, but at least it’s easy enough to point to whatever did vault them to fame. With Zsa Zsa, it’s a complete mystery. She’s just always been … there. ---
**Author:** ![JoeSki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b487fb/32.png) [@JoeSki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JoeSki)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2004, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-________-famous/240566/29 "2004-04-18T13:10:36Z")
> [@spooje](#): > > She gives me a woody. And dammit, that’s enough!!! Can you not get a woody from someone else? ---
**Author:** ![norinew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/eb9ed0/32.png) [@norinew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/norinew)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2004, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-________-famous/240566/30 "2004-04-18T13:11:53Z")
Tom Greene!! He’s not funny, he’s just malicious and stupid! Sure, there’s comedy that’s malicious and stupid _and_ funny, but his is not it! Oh, and, **KGS** , take those remarks about Tobey back! 😃 I love him! (Yes, I _know_ I’m old enough to be his mother, just shut up about that, okay?) ---
**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2004, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-________-famous/240566/31 "2004-04-18T14:55:54Z")
[Pia Zadora](http://www.stomptokyo.com/pia/) anyone? Thankfully she seems to have faded back into obscurity. ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2004, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-________-famous/240566/32 "2004-04-18T15:49:33Z")
Nobody has mentioned Zsa Zsa Gabor yet? ---
**Author:** ![norinew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/eb9ed0/32.png) [@norinew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/norinew)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2004, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-________-famous/240566/33 "2004-04-18T15:59:44Z")
> [@](#): > > _Originally posted by BobLibDem_ > Nobody has mentioned Zsa Zsa Gabor yet? Why, yes, yes they have: > [@](#): > > _Originally posted by ftg_ > Ladies and Gentlemen, none that have been posted so far are anywhere close to the wonder that is Zsa Zsa Gabor. ---
**Author:** ![Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ccd318/32.png) [@Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_in_Qatar)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2004, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-________-famous/240566/34 "2004-04-18T16:00:05Z")
Yes the Gabor Sister have been mentioned, but I will see your Hungarians and raise you Tito Jackson. ---
**Author:** ![Jadis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/87869e/32.png) [@Jadis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jadis)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2004, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-________-famous/240566/35 "2004-04-18T16:13:10Z")
I think this one trumps all: [Sandra Bernhard](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000928/) She’s butt ugly. She’s gratingly annoying. She can’t act or sing. WTF? ---
**Author:** ![Diceman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Diceman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diceman)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2004, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-________-famous/240566/36 "2004-04-18T19:01:42Z")
> [@EJsGirl](#): > > Do you mean George Hamilton? Because Mark Hamill made a couple of pretty big movies a while back… > > Hamilton, on the other hand, aside from one hysterical movie and one cute movie, is merely famous for being tan and famous. Yeah, I guess I was thinking of George Hamilton. I wonder if anybody is taking bets on when he’ll be diagnosed with skin cancer? > [@Jadis](#): > > I think this one trumps all: > > [Sandra Bernhard](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000928/) Yikes! :eek: Someone tell Steve Tyler that we know who stole his lips! ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2004, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-________-famous/240566/37 "2004-04-18T19:27:29Z")
It’s my lifelong crusade to make sure that [jennifer tilly](http://movies.yahoo.com/shop?d=hc&id=1800018758&cf=pg&photoid=132446&intl=us) never works in film again. Alas, she continues to get jobs, presumably because she has large mammary glands (which aren’t holding up all that well). In addition to her whiny, little-girl, pouty, baby-talking routine at age 40 or better, she’s just plain fugly. Her nomination in ‘Bullets Over Broadway’ was an embarrassment. \*\*Adam Sandler, Will Farrell (god, “Elf” just freaking _reeked_), Chevy Chase \*\* and the rest continue to get work because they made enough money early on to now produce their own movies, thus perpetuating the pain inflicted on us all. The movies are excrement, but enough people are either that desperate (me in a hotel room with Elf) or have that little in the way of good sense and taste. **Julia Roberts**. No mystery. She sleeps with everyone she comes in contact with. If she had as many sticking out of her as she’s had stuck in her, she’d look like a porcupine. **William Hurt/Jeremy Irons** : from the Cinematic School of Lackluster, located in Catatonia, Italy. The lack of emotional content in both these chumps passes for deep feeling, when in actuality, neither of them knows what the hell they’re supposed to do next. Whenever a movie calls for someone to sit and stare off into space with a faraway look in their eyes like a dog taking a shit, they hire one of these guys. ---
**Author:** ![Burrido](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3be4f8/32.png) [@Burrido](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Burrido)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2004, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-________-famous/240566/38 "2004-04-18T19:27:39Z")
My top 3: American Idol - Seriously, dumbest…show…evar. William Hung - I know its been debated here before, but I just don’t get it. Simon - Who the Friggin hell was he before this dumb show??? ---
**Author:** ![widdershins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f0a364/32.png) [@widdershins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/widdershins)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2004, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-________-famous/240566/39 "2004-04-18T20:27:00Z")
Dr. Joyce Brothers, a bland psychologist/media personality who has nothing to say yet will turn up anywhere to say it. CBS TV host Harry Smith keeps getting work there and as host of _Biography_ among other things yet the guy has no personality or presence. He makes Dick Cavett look like David Letterman by comparison. Coolio was once a rapper with about three memorable songs (and two hits), but now he’s another “turn up anywhere, do nothing” type of celebrity. In his defense, George Hamilton was a minor latterday rising star from the old Hollywood studio system. He’s just been clever enough to hang around with TV and minor film work until he became famous for being famous A kind of living parody of the Hollywood phony, and few remember he actually was an actual actor at one time. While I am irritated at the recent glut of Ryan Seacrest in the popular culture - _American Idol, On Air…_, and isn’t he taking over Casey Kasem’s radio countdown show at some point - I’m not surprised. He’s blandly likeable to enough people, that seems on his way to being the next Dick Clark, someone who can be a TV or radio host and play up to more famous people without being threatening. I read in the NYT, IIRC, that also like Clark, he is very savy at making deals and being involved with projects behind the scenes. So he may turn out to be a shrewd businessman who happens to make his living in front of a camera. ---
**Author:** ![HPL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3da27b/32.png) [@HPL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HPL)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2004, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-________-famous/240566/40 "2004-04-18T20:47:41Z")
I can’t believe there’s been on mention of **Carrot Top** yet(or did I miss it?). Exactly where did he come from before those stupid phone commericals started airing? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-________-famous/240566.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-________-famous/240566.md?page=3)