This is the legacy of Andy Warhol, up to date for 2008 (and many you've seen posted over the past year).
Priscilla Ceballos
Briefly famous for: Writing a fake essay as her daughter about a father who was in Iraq just to win tickets to a Hannah Montana concert. She later apologized and was made an ass of and never got the tickets. She was also a grave threat to Sharpie markers everywhere.
When were they famous? January 2008
Peng Shuilin
Briefly famous for: Walking again for the first time since being cut in half in 1995. He got a wicked pair of robot legs that helped him move around– not a whole lot, but much better than he’d been used to.
When were they famous? January 2008
Polish man who found his wife working at a brothel
Briefly famous for: Going to a brothel, only to find his wife was working there.
When were they famous? January 2008
Sarah Green
Briefly famous for: Being a schoolteacher who got fired after appearing in a soft-core porn-like commercial where she seduces a construction worker.
When were they famous? January 2008
Dani Graves
Briefly famous for: Getting his dumb goth ass kicked off a bus because the bus driver wouldn’t let him and his freak on a leash girlfriend ride because they were funny looking.
When were they famous? January 2008
Chloe Marshall
Briefly famous for: Being the first size 16 girl to reach the finals of the Miss England pageant, or any other beauty pageant for that matter.
When were they famous? January 2008
Yu Zhenhuan
Briefly famous for: Being the world’s hairiest man and hoping to find love on the interweb. Yeah right, like that ever happens.
When were they famous? February 2008
The 3 year old Star Wars fan
Briefly famous for: Reciting a very accurate and very cute synopsis of Star Wars at her dining room table with her sippy cup.
When were they famous? February 2008
La Pequena Hillary Clinton
Briefly famous for: This Chilean midget transvestite first hit the scene in February of 2008, doing strange song and dance numbers for her fans on YouTube, but when she started doing impersonations of Hillary Clinton and later Sarah Palin, things got way weirder.
When were they famous? February 2008
Jeremiah Wright
Briefly famous for: Jeremiah Wright was once a staple in Washington circles and was once a mentor to Barack Obama. But once the video of his “God Damn America” sermon spread across the interweb like wildfire, he was dropped from everybody’s list and tossed out like a scalding hot potato. For a while, it looked like his big stupid mouth could derail the Obama train, but soon most people forgot all about him– including the man who would be voted the 44th president of the United States.
When were they famous? March 2008 / December 2008
Ronald Long
Briefly famous for: Accidentally shooting his wife in the chest after using a handgun to make a hole in a wall inside his house to wire up his satellite TV.
When were they famous? March 2008
Casey Knowles
Briefly famous for: Being the girl in the famous Hillary Clinton “3 am phone call” ad. The footage for the ad was shot as stock footage when she was just a kid, but now she’s 18 and cast her first vote ever for Barack Obama in the primaries.
When were they famous? March 2008
The nocturnal Argentinian shadow gnome
Briefly famous for: Stalking the streets of Argentina, terrorizing the locals. This strange, crab-walking creature was caught on video a couple times, but as far as I know, no one ever figured out what the hell it was or where it came from.
When were they famous? March 2008
Art Price Jr
Briefly famous for: After neighbors complained that this Ohio native and father of three was having sexual relations with his outdoor patio table on a regular basis.
When were they famous? March 2008
Thomas Beatie (again)
Briefly famous for: Being the “pregnant man” again. And every other time Mr. Beattie, a female to male transsexual decides to get knocked up, it’ll keep being news, just like it is for Michelle Duggar
When were they famous? March 2008
Ashley Dupre
Briefly famous for: Being the high-priced New York call girl that was the center of the sex scandal that brought down the governor of New York, Eliot Spitzer.
When were they famous? March 2008
Kory McFadden
Briefly famous for: Leaving his disabled sister on the toilet for two years solid, long enough that she became permanently stuck to the toilet seat. He was later charged with neglect of a dependent adult, but the whole thing still chafes his sister’s ass.
When were they famous? March 2008
Tanya Devereaux
Briefly famous for: A hot Belgian that offered to sell her virginity in the name of net neutrality. Last year she had another 15 minutes when she ran for a senate seat in Belgium, with the platform that she would offer 40,000 blow jobs.
When were they famous? April 2008
Teen who plotted to kill Jesus
Briefly famous for: Getting arrested after he plotted to blow up his high school so he could die, go to Heaven and assassinate Jesus.
When were they famous? April 2008
Tricia Walsh
Briefly famous for: Becoming a brief YouTube star during her divorce with her high-powered husband, the old hag used the interweb as a tool to humiliate her I’m sure well-meaning and undeserving sugardaddy.
When were they famous? April 2008
Edward Smith
Briefly famous for: Admitting to having sex with over 1000 cars. OVER ONE THOUSAND CARS. He could be lurking in the parking lot of your own mall… or YOUR VERY DRIVEWAY RIGHT NOW.
When were they famous? May 2008
Alex Rodriguez
Briefly famous for: Starting the fishbowl of crazy pro-Hillary site Hillaryis44.org, which went from just being a pro-Hillary site to being an anti-everything site and a lucrative linkbait scam for Mr. Rodriguez in the process.
When were they famous? May 2008
Matt Gonzalez
Briefly famous for: Digging up the corpse of an 11 year old boy and then using the skull as a bong. Possibly because using a full-sized skull just doesn’t feel the same in your hands? Who knows.
When were they famous? May 2008
Michelle Duggar (again)
Briefly famous for: Popping an 18th kid out of her deep, dark endless black hole clown car of a vagina. Also for having a wicked mullet. She’ll make the list again next year as well, no doubt.
When were they famous? May 2008
The pregnant girls of Gloucester High School
Briefly famous for: Seven girls at Gloucester High School made news after they made a pact to get knocked up all at the same time and all by the same very lucky and probably very dirty teenage homeless guy.
When were they famous? June 2008
The guy who plowed into a bicycle race with his car
Briefly famous for: Plowing his ugly ass gas guzzling boat straight into a bicycle race on the US-Mexico border, providing one of the most awesome photos of the year.
When were they famous? June 2008
Hedviga Golik
Briefly famous for: When Mrs. Golik sat down to watch TV in 1966, little did she know that she would spend the rest of eternity in that chair. She was discovered in June 2008, dead in front of her TV as she had been for 42 years.
When were they famous? June 2008
Ian Usher
Briefly famous for: Putting his entire life up for sale on eBay after his wife left him so he could leave Australia and travel the world.
When were they famous? June 2008
Ranae Shrider
Briefly famous for: Being “that chick” on the Verne Troyner sex tape, showing she knows how to give little people a good time, too.
When were they famous? June 2008
Montauk monster
Briefly famous for: Being a very dead, very unidentified hideous beaked naked dog-like creature that washed ashore in Montauk, Long Island, New York, finally giving the cryptozoology freaks something interesting to talk about.
When were they famous? July 2008
Rick Dyer and Matt Whitton
Briefly famous for: Giving cryptozoologists something to be excited about (for the second time in a month!), police officers Rick Dyer and Matt Whitton said they had caught a real-live Bigfoot, but it turned out it was just a Bigfoot Halloween costume in a freezer that they were hoping to make a few bucks off of.
When were they famous? July 2008
Rielle Hunter
Briefly famous for: Having an affair with ex-Senator and ex-politician John Edwards, while his wife was undergoing chemo for breast cancer and possibly the mother of his love child. The Enquirer had been going on and on about this almost the entire year but nobody listened until finally in early August, John Edwards was forced to fess up.
When were they famous? August 2008
Dede Koswara
Briefly famous for: Having most of his arms covered in giant scales resulting from an odd variation of HPV, the Indonesian fisherman found new hope in American science and medicine to help cure the disease that once thought would kill him. America, fuck yeah!
When were they famous? August 2008
Jericho Scott
Briefly famous for: Being told he pitches too fast for Little League and some people were afraid their little snowflakes might get hurt.
When were they famous? August 2008
Reginald Peterson
Briefly famous for: Calling 911 over and over and over and over and over again because the people at Subway weren’t making his sandwich how he wanted them to.
When were they famous? August 2008
Le Xing
Briefly famous for: Having sex with a park bench in Hong Kong and having to get cut free by paramedics when his wang got stuck in the metal grating.
When were they famous? August 2008
Milorad Cavic
Briefly famous for: Coming a split-second away from being the big buzzkill at the 2008 Olympics and robbing Michael Phelps of his 8th gold medal… but fortunately he’s a short stroker and Phelps went on to his SI cover, Wheaties box, etc etc.
When were they famous? August 2008
The iPhone girl
Briefly famous for: Accidentally leaving test photos of herself on the iPhone she was building at an iPhone factory in China, which led to her being a brief Internet star when the owner of the iPhone posted the photos online.
When were they famous? August 2008
Michelle Allen
Briefly famous for: Getting arrested for pissing on her neighbor’s porch while dressed as a cow. Well, the cow part wasn’t against the law, but it did make for the best mugshot ever.
When were they famous? September 2008
Wendy Brown
Briefly famous for: Stealing her daughter’s identity so that she could try out for the cheerleading team at her daughter’s high school. Didn’t work out so well.
When were they famous? September 2008
Ronald Watkins
Briefly famous for: Suing a Baltimore surgeon after Mr. Watkins left surgery with his rectum stapled shut, making it so he couldn’t drop a deuce for weeks.
When were they famous? September 2008
Greg LeNoir
Briefly famous for: Freeing his little dog, Jake from the jaws of a shark by repeatedly punching the shark in the face.
When were they famous? September 2008
Linda Maree Naggs
Briefly famous for: Raping the best man with a strap-on dildo at a bachelor party gone very wrong in Australia.
When were they famous? September 2008
Natalie Dylan
Briefly famous for: Auctioning off her virginity to help pay for grad school. I’m sure she did make money out of this, but what's she going to do the next time she has expenses?
When were they famous? September 2008
Levi Johnston
Briefly famous for: By supposedly knocking up Bristol Palin, the teenage daughter of then VP candidate Sarah Palin. Later his MySpace page was spread all over the internet, with him proudly proclaiming that I DONT WANNA BE NO DAD I JUST WANNA DRINK AND PARTY WOOO. Or something like that.
When were they famous? September 2008
Kimbo Slice
Briefly famous for: Kimbo wasn’t supposed to be a flash in the pan. He was supposed to be the baddest motherfucker since Tyson. At least that’s how it was hyped. He won a couple ugly mix martial arts bouts before he was crushed by the unknown Seth Petruzelli, who was a benchwarming stand-in for Ken Shamrock, who was declared not fit to fight. And in a few seconds, Kimbo was done.
When were they famous? October 2008
The dude who used Craigslist for a brilliant robbery getaway
Briefly famous for: Brilliantly using Craigslist to get people to show up at a site for construction work, dressed in dust masks and boots so he could blend in and befuddle the police to make his getaway.
When were they famous? October 2008
Manuel Uribe
Briefly famous for: Getting married. And being the world’s heaviest person. Getting married as the world’s heaviest person. Twelve hundred fucking pounds of lovin’.
When were they famous? October 2008
Kyle Doyle
Briefly famous for: Calling in sick to work and then, like a dumbass, posting on Facebook that he called in sick because he’s hungover. Where everyone, including his boss, could see it.
When were they famous? October 2008
Ashley Todd
Briefly famous for: Claiming she was robbed and beaten at an ATM by rabid Obama supporters who carved a backwards “B” in her face. Her plan would have worked wonderfully if it weren’t all an attention-whoring lie.
When were they famous? October 2008
Joe the Plumber
Briefly famous for: After Obama told Joe Wurzelbacher that he would “spread the wealth” on a routine campaign stop, Joe became the epicenter of the stupidest exchange ever in a presidential debate as Obama and McCain took turns speaking directly to Joe the Plumber, resulting in every news outlet on the face of the planet suddenly trying to ask the guy his opinion on everything.
When were they famous? October 2008
Captain Fantastic Faster Than Superman Spiderman Batman Wolverine Hulk And The Flash Combined
Briefly famous for: Legally changing his name to Captain Fantastic Faster Than Superman Spiderman Batman Wolverine Hulk And The Flash Combined, the kid formally known as George Garrett experienced a celebrity that was over as quick the Flash and Superman and whoever the fuck else combined.
When were they famous? November 2008
The guy who got fired for taping co-workers having sex
Briefly famous for: Catching a couple of his co-workers at the New York ad agency he worked for getting busy one cubicle over. He video taped their dirty deed and he’s the one that got the axe.
When were they famous? November 2008
Hang Mioku
Briefly famous for: Learning the hard way that dumbassery can be permanent. She became addicted to plastic surgery and decided the next logical step was to start injecting cooking oil in her face until her face swole up like a nasty, nasty balloon.
When were they famous? November 2008
David Phyall
Briefly famous for: Cutting his own head off with a chainsaw after he was told he was being evicted from his flat. That’ll learn ‘em.
When were they famous? November 2008
Amy Taylor
Briefly famous for: After meeting her husband in Second Life, she divorced him after she found him cheating on her– in Second Life. The mainstream media had a field day with this one – they were all like OMG WERE IN THE FUTURE PEOPLE ARE MEETING ON TEH INTERNETZ.
When were they famous? November 2008
Roy Weatherly
Briefly famous for: Getting busted by cops while he was harmlessly trying to make sweet love to a jar of pasta sauce in his car. Police wrestled him out of his car and to the ground, but he never, ever let go of his love.
When were they famous? November 2008
The fugly car model
Briefly famous for: Being fugly. It wasn’t her fault. Her boyfriend thought she was hot and he decided the best way to sell his car was to have her model with the car. And then post these pictures on a forum. Where the entire internet could be appalled over and over again at her hideousness.
When were they famous? November 2008
Adolph Hitler Campbell
Briefly famous for: Having dumbass neo-Nazi parents who named him Adolph Hitler Campbell and then threw a fit when nowhere would make a birthday cake for cute little Adolph with his full name spelled out. Just because they have a son named Adolph Hitler Campbell and a daughter with the name Aryan Nation, it doesn’t mean anything. They just liked the way it rolled off the tongue.
When were they famous? December 2008
Muntadar al-Zeidi
Briefly famous for: Hurling his shoes at President Bush during a news briefing in Iraq and thus becoming a hero to many and the source of a million animated gifs.
When were they famous? December 2008
Drew Peterson (again)
Briefly famous for: After being the subject of suspicion of last year’s biggest missing pretty white woman story, Drew Peterson takes another grab at the 15 minute celebrity brass ring by announcing that even though his wife is still missing, he’s engaged to a 23 year old woman.
When were they famous? December 2008
Price is Right Double Showcase Winner
Briefly famous for: Guessing (maybe!) the exact dollar amount of the Price is Right showcase, netting him both showcase packages, something that hasn’t been done in over 30 years. Drew Carey could care less.
When were they famous? December 2008
Mark and his smashed AIDS-infected Honda Civic
Briefly famous for: Having a naked guy with AIDS try to kill himself by throwing himself out of his apartment window and landing in Mark’s windshield, something Mark’s insurance doesn’t cover.
When were they famous? December 2008
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