Like other human beings, celebrities too have their strengths and
limitations. Yet they are deified to an embarrassing degree.
That is
why, when they act or say stupid things, it tickles us so enormously.
The illusion that they are not perfect is smashed and we all have fun
taking pot shots at their mug. This article is not meant to be offensive
to anyone. In fact, I assure you that the writer of this piece is
extremely low in grey cells as well. Continue...
That is why perhaps it is so much
fun profiling kindred spirits from around the world. Celebrities are
such icons of pop culture that it is criminal not to outline the stupid
things they say or do, in a completely non vindictive way. I would like
to say before hand that all ten of these celebs are perfectly nice and
kind people. This list is just for a spot of fun.
10. Mariah Carey
Mariah Carey is a talented singer, a goddess and a diva. Well
obviously she doesn’t think so, since she said, “I am baffled, shocked
and appalled when I am called a diva. I’ve never done a diva-ish thing
in my life.” Even Tommy Lee Jones was laughing at that one. “I loved
Jordan. He was the greatest athlete of our time.” I am sure Jordan would
be touched by the obituary were he not still alive Mariah. Ms Carey
would like to be skinny, but at what cost? She says, “Whenever I watch
TV and see those poor starving kids all over the world … I mean I’d love
to be skinny like that, but not with all those flies and death and
stuff.”
9. Britney Spears
Poor tragic soul, Britney has gone through a lot in life. A
consequence of a very public mental breakdown means doing really stupid
things in public, like being photographed without your underwear,
shaving your head in public, drunk driving with your baby amongst many
others. Yet even before our dear Britney went under, she said things
that were not very clever. Behold these gems. “Where’s Australia? 26
hours away?? Who the f*ck would want to go somewhere that far away!”
Australians probably, Britney. “First, the worst thing that could happen
to is if my boyfriend would break up with me. I would be totally
devastated. And then, after the depression, maybe I did some dorky
movies that were just bombs. Then, I don’t know, s—. Then I did another
album that didn’t do very well. And then it’s back to working at my
granny’s deli. Back to rolling quarters and boiling crawfish and
smelling like a fish on my dates.” And the winner of all stupid things
she has ever said, “I’ve never really wanted to go to Japan. Simply
because I don’t like eating fish. And I know that’s very popular out
there in Africa.”
8. Kim Kardashian
When Kim Kardashian is not stirring up international trouble by
recklessly tweeting thoughtless Palestinian and Israeli jokes, she is
selling her wedding to the world for $18 million and then opting out of
that marriage seventy two days later. Her life is a freaking media
circus and every aspect of her personal and private moments are
saleable. She has come to represent the trashy tabloid twenty first
century pop culture of America that is so commercially viable that it is
despicable. Now that she just gave birth to her first child, a girl,
anyone want to take guesses how many millions the first pictures will
earn for the Kardashian family?
7. Paris Hilton
Unfortunately money can’t buy brains. Else Paris Hilton, heiress to
the Hilton hotel fortune would be a really intelligent girl. Since rich
people must put up with being stupid as much as poor ones, here are some
gems that come straight from the pearly whites of daddy’s lil girl:
“Every woman should have four pets in her life. A mink in her closet, a
jaguar in her garage, a tiger in her bed, and a jackass who pays for
everything. ” Thanks Paris, you single handed undid all the good that
feminism wrought over a hundred years. “I don’t really think, I just
walk”. That would explain half the things you say. “Wal-Mart… do they
like make walls there?” We geddit Paris, you are too rich to shop in
Walmart. But is it too much to expect that you’be be remotely familiar
with the country you live in? Clearly not since you tweeted, “No, no, I
didn’t go to England; I went to London.” Glad you paid attention to
geography lessons in school.
6. Lindsay Lohan
As a young girl watching and adoring Lindsay Lohan in movies like,
“Mean Girls” and “Confessions of A Teenage Drama Queen”, I would never
ever had imagined that this teen queen would one day become an American
Rakhi Sawant of sorts. She worked really hard to carve a niche for
herself in Hollywood. Then, one day she let it all go. Rampant drugs,
law breaking, terrifying botox and even more terrifying movies. What
ever happened to the sweet and talented Lindsay we once knew? When she
is not back in rehab for the umpteenth time or breaking laws for the
same reasons over and over and going behind bars for the silliest
reasons ever, she is saying stupid, inconsiderate, insensitive things
like this: “WHY is everyone in SUCH a panic about hurricane (i’m calling
it Sally)..? Stop projecting negativity! Think positive and pray for
peace”.
5. Rakhi Sawant
Most Rakhi Sawant sympatheticos will not want her name on this list,
not because she is stupid but because she is mad. They argue that as a
mad person she is not able to judge reality and thus ends up acting
stupid all the time. It is not fair to prosecute a stupid person, is it?
I don’t subscribe to this theory and wholeheartedly believe that
stupidity is a game she is really really good at. First she participates
in Nach Baliye with her boyfriend. When she doesn’t win, she hisses at
the judges and walks off the show refusing to accept the runner up
trophy. She then slaps her poor boyfriend in public, blames him for
ruining her prospects of winning. Subsequently she holds a Swayamvar on
national television, inviting Mahendra Singh Dhoni and Rahul Gandhi to
try their luck in winning her hand (as if!). Some really unlucky skinny
guy named Eilesh wins the dratted contest with the dubious prize. She
then ditches him a week later, amidst much drama- again on national
television. After a controversy filled lull, she comes back on national
TV with a show titled, “Rakhi Ka Insaaf” where Mohotarma Rakhi Sawant
would be the presiding judge on civil and criminal cases. That show
predictably lasted a week and provided us venerable audiences with much
laughter. Then when Aamir Khan launched his critically and commercially
acclaimed show “Satyamev Jayate”, she went around screaming to anyone
who would listen that he had stolen her concept. Sigh! I am bored.
4. Poonam Pandey
On twitter, Ms. Pandey states her bio to be a new generation model
from Mumbai. We think her profession should be better described as
professional nudist. She offers to strip for anything and everything,
much to the delight of men, young and old, all over the subcontinent. It
is wonderful that a woman is comfortable with her body. But clothes
were invented for a reason. Now every time something worth celebrating
happens, I am afraid we will be heralded with another nude picture of
Ms. Pandey. A huge billboard of her praying, scantily clad, to gods of
all religions, went up in Kolkata. After nearly all motorcyclists came
very close to crashing their vehicles, the Mamata Banerjee led
government created all sorts of hue and cry and got the offensive thing
down, much to the dismay of the men in the state. But Poonam Pandey’s
tryst with God was not over yet. She did not seem to find anything
remarkable about the fact that scientists had discovered the God
particle. Rather she was confused as to why people were not devoting
equal time and attention to discovering the G spot. She tweeted, “Is god
particle another name for the g-spot, and the scientist dude found it
after much effort last night?? No?” He named it “God” Coz it’s what he
heard the whole night! “Oh my god! Oh my God!”
3. Anna Kendrick
Stupidity is not something that you would attribute to this bright
young actress who has heaps of talent. A coveted Hollywood It girl, and a
rising musician, one might think that the closest she has come to being
stupid is when she played Jessica Stanley from that tragedy called
Twilight. But she did something even stupider. She went to a Ryan
Gosling movie and err… masturbated. Though that is not the wisest thing
to do in public, it would have been fine had she not then gone ahead and
tweeted it to her millions of followers: “Ugh – NEVER going to a Ryan
Gosling movie in a theater again. Apparently masturbating in the back
row is still considered ‘inappropriate’.” We get it Anna, Gosling is
hot. But let’s keep something’s private, shall we?
2. Justin Bieber
May be the fact that I am not a teenage girl does not endear this
mega pop star to my opinion, but I am simply mystified as to the utter
fandom surrounding his works. I know many actual teenagers who are
mystified like me and thus can feel reassured that it is not personal
bias. His hair, his voice, his interviews and above all that
insufferable attitude- everything constitutes to create a Frankenstein
of our times. A Frankenstein created by tween culture that is fast
taking over everything remotely intelligible in the world. I would be
happy to attribute freedom of choice to those who wish to worship this
tween idol, but to have him thrust in my face at every mall, club,
discotheque and gathering is way more than my fragile mind can take. No
place is safe from Justin Bieber, not even the internet. Matters have
come to such a state that I now have Bieber phobia, except that
psychiatrists refuse to give me a clinical diagnosis.
1. Sarah Palin
The number one crown for moronity goes to the woman who once said,
“If God had not intended for us to eat animals, how come he made them
out of meat?” Now I have nothing against non-vegetarianism. I am one
myself. But of the logic being made out of meat means that you are
liable to be eaten, then humans are number one on the danger list. Would
Ms Palin like to end up as Hannibal Lector’s appetiser one day? This
coming from a woman who was poised to become the President of USA. Gads
that was a narrow escape!
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