Celebrities you thought were cool when you were a kid...

Scott Baio

Johnny Depp

Madonna

r1 wins!

Michael Jackson

Ted Nugent, Dennis Miller, Antonio Sabato, Vince McMahon, Johnny Ramone, Gene Simmons.

Lindsay Lohan

Tom Cruise

As a (mostly closeted) gay teen I thought both Madonna and especially Sandra Bernhard were fierce, funny, and heroic. This was the late 80s.

Madonna was never really funny or heroic, and fierce mostly in terms of her own ambitions.

Bernhard is no longer funny and about as fresh as week-old bread. I seriously can't believe she has any career left.

Ah, well.

Most once cool celebs turn out to be idiots after 10 years in showbiz.

Vince Vaughn, Roseanne, Courtney Love, Louis C.K., Dustin Hoffman, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Felicity Huffman, Ariana Huffington, Derek Hough, David Hasselhoff.

Basically, any Hoff or Huff and I’ve had ENOUGH.

Streisand before she got all controlling and "tastefull"

Kevin Spacey

Pat Priest

Rip Taylor

Madonna

Janet Jackson

The Hollywood Squares

Marjorie Mains

Virginia Graham!

Toni Braxton

R9, Sandra was cool back then. My friend dragged me to “Without You, I’m Nothing” in an actual theater. We smoked some weed and went in. I had no idea who she was, or anything, and I was at a loss for words.

I wonder if that’s on YouTube...

Bob Hope.

Yes, I realize he was never cool. I wasn’t a good judge of coolness when I was younger.

There's a movie version of WITHOUT YOU I'M NOTHING, R22. I didn't see her stage show but I saw the movie version, numerous times. And pretty much committed her better monologues to memory.

People tell me the film is pretty faithful to her stage show at the Orpheum, was it?

She never, ever surpassed that, IMHO, and I've seen her perform live half a dozen times.

holy shit...........you all must be ancient................

Axl Rose

Margaret Hamilton

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Soupy Sales

Leonardo DiCaprio. Great actor but my god, loser-ville. Him and Depp

The munchkins from wiz of oz.

The late Olivia de Havilland. She was cool playing opposite Bette Davis in "Hush Hush Sweet Charlotte".

Bill Cosby

I thought Thomas Jefferson was the bee’s knees. Then I found out about slavery.

Joey Lawrence and pretty much the whole cast of Friends. Except Lisa Kudrow.

Hello Hello

U thought those ugly bitches were cool?!

Joey Lawrence

Captain Kangaroo

John Wayne

Johnny Carson

Joan Rivers

Jesus of Nazareth

[quote] Virginia Graham!

No! Virginia Graham is eternally cool.

Theater critic Richard Coe, said she looked like "Sophie Tucker doing a Carol Channing performance." How can you not love someone like that?

Sean Cassidy and Parker Stevenson!

Ricky Schroder who's now Republican Rick In April 2019, Schroder was arrested twice for suspicion of domestic violence, and was held in lieu of $50,000 bail.

R24 “No one speaks of pavilions anymore and that truly saddens me.”

Dirk Benedict, especially in this outfit.

Candace Cameron

Liam&Noel Gallagher

Ellen DeGeneres

Old Dirty Bastard

Ricky can still redeem himself if he goes full frontal. At this stage, that may be the only way to save his career.

Mickey Rourke

Tom Burton (turns out he’s a hack)

Marilyn Manson (just lame these days)

Tim Armstrong (possibly a sociopath, definitely not a cool dude like he wants people to believe)

Quentin Tarantino (also a bit of a hack)

John Travolta

Paula Abdul

Rudy Vallee, Valentino...

Tim Burton and Quentin Tarantino have been disappointing considering all the hype around their careers. Burton has been making the same film over and over again for 20 years or more, and Tarantino cuts and pastes from the most obscure post-Golden Age pieces of shit he can legally get away with and calls himself Hitchcock, Scorsese, and Peckinpah all rolled into one.