Neither of them answered your question but Whoopi was a standup comic and successful actress in the 80s and 90s, most millennials probably know her from being in a few Nickelodeon movies as she tended towards “family friendly” fare as she got older. She’s been on The View since 2007 (!!) and still appears in movies. I haven’t watched any of them so no comment on quality but her stardom is definitely much dimmer than it once was, since she’s now in the “direct to streaming” tier of fame.
You answered “why does her name sound made up”, not “who the hell is whoopi goldberg”
If I remember correctly, she isn’t Jewish but took on the name Goldberg to sound more Jewish lol
She has stated that her stage forename (“Whoopi”) was taken from a whoopee cushion: “When you’re performing on stage, you never really have time to go into the bathroom and close the door. So if you get a little gassy, you’ve got to let it go. So people used to say to me, ‘You’re like a whoopee cushion.’ And that’s where the name came from.”
About her stage surname, she claimed in 2011, “My mother did not name me Whoopi, but Goldberg is my name—it’s part of my family, part of my heritage, just like being black,” and “I just know I am Jewish. I practice nothing. I don’t go to temple, but I do remember the holidays.”[17] She has stated that “people would say ‘Come on, are you Jewish?’ And I always say ‘Would you ask me that if I was white? I bet not.’”[17] One account suggests that her mother, Emma Johnson, thought the family’s original surname was “not Jewish enough” for her daughter to become a star.[17] Researcher Henry Louis Gates Jr. found that all of Goldberg’s traceable ancestors were black, that she had no known German or Jewish ancestry, and that none of her ancestors were named Goldberg.
She’s a talk show host mainly these days alongside with John McCain’s daughter
She was also the center square in Hollywood Squares for a while in the late 90s.
I used to have like this weird autistic anger when people hadn’t heard of stuff that I felt like it was impossible to not heard of, but with situations like this I’m like “bless you, bless you for not knowing who this is, I love you”.
the only show whoopi goldberg was good in was whose line is it anyway
No, she was horrible at that, too.
She shouldn’t have even been in it. But at the last minute, she came in demanding to have a part in the show. So they had to hastily write her in. And lo and behold, what part does she get? The wisest of the wise, who advises the Captain and is highly suggested to be a higher being with supernatural powers. cringe
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Didn’t she literally attend university in the DDR?
Looking it up. It seems she just did a theater play or something with some other artists. She didn’t stay there for the entire 3 years the play ran either, coming and going to DDR. Also was a shitlib the entire time about how rebellious the actors/artists were to do it, fighting the state.
Are you conflating her living there briefly with Angela Davis who did her PHD in the DDR?
i dont get the obsession with the lableak theory especially by rightwingers who think covid was some kind of bioweapon and then refuse to get vaccinated like yall just going to let yourself be constantly infected by a chinese bio-weapon like that
