Has there ever been a star less talented than Rosie O'Donnell?- Page 2

[Jane2]

Posted: 11/28/08 at 9:54am

I can attest to that-she actually WAS funny. I liked her! I forget if she won, though.

[clever name]

Posted: 11/28/08 at 10:24am

Horrible show. Horrible reviews. Ties for last place with Pushing Daisies..Brilliant show. Brilliant reviews. I dont get it.


http://www.tvweek.com/blogs/ratings-chart-attack/2008/11/rosie_live_ties_as_lowestrated.php

[adamgreer]

Posted: 11/28/08 at 10:25am

What about Carrot Top?

Does he qualify as a star these days?

[Jane2]

Posted: 11/28/08 at 10:32am

Who even knows if Carrot Top is a he or she these days?

[South Fl Marc]

Posted: 11/28/08 at 11:39am

"Has there ever been a star less talented than Rosie O'Donnell?"

Sure:
Pauly Shore
Adam Sandler
Most members of boy bands
There are lots of talentless people out there who become "popular"

Posted: 11/28/08 at 12:19pm

I guess I should clarify: Rosie is the biggest star I can think of who has no identifiable talent. Sure Joy Behar or Lance Bass has minimal gifts, but they aren't multi-format A listers like Rosie.

[KathyGriffinLovesYou]

Posted: 11/28/08 at 1:03pm

Daphne Rubin-Vega. If she counts as a star.

[Borstalboy]

Posted: 11/28/08 at 1:05pm

John Wayne

[Jane2]

Posted: 11/28/08 at 1:29pm

wayne newton

[The Boy From Ohio]

Posted: 11/28/08 at 2:44pm

Is Rosie still on the A-list?

[JEK216]

Posted: 11/28/08 at 2:45pm

Conan O'Brian is only slightly more talented than Ms. O'Donnell. (But not by much) I can't believe they are giving him the tonight show. Yet, even though I dislike him, I felt sorry for him on the Rosie show. I felt sorry for all the guest stars. They were not responible for that dreck.

Less talented than Rosie O'Donnell? I really can't think of anyone currently, who is as big of a STAR as Rosie. Not to speak ill of the dead, but I always thought Chris Farley was untalented. But he didn't strike me as a meanspirited person. I'd watch 10 Chris Farley variety shows, before I'd watch another Rosie O'Donnell variety show.

[Schmerg_The_Impaler]

Posted: 11/28/08 at 2:54pm

Golly George, thank you to whoever brought up Vanessa Hudgens. She has one facial expression, one vocal intonation, and the most nasal voice I've ever heard. She's gorgeous, and I like High School Musical, but Miss Hudgens is definitely the biggest detractor.

And I think Paris Hilton is pretty much the least talented star I can think of. But Rosie is up there.

[DottieD'Luscia]

Posted: 11/28/08 at 3:03pm

I concur that Rosie was really funny when she was on Star Search. Loved watching her on that when I was in college. I also liked her talk show during it's first couple of years. To me things went down hill for her after she had Tom Selleck on her show.

[Shannon Bo Dannon]

Posted: 11/28/08 at 3:57pm

I loved Rosie in "A League of Their Own," but that's really about it.

I concur with Vanessa Hudgens and Paris Hilton being much less talented.

[best12bars]

Posted: 11/28/08 at 4:02pm

Rosie used to be funny ages ago, until she began to develop a mean undercurrent. Now, it's out of control. It's taken over as her dominating characteristic as a performer.

She can't tell a joke or cast off a one-liner without looking like she's going to beat you up if you don't laugh at it. She's way too confrontational these days, even when she's "supposedly" having so much fun, doing what she loves to do.

Entertainment by intimidation. Just wonderful.

I'd like to see her walk out on stage just once without looking like she just had a huge fight with someone in the wings, and she's trying to rise above it and go on with the show.

Not exactly a great "stage persona."

[Jane2]

Posted: 11/28/08 at 4:22pm

Excellent assessment, Besty.

[sally1112]

Posted: 11/28/08 at 4:28pm

"Has there ever been a star less talented than Rosie O'Donnell?"
"Most members of boy bands"

Ok, that "Most" had better not include Justin Timberlake!

[nexttoelectric]

Posted: 11/28/08 at 4:37pm

Heidi "Special Needs Pony" Montag

[abominableerror]

Posted: 11/30/08 at 1:52pm

And don't forget Spencer Pratt with his AMAZING rapping skills, and as Joel McHale put it, his "creepy flesh colored beard"

[KathyGriffinLovesYou]

Posted: 11/30/08 at 2:20pm

AE- you beat me to it!

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 11/30/08 at 2:25pm

To me the daytime talk show went downhill when she added the craft corner segment, or whatever she called it.

The fact of the matter is, all comedy has a kernel of hostility in it, and when Rosie pushed the queen of nice thing on the daytime talk show it was a drastic shift from her standup days. I know, because I saw her in a tiny club years before she was out, or had adopted her first kid. She was caustic, and hilarious.

I believe that she left the talk show once she had completely painted herself into a corner with the niceness thing. She went back to how she really is, which FREAKED so many people out after they had considered her their personal avuncular friend who came into their living room five days a week and showed them how to do fun things with yarn and a glue gun while shooting Koosh balls at them.

A separate point from this is that variety show is a dead language, like Latin. It can't be revived, no matter how rosey the colored glasses some people wear to look back at the memories of variety show pleasures of the past.

[TheatreDiva90016]

Posted: 11/30/08 at 2:30pm

"creepy flesh colored beard"

You mean like Lisa Marie Presley?

[eatlasagna]

Posted: 11/30/08 at 6:49pm

the problem i have with Rosie O'Donnell is that she still has baggage... and it makes her this angry and bitter woman... i don't get it really... this woman has money, is a celebrity, has awards, children, wrote a book where she spills her secrets, is out and proud... its like what other freaking baggage do you have left in your life that you won't tell us so you won't stop being an angry ****!

[oohshizz146]

Posted: 11/30/08 at 6:50pm

BAILEYYYYY

[Jane2]

Posted: 11/30/08 at 6:54pm

lasagna-you should have seen the art show of her paintings at New World Stages. The one remark most people had was "they're angry."

Indeed they were.