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January Jones has always been pretty questionable. Like, she’s good on Mad Men, I guess, and she’s very good at HAVING A NICE FACE. But she was awful on Saturday Night Live and even worse in X-Men: First Class, so she might not actually be that good at acting. And then you just hear stories about her that make you think, you know? First of all, she used to date Ashton Kutcher, so, gross. Then there was the time when she crashed a car into a house and called Bobby Flay. And the story about Zach Galifianakis telling her to “be fucking nice.” It’s also just weird when people are pregnant with secret babies by mystery fathers who are reportedly married. But all of those things while certainly hurting her case for not being the worst are nothing like this new smoking gun of awfulness. TV Guide today posted a quote from Jared Gilmore, the little boy who played Bobby Draper on Mad Men, offering some advice to whomever takes on that role in the next season (via Vulture). Your honor, if I may approach the bench:
“Be careful around January [Jones]. She’s not as approachable as the others. She’s really serious about what she does. Everyone else is so nice.”
UHHHHHHH. Houston, we have an asshole! Let me put it this way: when you are being badmouthed by CHILDREN in the press you are a HORRIBLE PERSON. The end. I rest my case. Case closed. Sustained. Overruled. Bailiff. That is nuts! And you just KNOW that the thing about her being “really serious about what she does” is what she said to him in some disingenuous, limp-wristed apology after she made him cry on set for the 100th time. What a fucking goblin! She probably didn’t even save anyone’s life on 9/11. You guys, I hate jerks so much, don’t you!?!
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counterpoint:
DAMN. Yes, i logged in for the first time in weeks to say that.
I read this in Tyler, The Creator’s voice
who is the woman in this photo?
Nope. Gabe made that point already in that she’s good at having a very nice face. Oh, you’re not looking at her face are you? Personally I think the extensions look kind of ratty, but whatever. You’re looking at her hair, yes? Her obviously fake hair?
“Personally I think the extensions look kind of ratty, but whatever.” -Pretty Much No (Straight) Dudes Ever
Counter-Counter-Point: January Jones was a terrible Emma Frost. Fuck you for ruining Emma Frost, January Jones.
Here, Here!
JJ was indeed awful in X-Men, but she really didn’t have a lot to work with. Did she even have any lines? God, that movie sucked.
Whaaaaat?! What human being has a waist like this?! Inhuman photoshoppingargghrgg.
I think Gabe may have buried the lede. Evidenced by this photograph, the real news here is that January Jones is a bumble bee.
Corsets are amazing if somewhat frightening things, my friend!
Is that January Jones? I couldn’t tell, because she doesn’t look like she’s smelling a fart.
She’s not that good at having a nice face in this picture. What is that expression? “I’m farting right now.”
Watch that Oscarbait performance in X-Men and tell me she takes her work so seriously again
Also her name is January, I think that outweighs all the other criteria, that is not a name of a human being, it is a name of a month. It’s not even a nice month, it’s all cold and bleak and depressing, much like January Jones.
“January Jones is coming.”
— George R.R. Martin (A Game of Thrones)
he’ll never work in this town again.
At least Jon Hamm is approachable
I’d approach that.
We’re best friends in all my dreams. Paul Rudd is there too.
Get out of my dreams!
get out of my basement!
now get off my lawn!
But can we take the word of a child actor before he turns 25? I’m so confused.
Didn’t forget about you either, fellas.
This always gets an upvote… in my pants.
Ladies and Gentlemen of Videogum:
From the bottom of my heart, I am truly sorry for that comment. The double entendre on display in that comment is very much below the standards set by this blog, and more importantly, the personal standards I set for my comments on daily basis.
You deserve better and I know that. Message received. Moving forward, I will strive to craft better comments and not go for the cheap laugh in an attempt to score easy votes.
I will stand rigid and steadfast in this, my mission. Not unlike the erection I get when I see this Christina Hendricks gif.
Yours,
Frank Lloyd Wrong
Oh, dammit to hell!
I suspect you’ll stop commenting on this blog to spend more time with your family?
Your comments always get an upvote… On my computer.
To be fair, this moment did get a standing ovation by the men of Sterling Cooper. This moment being both when Joan moved up from the table and your act of commenting upon it.
January Jones is also terrible terrible in Unknown, which I know no one saw but it was ok and she’s still the worst actor in it.
When you compare January Jones to any other “movie star” she is very clearly the worst actor working today, even when put next to John Travolta or Keanu Reeves or whoever. It is as if she does not know how to memorize lines or perhaps even read.
At least Keanu Reeves is charming, and John Travolta kind of was before he turned into a cyborg.
I feel like this latest bombshell has finally provided us the momentum we need to demand a new Betty Draper. That is the only way to spare ourselves from this person’s garbage.
Of course we will need somebody at least as pretty and talented, who is almost DEFINITELY more fun to be around. May I suggest Andrej Pejic:
Just kidding, you guys. He’s not a suggestion, he’s an order.
Andrej Pejic is totally prince of the elves.
He’s prettier than almost every girl I’ve slept with… and I’m not even embarrassed about it.
I always thought January Jones was excellent as Betty Draper. On one of the Mad Men extras the Mad Men creator (sorry, I forget his name and my Google is in the shop) mentions how he writes the personality of some of the actors into the show. I ask you dear comment reader, can Betty Draper’s awfulness be just a projection of January Jones’ real personality?
“Fictional characters are real” -Chris Trash
CT is all
Richie is all like:
Guys, don’t down-vote Rich, he’s my IRL friend. He bought me tacos once!
“I use the term IRL” -CT
:,(
was it a facetaco?
It wasn’t! Never mind, down-vote the bastard!
It was not! Never mind, down-vote the bastard!
It was not. I should’ve thought of that. Next time. And there’s a recipe, too. http://www.pillsbury.com/recipes/funny-face-taco-dip/55d65979-ae09-470c-a66e-262593fb6a15/
I love that you and I have the same standards for IRL friends.
“Wait, these tacos are for me? Friend, if you ever need a kidney, say the word.” – us
I can never forgive her for firing Carla!
The Help: The Good Version
While I doubt it was your intent, I couldn’t help but feel that Carla’s thought-bubble was making a sly reference to January Jones’s car troubles; that Carla is, by extension, a TMZ-skimming Time Lord. Because obviously.
I forgive her–she can’t help that she is in good-looking bubble. Relevant to our interests:
Jack: The bubble isn’t always a bad thing. Look at me. I turned out okay.
Liz: Jack, I want you to pay close attention to the following over-the-top eye roll. [rolls eyes] Oh, brother.
Jack: Lemon, I don’t share this often, but this is a photo of me when I was 25 years old.
She can still be the best and worst thing about Mad Men in the same moment.
Like this photo.
But yes, January Jones is most certainly a horrible person in non-TV world.
Clearly, JJ has lost the plot and the time has come to phone her replacement, February Fones.
March Moans
The name of the actress who will play JJ in the inevitable Mad Men porno…
April Atones?
Does anyone else find it hypocritical that Gabe is suggesting that the testimony of a child actor is important and worthy of justifying the damnation of January Jones, but just last week he was incredulous that celebrity children get interviewed and their thoughts taken seriously? You can google it or page through the archives through the previous posts archive function at the bottom of the videogum home page, go back to last week and look up the blog post about how Gabe believes that children who are actors should never be listened to and anyone in the media who does this is terrible. But now here we are, one week later and now that a child’s opinion validates Gabe’s opinion, he reverses his position and thinks children are terrific sources of wisdom and knowledge.
Counterpoint: January Jones is pretty. Leaver her alone. She can do anything she wants and if she wants to abort insolent child actors she can do that, her choice. Keep the government out of her right to choose to abort live children.
Case closed.
I disagree with this, and here is why:
Children cannot be trusted to wax poetic about the craft of acting or weigh in on global warming. However…they can be trusted like we trust a dog barking at a bad guy in a movie. That comment the kid made speaks volumes about JJ, even if the kid didn’t actually mean to convey that she is a bitch.
Objection: your comment is off topic and you are out of order. The issue at hand is – Is Gabe a hypocrite? The evidence points to a guilty verdict. Last week he said no one in the media should pay attention to child actors because they are children and the integrity of their opinion is automatically forfeit and immaterial. Now he cites this child’s testimony as the deciding factor in January Jones conviction in the court of the videogum opinion. I move for a mistrial. I rest my case.
Gabe’s not a hypocrite.
But I’m also not a child actor, so you may or may not want to listen to I have to say. I’m just really not sure anymore.
In other news: 4 Bobby Drapers in 4 seasons. Are we sure January Jones isn’t killing these kids?
Well technically…
Can I just say that your Game of Thrones comments are sustaining me in the interim? I miss Game of Throooooones!
She definitely has a Susan Smith vibe, no doubt.
Depends on whether or not you believe abortion is murder.
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Psssssst…..this is a humor blog. With jokes. That is, at times, given to hyperbole.
Of course, Gabe et al. might know JJ. I don’t know their lives, I can’t judge. Maybe Gabe and Kelly and Scott are actually the shadowy figureheads controlling pop culture today? Then we would both look like fools, bonediddy. And who wants that?
hi Januaryyyyyyyy
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“Why” is joke in quotations?
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You may be at the wrong blog then. Life is too short to hateread a blog you don’t like. Cute overload is a good alternative, if you like cute things. Jump into cute overload!
He may be at the wrong internet.
I “think” you just “answered” you’re own “question!”
To be fair, the confused look she pulls for all emotions might have made him think she was unapproachable. To be realistic, she’s probably fucking awful.
oh no she’s not nice! she does not deserve to walk this planet!