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Outrage as Former Disney CEO Michael Eisner says Funny Women usually aren't Beautiful
Daily Mail (U.K.) ^ | July 4, 2015 | Mia de Graaf

Posted on 07/05/2015 6:15:04 AM PDT by Cecily

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To: ElkGroveDan

Beautiful!


41 posted on 07/05/2015 7:08:36 AM PDT by Enlightened1
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To: Cecily
Hillary must be funny as heck, according to Eisner’formula.

She is two pillow case, 12pk, ugly.

42 posted on 07/05/2015 7:16:59 AM PDT by urbanpovertylawcenter (the law and poverty collide in an urban setting and sparks fly)
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To: Mamzelle

>>Isn’t this the guy who brought all the filth to Disney?

Only 40+ percent of it.


43 posted on 07/05/2015 7:18:55 AM PDT by HLPhat (This space is intentionally blank.)
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To: Vermont Lt

Twitter exists to stimulate the outrage impulse in the emotionally fragile and intellectually weak. That’s just one of the reasons I don’t play in the Twitter sewer.....


44 posted on 07/05/2015 7:22:43 AM PDT by clintonh8r
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To: Vince Ferrer

Madeline Kahn wasn’t too bad either.


45 posted on 07/05/2015 7:22:58 AM PDT by Flag_This (You can't spell "treason" without the "O".)
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To: Cecily

He has a point, not just about women, but about funny women and men. It goes to what people see as “funny”:

1) Much humor is physical humor with an element of folly. Think of a nicely dressed, pretty woman. If she walks past a deep mud puddle, there isn’t much humor involved. But if she falls into the mud puddle, it might be funny, though she will no longer be beautiful, but covered in mud.

2) Facial muscles are essential to funny. But beauty is often associated in women as involving facial rigidity. Think of the expressionless Japanese Geisha, an extreme of the idea. Men, however, are permitted to contort their faces to comic effect, without loss of their handsomeness, if they have any.

3) Women also as a rule have a much narrower age range for both acting and comedy. While there are some outliers, older and younger comediennes are much less common.


46 posted on 07/05/2015 7:27:01 AM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy ("Don't compare me to the almighty, compare me to the alternative." -Obama, 09-24-11)
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To: Cecily
Funny men usually aren't handsome either.

I wouldn’t necessarily say that. I think Cary Grant was an incredibly handsome man – I still do. Watching his old movies still makes my heart go all pitter patter ; ).

Gunga Din, Suspicion, North By Northwest, Notorious, To Catch A Thief, An Affair to Remember - he could play very serious roles or the dashing romantic leading man roles or sometimes even a rake, but he was also a comedic genius – Bringing Up Baby, Operation Petticoat, Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House, I Was a Male War Bride, The Philadelphia Story.

47 posted on 07/05/2015 7:28:41 AM PDT by MD Expat in PA
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To: Cecily

Paging Lucille Ball, Pick up the Disney courtesy phone...


48 posted on 07/05/2015 7:30:31 AM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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To: JoeProBono

Classic! Quintessential Lucy!


49 posted on 07/05/2015 7:31:31 AM PDT by Daffynition ("We Are Not Descended From Fearful Men")
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To: Cecily

The real problem is Eisner’s comment shouldn’t be taken so seriously.

It’s getting to where you can’t say anything unless it’s approved by Big Government, Big Business, and Big Media.


50 posted on 07/05/2015 7:32:28 AM PDT by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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To: Cecily
Maybe he was thinking about the original funny girl, Fanny Bryce?

-PJ

51 posted on 07/05/2015 7:35:54 AM PDT by Political Junkie Too (If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
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To: CaptainK

Val Kilmer in his prime was one. Top Secret, Real Genius. Dude had the looks, the charm and funny as hell.

Today...eh...not so mmuch.

His Doc Holliday was pretty classic and I still say he was the best Batman/Campy’ish era.


52 posted on 07/05/2015 7:36:23 AM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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To: Norm Lenhart

There was a brief period in which Val Kilmer was the prettiest thing in sight. Very brief.


53 posted on 07/05/2015 7:38:33 AM PDT by Tax-chick ("And that drummer from that one band whose name I can't remember is also dead."~SamAdams76)
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To: Tax-chick

A couple years either side of Top Gun, yea. He didn’t -really- go to look hell until he left Hollywierd and went to NM. But he showed his age pretty quick I guess.

Last pix I say he was just fat but still looked ‘OK’ with some imagination. A really GOOD imagination ;)


54 posted on 07/05/2015 7:42:57 AM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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To: Cecily

Pointing out unbelievably attractive funny actors and comedians to disprove a hypothetical rule of thumb for the general population is pretty flawed. But if it has to be the famous route, seems like it way easier to name famous plain people who are only famous because they are funny than unbelievably good looking famous people who are only famous because they are funny.

Freegards


55 posted on 07/05/2015 7:44:48 AM PDT by Ransomed
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To: Norm Lenhart

There are plenty of okay-looking, overweight guys, but I don’t think Val Kilmer is one of them. Hard living, I expect.


56 posted on 07/05/2015 7:50:09 AM PDT by Tax-chick ("And that drummer from that one band whose name I can't remember is also dead."~SamAdams76)
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To: Cecily

Of course they aren’t. They’re already beautiful.


57 posted on 07/05/2015 7:51:56 AM PDT by Rummyfan (Let us now try liberty)
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To: Tax-chick

I just looked him up. Throat cancer surgery and aparently was/had become a christian scientist. Grey and rough as hell. Supposedly his family convinced him to get it dealt with.

How the mighty have fallen


58 posted on 07/05/2015 7:52:21 AM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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To: Norm Lenhart

You can lose your looks, your money, your health, your friends ... but not your good character, if you had one to start with.


59 posted on 07/05/2015 7:55:42 AM PDT by Tax-chick ("And that drummer from that one band whose name I can't remember is also dead."~SamAdams76)
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To: Ransomed

Eisner made a generalization and we are saying that there are so many exceptions to his generalization that what he said is not really valid or true.


60 posted on 07/05/2015 7:57:23 AM PDT by Cecily
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