Celebrities who are or were decidedly NOT intelligent

Shitney Spears

Emma Stone dropped out of school at 16.

A friend worked with Mario Lopez and said he was exactly what you'd think, an idiot and full of himself.

Does Brendad Ickson count as a celebrity?

No R4.

Jennifer Lawrence

Robert De Niro

Thread Closed.

This guy has a YouTube vlog about his life with an extremely low IQ and he made a video about celebrities with low IQs. Sweet guy I hope his life shakes out well.

Dean Cain

Brett Favre

Kelsey Grammer

Ted Nugent

Kevin Sorbo

Jon Voight

R8, pretty much

Johnny Depp

Suzanne Somers

David Hasselhoff

Denzel Washington

Jennifer Aniston

I have yet to understand a single word salad Timothee Chalamet has given in junket interviews.

What thread is being complemented with this one?

Jessica Simpson

John Schneider

[quote] What thread is being complemented with this one?

This one.

Thanks r17

Donald John Trump

Charlie Rose

It can be hard to tell when someone is tragically self-impressed more than they are simply stupid, but Kate Winslet has yet to seem particularly intelligent in the few things I’ve heard from her.

Britney

R2, Emma Stone is incredibly intelligent. I know.

There’s a difference between being educated and being intelligent. Stone does seem like a smart woman. Thr problem with lacking a higher education isn’t that you’re “stupid,” it’s that you haven’t been trained to think critically.

Jessica Chastain....god what a moron.

Can confirm, r23. We went to middle school together--she was Emily Stone back then. Very cool chick, had the deep voice in 6th grade. Emily went on to a local all-girls Catholic high school, and I remember that she would travel to L.A. a lot for auditions.

Britney.

Has anyone said Britney yet?

Madonna

Scott Baio

R19 I knew Trump was dumb many years back, even before his dumb and dumber reality TV show. I would be surprised to learn that he even scored 100 on an IQ test.

R25: She has no personality either. No warmth at all.

I knew Craig T. Nelson was an idiot when he complained about paying taxes and said, "I've been on food stamps and welfare, and did anybody help me out? No."

Not sure if Chris Pratt is dumb or just plays dumb very well. He's a closet trumper and an evangelical so that's a giant ding against suspected intelligence.

Susan Olsen

Sherri Shepherd

Wolf Blitzer finished Celebrity Jeopardy! $4,200 in the negative. I've never seen any contestant fail that badly.

Beyonce, Angelina Jolie. Gwyneth Paltrow does not seem smart either although she is a decent businesswoman

R36 Wow. That's actually pretty humiliating considering his position.

R25 She doesn't sound dumb at all.

[quote] He's a closet trumper

I thought he was open in his Trump support.

Beyonce Knowless

R8 don’t forget Chachi

[quote] don’t forget Chachi

R30 didn’t.

I assume Mark Wahlberg has a personal assistant who can remind him how to breathe when he tries to do anything too mentally challenging simultaneously.

Why the fuck would the Queen’s name be uttered on this thread. Fkin lowlifes.

R33 masterpiece!

[quote] 'Why the fuck would the Queen’s name be uttered on this thread. Fkin lowlifes."

Agreed. She was quite witty as well.

Amy Winehouse

Matt Damon

Steven Tyler

Paula Abdul

^^ Actually NOT Matt Damon, he supposedly has a high IQ, he’s just an asshole. Apologies.

That FAGGOT bottom with the SCRAWNY ass

Ben Affleck- years ago watched him on the Bill Mahr Show. He could not keep up with the conversation.

He's a DUMMY

[quote]Kid Rock

He used to be a frequent guest on Politically Correct (with Bill Maher on ABC) back in the 90's and he sounded like a 12-year-old. Rose McGowan was often a guest, too, and she was moody and miserable and, yes, not very intelligent. And there's no reason to think anything has changed with either of them.

Human meatball Joe Rogan.

QAnon follower Jim Caviezel

[quote] He's a closet trumper

Proof?

R8, Dean Cain went to Princeton, so he would fall into the category of highly-educated but dumb, which is usually reserved for politicians instead of actors.

Can't forget boulderhead bimbo Joe Rogan.

Melanie Griffith

Claiming that Emma Stone isn't intelligent strikes me as completely bizarre

Ryan Reynolds doesn't seem very bright to me. Neither does his wife.

[quote] Can't forget boulderhead bimbo Joe Rogan.

R53 did not.

R61 GOOD. He's such a fucking retard. And he shills brain supplements saying "this is how i stay so sharp"

R59. it's really bizarre considering Emma Stone has shown quite good taste throughout her career, and there's a very dumb redhead whose career she usurped who has not yet been mentioned.

Stevie Ray Vaughn - I loved his music, but regretted listening to an interview. Yikes, what a dolt.

I can understand not liking Rogan but he's certainly not dumb. Quite the opposite

Really R65? I don’t think he’s dumb but certainly not the opposite.

I think he’s an average guy who used his brawn.

Johnny Depp is a moron from way back when. Years ago he was on 60 mins and prob took a full 3 mins to spit out a simple sentence. He was trying to sound intelligent but just couldn’t gather his thoughts fast enough.

I disagree with Amy Winehouse.

(Correction: Politically [italic]Incorrect[/italic])

Perhaps a former celebrity, but Ryan Lochte.

OJ Simpson doesn't seem very bright, even though he got away with murder (which happened only because a decidedly unintelligent jury acquitted him).

Mathew Perry always struck me as dumb.

"Celebrity" is a stretch, but Caitlin Upton:

^ Wow. I mean...wow.

"The Iraq, and such as."

Speaking of Britney: This is the woman who once said that she'd like to go to Europe so that she could visit places like Canada.

I think Marilyn Monroe was really dumb despite recent attempts to portrait her otherwise.

Sherri Shepherd

[quote] I disagree with Amy Winehouse.

And the "Blake's" tattoo on her chest disagrees with you.

No Fantasia?

It is unfortunate that being smart guarantees you no success in life—as this list proves. Almost All of these idiots are millionaires/billionaires.

Poor impulse control is not necessarily related to intelligence, r78. Two of the smartest people I've known in my life were both drug addicts.

Intelligence also doesn’t equal drive or ambition.

[quote] despite recent attempts to portrait her

Ivanka Trump

Ben affleck

Baffleck

Not intelligent or dumb? If we are defining intelligence as having significantly above average intellectual ability then the majority of celebrities are not intelligent.

If we are talking about actually stupidity Joe Rogan, Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, Emma Stone, Amy Winehouse and Dean Caine don’t fit. Just because you dislike someone or they make bad/impulsive choices doesn’t mean they can’t do algebra, read a map, win consistently at a board or card game, solve a crossword puzzle, or debug code. And doing those things doesn’t make them smart, but it makes them not dumb. Attending a very competitive school is definitely not proof that someone is intelligent, but they are unlikely to actually be stupid. I doubt Ivanka or Jared have below average intelligence.

Ben Affleck comes off as an idiot, but he’s probably not stupid. He is desperate to be seen as intelligent, though. His Wikipedia page reads as though it was edited by Ben or his team with that in mind.

Stefani ‘Gaga’ Germanotta

R63 Bryce Dallas Howard?

Jennifer Lawrence, for thinking the public believes her when she said she never fucked Harvey Weinstein for parts.

Sure, Jan. And we never noticed how your career went downhill after his arrest. No more Oscars for you!

I always thought Michael Jackson was dumb as a post. He could barely string complete sentences together and would just resort to his little girl voice.

R91, that’s ignorant.

[quote]it’s that you haven’t been trained to think critically.

I disagree. I know some people who did not attend college who are very well read and intelligent critical thinkers.

I know this is a stretch, but at one point Kevin Jonas had a reality show. It was on at the same time Ryan Lochte had his show. I've never seen two stupider people than Danielle Jonas and Ryan Lochte. How do they feed themselves level stupid.

Paris.

Michael Phelps

Is "stupider" even a word?

Sam Smith

Themi Lovato

Most nepo babies and influencers

Another vote for the Skank Hilton.

Andy Dick.

Ryan Lochte interview. Himbo in action.

Brandy. Farah Abraham. Corey Feldman.

[quote] doesn’t mean they can’t do algebra, read a map, win consistently at a board or card game, solve a crossword puzzle, or debug code.

So we think Amy Winehouse could do all or some of the above?

I like/liked her. But she wasn't smart. She was a genius interpreter of music, and a fabulous writer of songs, one could argue. However, there is no evidence whatsoever that she was smart in a general sense.

Keanu Reeves.

How could a dumb person be a fabulous writer of songs and great lyrics?

Wendy Williams has said that she needs to turn on closed captioning to understand Beyoncé.

Dean Cain went to Princeton.

R36 You mean the missionary?

[quote] How could a dumb person be a fabulous writer of songs and great lyrics?

The same way you got dumb hos with extreme talent for one specific thing and zero clue re: anything else in life.

A fabulous interpreter of music who's a dumb ho in life: Dave Gahan. A fabulous writer of songs and lyrics who was a dumb ho in life: Peter Steele.

R72 I love Caitlin Upton for that.

She's like Jesus on the Cross, sacrificing herself to redeem all our own most cringey stupidities.

Most of them. Not even close to adult level intelligence and extremely self-absorbed.

R110 It's different when one is dumb and good at dancing or singing, but to actually write good lyrics, I don't see how can you be dumb and do it. If Leonard Cohen was dumb he could never write the lyrics that he did.

And I would never consider Type O Negative to be a band with good lyrics. They were considered a joke band when they were active.

It would be hard to gauge if Amy was not intelligent, because she was fucked up on drugs all the time. She might have been a musical savant or even genius.

I don't think that Prince or Michael Jackson came off as particularly intelligent, but RIP to both.

Novaxx Djokovic

R108, ah, the benefits of being a recruited athlete

R65, he's a Trumper who is trying to blame Biden for saying things that Trump actually said

When did Rogan ever say anything smart?

Mariska Hargitay

R65 R118 At best Joe Rogan has average intelligence. When it comes to logic and critical thinking he might just be below average. That is why he has so many bros following him and listening to his podcasts. He's just a regular joe who they can relate to. My only problem with him is because of his followers he has a certain responsibility to not promulgate misinformation or flawed opinions, but he doesn't that that responsibility to heart, he claims he's just a dumb jock in order to shirk responsibility and criticism for all the dumb shit that gets said by him or his guests.

Prince was a musical genius who played every instrument on his first album. It is difficult to gauge whether he was smart when he spoke because he never really spoke

There are different types of intelligences, too.

[quote] Prince was a musical genius who played every instrument on his first album. It is difficult to gauge whether he was smart when he spoke because he never really spoke

One of his lyrics is “I anticipate a few turbulence along the way.” It wasn’t a joke.

Many people joke about how dim the British royal family are, but actually Charles is a genuine intellectual, William and Kate got fairly good grades in university, and Camilla is a bookworm (as was actually Princess Margaret, who kept up quite a bit also with other forms of --mostly middlebrow-- culture). Elizabeth II was apparently not much of a reader, but she was (as someone said above) quite witty and was surprisingly well informed regarding politics, even for most constitutional monarchs. However, there are some members of the BRF who were thick as planks:

*Harry is of course notoriously dumb--probably the dumbest of the lot

*Andrew had enormous trouble with his grades, and would never have been able to go to Cambridge like his brothers did

*Although Diana had a famously high emotional intelligence, she was not intellectually gifted: she was exceptionally shallow, and hardly read anything more sophisticated than the dumbed down romance novels by her own step-grandmother Barbara Cartland

*The Queen Mother was about as intellectually smart as Diana was, and read almost nothing other than gossipy romances (although she too had a very high emotional intelligence)

Novak speaks perfect English and French. Conversational German and Italian. He's very disciplined, extremely successful, and seems to be intelligent but short of genius. Say IQ 120

Harry seems like a complete imbecile.

Honey Poo Poo.

Sorry I love her but Beyoncé

Bless her heart, but I think Gypsy Rose Blanchard's IQ isn't much above special needs.

Keanu Reeves (looks, or used to look, pretty but can't really act and that whooooa dude thing seems real)

Kanye West (he's got SOME talent but is pretty dumb)

Justin Bieber (dumb as a box of rocks from what I've heard)

Farrah Fawcett - watch any Letterman interview - yes I know, she's dead

I do not think Kanye is dumb—but he is definitely nuts

Eva Longoria is fucking moron.

r124 have you ever read the novella The Uncommon Reader? Highly recommended.

R47. Home-tutored Elizabeth II managed to puncture oxbridge-educated Ted Heath’s pomposity pretty effectively.

Kristie Alley

Apparently Mary Martin was no Mensa. She left the thinking to Halliday and brought endless charm and talent to the table.

Sorry to be cruel, but you’re no Mensa either.

All of the Trumps and Bushes. Many of the Kennedys.

Some of the people mentioned here would probably test as having a low I.Q....but I bet you'd be surprised by how many wouldn't. Critical thinking, book smarts and a good liberal arts education are no match for the strategic operating that a lot of these so called 'idiots' display. Unfortunately, if we're applying evolutionary theory as the success metric, these idiots are smarter than most of you- heck they're probably smarter than LOTS of people. Why? Because through increasing their visibility, they have found a way (not nepos) to secure the widest mate selection for themselves, giving them the best chance at healthy offspring (if straight) not to mention the greatest amount of resources and social prestige (even Mario Lopez 🙄)....often for the least (or low) amount of effort. Thus affording them better societal protection and the greatest likelihood for longevity/robust health.....overall. And some of them did it without even finishing high school.....which makes them kind of like geniuses.

Your can see the gears grinding when Queen B gives an interview — which is rare.

Kanye is incredibly stupid and insane.

[quote]Wolf Blitzer finished Celebrity Jeopardy! $4,200 in the negative. I've never seen any contestant fail that badly.

He might not think on his feet well. (And speaking as someone who lost on Jeopardy, it's all in the thumb.)

No one does that poorly on Jeopardy without making major mistakes. If you don't think well on your feet or have good timing with the buzzer, you simply don't answer in time. Losing that much money means getting questions wrong over and over again.

R132 You're completely out of your mind and what's worse, you're envious.

Katy Perry

Tori Spelling

Those Cameron siblings

Most of the Arquettes

Second Katy Perry.

These threads ALWAYS end up with people posting the names of people whose ideologies they don't agree with or work they don't like.

I mean...Madonna, Ivanka Trump, Gaga, Affleck, and Damon ARE intelligent people.

R146 - who is the second Katy Perry?

Lana Turner, Cheryl Crane.

Madonna is not intellectual-smart. She is ambitious and shrewd. She’s done a lot with what little she had going for her.

Cher

Chee!

Doesn't Beyoncé only respond to yes or no questions in interviews?

Nicole Kidman.

R153 Maybe...

Drew Barrymore.

At least two spawn of John Phillips, i.e., Chynna and Bijou, and all of the Baldwin brothers.