Over the weekend, I covered Jon Hamm’s interview with the new issue of Elle UK. In the interview, Jon discussed male and female beauty, how he’ll probably never get married, and interestingly enough, he took some time out to slam stupid people. Because life is an episode of 30 Rock. Surprisingly, The Hamm took the same basic track as Daniel Craig, only I like Jon’s argument more:
“Whether it’s Paris Hilton or Kim Kardashian or whoever, stupidity is certainly celebrated. Being a f**king idiot is a valuable commodity in this culture because you’re rewarded significantly. Incuriousness has become cool… It’s celebrated. It doesn’t make sense to me.”
[Elle UK via previous Celebitchy story]
I like that he made it about “incuriousness” rather than the ungodly sums of money these famewhores rack in (which was Daniel Craig’s point). Anyway, you knew it was going to happen – I’m only surprised that it took a matter of DAYS for Kim Kardashian to respond, via Twitter:
“I just heard about the comment Jon Hamm made about me in an interview. I respect Jon and I am a firm believer that everyone is entitled to their own opinion and that not everyone takes the same path in life. We’re all working hard and we all have to respect one another. Calling someone who runs their own businesses, is a part of a successful TV show, produces, writes, designs, and creates, “stupid,” is in my opinion careless.”
Meh. It’s not as ridiculous as it could have been, but once again, I’m setting the bar pretty low for Ol’ Kat-Face. Considering Kim is basically saying that Jon has every right to say what he said, but she just thinks he’s a big meanie, I wonder why she even responded. I mean, Paris Hilton didn’t respond. Did she? I didn’t even check. What does it say about Kim Kardashian’s incessant famewhoring if Paris Hilton knows when to keep her mouth shut and just let haters hate on?
As for Kim’s list of “accomplishments” – dear God. Does she really consider herself a writer or designer? Or a “creator”? The “businesswoman” part of the argument is the strongest, but let’s not go overboard complimenting Kim’s “creativity”.
Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet and WENN.
“Calling someone who runs their own businesses, is a part of a successful TV show, produces, writes, designs, and creates, “stupid,” is in my opinion careless.” ”
Making a sex tape, being friends with Paris Hilton, marrying for money and thinking we didn’t notice…THOSE things are stupid.
besides all that, what’s up with her huge bald spot?
No doubt!! That bald spot looks like it’s getting bigger. Hahaha….too bad! What is this girl going to look like by the time she gets 40?!
To be fair, there are a lot of young women who made sex tapes and they haven’t done as well as Kim.
I adore Jon Hamm, but at the same time, most people who make it in the entertainment industry do so because of luck. Hamm is easy on the eyes and (as Liz Lemon would say) a “Disney cartoon prince.” He’s also a solid actor in a series he doesn’t write or direct. And he certainly never bothered to put his energy into doing something truly important to humanity, like becoming a cancer researcher.
Yes, the Kardashians are trashy, but they do engender a really American characteristic—hustling to do well in this country. They don’t have any particular skills or talents other than being uberconsumers. And I’m sure that they know their window of opportunity will close sooner or later, so they’re getting all they can out of it now.
Honestly, anything they do is not that much different from being a model or actress. The Kardashians are making money out of crap. It’s the American way, to be honest.
If that’s the American way, I’m moving to Istanbul (which was Constantinople — blame it on the Turks).
This country used to be the envy of the world because we were at the forefront of technology, education, and progressive ideals. But hey, why stand for things of integrity if you can get pissed on a be a millionaire, right?
Uhh, John was a school teacher before he got into a big role as an actor. IMHO, you can’t get more humanitarian in this life than being a person who is a teacher.
It’s hilarious that she defends herself by naming the “credentials” that DIDN’T make her the money or fame she has now (i.e. not the sextape, not the paparazzi-baiting, not the fake reality famewhoring on that show, etc.). And it just really proves his point, she’s a f-cking idiot.
Yes, true. Her reply would have been scripted by someone in PR. Kim isn’t normally that coherent.
So if I join Twitter I can call myself a writer?
Apparently you can call yourself whatever you want. Writer, designer, producer, astronaut, smart. The world’s your oyster.
LOL! I want to be a celebrity today, then!
Waiting for a post about me on Celebitchy.
😉
… and if you can’t do any of those things, or convincingly lie about being able to, then you’re a “consultant”.
She does “create.” She created a sex tape.
She “creates” a lot. Too bad it’s 100%
Disgust.
Yeah, she forgot to add that her to list of credentials.
WHY do people support this family?
Heaven help me, I’m siding more with KK on this one.
(1) I can totally see how unintentionally hilarious KK is, but I see no point in aiming shots at her. She’s basically irrelevent, right?
Come back to me when Hamm starts kvetching about – *gasp!* – the male reality TV stars. I’m kind of sick of all the people targeting the women when the men are (at least) as bad.
(2) What I don’t like about aiming at reality show and their stars is how often (and how quickly) it moves to targeting the people who like them.
Look at Hamm – he can’t just really dislike KK; he has to incorporate a dig at “this culture”.
I doubt the K clan care. But their fans, viewers etc., don’t deserve that.
(3) Plus, I doubt the Kardashians are stupid. Amoral, yes. Stupid, no.
AGREED! They’re def not smart in a conventional sense, and probably not very inquisitive, but there’s no way a f**** idiot could have “created” this “empire”.
I agree but to be fair, it is Kim’s mother who does all the work and let’s them take credit. Kris is a smart business woman because she is incredibly greed. So in order to live her materialistic lifestyle she capitalized on her Kim’s popularity after the sex tape and turned it into an empire.
I agree with Blue, all the credit should go to Kris, she’s the one that made her daughters what they are today, both the bad and the “good”!
i still think Trashdashians are not stupid because they’re enough clever to gain as some money as Hamm and without talent
They only did “stupid” actions
Great Point, Lis! The Hamm needs to target someone his own size, i.e., a silly, talentless, grasping, amoral, incurious, yet wealthy, MAN! Yeah, I said it!
I’m tired of the misogynistic bashing of women. Period. It’s boring and beneath the razor wit of Celebitchy. This site and male stars can all pile on ‘The Situation’ or some other MALE “f**king idiot”. Leave the women out of it for a nice change of pace.
I think the point is that they have gotten hugely successful and wealthy by doing nothing but ACTING like idiots. The sex tape, the marriages, the whole show, the baby voices. There is nothing at all intelligent about their behaviour (only that they are making millions off of doing so). And it does say a lot about our culture that people would rather watch that than something with a thoughtful, well-written and developed storyline.
She can’t seriously take everything so personally when she puts herself out there how she does. I think she knows this, but is still using it for her own personal gain – free publicity.
Everything you said is DEAD ON ShazBot
Also i think one of you said not very inquisitive: That’s exactly what he meant by incurious methinks and he isn’t wrong
I agree 100%!!!
dumb trashbags!!!
HAMM IS RIGHT!
@Lis, I totally agree.
being a scam artist doesn’t mean you are good in business.
But how do we make them disappear? I don’t watch their shows; I don’t buy their products. I can’t stand to hear any of them speak in their baby valley girl up talk.
Jon Hamm is correct. They are being rewarded handsomely for the vapidity, but they are not the only ones. They are just the worst because they take themselves so seriously. At least Paris Hilton and the Jersey Shore cast know they are the butt of the reality tv joke.
This.
Yeah… exactly. I never buy anything with them on it. I picked up a bottle of really pretty nail polish the other day, turned the label and saw it was ‘kolors by kardashians’ or whatever stupid name it had, and put it back down. It was pretty hard to do… I have a bit of a nail polish addiction, and it was a really pretty shade. But I specifically didn’t buy it because it was Kardashian.
As much as I love when actors (Hamm & Craig) call reality “celebs” out, all it does is draw more attention to them.
Yes they are rewarded because people watch their shows and contribute to the cycle. If people keep whinging and they never go away it is because more people like and watch them than hate them… As we know, negativity is often the loudest voice in the room. Once they are no longer economically viable for the networks, then and not sooner, will they disappear 🙂 Call people stupid and make yourself look bad all you like John Hamm but it does nothing to affect their popularity.
It isn’t the Kartrashians that are idiots, the are exceptionally clever they are laughing all the way to the bank, it is the public that watch them and Paris Hilton etc that give them the oxygen needed to make these shows and give them the publicity, in the UK we have vile creatures like Jordan aka Katie Price and Kerry Katona – Kerry Katona dug addict, took coke with her kids in the house, went bankrupt but still appears on TV and had a column in a magazine – WHY?????!!!!!!
This is a large part of why I can never join in with the bashing of reality TV and its stars.
At some point, it always – *always* – comes down to “hahaha look at those stupid people who watch it. Aren’t they sheep”.
Disliking the Kardashians et al., is not elitist. Using that as a spring board to be nasty to their fans and viewers, however, definitely is.
And does no one else find it amusing when people on gossip sites (myself included, of course) start talking about how “the public” are giving reality show stars oxygen.
Pot. Kettle. Finish the cliche.
My husband dislikes them so much and never watched a single episode that when he saw me watching them, the next day he put the parental control on the remote and now I cannot watch E! anymore. I laughed when I realized what he did. He took it off but his point was made; I drop IQ points and they get money. This is not a fair trade.
agree.
She didn’t mention started as a porn star.
And she doesn’t run them….mama does.
Good Lord! Look at that bald spot. Hair extensions are damaging, people.
totally! and here i was thinking it was real HAIR. i shoulda known there nothing real about a kardashian
I wonder what all the stars (used loosely) would look like if all of a sudden extensions weren’t available anymore. Can you imagine? A bunch of half bald women tripsing around in their CL heels. Hilarious.
Regardless of her self proclaimed credentials, it has been shown that she will lend her body and her name, temporarily for money, regardless of real intentions or truth. There is a name for that.
This is true.
She handled it better than I thought she would. Can you imagine what would have happened had he said Lilo was a “f*cking idiot?” LAWSUIT!
Anywho, I’m not sure what she “writes,” unless she calls the banter on her “reality” show “writing.”
Whatever. She’s a greedy famewhore who got her start with a sex tape and will do anything for more fame and fortune. That may not equal “stupid” but it isn’t a good thing either.
God help me, I agree to a certain extent. It takes a certain level of wit (and lack of self-respect) to make millions from doing nothing.
no mention of starring in a sex tape? or is she keeping that off her resume?
Now that Jon Hamm has his $15 million contract, he’s got balls? He mentioned being paid peanuts for his world-saving work on Mad Men, so maybe he’s butt hurt for all of those years when Paris and Kim made millions and millions for being “f*cking idiots”? Sounds like it to me. What a douche.
plays his cards well doesn’t he?
Totally agree.
word.
shut up mr.hamm.
I bet you are one of the dumbasses that watch her show!
That was sort of a pretty reasonable comeback by KK. I’m actually stunned… I guess KK has a little sense, after all.
More likely someone else wrote that and all she did was deliver the line.
She didn’t write that response, her publicist did.
I wonder what she’d look like with all the makeup wiped off, hair extensions out, Spanx peeled off, etc. Those hair extensions are a horrible idea long term- you can totally see them in those pics.
Actually, I thought Joe was being pretty nice about it, he could have said much worse things about her. By the way, he didn’t say anything that the public was already thinking to themselves. I wish that whole family would be cancelled, I am tired of them.
ohmygush! Kim is now a writer, aint that rich. This vapid plastic famewhore should be grateful that im not famous or i would have called her more than f**king idiot on ellen show.
Really, Jon Hamm should’ve known better…this family feeds off that sh*t! Kim has Google Alerts on herself–she loves it. I think a younger version of Paris would’ve responded, but I think that this point, she knows it’s not important.
How society supports her as a “celebrity” is beyond me.
She made a sex tape with her boyfriend and SOMEHOW she was able to turn that into fame and riches?
There are times when the world absolutely baffles me.
You know, first there was Leonardo Da Vinci and then there was Kim Kardashian. Everyone in between matters naught. An aside, she looks like she got her weave pulled out by one of the Real Housewives of New Jersey.
I’m surprised she left the house with her weave all messed up like that.
Is she even 30 yet? Why the unnecessary injections (Lips, cheeks, forehead)?
I bet he watched BOTH sex tapes though.
Dissing Kim Kardashian? Wow, that’s soooo daring & controversial.
Yawn. Call me when these actors who love to trash reality tv stars like KK have the balls to publicly denounce fellow celebs who really deserve it, like known wife-beaters.
Exactly! The Kardashians are useless, but it is getting pretty old to see everyone trashing them.
Just because what he said was true, doesn’t mean that it wasn’t mean of him to publicly call her names.
And there are some people criticizing her for responding? I am not a fan of hers to be sure, but she’s relatively harmless and it’s tiring to hear “oh, but she has a sex tape!” as the default justification for whenever anyone talks shit about her. Regardless of who she is or what she’s done, he’s the one who used her to highlight a negative point and so he doesn’t get an automatic pass from me just because he’s the charismatic, usually nice guy, Jon Hamm…
It took her several days because she had to check on the dictionary what incuriousness means.
I don’t know why she even bothered responding. It makes her look whiny. I love the Hamm. I will say I don’t really think Kim is stupid. I just think she is vapid and shallow.
EVERYONE gives this family sooo much “credit” for having an empire.
The person that has ALWAYS had the ideas to make money are Jonathan Cheban, all that Kris has EVER done was “approve” HIS ideas.
and it looks like it was and is everything under the sun.
All Kris did was birth these whiny, extension wearing birds and say YES to anything and every project that the PR and business professionals came up with.
what’s smart about being so greedy that you don’t give a damn about how it looks? or the repercussions?
ps. Trashy didn’t write this response for those that STILL believe in this farce.
sadsadsad
Madams and pimps also build “empires”
I’m so glad that I snapped out of it and I am embarrassed to admit I watched this crap. I would NEVER support any product from this crap family.
Last time I checked Hamm was an actor on a basic cable show. He is not exactly saving lives. When he joins a team working on a cure or cancer or aids or putting his curious mind to something life altering he can start calling people out. In the mean time, shut up Jon Hamm. I’m tired of these celebs calling each other out when they are all in the same business.
COMPLETELY AGREE.
It’s all relative, JH, and what are you – you’re an ACTOR. There are lots of very significant people in the world who look at you as a f** idiot. Myself included, now. I totally lost respect for him after this. ugh.
Pathetic whore! She’ll never admit where her fame came from.
Oh good she openly confessed to being fully in control of her life.. That is involved in all the decisions that impact her actions therefore only she is.., responsible.. actively engaged in her career and destiny.. and not letting others put words in her mouth.. mislead or charm her..
She didnt come up with the idea for her show Ryan Seacrest did. She got lucky because stupid people watch it. Just because you out your name on every product someone shoves in front of you does not make you a business woman. It makes you a money grubbing fame whore.
Still don’t care anything about this “fine, upstanding, hard-workin'” bunch of ho’s. Don’t watch ’em, and I ain’t gonna buy any of their crap.
I try to avoid reality shows. I had a brief television romance with “The Bachelor” a few seasons back, but we broke up and now, with the exception of “Top Chef,” “Hell’s Kitchen,” and sometimes “The Amazing Race,” I am reality show free.
And what in the name of insanity is on her feet in that last picture?
The thing is that if nobody bought her, she wouldn’t be where she is. She isn’t stupid for selling, it seems to have done her well when it comes to cash…. It’s just sad to know that there are that many people willing to play for something like her. Is quality too much asked? Seems so when it comes to masses.
Meanwhile, Paris Hilton has remained quiet because A) she couldn’t articulate a halfway decent response, or B) she heard his comments and figured, “meh, he’s kinda’ righ…OMG I’m late for my vajazzling appointment!”
I think our culture has bad taste. It is We The People that created this mess. Kim K is gross, I do not watch her show, I do not support her brand, but somebody sure does.
Sorry but I do think she’s a F**king idiot.
She got lucky. She had enough of her daddy’s money to be able to buy beauty. She was friends with Paris Hilton, she dated Ray J, she had a sex tape and her mother took it from there.
Had Hamm said that being a talentless f**king idiot is a hot commodity there would have been nothing she could have said.
She lucked into everything she has had. She made a name for herself by being Paris Hilton’s friend and having a sex tape and she ran with it. Its not business smarts, its not having talent, its taking the thread and pulling. Oh I’m pretty I’ll just shove myself down their throats and eventually I’ll have ‘fans’ and be famous.
I’m sure if Jon Hamm had thought harder he could have added Spencer Pratt and Heidi and Snooki, and the Situation and Pauly D to his list of being a f**king idiot. I do not watch any of this crap because I feel it will turn ME into a f**king idiot AND I don’t want to support any of this BS.
None of those people are anything more than flash in the pan. They are not talented and with any luck their “star” will just burn out.
I’m with Hamm 100%.
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she’s not always a F–king idiot, sometimes she is just a blow-ing idiot
Bam!
Agree 100% with Hamm, Craig and anyone else who calls out these morons.
She has no talent, I don’t buy for one second she ‘creates’ anything other than controversy…
oh yeah, and she got PEED on to get famous.
‘Nuff said.
Paris Hilton had a much better response 4 years ago during the primaries, when someone (McCain? don’t remember)used her as a standard for stupidity, and then some of the other candidates started responding to the slam. All she said was “See you at the debates, bitches.” You gotta love a famewhore with a sense of humor.
she “works hard”? -facepalm-
Sounds like sanitized version of what people say about them here everyday. It’s not exactly dangerous to publically villify them, whatever your tax bracket. Yeah, they’re an easy target, but they’ve made themselves into that and just complaining that women are so downtrodden and oppressed takes all of the responsibility out of the hands of the people who carried out these misdeeds and onto the head of someone who noticed and said the most obvious thing.
I don’t understand this ‘safety perch’ in regards to money. Does a casting agent say, ‘wow, really good acting, but word on the street is that this individual doesn’t care for the Kardashian family, so we have no choice but to put a hit out on this would-be star of tomorrow.’
‘Impressive CV, but have you studied the Kardashian method, or are you just another feckless dilletante who pissed away years on study and work?’
‘Well, of course they’re better people than you, they got richer faster and all it took was other people’s money craven hoarded by a cabal of scalpel-wielding maniacs and their overloard, Melusina Kardashian.’ More people watch their show, so they’re beyond reproach? Whatever you think of Jon Hamm or the Kardashian Konglomerate, that’s just stupid. They have a whole bunch more money than me or anyone I’ve ever known.
So,
-He’s not saying anything groundbreaking about them, he’s saying what a lot of people have been saying. I don’t know why he bothered to bring them up on the record, but even if the act was less than chivalrous and more than obvious it’s still accurate.
-People who aren’t as rich as other people are still allowed to have opinions about things. He’s just recently become rich enough for people to take notice of his opinions on a wider scale.
-If we would take off our ‘He’s a sexist because he won’t pretend to worship the most successful and enduring reality show empire in the world’, and explain away frequently reprehensible behaviour, we’d see that that they are far more offensive to womanhood than any scolding spectator could be. Rather than asking, ‘why are men always only picking on women and judging them by their deeds and stuff. I hate it when people judge the book by it contents’, I would wonder, ‘why are so many people so eager to trash these women?’ They invite and profit from it. You don’t think these random jabs are hurting them in any significant way, do you? It keeps the trolley rolling.
Oh, she’s just horrible. I don’t understand who is watching her show; but, apparently someone is.
On a lighter note: Only 12 more days until MM’s Season Five Premiere!!! Swoon!
Yeah, okay. Who here actually believes this bitch actually wrote that or had any say in it!? Great PR team or Ryan Seacrest is an excellent writer. “Designer” this Bujjjiii bitch expects me to believe she designs anything beyond her application of paint on her face….does she even know how to spell design much less the meaning of it.
I seriously doubt Kimbo wrote that herself. In fact, I imagine someone had to ‘splain it to her first. Stick to the low road Kim, trying to take the high road only makes you seem even more fake and ridiculous than usual.
I always laugh when she calls herself a “businesswoman”. Having the money to pay others to do things for you is not exactly the same thing. She’s dumb as a rock.
Produces, writes, creates?? What the hell is she talking about? She does NONE of this. She has abused child workers in China doing it all for her. She is stupid as a box of rocks.
I wish she’d crawl under the rock she’s dumber than and stay there.
Kim is dummy her mom kris did all the work all kim is good for is putting on clothes and opening her mouth which see thinks is sexy, all kim thinks about is material things when karma comes for her the 6000$ handbags will not help she is shallow and all she cares is about naterial things, why not give to the homeless thank god she never had a kid the kid would be scremaing while it takes 4 hours for her to look the way she does people stop watching her show it a bore pleae kim go away give to charity you are living in a fantasy world 5 years from now no one will want to see your botox face and the weight god you need to do something your ass and thunder thighs are gross no man wants a self center chick like you
Have you ever heard of punctuation? Maybe you should try it sometime.
He spoke. And drank rapidly a glass of water.
Kim is just a public version of a prostitute exploiting herself maximizing on that sex tape…Many pr0n stars become businesswomen. So i don’t know why she flatters herself.
Funny though that she was so quick to answer to Hamm for calling her an idiot while she refused to reply to Snoop calling her a Ho…I guess she has nothing to counteract that truth….
Nice bald spot and Kat-face there Kim.
I don’t care for any of the KarTrashians or Hamm-douche for that matter.
notice how her latest face fix makes her eyes look like they have some kind of surprised expression all the time?
“Writer” perhaps, but definitely not an editor.
Nice. Up top!
To be fair to the Hamm, this wasn’t really aimed at KK. It was more of a generalization of how stupid incuriousness is indeed highly celebrated and reverred in our culture (as it is most certainly NOT in most other places in the world). It’s definitely an odd social phenomenon, of which KK stands undoubtedly as the patron saint – pinnacle – pinup – poster child, whatever you wanna call it. Not even she can argue that. Hell, if she has the brains she claims to have, then she certainly ought to know how she made her money.
publicist must do the tweets because there’s no “like” every other word.
what the h*ll happened to her head?
Oh, Kimmie. You weren’t smart enough to just ignore it … Point made.
Poor girl certainly isn’t a writer. Chatting with a writer who then writes a vapid book in your name is not writing. Kimmie doesn’t even write her own tweets-for-profit, she just owns the account. She certainly didn’t write this tweet.
Hard worker? Hardly. Her sisters routinely complain about her laziness. She sashays into the shop while cameras are rolling and whines.
Producer? Good grief, Hilary Duff’s mom was a producer on all those made-for-Hilary-so-we-can-pretend-she’s-a-star movies. Producer status these days means you’re putting up the money (or taking less if you’re an actor) and have veto power (which is why Kimmie gets to make herself look good and her husband look like a demon in the edits). No special brains or abilities required, although some producers might have them (not Kimmie, sorry).
The interesting common feature for both Kim and Paris is that both started with piles of money they never earned. Doesn’t take much of a head for business to add to the pile when a failure has no consequences except another tax write-off – just a little tiny bit of luck and all the connections your starting pile brings you. You don’t have to think out a business plan and convince a banker to loan you money. Kimmie makes loads of money tweeting lies about products she doesn’t use, showing up and eating at clubs, and posing for pictures that mags then Photoshop to death. She thinks that’s “working hard” and “being a businesswoman”.
Even Mama Ten Percent, who amazingly is the brains of the outfit, applies her cleverness mainly to marrying rich men. She makes plenty of mistakes that a real manager or businesswoman wouldn’t without losing clients and going bankrupt. But it’s just a hobby for her. She (like Kimmie) won’t lose anything if she fails.
Somebody here mentioned that she didn’t speak up when Snoop said that you can’t turn a ho into a housewife. Wonder why she didn’t respond? Interesting.
Jon ought to know better than to name drop those hacks like that. They live for “real” stars to name drop them like this cause it gets them $$$$ and attention.
The two things they LIVE for.
She needs to stop the lip pumping. It looks like she dribbles