Entertainment names as diverse as Chelsea Handler, Kristen Wiig, Louis C.K., Matt Lauer, Stephen Colbert and Viola Davis joined the likes of Barack Obama, Mitt Romney Kate Middleton, Fifty Shades Of Grey author E.L. James and Apple’s Tim Cook on Time magazine’s ninth annual Time 100 list of the world’s most influential people, released today. The package includes honoree blurbs written by the likes of Angelina Jolie, Ashton Kutcher and Sarah Jessica Parker. The best include Howard Stern on Lauer (“We all wondered, Was it over? It’s over, it’s over, he’s losing his hair! It’s got to be over! But we were wrong! … He was still the smartest, the strongest, the classiest…. No wonder NBC is paying someone $25 million a year and it ain’t me!”) and Johnny Depp on Harvey Weinstein (“There are producers, and then there are producers. Harvey belongs to the latter batch…. Harvey isn’t afraid of a duke-’em-out. [I’ve had the pleasure of being both his ally and his enemy at various times.] He stops at nothing for what he believes in”). An online poll awarded a spot on the list to Anonymous, the Internet hacking group that made news last year for breaking into databases at Sony and PBS among other outlets. Check out Time’s full list here.


Like just about every other “best of” list they miss the mark by trying to include everyone from all walks of life and trying to be too hip and “now”. Chelsea Handler and Louis CK in the top 100? I like both of them but more influential than Steven Spielberg? or about 50 other Hollywood types you could put before those two. Jeremy Lin? Really?
Really? Chelsea Handler, Louis CK, and Stephen Colbert? Really? Colbert, whose viewership is less then Basketball Wives? And Viola Davis? Yea, The Help was a hit, but influential? I don’t think so.
Claire Danes? You gotta be kidding me
Viola Davis rules!
To paraphrase Inigo Montoya regarding the word ‘influential’:
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
When you think about it, it is quite a feat how TIME consistently manages to be one of the most intensely stupid publications in the world, year after year. This list, which explains itself and is a perfect example of what TIME magazine is, give us hope, for in world that seems beyond trivializing and dumbing down, somebody always managed to find new lows of idiocy. Bravo Time!
come on time 100 is bullshit…………..fully political..christian bale should be there at atleast once