Posted on 07/05/2015 6:15:04 AM PDT by Cecily
Former Disney CEO Michael Eisner believes women are rarely both funny and beautiful.
Speaking with Goldie Hawn at the Aspen Ideas Festival, he said: 'The hardest artist to find is a beautiful, funny woman.'
He prophetically added: 'Boy I'm going to get in trouble, I know this goes online. But usually, unbelievably beautiful women - you being an exception - are not funny.'
Accordingly, his words have have prompted outrage on Twitter, with thousands of people name-checking comedians such as Tina Fey, Mindy Kalig and Kristen Wiig as examples of the supposedly unattainable formula.
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I’m not sure what stats your mother was looking at but...all I’m saying is that there’s a small chance somebody is extremely smart and beautiful. If most people aren’t extremely smart nor beautiful then the odds of being both extremely smart and beautiful must be quite small.
Gender plays no role. So saying “most beautiful women (or men) are not very smart” doesn’t mean they’re stupid either, just not both “very smart” and beautiful.
“I don’t want Fop! I’m a Dapper Dan man!”
“Well ain’t this place a geographical oddity. Two weeks from everywhere!”
Billie Burke
Jean Arthur. Jean was one of the best.
Think, Moms Mabley
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