Jonah Hill: The Kardashians are a super disgusting part of our culture
Jonah Hill is had a particularly good year.
Not only did he maintain his credibility as one of the brightest young comic actors in Hollywood, he also turned in a critically-acclaimed, understated, lovely, dramatic performance in Moneyball, and he was just nominated for a SAG Award for Best Supporting Actor for that film. Well deserved! I wouldn’t be surprised if he got an Oscar nomination too, not that he would win, but I would enjoy seeing him at all of the awards shows. In addition to his professional achievements, Jonah also lost a great deal of weight over the past two years, which I’m sure has improved his health, and he looks great. So what is Jonah doing with all of the Hollywood and karmic equity he’s stored up? He’s bashing the Kardashians. Kind of like Daniel Craig, only Jonah’s criticism is much more on-point, I think.
Actor Jonah Hill is angry about the success of the Kardashian family’s reality TV shows. Last month, Daniel Craig, 43, ranted that the clan act like ‘f***ing idiots’ for money, and now the Moneyball actor has shared his take on their growing media empire.
Hill said that while he often finds himself watching one of their shows, he finds it ‘disgusting’ that they earn better ratings than higher quality scripted shows.
The 27-year-old said: ‘The truth of it is, I have friends who work in TV and the Kardashians get higher ratings than their TV shows. Shows that people actually work hard on – writing and creating and trying to tell stories. The fact that the Kardashians could be more popular than a show like Mad Men is disgusting.’
‘It’s a super disgusting part of our culture, but I still find it funny to make a joke about it. Whenever I say I like reality TV, people write about it like they’re in shock. I can’t even understand it, so I watch it,’ he told The Huffington Post.
‘I think it’s funny and I definitely enjoy it in a making-fun-of-it sort of way, but where does the line sort of end? When do I stop making fun of it and become an actual fan?’
But the star doesn’t put all the blame on Kourtney, 32, Kim, 31, and 27-year-old Khloe.
He added: ‘The Kardashians are as famous as our president. What does that tell you about how skewed our society is?’
[From The Mail]
Wow… Jonah Hill is better at criticizing the Kardashian phenomenon than Daniel Craig. Jonah’s point is much better – he’s leveling the bulk of the criticism on US, for watching the Kardashian shows, for putting a higher value on reality programming than on actual creative, scripted television. I also like that he even admits that he watches it – but it’s like he’s watching as an anthropologist, like he can’t even believe what he’s seeing. Sigh… I like Jonah so much. And it is disgusting that Mad Men will never be as popular as a Kardashian show.
I can’t wait for Kris Jenner to come out and say that Jonah Hill isn’t a man and that he should apologize.
