Modified On April 15, 2009
Boston’s altrag has a pulsing banner that leads to their list of the 100 Unsexiest Men. The opening page contains their criteria, and says the list was “Assembled by a watchful team with a low tolerance for hypocrisy, wastefulness, and unfunny comedians…” The first graf even has a swipe at Carrot Top… and others:
To the masses, unsexiness is defined in superficial ways — pores big enough to drive Hummers through, and hair that grows like kudzu in unwanted places, and unexplained protuberances. Think Danny Bonaduce or Carrot Top (or virtually any man you can think of with red hair).
The Male Half (as a comedian and as a redhead) is, predictably, not amused.
Among the undesirable 100:
98. Patton Oswalt
93. Russell Brand
89. Greg Behrendt
62. Jim Norton
43. Denis Leary
28. Kevin James
19. Judd Apatow And Friends
15. Andrew Dice Clay
And, if we include Jack Black (45) and Jimmy Fallon (22), the list is ten per cent comedians.
We spotted the banner just as we were about to click on an interview by Sara Faith Alterman with Jonathan Katz (Click here).
The Phoenix seems conflicted. They pay a good amount of attention to comedy– indeed, Alterman’s interview with both halves of the staff (in anticipation of this weekend’s appearance at Mottley’s) will appear in the pages of their tab this week– yet they seem eager to slag on comedians as a group.