8. Jennifer Lawrence

Jennifer Lawrence may be the world’s most successful actress at the moment, but that doesn’t exempt her from saying some seriously dumb things in public on more than one occasion. Lawrence came under fire not to long ago during her press tour for her film Passengers, because she told a “funny” anecdote about scratching her butt on sacred rocks in Hawaii and ultimately accidentally destroying them because of her intense itching, and then she seemed somewhat perplexed by the negative reaction to her story of rubbing her butt on a site of religious importance. She also made an incredibly bizarre statement in response to possibly having children someday that involved Kurt Vonnegut and people’s private parts becoming like a sponge once they’re older. It was so much word salad that it was pretty much indecipherable, and you wouldn’t think that a native English speaker would have that much trouble making themselves understood.

7. Chelsea Handler

While Chelsea Handler made her name as a comedienne with her brash and aggressive comedic style, she didn’t seem to grasp that just saying outrageous, insulting, or offensive things wasn’t automatically funny. In order to make it funny you have to actually say something funny in addition to the offensive or shocking thing. Aside from her dubiously funny but almost always mean comedy, Chelsea has also managed to distinguish herself among comediennes with her claim that she’s actually psychic. The politically opinionated TV host has also shared some pretty dubious ideas about her politics on Twitter. For instance, she tweeted that we should possibly trade the current president for Kim Jong-un because the latter now sounds less crazy than the former, which is a pretty serious glossing over of the violence, harshness, and overall dangerousness of the North Korean government, regardless of your opinions on the current US government.

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