15 Most Weird and Uncomfortable Celebrity Interviews

Celebrity interviews happen every day, so often that we often forget that even actors aren’t necessarily good at public speaking. Sometimes, it’s the celebrity’s worst interviews that prove most entertaining, and those are the chance encounters that interest us most. Whether they’re rockers, actors, or just very successful attention-seekers, these 15 celebs had some of the most awful interviews on record.



Crispin Glover

This clip was so awkward that it was actually painful to watch. Crispin Glover, who’s been in everything from Back to the Future to Alice in Wonderland, is a notable actor, but somewhere along the line he also made a name for himself as a really weird guy.

This old interview with Letterman didn’t exactly help him shake off the stink of crazy, either.



Paula Abdul

Everyone knows that Paula Abdul had many moments on camera in the past few years that she wishes never happend. This particular moment, on live TV, is one that won’t soon be forgotten. While talking to Q13 Fox in Seattle shortly after the American Idol vans left the city, Paula displayed some rather odd behavior. In fact, it was pretty obvious that she was blitzed out of her skull, probably by any number of different pills she can easily get her claws on. She was so out of it that the reporters could only say that there was an audio problem keeping her from understanding their questions, when anyone watching could see that she could hear them just fine.



Omarosa

Viciously disgusting attention-seeker “Omarosa” made waves when she spurred vomitous reactions for the millions of people who managed to suffer through The Apprentice. The fact that she’s so instantly dislikable only adds to the humor in this clip, as she goes blow for blow with Wendy Williams — an almost equally scorned piece of American Media — on The Wendy Williams Show. How the two of them managed to make it through this interview is beyond us, but it’s a classic.



Iggy Pop

Perennial rocker and anti-shirt activist Iggy Pop has been moving through the back allies of fame for a number of years now, popping up from time to to time to assure people that he’s still alive and kicking, but it was back when he was at a high point in his own career that he made this ridiculous showing on Australia’s Countdown. Somehow, he managed to get himself so wasted that anyone watching was amazed that he could manage to sit still, let alone talk, and yet interspersed between nonsense ramblings and odd gestures were moments of lucidity that only made the interview more awkward. 



Billy Bob Thornton

Nobody ever said that Billy Bob Thornton was anywhere near normal, or sober, for that matter. That being said, this interview goes beyond simple weirdness into pure wtf territory, as Billy Bob not only seems to be so high that he doesn’t quite realize where he is, but verbally attacks the DJ when he finally regains some semblance of sanity. This clip is pretty long, but worth it for the last portion — as the band goes to play a song for the station, it turns out that he didn’t even bring his instrument with him.



John Stamos

John Stamos is a man of many sordid talents, but in 2007 he made a trip to Australia to promote the show for which he was then “acting.” Stamos turned the promotional tour into something more like a bad publicity blitzkrieg, and after the interview shown in this clip was actually asked to leave the country. That’s talent.



Ben Affleck

Attempted-actor Ben Affleck didn’t waste any time when he made a trip to see our neighbors to the north in 2004; he went and got completely hammered before appearing on Quebecois TV to be interviewed by a young Anne-Marie Losique — who he then proceeded to fondle in front of the camera for the entire duration of the “interview.” Affleck, showing his class, also made sure to speak in one of the worst French accents in history the whole time.



Tracy Morgan

Tracy Morgan, wild as he may be sometimes, isn’t known for acting inappropriately on live television. At least, he isn’t known for doing it often, and in this clip we see that Mr. Morgan had a bit too much of something before his interview on KVIA TV 7 in El Paso, Texas. Basically, he used his time on local TV to tell all the ladies that he was on the prowl, and that they would all soon be pregnant with his babies.



Tom Cruise

This clip needs little introduction, as it’s the now infamous Tom Cruise Couch Jump. Oprah’s audience obviously played a small role in riling Cruise up to the point that he seemed like a 12 year-old boy with ADHD, but we think it was more a case of just plain crazy.



David Blaine

David Blaine’s been called a lot of things over the years, but he’s usually called crazy when he’s doing something that looks like it could kill or maim him at any moment. This time it was a simple television interview on the BBC that Blaine was attempting to navigate his way through, only he wasn’t doing a very good job of it. In fact, he seemed downright stoned out of his mind, and seemed unable to even speak.



James Brown

The Late James Brown was never really known for his sobriety, but as far as the public was concerned, all the real action happened either on stage or behind closed doors. This time, instead of hearing about his drunkenness in some random newsreel, viewers got to see the extent of his problem first hand.



Jesse James Dupree

Not many people can say that they managed to genuinely upset Tom Green through rude action on their part, but Jesse James Dupree is one of them. He somehow thought that it would be a bright idea to come out for his interview with Green and wreck the man’s desk with a chainsaw — which, while being the same sort of thing that Green himself might have done in his younger days, was enough to push him over the edge.



Angelina Jolie

In this interview, it was the interviewer that came out more embarrassed than the interviewee. Angelina was invited by Jay Leno to clear the air a bit, as he had recently made some offhand remarks about her relationship with her brother, among other things. Angelina, never being meek in any way, showed up raring for a fight and called him out on it. To add to the drama, she may have also been a bit (or a lot) high on something when this all went down.



Quentin Tarantino

Quentin Tarantino is a pretty easy-going guy; he’s got to be in order to do what he does, and create the movies he makes. That made it all the more impressive when he deftly handled a woman — who appeared to be a true-life anthropomorphization of South Park‘s Sheila Broflovski — when she attacked him on San Francisco’s KRON-4. 



Joaquin Phoenix

In what is now perhaps one of the funniest all-time David Letterman interviews, Joaquin Phoenix appeared, after a long absence, bearded and hermit-like early last year to “promote” the film Two Lovers. First of all, as Letterman insinuates, Phoenix looked very much like he had spent a summer with the Unibomber, but on top of that he seemed to be in a nearly coma-like state, and said that he was quitting Hollywood to pursue a non-existent career in hip-hop. This one’s a must.