“You are absolutely not surprised to see we’ve been arrested.”
~Everyone appearing in this article
As we’ve seen in the last two days of fun facts, American celebrities like to really make it a point to let you know that they can get away with anything. And below, the final group of celebrities, prove that this is pretty much true. America is a great place to be famous!
…But that’s not stopping us from taking great pleasure in seeing these smug mug shots.
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“Ahhhh…Cocaine…”
~Robert Downey Jr.
As mentioned in yesterday’s fun fact, American celebrities take advantage of their wealth to practice their “I don’t give a shit” faces for mug shots. Continuing with that theme, AFFotD presents to you the mug shots of (currently) respectable Americans.
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“Do I look crazy enough? I want this shot to look REAL crazy.”
~Nick Nolte, 2002
America loves a good Mug Shot. The photograph taken by police officers as you’re booked for a criminal charge truly proves the phrase, “A picture is worth a thousand words,” which is a term that we at AFFotD enjoy because reading hurts our brain, and you can pretty much figure out the plot of Yertle the Turtle without having to read the damn “story” anyway. With a Mug Shot, we can see the whole series of events that led to that singular low point, all summed up with a smug look that says either, “I’m so making bail,” or, “Busted,” (depending on how rich and famous you are.)
Yes, seeing an average schlub like Johnny Half-Beard up there in cuffs being photographed by cops can afford us hours of entertainment. The Smoking Gun is able to find enough people with butterfly face tattoos being arrested that they can populate the hell out of their site just by posting these things for everyone to point and laugh at. But for every mug shot of a man making his face look like a shrunken head or moustache-tattoo-saying-“Ladies Love It” there are literally thousands of mug shots that are either boring, neutral, or actively depressing. If Mug Shots of regular people were a football player, they’d be Rex Grossman- when they work, they’re glorious, but most of the time you’re just wondering why they’re on the field at all.
But Celebrity mug shots? Of Americans? Now that never fails to inspire. When you see a celebrity’s Mug Shot, you know the following things. A- the picture is going to show someone either incredibly smug, or incredibly wasted. B- They are going to pay bail shortly after that Mug Shot is taken, so they really don’t give a shit. And C- they’ve done far worse shit and gotten away with it.
Celebrity Mug Shots combines watching Americans embrace their status as above the law, while giving non AFFotD writing Americans a nice sense of Schadenfreude. Actually, we’re not going to use that term, because German is not English, so we’re going to call it “The sense of Ha Ha You Fucked Up.” Or HHYFU. True famous Americans embrace the Mug Shot as the most public way to flaunt your fame and wealth this side of making it rain during the President’s State of the Union address. Which, oddly enough, is how half of the AFFotD staff ended up getting their own Mug Shots (apparently chucking money and shouting, “Where my bitches at?” is not allowed in that setting. Who knew?). So, with that in mind, let us look at…
America’s Best Celebrity Mug Shots (Of Americans Who Clearly Don’t Give Two Shits)
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