Good thing you didn’t sleep with him then, Ennis.

True dat. C’mon, the man never would have had plastic surgery if he thought his looks were perfect just the way they were. And he is middle aged.

On a Fresh Air (NPR) interview she said that she was a heavy child. Isn’t the character in White Teeth (the jamaican-brit girl what’s-her-name) basically autobiographical ?

I’ve bumped into Rushdie in the same town …

The funniest Rushdie-spotting story I know is of a friend-of-a-friend who saw Rushdie in an NYC-bookstore not long after watching the Bridget Jones movie. And he told his friends how cool it was that he saw “that actor from that Bridget Jones movie”.

Good thing you didn’t sleep with him then, Ennis.

And what about Aziz?!

Agreed Mencia immediately comes to mind.

But…I think Shallowthinker’s argument was that attractive people don’t need to be funny, but the aforementioned clearly learned to be funny before becoming movie stars. Reese Witherspoon, by contrast, is a movie star who just happens to be good at comedy. The others, I think are famous primarily because of their funniness. I agree they would not have become movie stars if it weren’t for their good looks, but they are funny in spite of their good looks.

Most of them are primarily actors, so they’re screened for looks. Stand up comedians are … not as pretty

Kal Penn, Zach Braff, Jay Chandrasekhar, Jon Stewart (okay my view of the last one is affected by his rapier wit but he’s not a bad sight either), Owen Wilson, Luke Wilson…the list goes on. That was MUCH easier than coming up with attractive female authors so I believe that thesis is debunked.