The World Stupidity Awards is an award ceremony that recognizes achievement in ignorance and stupidity during the past year. The WSA was founded in 2003 by filmmaker Albert Nerenberg. The awards were sponsored by comedy festival Just for Laughs to 2007. Lewis Black, an American comedian, hosted the last three presentation ceremonies.
Famous quotes containing the words world and/or stupidity:
“Whoever has looked deeply into the world might well guess what wisdom lies in the superficiality of men.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
“We never really know what stupidity is until we have experimented on ourselves.”
—Paul Gauguin (1848–1903)