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Stern: 'Girls' star Lena Dunham 'is a little fat girl who looks like Jonah Hill...'

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'Howard Stern says 'Girls' star Lena Dunham 'is a little fat girl who looks like Jonah Hill and keep taking her clothes off.'

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On his SiriusXm radio show Monday, Howard Stern cracked, “I learned that this little fat chick writes the show (“Girls”) and directs the show, and that makes sense to me because she’s such a camera hog that the other characters barely are on.”

He also complained that Lena Dunham is “a little fat girl who kind of looks like Jonah Hill and she keeps taking her clothes off.”

Dunham and her girlfriends brushed off Stern’s rant Wednesday at HBO’s star-studded second-season premiere event. “I think Howard Stern’s really earned the right to freedom of speech,” she told us.

According to Dunham, put-downs often become fodder for the show, which hits TVs on Sunday. “The awkward, painful and amusing things that happen to you on a day-to-day basis can’t help but make their way in,” says the 26-year-old writer/actor.

Dunham, who says her friends debate whether Stern actually likes the show itself, seem unfazed by the shock jock’s comments about her body. So it was her pal, celebrity trainer Tracy Anderson, who fired back at the gawky radio star.

“He’s, like, literally desensitized himself so much over the years. That guy doesn’t know what’s sexy,” defends Anderson, whose client list includes Madonna, Gwyneth Paltrow, Jennifer Lopez and Shakira. “What is sexy is the way that Lena exposes herself, exposes her soul, wears her heart on her sleeves and is so freakin’ confident — that’s sexy.”

Anderson adds, “Out of all the celebrities I train, I have a massive girl crush on her, and she’s sexy!” Joining Dunham at the event — a screening at NYU Skirball Center and a party at Capitale — were others like NBC’s Brian Williams, Jason Biggs, Debbie Harry, Michael Stipe, Diane von Furstenberg and, lucky for Stern, Jonah Hill.

Zosia Mamet, who plays Shoshana Shapiro in “Girls,” says her hit program’s unflinching honesty can lead to discomfort. “I think given the confessional nature of the show, people sort of feel like they know us, so they come up and they tell us these incredibly intimate things, which is often very awkward,” says Mamet. “Like really, really intimate things.”
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Volimar

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Howard Stern said something insensitive?

Golly.


Also, this thread is going to suck when GAFfers start posting their opinions on impossibly high standards they set for women. I honestly hope none of those guys ever end up with daughters.
 
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“What is sexy is the way that Lena exposes herself, exposes her soul, wears her heart on her sleeves and is so freakin’ confident — that’s sexy.”
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Ken Masters

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I've seen the entire first season of Girls and I was always wondering why she had so much camera time for being such a one note character and the constant nudity of her wasn't exactly welcoming


Howard has a point
 
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Joe Shlabotnik

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Will never understand the weird hate-on some have for Dunham. I mean, it's totally fine to not like Girls, but I have a feeling she gets the most hate from people who have never even seen the show. Don't want or need to white knight her but some folks have... issues.

All that said, her Tweets occasionally sound like a parody Lena Dunham account, haha.
 
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JDSN

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26 year old writer/actress of a critical hit show? Awesome for her.

He is right about the screen time dedicated to her.
 
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pigeon

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Joe Shlabotnik said:
Will never understand the weird hate-on some have for Dunham. I mean, it's totally fine to not like Girls, but I have a feeling she gets the most hate from people who have never even seen the show. Don't want or need to white knight her but some folks have... issues.

All that said, her Tweets occasionally sound like a parody Lena Dunham account, haha.
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At a certain point I think she just decided to troll the hell out of her haters, which is probably a pretty healthy response.
 
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kyoya

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I like how Lena's nudity feels like a middle finger to female viewers looking for glimpses of "thinspiration". The fact that she got criticized for not having a perfect multi-ethnic cast was bad enough. Christ, nobody likes her success on top of the fact that it's her show and she can do whatever the hell she wants.
 
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Jarate

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SteveWinwood said:
What you said didn't contradict what he said.
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Tell me when Lena has the resume of Howard then.

Am I supposed to get a scientific reading about her funniness and talent compared to Stern. Are we measuring that shit now

EXCUSE ME SIR, WE HAVE 400 SCALE ON THIS FUNOMETER, THAT'S ASTOUNDING
 
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Nokagi

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Talk about a non-issue topic. This is just Howard being Howard, he has said way worse before and will again. Love the guy and the show but of course it's not for everyone.
 
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-Pyromaniac-

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Joe Shlabotnik said:
Will never understand the weird hate-on some have for Dunham. I mean, it's totally fine to not like Girls, but I have a feeling she gets the most hate from people who have never even seen the show. Don't want or need to white knight her but some folks have... issues.

All that said, her Tweets occasionally sound like a parody Lena Dunham account, haha.
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not sure watching the show would help reduce the hate considering she is the most annoying character on it :/
 
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Keri

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Cheebo said:
Lena Dunham is a 1000x funnier and more talented than Howard Stern.
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Yeah. I like Howard Stern, but he's not actually funny (except when he impersonates his parents).

Mostly he's just a charming/good interviewer (like Oprah, I guess).
 
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Cheebo

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Jarate said:
No

Lena Dunham has wrote 1 TV show that has lasted for a single year

Howard Stern is probably the most famous radio personality on earth
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What in the world does quantity have do with anything? Lena Dunham is just plain funnier than he is.
 
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Bobby Roberts

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Jarate said:
it'll never be as popular as it once was, but until they produce a mass way for people to listen to original content and/or new music in a car, then it'll never really "die"
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They do. It's called an iPhone.

Radio is done. Hell, Stern technically isn't even on it anymore.

He's a glorified podcaster who conned a tech company into paying him an absurd amount of cash as a means of securing a legitimacy that never came.
 
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neorej

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Jarate said:
it'll never be as popular as it once was, but until they produce a mass way for people to listen to original content and/or new music in a car, then it'll never really "die"
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That Daisy project by Reznor and Dre could be the nail in the coffin for radio.
 
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Jarate

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FatboyRoberts said:
They do. It's called an iPhone.

Radio is done. Hell, Stern technically isn't even on it anymore.

He's a glorified podcaster who conned a tech company into paying him an absurd amount of cash as a means of securing a legitimacy that never came.
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There's going to be radio on the phone though... Most major radio stations in my area have an iphone app that gets a lot of use

unlike other businesses. the radio business is filled with people who are willing to change the way they produce content to move with the times.

Also, it's called Satellite Radio for a reason
 
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pigeon

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kyoya said:
I like how Lena's nudity feels like a middle finger to female viewers looking for glimpses of "thinspiration". The fact that she got criticized for not having a perfect multi-ethnic cast was bad enough. Christ, nobody likes her success on top of the fact that it's her show and she can do whatever the hell she wants.
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This is not really a good defense of depicting New York as a 99% white city. A good defense, however, is that she's following in the footsteps of several more conventional shows that depict New York as a 99% white city, including two of the most successful TV shows of the 90s, and yet somehow Girls gets all the blame. There's a bizarre and revealing tendency to blame Lena Dunham for the ingrained fundamental faults of entire entertainment industries that she happens to start working in.

(Also, a big part of the point of Girls is that the girls are sheltered and unprepared for the realities of life, which is often a condition that comes along with a bunch of white friends.)
 
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Jarate

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SteveWinwood said:
The internet?
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Yep, the internet produces a crap ton of content that I can just access while im in the middle of my commute

I can just hop on my laptop, plug in my ethernet cable, and just listen to the great sounds of ducks farting on youtube...

such a great time we live in

I don't think anyone in this thread understands how the radio industry works at all.
 
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SteveWinwood

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Jarate said:
Yep, the internet produces a crap ton of content that I can just access while im in the middle of my commute

I can just hop on my laptop, plug in my ethernet cable, and just listen to the great sounds of ducks farting on youtube...

such a great time we live in
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Are you from ten years ago?
 
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