This guy has no sense of humor

I'm not a fan of Jonah Hill, I mean I find him and his movies okay but not particularly funny, but let's be honest : it's one thing to have a sense of humor, it's another to be bashed on television for your physical appearance. I will just copy/paste (and translate) a French comment that I found online that sums up perfectly what I think :

This joke sucked because it wasn't funny and incredibly sexist.
Let's imagine Rebel Wilson in the same situation, a male journalist ask her :
"I'd like the both us to be in a hotel room at night, we discuss for some time, you make me laugh a lot and then, you bring up (Scarlett) Johansson and Amy Adams and you, you just leave"
How do you think the public and the media would have reacted ?
We have a good example of misandry, but this poor Jonah is unfortunately for him a white male.

I don't think I need to explain after that, but I will. If it had been Rebel Wilson and a male journalist, the journalist would have been fired and would be bashed on the internet and the media, I don't dare to imagine what the feminists would say about him, and everyone would have to hate him or would be called a male chauvinist. But since it's Jonah Hill (a white male) and a female journalist, the guy has no sense of humor and is full of himself, and the journalist made a good joke...

Give me a break.

Exactly, there was no call for quick wit from Jonah Hill here, she wasn't joking, she was being mean-spirited and she probably hit a sensitive chord by evoking his lack of sex-appeal, because he has more 'average' looks that the usual glamorous male stars. Had someone been as rude with say, Melissa McCarthy, I can't imagine the uproar and passionate reactions it would have generated, but hey, since it's a 'fat guy', it's okay to make fun of him.

The joke wasn't totally unfunny, it could have done without that "and you leave" and if she hadn't attacked him first on his previous roles, Hill might have taken it in a more positive light, but it's just like the "journalist" (she's just the obligatory channel's sexy weatherwoman) decided to 'get' him. Hill realized that for all his success and money, it didn't earn him the respect of a sexy girl, you're still "a short fat guy" for the female eye.

Quite sad.

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I don't really care for Johah Hill either and don't know why he is in so many movies for such a avg actor in mostly very avg movies but that was just plain rude and ignorant what she said to him. She sure was not breaking any stereotypes for the French being rude with that "story", the worse thing was it was not even funny, it is like what a 2nd grader says in the school yard to get under someone's skin. She is not very attractive either so I don't know why she was making jokes about someone's looks. Johah Hill should have said I know Dicaprio's and Brads type and sweetie you aint it and they would not be interested even if you paid them.

Johah Hill should have said I know Dicaprio's and Brads type and sweetie you aint it and they would not be interested even if you paid them.

Exactly. What I reproach him is more his lack of repartee than his outraged reaction. It just might be that Jonah is not funny except when scriptwriters write his lines.

I'm hoping this is just sort of a case of "lost in translation", but it does look kind of humorless.

Hey OP just because someone is a comedian by profession it's not a license to say what you want when you want to whoever you want. Are professional fighters entitled to go up to anyone they want and beat them because of their profession? It's amazing how a lot of people expect anything said as a joke to be acceptable regardless of the content just as long as it was meant to make people laugh.

Everyone here seems to agree with you and me.

Glad to see there is still some common sense left and true intellectuals in this mad world.

Cheers and bravo to us the silent, reasonable and truthful minority.

You've said it all. The guy's a comedian by profession. Therefore he's supposed to be professional, which he was not that day and the days after.

You must not forget that journalists and comedians (and other movie professionals) are, in a way, business partners (I won't explain the principle of promotion here).

The girl made a bad joke on an absurd/condescending tone, given the fact that the guy is a comedy actor (ie "gives à fun image in most of his parts"). He was hurt by the joke, which I don't judge, it's his absolute right.

But man, he could have easily joked his way out of it, maybe countering the joke in the same tone, as suggested above.

But ok, the guy takes it badly, and reacts in an aggressive manner. Maybe he was tired, or pissed by something already, which is possible beacause he wasn't very agreable and somewhat tense from the start of the interview.

But what bugs me the most, is that after that, the guy cancels his following interviews in the whole country!
Wow, how's that for a professional!?
Imagine I go to some other country as a salesman (close enough analogy), everything paid for by my company, and because one customer bothers me, I cancel every other meetings and go sip paid-for-cocktails at the hotel bar? I bet I would be fired in no time...

You can have feelings, you can have a rough time for whatever reason, but man, with that salary, you can be professional and at least do your job. And promotion is part of the job for an actor, period.

In other words, you can punish one journalist if necessary/justified, but don't make other journalists pay for that one, and anyways, do the job you're paid for, that's a minimum.

For those reasons, and for other things I've seen or read about this man (who's a more than decent actor btw), I would tend to think that the guy is an unprofessional oversensitive individual (maybe he's not though, just my opinion).