Let’s say you’re the world’s biggest fan of the Coppertone girl. You love the Coppertone girl. You can’t get enough of the Coppertone girl. You always make sure to go down the cosmetics aisle at the grocery store because you need to see the Coppertone girl on a weekly basis. Not in a creepy way, of course; you just happen to like the Coppertone girl the way other people do Leonardo DiCaprio or Ryan Gosling. Then, one day while you’re flipping through channels on the teevee, you see a commercial declaring that the REAL COPPERTONE GIRL is going to be visiting your town, Humbleville Pie Smile, USA, for one day only. And that day is today! You rush down to the hardware store where she’s appearing, for some reason, and calmly approach your idol. What do you say? Two options:
1. “I’m a huge fan. I’m so happy to have met you and really respect your work.”
2. “You’re a little fat girl…and you keep taking your clothes off and it kind of feels like a rape.”
If you’re Howard Stern, and the Coppertone girl is Lena Dunham, you say the latter. But let’s backtrack a little.
Last week, Howard Stern said some delightful things about Girls and Lena Dunham on his Sirius show.
On his SiriusXm radio show Monday, Howard Stern cracked, “I learned that this little fat chick writes the show (Girls) and directs the show, and that makes sense to me because she’s such a camera hog that the other characters barely are on.” He also complained that Lena Dunham is “a little fat girl who kind of looks like Jonah Hill and she keeps taking her clothes off and it kind of feels like a rape.” (Via)
Ugh. The worst. On Monday, though, after Lena’s triumphant night at the Golden Globes, he changed his tune.
“I felt bad,” he said on the air, calling the next-day take on his comments a “hatchet job,” “because I really do love the show Girls and enjoy it, and I admire the girl who writes it…So I said to [producer Gary Dell'Abate], would you please contact Lena Dunham and please tell her that I would like to explain myself to her on the air and apologize to her because I do love the show and it makes me feel bad that she is getting the impression that I somehow think she’s just a talentless little fat chick.”
“It took me a while to get there,” Stern also said, “and all of the sudden I went, ‘This show’s really really funny. I like it.’ I kind of just started liking the show. And I’ve done a whole 360 on the show and I really admire the girl who writes it, and I actually like when she comes on camera…I’m a superfan now. I really love it. I almost went to the premiere the other night.” (Via)
In a span of a week, Stern went from “feels like a rape” to “superfan.” For what it’s worth, Lena Dunham wisely laughed off the comments on Letterman, saying, “I’m a Howard Stern fan and I really think that he has earned the right to free speech and he should just go for it. But he did say something that I thought was so funny that I want to get on my gravestone, where he said, ‘Congrats to her, it’s so hard for little fat chicks to get anything going these days.’ And it put me in the best mood!”
So, what lesson did we learn here? Um…..BABA BOOEY BABA BOOEY BABA BOOEY. Also, Howard Stern had sex with the Coppertone girl.
(Via Daily News) (Via E!)
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Men shouldn’t use phrases like “Ugh. The worst.” Even ironically.
HAND OVER YOUR MAN CARD, JOSH.
/stuffs tobacco in lip
Did you really put a dip in, or are you just trying to make fun of dippers, bro? /for realz puts a dip in.
IT WAS SHREDDED JERKY CHEW, OK!??!
/runs to car and cries
I’ll allow it. Josh most likely won’t end this day with higher than normal blood pressure or a hole in his lip.
Just another generous basting of his liver with tonic water and whatever clear liquor was around.
Clear liquors are for rich white women on diets.
I dont think shes that bad looking. Hate the show but not her looks.
Exactly. Complaining about her naked body is what invalidates legitimate critiques of the show. Girls sucks because it’s not as revolutionary as everyone claims it is and the characters are monsters.
I agree completely that it’s not as revolutionary as critics laud it to be and the some characters are monsters, but I do think the excessive gratuitous nudity is a legitimate cause for complaint. To be perfectly honest, I don’t like excessive gratuitous nudity even when the bodies involved are perfect. I feel much of the nudity on Girls is just done to be shocking and/or provocative and I feel it insults my intelligence as a viewer.
With that said, I’m more pissed that she burned the image of Peter Scolari’s penis into my brain much more than I am over her own nudity on the show. Every time she disrobes now it just feels like a deliberate attempt to troll viewers, and that just pisses me off.
“To be perfectly honest, I don’t like excessive gratuitous nudity even when the bodies involved are perfect.”
I said that to my wife, but she insisted on uploading our honeymoon video anyway.
She’s about a 4, maybe a 5. Basically in the dictionary under “plain.” I find the show unwatchable, but Dunham’s nudity is not the main reason for that.
Her writing is about a 4 or 5, too. THAT’S the problem. Medium jokes, poor narrative momentum, unclear motivations, and the entire cast of characters need to be put through a wood chipper (thereby putting the jokes up to a 7, easy).
Personally I find Lena Dunham extremely unattractive. That’s not to say I hate her for not being attractive or I think she shouldn’t go nude on the show or anything like that. Hell, I even like the show. Her looks just kind of gross me out. It’s not even her weight really, it’s more her tattoos. For some reason I just find them hideous.
I’m sure some will claim this makes me a sexist pig though.
The only thing I disagree with is use of rape..think of something else. Lena Dunham needs to go away forever…
Honestly though, she is not an attractive woman.
By rights, I couldn’t expect to do any better.
I wouldn’t bang her with Stuttering John’s dick.
Did a whole 360 there, did you, Howard?
That’s where my eyes rolled too. But only about 180.
This is the worst thing he said.
How is he still a thing?
basically this, why the fuck is he still popular?
He’s not. His Sirius show is SO painfully unfunny now that its just sad. He went on AGT and the ratings went down ~20%.
I have listened to him almost every morning since he has moved to Sirius… his show is still great. I’ll give you that it was much better with Artie
His show isn’t that great anymore, but I respect the shit out of the dude and he was so lights out fantastic in the 90′s that I really can’t hate on the guy now. Plus, he still murders it on late night shows and has the balls to say the most vicious things about Jay Leno so just leave the fucking guy alone
I wonder if he actually meant 360 and he’s going to continue to belittle Dunham when she appears on his show. Otherwise, he’s an idiot and meant to say 180.
It would have been awesome before Stern describe the sex scenes, he said something along the lines of, “our entire cultural apparatus rests upon the overindulged, perpetual childhoods of trust fund children, and upon the meagre, self-congratulatory narratives they draw from their pampered existence.” But then I realized that Stern’s kids are exactly what he just described, which would be foolish. Oh well.
If Dunham were half the writer everyone insists she is, she should be able to more than hold her own against that windy oaf. So, it’ll be a close match up.
You would think that a fat chick would have bigger boobs. Talk about bad luck.
Fat girls with small boobs are God’s cruelest joke.
Red headed fat girls with small boobs.
I can read his tone, but I’m certain Stern knows what 360 means. I am sure he was being very sarcastic. “I actually like when she comes on camera…” Girls is the worst. The nudity may be the only reason to watch.
*can’t read his tone.
I blame Sex in the City for making people think that an ugly no-talent writer (or actress who plays a writer) can be a sex symbol.
Worse, they think she can be a writer.
People get naked, it’s almost never sexy, so Girls is mad real.
What I don’t get is that girls who watch Girls actually care and want the main characters to remain friends, all while having cast away their own best friend at some point in their life to move onto a new friend or a boyfriend.
Still can’t believe she beat Amy Poehler at the Golden Globes. I actually got upset.
She’s not attractive. With that being said I have hooked up with a several Lena Dunham figure types in my 4 years of college. WE ALL HAVE. If you didn’t then you obviously didn’t drink that often. The unrealistic part is that her male counterparts parade her around. I tried my best ignore them on campus or in a bar until I had no control over my mind under the influence of Bacardi 151
This comments section is really, really ugly.
Oh my god, so agreed. A plague on all these cocks.
I’m getting knots in my stomach reading all the filth that these fucking mysoginistic neckbeards are saying, I cannot believe how vile these guys are. It wouldn’t surprise me if they were all “4′s” or “3′s” themselves and feel unbelievably threatened by her succes. Tough luck guys, this show isn’t about pleasing your dicks, and behaving like nasty little spoilt brats about the prefect set of servile pornstar tits you’re supposedly owed on tv is only making you look more like imbecilic cavemen than anything else. This show IS revolutionary because it brings all the hateful misogyny out of the woodwork, contrary to the popular belief that we live in a post-feminist world as some people want us to believe.
But the REAL COPPERTONE GIRL was triumphant at the Golden Globes and I’d very much like to see that 50 year old naked. Put HBO to work on that and maybe I consider the resubscription. So confus.
Oh, Howard. Shine on, you shit-encrusted diamond.
so howard stern said somthing impolite, which is his job, but then apolgized for it. cool, great story. can’t wait to hear about the next famous person that says the word rape. it always makes for a really awesome story.
So that coppertone girl thing is the worst metaphor in history right?
i enjoyed it. it might not really fit, but i enjoyed the punchline.
So, she’s ugly and fat and gets naked. BFD. Stop being misogynistic pricks about it.
Didn’t read but fuck Lena Dunham.
HOO-HOO, Robin! I invented girls! Tell ‘em, Fred!
I don’t mind her getting naked, because I just straight up love almost any titties I see, but I will say that her tattoos are awful and some other ladies on that show should shoulder some of the nudie duties as well. I will say that that Adam dude she was banging last season is one of the most bizarre lookiing motherfuc*ers I’ve ever laid eyes on. Now I sound like a fruit, Awesome. Thanks Lena!
*blows raspberry
I think her horrible choice of tattoo’s is what I dislike most about her. Being chubby is something you can get rid of, especially when you’re a rich actor who can afford dieticians and personal trainers.
I watched a couple episodes of the first season (because my wife stole my testicles and is hiding them from me), and it was pretty awful. I’ve since refused to watch it, only to have my wife tell me last night “the guy from Community is on Girls now”.
Damnit.
Wait, Howard Stern said something offensive? About a woman?? No fucking way!!!
Oh then he changed his tune and apologized? Ok that part is a little surprising. Still not a story though.