Comedian Jim Gaffigan defended Nickelback, who are for some reason among the most-hated musicians in the world.
“I don’t know anything about Nickelback, but I know my friends that are super cool despise Nickelback,” Gaffigan told Conan O’Brien on Wednesday. “Like they kidnapped the Lindbergh baby. They’re playing music. If you don’t like it, turn it off.”
He went on to explain “Outrage Jail,” where people seem to hate some celebrity “for no reason at all.” Another example he gave is Carrot Top.
“[Nickelback] are perfectly nice guys, it’s not like you meet them and they are monsters,” Gaffigan added. “I think it’s just that people define themselves by criticizing other things, and I think that’s wrong.”
In April, Finnish student Salli Anttonen completed a scientific study that determined why the Canadian pop-grunge combo is so universally despised.
“Nickelback is too much of everything to be enough of something,” Anttonen told the BBC. “They follow genre expectations too well, which is seen as empty imitation.”
8 Awful Things Donald Trump Is Less Popular Than (Photos)
And it turns out Donald Trump was less popular than all three (and more) of those things that are commonly despised by the general population.
Nickelback
Trump lost to the internationally reviled band by 5 points.
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Used Car Salesmen
The jerk who sold you your last lemon gained 6 more points than the Republican nominee in the poll.
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Traffic Jams
People preferred being stuck in bumper-to-bumper traffic over Trump by 7 points.
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Hipsters
Trump went head to head with this frequently loathed population and lost by 7 points.
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DMV
We all hate the DMV, but people polled hate Trump more -- by 10 points.
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Root Canals
The painful dental procedure was preferred over Trump by 11 points.
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Jury Duty
People would rather be forced to give up their time and pay check than live in a nation ruled by Trump. The presumptive GOP nominee fell behind this unpleasantry by a whopping 22 points.
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Lice
The poll by Public Policy Polling shows that Trump is losing to lice by 26 points. Ouch. Or itch.
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A Public Policy Poll asked voters whether they have a higher opinion of the presidential candidate or a series of things like traffic jams, hipsters and lice
And it turns out Donald Trump was less popular than all three (and more) of those things that are commonly despised by the general population.