F. Scott Fitzgerald was so very, very wrong
In America, there are way too many second acts.
Last week we learned that both Rosanne Barr and Rosie O’Donnell are getting new TV shows.
Yes, that is the same Rosanne “Behead the Rich” Barr who — among many other screw-ups too numerous to mention — once called African-Americans “ignorant.”
And yes, that is the same Rosie “Ching Chong” O’Donnell who pretended to be a kindly, craft-y, lovable heterosexual on her last show, then ran one of the nation’s oldest magazines into the ground and reinvented herself as an angry radical lesbian.
Can anyone explain to me the mysterious alchemy by which, once having become famous, one can never become un-famous? (And please go the hell away.)
This never used to be the case. Once upon a time, Albert Schweitzer and Enrico Caruso were world renowned, their names bywords for greatness. Today their celebrity currency is worth next to nothing.
On the other hand, I have a feeling people will still be chattering about Paris Hilton two hundred years from now.
Anyway: it’s too easy to blame the very existence of these two new shows on “Hollywood stupidity” alone. American women watch The View day in and day out; there’s clearly a lucrative market for stupid, annoying females on television.
And finally: why Adam Carolla will crush the competition…
As for Caruso vs. Paris Hilton, I can’t remember who said this, but it’s sadly true: We live in a society that’s never made a movie about Leonardo Davinci, but has made 3 about Joey Buttafucco.
Wouldn’t you love to break bread with those two guys. Carolla is one funny SOB.
It is interesting that Carolla states he an atheist, yet acknowledges there is evil. How so? If evil is the absence of goodness, then there must be goodness. Where’s it come from. Can a rock be evil?
His dogmatic belief that their is evil suggests he’s more religious than most.
I’ll let him figure that out.
I’m forwarding this to my friend who is an amatuer comedian April! Great article. ialways kew youhad a special way with words. Enjoyed this article very much!
I haven’t watched the Apprentice since season 2 and I have never seen an episode of Celebrity Apprentice but if Carolla is on, I’m back in.
Buzz Aldrin
Carolla has a show on Speed Channel on Wednesday evenings. His humor is a bit restrained but it still comes through. Great sense of humor and timing. I first heard of him when he did a radio show called Love Line with Dr. Drew. Adam has a quick wit – I doubt he’d do well as an actor trying to stick to a script.
“I have a feeling people will still be chattering about Paris Hilton two hundred years from now.”
I doubt it. I have a college-educated niece who, on different occasions, asked me “who is John Wayne” and “who is Willie Nelson.” I don’t see Paris Hilton’s celebrity status outliving that of Wayne and Nelson.
I really have a tough time believing Jon Stewart is this liberal bulldog. He seems so genuine and real, holding truth higher than partisanship. Seth Macfarlane said something similar recently. It’s dissappointing because I feel like he cannot be like that, especially if it’s someone like DiPaolo who is actually funny.
“He seems so genuine and real, holding truth higher than partisanship.”
Clown nose on/clown nose off.