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| A celebrity is a person who is known for his well-knownness. | |
| "I have come up with a sure-fire concept for a hit television show, which would be called `A Live Celebrity Gets Eaten by a Shark'." -- Dave Barry, "The Wonders of Sharks on TV" | |
| Celebrity Schadenfreude: Lurid thrills derived from talking about celebrity deaths. -- Douglas Coupland, "Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture" | |
| O'Propriation: The inclusion of advertising, packaging, and entertainment jargon from earlier eras in everyday speech for ironic and/or comic effect: "Kathleen's Favorite Dead Celebrity party was tons o'fun" or "Dave really thinks of himself as a zany, nutty, wacky, and madcap guy, doesn't he?" -- Douglas Coupland, "Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture" | |
