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I made the usual mistake of reading the youtube comments, and have learned my new favorite comeback "go fuck bob dole in the ass."

haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

She probably deserves to go to jail, but I am so sick of comedians (particularly Conan O'Brien) saying "Paris Hilton is going to jail" in order to get a cheap laugh and kill 30 seconds while people cheer. And those people who cheer her incarceration are dicks. Jail is nothing to cheer about, I don't care who you are. Even 45 days would suck. Bad.
Sorry, I have no sense of humor today. Though the bit about the bars was pretty funny, I admit.

They did not cut to Paris at all after the joke about her- I think she was mad and left, although nobody is reporting that. Which means you heard it here first.

Except that I saw her on the show sometime after, so if she left then she came back.

She's going to cry herself to sleep on a mattress stuffed with hundred dollar bills.

Did you, amro? I kept my eyes open, but didn't see her.

Yeah, I think it was during the "Umbrella" song. At any rate, I didn't turn the show on until about 8:30, and I saw her sometime after that.

Hmm, I was watching that section, though maybe my eyes slipped for a moment.

I am so sick of comedians (particularly Conan O'Brien) saying "Paris Hilton is going to jail" in order to get a cheap laugh and kill 30 seconds while people cheer.

Ditto. Hasn't Kathy Griffin made (what passes for) an entire career out of that cheap nonsense ("Britney Spears is a slut, AMIRITE???")? I'm still hoping someone will back over her with a Volvo Station Wagon at some point, but it still hasn't happened yet, to my knowledge.

I don't know who Sarah Silverman is, but her remarks come across as awfully mean-spirited, especially since Paris was in the audience.

Hollywood sucks.

Also, HAR HAR PENISES AND BLOWJOBS. That was painfully, painfully unfunny.

The entire show was terribly unfunny.

They took the clip down before I could get home from work & watch it. C'est la vie.

They took the clip down before I could get home from work & watch it. C'est la vie.

Which is why I posted a link to MTV's site.

I don't know who Sarah Silverman is, but her remarks come across as awfully mean-spirited

Ever see Crank Yankers? With the Hadassah Guberman character?

That's her.

She's a hipster comedienne who has built her reputation on her good looks and willingness to say shocking and politically incorrect things.

But you can only go so far with political incorrectness. At some point, you have to start being funny.

And Sarah Silverman isn't very funny.

So . . . in short, you haven't missed much by not knowing who Sarah Silverman is.

Thanks jason's planet. I haven't seen Crank Yankers. I did read the Wikipedia entry on Silverman. Her remarks make more sense since she's a comedian. Still unfunny, still mean. I could give a flip about Paris Hilton, but what a way to kick a woman while she's down. It all seems very crass and exploitive and rude.

She was also on Mr. Show, did a movie and a bunch of stuff. She's been around for awhile. Scenes here. Pretty funny, actually.

But yeah, the Paris thing is pretty played out.

"Still unfunny, still mean. I could give a flip about Paris Hilton, but what a way to kick a woman while she's down." LoriFLA, I can't muster any compassion for this women. She built a career based on a show showcasing the fact that she was a rich girl out of touch with working class folk. She released a sex tape and pretended to be outraged. She charges high five figures to show up with her friends at your bar or restaurant. She has built her empire upon living her private life in public. She is not a singer, dancer or actress. She is simply reaping what she sowed. It's sad but it is also tragedy in the true Greek sense.

I sort of liked Sarah's movie from 2005. The awards show clips I saw, not so much. The first time I ever heard of her by name it was in connection with some kind of racial slur she made on a late night show & I thought hmm, this person must be in her 50s.

I don't even think it's sad. It would have been proper karma had she not had a) a short stint in the first place and b) that short stint shortened for "Good behavior" (posing with the bible?) before she even set foot in jail.

What is kinda sad though is that plenty of people get their drivers licenses suspended for driving home with a beer in their belly, follow the rules and have a real hard time getting to and from work. Paris can afford a driver to take her home, or *gasp* a taxi, when she's plastered. How hard can it be to use some common sense?

Is Paris the most famous woman in the entire world right now? I kind of suspect she is, and that her statement that she is the iconic blonde of our generation is sadly true.

This brings up a lot of questions for me... For one, who is the most famous man (aside from Bush)? Do we even have a man that approaches the recognition and fascination factor of Paris?

I think that her fame may be inextricably linked to artifacts of the internet age: the short-attention-span syndrome, and an insatiable hunger for constant and instant news/gossip/drama, for example. She really provides this (as do the other famous celebutantes, Britney and Lindsay)... but this alone doesn't explain the juggernaut.

What is less clear to me is the sort of sadomasochistic nature of this kind of fame. Why is the public so hungry (almost bloodthirsty, really) for celebrities they can scorn and revile? Why do their targets accept and foster this relationship? The bible stunt dabitch linked to, for instance, is a perfect example. It's unpossible that she, or at least her publicists wouldn't recognize that this would be the source of much hilarity and derision.

And so, it was specifically done because it would capture eyeballs on thousands of blogs and garner countless media blurbs. Why is this negative attention preferable to no attention, or harder-won but less constant positive attention, to people like Paris? Why are they almost all women? Why is the public so angry and so desirous of a titillating scapegoat to unleash their rage on?

Is this an entirely new phenomenon? Have we ever spent so much attention, speculation, breathless gossip, and paroxysms of contempt on a celebrity figure before? Why now?

WHAT DOES IT ALL MEAN?????

notes on a lecture, "Paris Hilton Didn't Start Any Wars"

a couple years old, but still interesting: Paris and Me - Online Identity and Economic Commodification

It is odd, and I supect that you'reright about this phenomenon being linked to the internet age. Previous stars had to at least be a one-hit-wonder before the public started toppling them. ;) We always loved knocking famous peeps, didn't we?

Sí. But usually with some flexibility, some back and forth, some love-hate, in a dysfunctional family sort of way. We loved Elizabeth Taylor as an ingenue, hated her when she stole Eddie away from Debbie, were breathless and awed by the storm that was Taylor and Burton, ridiculed her when she got fat, admired her when she lost weight, appreciated her for her AIDs activism, etc. The old celebrity-public dynamic was more complex and less bloody than what we are seeing here; our idols were always eligible, in the cycle of sin and redemption, to win back the love, and there was always love, somewhere, in the equation. Here, not so much.

I was also just wondering if the Diana thing was sort of a twisted Primer for Young Ladies of Means Wishing to be Famous?

She was lovely, and a royal, so she would have been in the spotlight anyway; she did good works, and would have been plauded for that anyway... But it was the trainwreck factor that riveted the public. It was the doomed marriage, the Other Woman, the affairs, the spats, the eating disorder, the sexcapades, the "slipped" revealing media (like phone conversations, etc.) that made her a huge media sensation.

Still, despite everything, all that insane attention was mostly still favorable and supportive (and she was a bit of a genius at manipulating it). It's the whole culture of hate that essentially supports and nourishes the Paris Super Fame thing that's weird, and the fact that she very efficiently and successfully keeps feeding that public maw. Why?

I can't say that I can muster much sympathy for Hilton. She's lived her life in a way that has made her a danger to not only herself but others (passing out behind the wheel, driving drunk, etc.).

As for Sarah Silverman, I watched two episodes of her show. Aside from the over-the-top tab love one character had, it was one of the few times in my life I felt dumb for watching something.

Paris Hilton would give Osama Bin Laden a blow job if it would get her some press.