Most Pretentious Celebrities

Gwyneth Paltrow

Mario Lopez

Madonna (now)

Kardashians (Kim with her law degree)

Kanye (Presidential bid!)

Kelly Ripa

Kevin Kline.

Meryl Streep

Bob Balaban

Lou Reed

Bono definitely has a place on this list.

Denzel.

[quote] Madonna (now)

Madonna was *always* pretentious. Well, at least starting from affecting a pseudo British accent. Then, "playing" guitar. I do play guitar, a little. When she professed that she was learning guitar and got up on stage, "playing" guitar, I knew she was a poser. She was basically strumming 3 easy chords on a very expensive guitar.

Barbra Streisand

Jerry Lewis

Faye Dunaway

End of list.

Robert DeNiro in his old age.

Phylicia Rashad

R14 Which is especially galling, considering all his method-actor bullshit is being poured into a string of "Dirty Grandpa" parts for yet another paycheck.

He and Morgan Freeman both. It's like seeing the Mona Lisa on a shower curtain.

Beto O - he's over the top.

R17 Bobby Francis!

The little punk is as Mexican as Doris Day.

Bill Maher - the king of smug.

Anderson Cooper

Kelly Ripa

Reese Witherspoon

Gwyneth "my shit candles don't stink" Paltrow

Don Lemon

Russell Brand, the philosopher and social scientist.

In light of the recent release of Bros, Billy Eichner shoots to the top of the list.

BOB COSTAS owns this thread!

Recently, Dave Chappelle, who’s approaching the “wise clown who cries beneath the laughter” territory, ala Jerry Lewis. Lectures the audience about social issues during his stand-up.

Olivia Wilde

Ethan Fucking Hawke. Johnny Depp

Madonna, the British accent years

Chris Pratt is red neck pretentious

[quote] BOB COSTAS owns this thread!

I like Bob Costas!

GI Jada

That pretentious wind bag, Rupert Everett.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

R8 here. I should've added "Doctor" Maya Angelou to my entry.

r376 have you seen this? (Starts around 2:10)

A hundred years ago I worked at a popular restaurant and eventually most famous people came in for dinner.

The only two who really expected us all to turn our heads in delight and wonderment were Richard Dreyfuss and Sylvester Stallone who seemed baffled we didn't automatically comp his meal.

Every other celebrity, for better or worse, just sat down and ordered dinner like everyone else...oh, except Diahann Carroll, but we all knew she was batshit crazy already.

Ugh, can't stand when celebrities expect to be comped meals at restaurants.

Ryan O'Neal.

Angelina.

Ellen DeGeneres

Elaine Stritch

R39 I’d only comp a celebrity’s meals if they agree to re-enact a brief scene from one of their films or shows in exchange. If they’re in a band, they can sing for their meal. I’d love to see Dreyfuss re-enact his mesmerizing mashed potatoes scene from Close Encounters. A free meal for you, sir!

Rupert Everett

I agree with Angelina Jolie. When she started adopting children from different countries as if she were buying different wines to go with different meals. I'm glad that Zahara is going to Spelman College, though. At least she's paying attention to what might make each child feel comfortable.

Kate McKinnon

I'm sorry but, Kate McKinnon? Really? What's pretentious about her?

R47 The way she talks with that weird accent.

Alec Baldwin

John Cusack

STING

CLOONEY

GAGA

Oprah Winfrey. If she wants to continue interviewing people, she should do it in a studio, not on her Montecito property.

Oprah Fucking Winfret and Gayle Fucking King:

Pretentious AND useless.

Whoopi Goldberg

Sir Peter, Michael Lucas, Meghan Markle

Actually, waiting on Alec Baldwin was a pleasure, but a very long time ago. He can be exceptionally warm and charming.

David Ogden Stiers

Who R57?

James Lipton.

Lipton's tea is very nice though R59.

Shawn Mendes

Tom Brady

Bethenny Frankel

Angelina Jolie. and she’s vindictive on top of that.

Leonardo DiCaprio. His interviews have become unwatchable. He's so desperate to come across as intelligent and "deep" that he talks extreeeeeeemely slooooooow 🥱🥱😴

Billy Eichner

David Ehrenstein

Elizabeth Holmes with her phony low voice and Steve Jobs imitation.

Martha Stewart and Ina Garten.

I don't mind people saying that something should be done X way, but I do like to hear a *good* explanation of why. Martha just says: you have to do it like this and there seems to be no reason for it, sometimes.

Ina and her "good olive oil," "good butter," etc. People don't use ingredients thinking they're swill, people buy what they can afford.

Jennifer Lopez

Ashley Judd- the way she talks and tries to use 15 syllable words to describe the color of dog shit is enough to make you put a bullet to your head.

AnnE

I HAVE seen that, R38! Here's the story/piece Johnny referenced in the clip.

Stanley Tucci

Leo DiCaprio, Peter Dinklage, Angelina, Meghan Markle.

Bob Costas, Martha Stewart, and James Lipton seem to have an awareness and sense of humor about their gravitas; they even exaggerate it on purpose for comic effect.

Markle the Altruist.

[quote]Oprah Winfrey. If she wants to continue interviewing people, she should do it in a studio, not on her Montecito property.

R52 STFU If those being interviewed are fine with them being conducted outdoors, that's all the matters. If that's not acceptable to you, don't watch.

[quote]Madonna, the British accent years

aka her marriage to Guy Ritchie (2000-2008)

She adopted a sort of Lady of the Manor persona during that period.

And wrote a couple of children's books. One of them was even titled THE ENGLISH ROSES. 🙄

I chalked it up to being another of her reinventions and waited for it to run its course.

In general, liberals are rather elitist, so a lot of liberal celebrities are pretentious.

Particularly American actors.

Same can be said for US politicians in any party.

George Clooney.

Jane Fonda owns this thread.

Beyoncé.

I'm a goddess! I'm a goddess! I'm a goddess!

Joaquin Phoenix. Or is he just crazy.

Dennis Miller. Although he has been no where for 25 yrs but I am sure he hasn't changed.

Terry Gilliam Asia Argento Anne Coulter Bill Moyers

She's no celeb, but she is a smug arsehole...Maggie Haberman. God's gift to America.

Downey and Depp:

Their careful, ugly, low hauteur masking their crushing egotism under a pile of rags and old-man scruff.

Barbra Streisand owns this thread

Oh yeah, Asia Argento. I’m a rock n roll witch! My pussy induces suicide!

And Anthony Bourdain. Don’t eat fish on Tuesdays! Le Bernadin! Cambodian squalor! Heroin! Asia Argento! Suicide!

Dick Cavett

Remember when Dick Cavett took out a NYT OpEd about fat people?

She'd be crushed, (86) to read your, "She's no celeb..." but too bad for her!

You are massively right; i.e. Maggie Haberman (of the NYTimes) is a smug a'hole!

Goddess, but she just drips pretentious arrogance and contempt via her on air monologues and her delivery style that is the equivalent to, "I am the voice of Goddess who must not be questioned!"

I've never known or seen a "reporter/wannabe reporter/tRUMP whisperer" quite like her and hope that she is a 1 and done as goes that type of persona!

CNN could do better in their early a.m. programming selection of go-to reporters.

R86 = Donald J Trump

King Charles III

He's always been on this list.

Charlie Rose!

Alan Kim

SEAN PENN

Has Mark Ruffalo been mentioned?

Pink

Alton Brown

That Witherspoon cunt.

And she gets away with it.

Plus she looks like a plasticized xenomorph and can't act.

George Clooney. Humanitarian and employer of beards who pontificates to the masses....

.....while poor Guatemalan children pick Nespresso coffee beans for 5 cents a day to help fund his lavish lifestyle.

R80 'Wer'e the ones who talked about AIDS when it was just being whispered . . .'

Joe and Mika

LOL R98

R98 Looks like my elderly, “not-all-there” neighbor in his neighborhood watch outfit.

R87, Downey and Depp are both pretentious - but not at all in the same way.

Amy Adams

Kelsey Grammer seems insufferable

Has anyone mention Gwyneth?

mentioned (^.^)

Viola Davis

GOOP, of course

[quote]David Ogden Stiers

Actually very low maintenance and nothing like Niles.

Everyone named “Bill” who starred in a successful TV series, talk show, or news program. Seriously, what is it about that name?

Tim Allen. I thought he was pretty funny on Home Improvement but he was insufferable on Last Man Standing. Every damn episode had to include snarky comments about Dems and democratic politicians. He must be a miserable man.

Chelsea Handler

Jennifer Lopez needs to be on the list more than once.

ROGER FEDERER

Another vote for Ann Coulter

Ben Affleck

I'm surprised no one has mentioned Lorne Michaels, but I suspect his pretentiousness is just an act.

R116 Notice he never cracks a joke about the mountain of plastic surgery he's had over the years, or the time he went to prison for dealing cocaine.

Good comedians are reflective, and never punch down.

[quote]Thank you India

[quote]Thank you terror

[quote]Thank you DIS-IL-LUSION-MENT!!

No, thank YOU, Alanis Morissette

Ethan Hawke is somewhat pretentious, but that seems to born of a genuine love for film and literature, which most actors today do not have at all. I like that he’s proud to be an intellectual. That shows in non-paycheck projects he produces or does - First Reformed, that John Brown show, the Newman/Woodward doc.

I wouldn’t lump him in with Penn or Jolie, who exploit international suffering as a prop for their reputation, or GOOP.

Ethan Hawke deserved an Emmy nomination for The Good Lord Bird.

Come to think of it, Sean and Madge were a perfect match for each other. Both pretentious narcissist sociopaths. I do think he slapped her around, but she probably liked that he didn’t take her shit like every other man she was with. Daddy issues and all that.

Natalie Portman.

Lady Gaga

[quote] "David Ogden Stiers

Actually very low maintenance and nothing like Niles."

I don't know what one has to do with the other, R114.

Anyway, R57 Stiers was Julliard-educated and mentored by John Houseman there (which I didn't know until I looked it up, but I find interesting). He was an actor but also a director, and musician who guest conducted smaller regional orchestras. He played pompous very well, but at most, it was a great exaggeration of qualities he already possessed. I can see how that may be perceived as pretentios, but I don't really believe he was.

David Spade

Avery Schreiber

I just popped by to say that I'm thrilled Drew Droege is being recognized in this thread.

Madonna (always), The Beckhams, Her Royal Highness Gwyneth, Sir Bono and well, basically, any celebrity who doesn't seem to comprehend all they do is entertain us.

None of these people aren't coming up with cures for any rare diseases. They are entertainers, PERIOD. If they use their platform for good, fine, but if they are always promoting some useless garbage they want us to buy and make more money from hawking, then, fuck them.

Sean Penn

Orca and Gayle.

Clooney and his beard.

Any celeb who claims to be an "activist".

John Malkovich

R93 Reminder that Haberman got outed as a Clinton PR tool:

Kathleen Turner and her phony ass was sexy now manly accent.

David Banda

R130 I met him once after a godawful musical he was in. Very nice and kind of shy. I think it was called the Moose Murders.

Brett Somers. I had to do “Celebrity Battle of the Sexes” with that drunk. She and Cloris Leachman were paired against Reggie Jackson and myself in the kayak race. Early on, she simply WHACKED Cloris in the face with an oar and Reggie reached over to help. Somers bit him right on the wrist. Outrageous. The crowd howled with laughter, thinking this was all part of the show. I shot to my feet, screaming “DROWN THE DINGBAT!” I said to the producers “You can’t run with this kind of garbage! On my worst day, I never would’ve treated talent like this! You show me a sober Match Game host and I’ll go down on ya!”

I hate to say this because I really do love her, but...

Jenifer Lewis has a tendency to go on these pseudo-profound, super-serious diatribes/rants in interviews, in which she seems to believe she's imparting her great wisdom unto the world.

And it often comes on very suddenly and out of left field. Like one minute she's being all silly and hilarious, and then it's like some switch gets flipped and she turns into this insufferable blowhard. Weird.

Will always love her, though.

Meghan Markle and Harry Windsor. Should do something else besides calling themselves humanitarians if they can't even maintain proper rships with their relatives. And Archewell only attracting $US50K in a year when registered in Delaware (where 95% of donations can be written off as expenses) is just piss poor.

Angelina, especially for trying to blame being underweight/eating disordered/on speed, H or coke on seeing starvation and malnutrition in developing countries. Cynical in the extreme.

Oprah - if she's going to carry out interviews, how about asking decent questions instead of gushing and saying WHAT?

Gayle...where to start? Really?

These five people are so pretentious they make Goop and her twat candles seem down to earth

Orson Welles. Charlie Rose.

The reigning 👑.

R134 I don't find Victoria Beckham to be pretentious. She's in on the joke, it seems.

Woody Allen’s Bergman phase.

Shirley Booth

LeBron James

Emily Ratajowski. She's always going on about how hot people can be smart too, which is true. But Emily herself is a whiny, self pitying dummy who pretends to be profound. The pretentious attitude is still less offensive than her constant whining. Someone needs to inform her that she is free to pursue another career besides modelling if she truly finds it so exploitative.

Another vote for Ashley Judd!

To the person who thinks Morgan wished to play a Richard Kay type role...you do realise, don't you, that Kay is still working as a reporter whilst Morgan was an actual editor almost 30 years ago? And MM approached him out of the blue?

Lady Gaga has always been ridiculously pretentious and full of shit

Natalie Portman is legitimately intelligent but so insufferable and pretentious. If you don't believe me read her e mail correspondence with Jonathan Safran.

I did read that, R156, and remember it being extremely cringe on both sides.

Portman/Safran ftw.

Jonah H(ILL). Insufferable.

Celebrity chefs

[quote]David Ogden Stiers... "Actually very low maintenance and nothing like Niles." I don't know what one has to do with the other, [R114].

I was an intentional confusion of him with David Hyde Pierce, meant as a joke, because both are often confused with their pretentious twat characters. Only 2 people got it, so I guess I didn't pull it off very well.