With the recent second-breakup of Sarah Silverman and Jimmy Kimmel, Hollywood has lost another one of its precious few super-likable couples. Often times we forget that for every easy-to-rip-on Hollywood gossip pairing — from Tom & Katie to Heidi & Spencer to Cameron Diaz & A Weekly Roofied Twentysomething — there’s another rational celeb couple living something resembling a sane and normal existence (actually the ratio is closer to 80 crazy couples : 1 kind-of-sane couple, but you get the idea).
In the spirit of celebrating rather than complaining for a change, here’s our list of 10 Celebrity Couples That We Actually Like:
10. Amy Poehler and Will Arnett
Further proof that two funny, attractive people can find each other in this crazy world. Just like Gallagher and Mrs. Gallagher, or Andrew Dice Clay and Some Unfortunate Woman.
9. Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick
Couldn’t be more New York if the Empire State Building f*cked the Carnegie Deli.
8. Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne
Number of years Ozzy would’ve continued living if he had never met Sharon Osbourne in the 70s: Negative a hundred.
7. Jim Carrey and Jenny McCarthy
They’re both unavoidably charismatic in interviews, but we mostly enjoy this couple cause it still just doesn’t seem real. Like this picture.
6. William H. Macy and Felicity Huffman
Currently on pace to be the first 60-year-old couple that I’d happily threesome up with.
5. Beyonce and Jay-Z
All guys can rest easier when Beyonce maintains her inattainability by dating a cartoon rap supermogul caricature. If she was just dating some actual human, we’d lose a lot more sleep.
4. Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner
Anyone who’s seen Idiocracy knows just how doomed the future of the human gene pool is; please, please keep at least pumping out future hot people, celebrities. We’re counting on you.
3. Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi
Just when you thought lesbians couldn’t become more universally liked…
2. Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie
The amount of legitimate good this couple has accomplished together far outweighs the bad (causing a billion easy “adoption” jokes on late night tv, the disappointingly softcore sex scene in Mr. And Mrs. Smith, etc.) Plus they’ve given gossip magazines that infamous handy nickname, “Angbradna“.
1. Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson
They’ve been married since 1988, meaning Hanks has stuck with his lady from his ‘Burbs days up through the Philadelphia/Forrest back-to-back tear-covered Oscar slam-dunks. A man of lesser character would’ve ditched the uber-likable Wilson for a quick tabloid fling with an early 90s celeb (Sharon Stone? Liz Berkley? Yahoo Serious?) and later regretted it, but that’s what makes him Tom Hanks: Hollywood’s Decentest Dude.
HONORABLE MENTIONS: David Bowie & Iman, Steffi Graf & Andre Agassi, Kevin Bacon & Kyra Sedgwick, Heidi Klum & Seal (for the humor), Sarah Michelle Gellar and Freddie Prinze Jr. (for the sheer late-90sness of it)
Others we’re missing? Leave ‘em in the comments!
