celebrities least deserving of their fame/money

[otnemem]

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Thread is not entitled "famous people I don't like".
Carlos Mencia sucks, but that doesn't mean he didn't work hard to become famous. Same goes for almost everyone else mentioned.

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By this rationale, anyone who works hard but sucks terribly at their job deserves to be rich. The idea with Carlos Mencia is that he's not funny. He's a hack whose only good bits are stolen from other comedians (and he even manages to make them unfunny). Therefore he's completely undeserving of his fame. Somehow, he manages to entertain an entire American demographic that's never met an Hispanic.

I would say some good candidates for people who don't deserve fame or recognition are people who use the media attention for inherently bad things. Someone like Fred Phelps, who's clearly not famous per se, but also doesn't deserve any attention or notoriety whatsoever.

Also, Robin Williams, another joke thief and, in my opinion, unfunny hack.

[otnemem]

I just want to point out as a general note, anyone who's defending the fame of someone like Paris Hilton is failing to take into consideration that celebrity is a marketing device. You can't say someone's good at marketing him or herself, therefore they deserve all the fame they can get. William Hung was a terrible singer who was completely undeserving of fame or recognition. Someone decided he was marketable, and he ended up getting a record deal and his fifteen minutes. Being marketable doesn't mean you're deserving of celebrity status.

[Yeti]

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I feel like "Nick Cannon" would be a good answer to this question, but I don't even really know who he is.

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fk nick cannon.

[adsman]

Wayne Bobbitt?

[punkass]

Ann Coulter and Nancy Grace come to mind.

[pokerbobo]

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I have gone through everything yet, but how the fuct did I go 3 pages without seeing Rosie O'Donnell

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That's my first pick.

[Dale Dough]

Re: 'Hilton/Stewart/X have skill! They're good at marketing themselves! Lots of people try, only they succeeded, have to be doing something right!'

Or they just luckboxed their way past everybody else, who are still stuck in nighttime TV-shopping or porn or w/e. Right time, right place, right family friends to help you out, etc.

[Quagmyer]

Prior to entering the world of boxing, King lived in Cleveland, Ohio. After dropping out of Case Western Reserve University, he ran an illegal bookmaking operation, and was charged for killing two men (two separate incidents 13 years apart). The first was determined to be justifiable homicide, but King was convicted of manslaughter for the second killing, for which he served just under four years in prison

[Toro]

Jay Leno for a live person, not a bad guy but I just don't think he's particularly talented or funny

and Anna Nicole Smith for a dead person, she really had no talent just some really big fake boobs and the good fortune to have an 80 year old billionaire thinking through his dick.

[DLizzle]

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She also milked the hell out of it while she could. She's doing a great job playing the game.

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this is exactly why she is the perfect answer for this thread. Marketing yourself extremely well does not make you deserving of the fame or money. We realize she is very good at that, but the point is that she doesn't really do much of anything other than market herself.

I think William Hung is a good answer. I mean people actually purchased his album. wtf.