Comparing the Worst of the Present With the Best of the Past

Earl Gadberry

rosie o'donnell is no lily tomlin

JamesMurphy

michael musto you're no bruce vilanch.

latenitebump

katy perry is no cindy lauper

corrective_unconscious

Carrie Prejean is no Divine.

steroids

Snooki really isn't that bad she has a heart.

Movielover

She is that bad if you are talking about anything besides having a heart.

latenitebump

eminem is no vanilla ice

latenitebump

hannah montana is no cindy brady.

Glamor

The Village Voice 2011 is no Village Voice 1981.

Best Green Hosting

One of the finest write ups in recent times!!..

kaneblues

The Tea Party is no Tea Party.

WhyWhyWhy

Cameron Diaz is no Carole Lombard!

Bell the Cat

George Bush is no Abraham Lincoln

Buddy88mo

Kesha is no Deborah Harry

Pietro

Donald Trump, you are no Ivana.

Generalgruff

Barack Obama, you're no George W. Bush!

Movielover

Thank the Lordy.

Budbear

And the world is ever so grateful.

bchaln

Lady Gaga is no Madonna even though she wants to be

Cyberquill

Beyoncé is no Mary Hopkin.

evearden

Here's a better comparison for you:

Today's celebrities = SUCK

(and that includes Snooki)

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Vin Diesel is no Telly Savalas

Hugh Hefnner

katie couric is no jane russell

Snookie

katherine hepburn is no rudolph valintino

Mike Diamond

Lady Bunny is no Fatty Arbuckle

egghumor

Oops! Britney Spears IS NO Lola Falana!

egghumor

Britney Spears in Lola Falana

whoami

Chace Crawford is no Helmut Berger.

MarkyMark

Taylor Lautner is no Arnold Schwarzenegger!

tom

Charlie Sheen is no Fatty Arbuckle.

Michael O'Farrell

Tom Hanks is No Jimmy Stewart.

Timmie

Angelina Jolie is no Duse.

Justin Beiber is no Fabian.

Rabbit

Oh there have always been no-talents, but they rarely enjoyed the kind of exposure so easily attained today through various media.

A generalization: The stars of yesterday looked and acted like adults. With a few exceptions, today's actors seem like kids playing dress-up.

Gregorama

Robert Pattinson is NO Guy Madison....

Dugaldo

I feel so young after reading all these comments. Thanks gentlemen.

Gabeh

Rula Lenska was no Sweet Rosie O'Grady.

Bethany Frankel

Kelly Bensimon is no Rula Lenska.

Anne Thrax

Pamela Anderson, you're no Chesty Morgan.

franco

Michael Musto, you're no Titus Petronius, Arbiter of Elegance to Nero, committed suicide when accused of complicity in the Pisonian conspiracy, but not before he wrote his magnum opus, Satyricon, a work of Menippean satire.

Michael Musto, you're no François-Marie Arouet better known by the pen name Voltaire, the French Enlightenment writer, historian and philosopher famous for his wit and for his advocacy of civil liberties, including freedom of religion and free trade.

Michael Musto, you're no Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde, Irish writer and poet, one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s. Today he is remembered for his epigrams*, plays and the circumstances of his imprisonment, followed by his early death.*An epigram is a brief, clever, and usually memorable statement. This literary device has been employed for over two millennia.

Michael Musto, you're no Samuel Langhorne Clemens better known by his pen name Mark Twain, American author and humorist most noted for his novels, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876), and its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), the latter often called "the Great American Novel."

Michael Musto, you're no Dorothy Parker, American poet and satirist, best known for her wit, wisecracks, and eye for 20th century urban foibles. Her literary output and reputation for her sharp wit have endured.

Gregorama

I'm looking for some twist of irony in your writing here....and I can't find any, which would just make your very wordy rant simply insulting and rude to our host. I'm sure that most of us here would beg to differ. I think Musto's writings will someday be judged to have just as much gravitas as Boswell's or Henry James's, or other famed chroniclers of their particular eras. Who is better than Michael Musto, I ask you? If you think he's so lame, why do you continue to return, day after day after day? I happen to think that some of his epigrams are more than worthy to be considered "of the ages"---and far more humorous than those of some supposed "humorists".

"It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship." Colette (1873 - 1954),

franco

OH lighten up commenter formerly known as Osama Bin Crosby, it is what it is, light, inconsequential, artificial fare!

"For years, I've pushed the idea of a column compilation book mainly because it would be easy - I could just staple 'em all together. But publishers have been resistant, feeling the material dates." - Michael Musto

Mark this date on your calendar Mr. Moore, on the June 14, 2007 episode of Countdown with Keith Olbermann, Musto coined the word 'celebutard' (combination of the words celebrity, debutante, and retard) to describe celebutantes Paris Hilton and Lindsay Lohan.