Page 12 - Celebrity Facts

Heath Ledger kept a diary as the Joker where he wrote things that the Joker would find funny, like AIDS and blind babies.

Writer Grant Morrison read a diary that Heath Ledger had written while he prepared to play the Joker on The Dark Knight. Turns out that Morrison's writings had a lot of influence on the way that Ledger portrayed the Joker.

Morrison had written a list of things that the Joker found funny on a comic called The Clown at Midnight. It was prose, as opposed to the typical comic book format, so it wasn't that widely read. Except for Heath Ledger.

Morrison commented on how the diary had a list of things that would make the Joker laugh: Blind babies, AIDS, seriously injured doctors, geniuses with brain damage, landmines, brunch and sombreros. That list was almost word for word what Morrison had put down on page in The Clown at Midnight.

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Krusty the clown was actually supposed to be Homer in disguise!

The Simpsons is more than just a mindless sitcom. Through their run, they have managed to weave in a number of deeper subjects. Perhaps one of the more interesting subjects is one that they didn't have the time to work in.

A recurring theme in The Simpsons is that Bart has a strange relationship with Krusty the Clown. Bart's character is almost a pure anarchist, except for his strange idolization of Krusty the clown. He idolizes him despite all of Krusty's very obvious problem.

Show creator Matt Groening said that they wanted to take that one step further. Krusty was originally Homer in disguise. Both characters look pretty similar. The idea was that Homer couldn't get any respect from his son, except when he dressed as a clown.

They thought it was too complicated of a storyline, so they dropped it, and Krusty became a character on his own. The thematic thread got picked up later, though, when Homer joins Krusts' clown college in the sixth season.

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JFK was once stranded at sea and wrote a rescue message on a coconut!

While John F. Kennedy was serving in World War II as a commander of a PT109, his boat was struck by a Japanese destroyer and he and his crew became strander on the Solomon Islands.

JFk, being the innovative man that he was, wrote a message on a coconut which he gave to the natives to deliver to the PT base in Rendova, so he and his crew could be rescued, which of course they were.

The message on the coconut said "NAURO ISL…COMMANDER…NATIVE KNOWS POS'IT…HE CAN PILOT…11 ALIVE…NEED SMALL BOAT…KENNEDY" and was later displayed on Kennedy's desk in the oval office!

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Daniel Tosh has social anxiety and overcomes it by creating a different personality for Tosh.0!

There are a lot of people in the world that deal with social anxiety on a daily basis. Even celebrities deal with this and you probably don't even know who they are! For example, Daniel Tosh is someone who has learned how to overcome his social anxiety.

He is now a world famous comedian and even has his own television show, which is wildly popular. He says that he can connect to his audience by making a character that he uses while he is telling jokes. This allows him to be someone else for a while and interact without the anxiety getting to him. The way that Daniel acts when he is in front of an audience is completely different from the way he acts at home.

When he is performing in front of a crowd he is someone that can get away with just about any joke because of the way he presents himself. When he is at home with friends, he is much quieter and laid back in general. These differences show just how his personality changes when he is up on stage. There are a lot of celebrities that have social anxiety disorder.

Most of them are people who perform in front of crowds and are outgoing. You probably don't even realize this because of how different they act while they are performing. They were able to completely change their lives because they were able to create different personalities that made them comfortable in certain situations.

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Donald Trump cashed a check for 13 cents!

Spy magazine, decided to hold a little competition to see who exactly the cheapest, American, 'zillionaires' are. The competition consisted of Spy created a fake, but totally legal, company called the National Refund Clearinghouse.

At first, the company sent out checks of $1.11 to 58 well known millionaires. Of the 58 people that were sent checks, 26 people, including Donald Trump, Cher, Kurt Vonnegut, cashed the checks. Some of the people that DIDN'T cash the checks include Billy Joel, Woody Allen, and Dustin Hoffman.

In the second round, the millionaires received a second check for $0.64 in order to cover a 'computer error'. Only 13 people cashed this check, including Donald Trump and Adnan Khashoggi. - both well known billionaires.

In the final round, the last 13 competitors were sent a check of $0.13 and only two people cashed this tiny, insignificant check. One was Donald Trump, and the other was Adnan Khashoggi.

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