--- title: Ex-Disney CEO Michael Eisner Clarifies Beautiful, Funny Women Comment description: Michael Eisner has released a statement clarifying his earlier remark about beautiful, funny women in the movie business. canonical: https://time.com/3947427/former-disney-chief-clarifies-beautiful-funny-women-comment/ author: TIME article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-07-07T00:29:10.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T09:00:22.322Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: Ex-Disney Chief Clarifies 'Beautiful, Funny Women' Comment og:description: "I said such a combination is hard to come by in Hollywood" og:url: https://time.com/3947427/former-disney-chief-clarifies-beautiful-funny-women-comment/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf9b4d7b53b84c868/6988598de20a87c54aa8c250/michael-eisner.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Michael Eisner disney og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Ex-Disney Chief Clarifies 'Beautiful, Funny Women' Comment twitter:description: "I said such a combination is hard to come by in Hollywood" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf9b4d7b53b84c868/6988598de20a87c54aa8c250/michael-eisner.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Former Disney Chief Clarifies 'Beautiful, Funny Women' Comment > Sponsored content. 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Michael Eisner arrives for opening night for "An American In Paris," at the Palace Theater in New York City on April 12, 2015.Sylvain Gaboury—AP by [The Hollywood Reporter](https://time.com/author/the-hollywood-reporter/) ## The Hollywood Reporter Jul 7, 2015 12:29 AM UTC Michael Eisner has released a statement to The Hollywood Reporter clarifying his earlier remark about beautiful, funny women in the movie business. “In the context of a public conversation with Goldie Hawn in which I was complimenting her on being both beautiful and funny, I said such a combination is hard to come by in Hollywood,” the former Disney CEO clarified in the statement. “I certainly did not say Goldie was the only one. My point was simply that Goldie, unlike many, has not been defined exclusively as one or the other.” The statement comes after Eisner was widely criticized for the comment he made last week at the Aspen Ideas Festival during an onstage conversation with Hawn. “From my position, the hardest artist to find is a beautiful, funny woman. By far,” Eisner said. “They usually — boy am I going to get in trouble, I know this goes online — but usually, unbelievably beautiful women, you being an exception, are not funny.” Hawn replied, saying she owed her comedic talent to the fact that she perceived herself as an “ugly duckling” as a child. Eisner built on this, saying, “You didn’t think you were beautiful. I know women who have been told they’re beautiful, they win Miss Arkansas, they don’t ever have to get attention other than with their looks. So they don’t tell a joke. In the history of the motion-picture business, the number of beautiful, really beautiful women — a Lucille Ball — that are funny, is impossible to find.” Following his comment in Aspen, Eisner was quickly ripped by prominent women in Hollywood such as Megan Ellison and Mindy Kaling. “It’s too much. I can’t take it,” Ellison wrote on Twitter. “It’s just so painfully cliché. People wonder what’s wrong with Hollywood. Stop wondering.” Kaling called Eisner’s remark “pitiful.” _This_ [_article_](http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/michael-eisner-clarifies-beautiful-funny-806935) _was originally published at_ [_The Hollywood Reporter_](http://www.thr.com/) _More from The Hollywood Reporter:_ * [Former Disney Chief Michael Eisner: A Woman Who Is Funny and Beautiful Is “Impossible to Find”](http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/disney-chief-michael-eisner-a-806748) * [Movies Blog: Heat Vision](http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/blogs/heat-vision) * [TV Blog: Live Feed](http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/blogs/live-feed) Ex-Disney CEO Michael Eisner Clarifies Beautiful, Funny Women Comment ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3947427/former-disney-chief-clarifies-beautiful-funny-women-comment/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3947427/former-disney-chief-clarifies-beautiful-funny-women-comment/"},"headline":"Former Disney Chief Clarifies 'Beautiful, Funny Women' Comment","datePublished":"2015-07-07T00:29:10.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T09:00:22.322Z","description":"\"I said such a combination is hard to come by in Hollywood\"","url":"https://time.com/3947427/former-disney-chief-clarifies-beautiful-funny-women-comment/","keywords":["Culture"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf9b4d7b53b84c868/6988598de20a87c54aa8c250/michael-eisner.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"The Hollywood Reporter","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/the-hollywood-reporter/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf9b4d7b53b84c868/6988598de20a87c54aa8c250/michael-eisner.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Michael Eisner disney","caption":"Michael Eisner disney","creditText":"Sylvain Gaboury—AP","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/culture/","name":"Culture"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3947427/former-disney-chief-clarifies-beautiful-funny-women-comment/","name":"Former Disney Chief Clarifies 'Beautiful, Funny Women' Comment"}}]}] ```