Please post links to truly unhinged moments in live TV

Awkward interviews, drunken meltdowns, cringeworthy faux pas, historic spectacles. I could use a laugh.

"George Bush doesn't care about black people."

This was said by a Trump supporter.

Just watch anything with Chump on it.

Reporter goes ghetto during broadcast.

Greg Jarret drunk on air.

James Brown's infamous drunken interview with Sonya Friedman on CNN

The infamous Miss South Carolina interview.

Britney Spears’ disastrous VMA performance, just days before head-shaving full meltdown.

Dammit, the link at R7 didn’t work. Trying again.

Ed McMahon Appears Drunk on Johnny Carson's Tonight Show 1977

Wolf Freaking Blitzer is my favorite awkward TV moment. Trying to spread the gospel to an atheist.

This was not live TV, but truly unhinged!!!

6/15/92: Dan Quayle Misspells Potato

Mariah Carey New Year’s Eve epic fail.

Interviewing people who decide to ride out a hurricane, OUTSIDE. You'd think that would have been a tipoff.

Keep fuckin' that chicken

Reporting on the "flooding."

Diane Sawyer, ABC news anchor, drunk while on air.

John Barrymore interviewed while drunk.

Years ago, Diane Sawyer about to get drunk and taking pills with her wine before going on air.

Crispin. Letterman. Letterman. Crispin.

Drunk Liz at the Golden Globes with help from Dick Clark

Diane was a wine drunk, but at least she never fell off a truck while stomping grapes...

Bill O'Reilly goes nuts while hosting Inside Edition

Stoned Courtney Love crashes Madonna interview live on MTV.

Imelda knifed during beauty pageant, televised live all over the world.

There are many from the fabulous Nancy Grace, but this one cracks me up

What? I'm not good enough for you faggots? Jesus Christ, I need a fucking bump...

I wish there was still video on YT of John whatsisname stoned on CNN when announcing the murder of Osama bin Laden.

This one is cheating, but the first thing I thought of when I saw some of these posts. It's from a cancelled tv show called The Class.

Homophobe Anita Bryant takes a pie to the face.

LMAO R33 she started eating the pie at the end of the clip and said "it's not bad!" Hilarious! I have never seen this incident before.

Here you go R31

Someone posted in the comments, “John, turn your phone off after you pop the ambien”.

R35 Ohhh so this is the inspiration for that stupid storyline on The Newsroom? I thought it was ridiculous when I watched it, but once again, reality is even dumber than fiction.

I watched r35 live. It was a Sunday evening in Washington and I said to my partner John King was out getting tanked somewhere when the news broke.

Kathie Lee didn’t get the memo saying Martin Short’s wife was dead.

The gold standard of historic spectacles.

Tom was hopped up on Thetans!

Oprah looks great by the way.

The gold standard of cringeworthy, Miley Cyrus and Robin Thicke performing at the VMA 2013.

[quote]I watched [R35] live. It was a Sunday evening in Washington and I said to my partner John King was out getting tanked somewhere when the news broke.

Paula Zahn showed up half tanked one night for a breaking story. I think it was also a Sunday.

The world's nelliest meteorologist freaks out on air when he sees a cockroach.

The GASP! ranks up there with the Diana Scream for me.

I’m cackling at that. Good find r44.

Unhinged? The Paul Dixon Chicken Wedding.

If you are an elder gay raised in the Midwest you will know the chicken wedding.

Only the opening dancing is required viewing. Everything else is just icing.

ASSlee Simpson lip-sync fail.

About 100 of us on DL the night bin Laden was killed were good-naturedly arguing about what John King was on that night. Personally, I thought it was Ambien.

Wendy Williams fainting live on air on her annual Halloween episode of the talk show.

Joaquin Phoenix trolling Letterman

^^^^ This never gets old.

Joe Scarborough Yells At Donny Deutsch - Jan 2017

Interviewer mistakes John Cusack for Kevin Spacey

For all you Philly Iggles fans, a truly happy sportscaster.

Joe Namath, drunk and lascivious.

Liza had consumed some good shit prior to her appearance in R63.

Some of these are NOT "live."

That said ... let's not forget: (1) OJ and the Bronco, and (2) the OJ verdict.

Gore Vidal calls William Buckley calls a crypto nazi. Buckley calls Vidal a queer and threatens to punch him.

Judith Light correcting uninformed Kelly Ripa

R44 that is a gem! I am still laughing! Queen needs to go back to Ru Paul's Drag Race!

He passes it to the the man, and boom goes the dynamite

Can't leave this thread strokeless.

R70 That interview got catty! Andy Samberg handled it well. "LADIES!" He's a cutie.

[quote]truly unhinged

Truly unhinged?

Queue up the Sarah Huckabee Sanders reel, please

We'll start there.

Thanks for that r67. Great footage.

I’m team Pinky

I've watched that Jessica Savage video before, R75

And the thing that strikes me about it is how entirely reasonable she's been.

Jessica asked for someone to give her a visual countdown for a live Newsbreak in Primetime TV that had to run exactly 42 seconds.

She asked for someone who was paid to do that job - to do that job.

And she was treated as if she were completely unreasonable, then she goes on a rant.

Jessica Savitch had her problems - but the only thing this video proves is that TV News was and is an "Old Boys Club" for men only.

And if you cross them, they'll make you pay.

Australian news anchors argue over wardrobe choices.

Not live but the classic.

That suicide video really fucked me up. The way the blood poured out of his nose was really disturbing.

It seems to be scrubbed from the Internet, but the ABC News overnight interview with Holly Hunter, conducted by a fledgling journalist named Merry Miller, was the most painful four minutes on TV.

Miller read even the simplest words off the teleprompter and didn't listen to any of Hunter's answers. Hunter tried to be a pro, but you could see her go from puzzlement to incredulity to wondering if it was a prank.

At the very end, Miller urged people to go to the NBC website to learn more. She was on ABC.

Off camera, you hear someone scream in horror.

Sue Simmons wasn't on air during her infamous "what the fuck are you doing?!"

This is one of the best TV newsmen fights! Jim Ryan versus Dick Oliver!

"I was your boss!" "And are no longer. How'd that happen?" Fucking hilarious!

I remember this! IIRC, the argument was much worse, it went on a bit longer.

Hahah, I'd never seen that! It was certainly the inspiration for this classic Bill Hader character on SNL.

Drunk-ass Joan Rivers announcing at Australia's Logie awards. Pretty hilarious!

Senatrix Lindsey Graham attempting to act butch at the Kavanaugh interrogations.

GIANT roach versus weatherman..!!!

I wonder about the authenticity of the cockroach video. Why does this young reporter have an obvious white mans wig on his head? Cause he's playing for the camera.

Doofus attempts to hug Weather Channel's Jim Cantore.

One of you bitches must have taped the day Phyllis George asked "How about a hug?" to a woman and the man she previously accused of rape.

And then there's Cantore's "thundersnow" freakouts.

Why would King have been on Ambien? It was around 8 pm when he got the call to go in. Was he scheduled to be on the morning show?

Hard to believe this was over 11 years ago...

In the R91 photo

It looks as if Senatrix Lindsey went to Bernice Clifton's discount "Pig Nose" plastic surgeon

A very very heavy burtations...

Aw, that lil sportscasting nerd at R72 needs to be comforted, by me using his jug-ears to comfort my cock past his dicksucking lips. There goes the dynamite!

Janis Ian and Howard Stern duet on "Jerry's Girl is 17" about Jerry Seinfeld and his 17-year-old girlfriend.

Oh my god, I have tears. This thread is perfection.

A Corey Feldman performance (from the Today Show) was posted above. However, this performance on Howard Stern is much more ... bizarre.

still unbelievable today even...

"..obviously a major malfunction..."

D'uh!

Newt Gingrich's mom talks to Connie Chung about Hillary Clinton.

It's even better than the Charlotte Rae - Joan Collins clip.

Clearly Newt Gingrich's Bi-Polar Mom never met Senatrix Lindsey

I can't get enough of the Corey Feldman videos. First genuine laughs I've had in a couple of weeks.

Sinead O'Connor ends her appearances on SNL.

Okay, not live TV, but it was completely unscripted, not to mention a DL classic.

Bowie on SNL 1979. His last song was filmed with his head superimposed on a puppet, using a green screen. At the end of it he popped a dildo out of the puppet's pants. On live tv. The 70s were different.

Shelley Winters and Oliver Reed don't get along on the Tonight Show. Climax around 9 minute mark.

This is from about 10 years ago...Monique Braxton of Philadelphia's NBC 10 goes to the home of alleged mother beater Larry Richette to interview him. He asks "Is the camera on?" He then opens his robe and says,"That's what I think of TV news"

Japanese politician assassinated with a samurai sword on live TV in 1960

Chita meets yet another who thinks she's Rita.

LA entertainment suck up Sam Rubin mistakes Samuel L. Jackson for Lawrence Fishburne.

Rubin then goes after TMZ for reporting the incident.

Al Sharpton gets knocked on his ass on the Morton Downey Jr Show

LOL That backstage scream at the end of the Holly Hunter interview is priceless.

David Letterman visits the headquarters of NBC's new owner, General Electric, and tries to give them a fruit basket

Serena "I'M A MOTHER!" Williams trying to play doubles at Wimbledon while visibly drunk or high. Love the British commentator "This is just...it can't go on like this"

Charles Dance tells off clueless reporter over gay joke.

The live debut of professional wrestler The Shockmaster...he accidentally trips and falls on his face and loses his glittery Stromtrooper helmet

How could you all forget the great, the legendary...SOY BOMB!

James Corden vs Patrick Stewart. Very cringey.

Sam Donaldson loses his shit

David Niven and the streaker at the 1974 Oscars

Anyone else unable to watch the Holly Hunter interview at R90? The video doesn't even load for me.

Try this link r134. This goes to Reddit

Thanks R136, that worked.

A soccer fan pulls down his shorts and starts shaking his dick behind a reporter trying to do a live broadcast

Remember this live while I was cooking.

Cockroach guy isn't fake. His name is Justin Mosley, here's a video of his last gig at that station, they briefly mention the viral video and the incident.

RuPaul and Milton Berle at the 1993 MTV Awards. If I remember correctly, Uncle Miltie had groped Ru beforehand, highly offending him, and he decided to ad lib with some sharp remarks for revenge. The "diaper" remark beginning at 2:00 made Milton lose his cool.

Double Dare host Marc Summers and Burt Reynolds almost come to blows after Burt dumps water on Marc on the Tonight Show

This ALWAYS gets me laughing. Russian news woman can't get through the story she's reporting.

A news anchor decides he had it with Kardashian stories and walks off the set

This is the most jaw-dropping thing I've seen on TV.

Aaaaaaaawkwaaaaard!!!

The all time best scene stealer

Valdimir Putin has Hillary Clinton poisoned at a 9/11 memorial, then has one of his minions follow her with a camera to record the footage that helped her lose the election.

To avoid sounding like a kook, she blamed it on pneumonia. But in light of more recent poisonings and deaths attributed to Putin, maybe she should have been honest at the time?

Does Justin Mosley at r44, r92, and R141 have a press and set hairdo courtesy of his mom's beautician?

"It's artichoke dip but something went terribly wrong"

Instant classic. Skip to ~4:55 for the good part.

Newsman kills news reporter and camera man, then self.

R152 That segment never fails to make me laugh. But you DO have to watch the whole thing, to get what they're so hysterical about. The sports figure who's there is so incredibly thickheaded, with absolutely nothing to say....and such a laconic, dull personality.

That's why they're having a professional meltdown as they're asking each other, "How will they POSSIBLY get enough material for 13 weeks of programing out of him??"

(I know you understand....thats just for anyone who skips to the end.)

[quote]Hit the water. Hit the water! HIT THE WATER!

The same guys from R152 clip. I miss them here in philly.

Holly Hunter video isn't working on my phone but it loaded normally on my laptop.

At R130, Patrick Stewart wasn’t funny, but Corden revealed what a nasty jerk he truly is under the braying ass-kissing he usually does.

"Well a very very heveh, uh heavy doet burtation tonight. We had a very daris darison bite, let's go head taris tazen leshkobetlahedit."

Anna Nicole Smith introduces Kanye West

I love how OP says he could use a good laugh, and several of you DLers respond with suicide videos. Twisted sisters.

Surprised no one's brought up severely depressed talk show host Christine Chubbuck's infamous on-the-air suicide on Sarasota, Florida's Channel 40.

Per Wikipedia, "On the morning of July 15, 1974, Chubbuck confused co-workers by claiming she had to read a newscast to open [her show] Suncoast Digest, something she had never done before. That morning's talk show guest waited across the studio while Chubbuck sat at the news anchor's desk. During the first eight minutes of her program, Chubbuck covered three national news stories and then a shooting from the previous day at local restaurant Beef & Bottle, at the Sarasota-Bradenton Airport. The film reel of the restaurant shooting had jammed and would not run, so Chubbuck shrugged it off and said on-camera, "In keeping with Channel 40's policy of bringing you the latest in 'blood and guts' and in living color, you are going to see another first—attempted suicide." She drew a revolver and shot herself behind her right ear. Chubbuck fell forward violently and the technical director faded the broadcast rapidly to black. The station quickly ran a standard public service announcement and then a movie. Some television viewers called the police, while others called the station to inquire if the shooting was staged."

Perhaps mercifully no footage of the actual incident survives, but the 2016 movie "Christine" reenacts the scene.

The Max Headroom incident

I never knew Patrick Stewart was such a dick. What’s his problem with Corden? Any backstory??

OK, it's the DL Serial Killer In Residence who keeps posting snuff footage, right?

Talent portion of a regional beauty pageant. Just awful

The traffic reporter killed by the crash in r156 might be more recognizable as the stern dowdy hyper-critical nurse from the movie The Right Stuff.

R163, The movie Christine, starring Rebecca Hall, is fantastic. Worth a watch.

This video was circulated for years as the real Christine Chubbuck suicide tape but was later debunked. It's still creepy as hell, though.

R170, it was a reenactment from one of the Faces of Death movies.

R165 When Corden first got famous in Britain he got a really bad reputation for letting it go to his head and acting like a total prick. I'm not aware of anything specific between him and Stewart, but wouldn't be surprised if that had something to do with it. Corden even publicly apologised for how much of an asshole he'd become.

To quote Stewart Lee "Britain's loss is America's loss also".

Christine Chubuck shot herself on the news in Sarasota Florida 1974.

I didn't know that r168.

[Quote]Nurse Murch: The best results seem to be obtained through fantasization, accompanied by masturbation, followed by ejaculation.[/quote]

messed up the formatting there

In regards to cringeworthy, here's one.

Not really unhinged, but one of the best awards acceptance speeches

Maybe it’s just me, but I found this cringeworthy

Historic, but joyous spectacle

I don't think a moment like R180 could happen in today's climate.

WW,r167 - Worst. Song. Ever. Sung. And great for laughs!!!

I love that video so much R26. It kind if makes me like Madonna. She clearly wanted to stay and let the fuckery unfold. Good stuff.

[quote]Hit the water. Hit the water! HIT THE WATER!

I actually heard that live on the air when it happened. When I turned on the local news soon after, there was live footage of Dornacker being pulled from the water and having CPR performed as she was hauled away on a stretcher. It all happened during the Joey Reynolds Show, on WNNNNBC. (Reynolds had replaced Howard Stern after he was unceremoniously dumped) by WNBC radio. It was the tensest hour of radio I'd ever heard, just Reynolds and the crew trying to put up a brave front the entire time and convincing themselves that it was nothing serious and that she was okay.

That event was so tragic it was the turning point of WNBC radio. The station was probably in financial dire straits anyway but that was the event that probably put the nail in the coffin. Things just were never the same afterward, even though everyone tried to move past it.

A classic. Movie reviewer does passive-aggressive ambush style interview with Tarantino, becomes Tarantino's bitch, angrily gets in the last word after he leaves.

Rosie O'Donnell ambushes Tom Selleck. This is the first time she showed her "true colors" on her show and showed that she wasn't Little Miss Innocent.

Infamous "I Can Kick" Crispin Glover appearance on David Letterman

Oliver Reed giving David Letterman a hard time.

R186, that's a hoot! One of my SF pals calls Jan Wahl, "the hat lady." He told a long tale about how that waddling little uninformed women weaseled her way into reviewing movies with no experience, and how she talks through shows, if often drunk at theaters, and got all huffy when he repeatedly asked her to quiet down. She's a buffoon.

No one has mention the infamous Farrah as guest on Letterman yet.

Dimmy up widda heed windja nod ebba nod ebba do me!

r187 must be a freeper to think Rosie is the bad guy in that clip.

Shelley Winters and Oliver Reed on The Tonight Show.

[quote][R187] must be a freeper to think Rosie is the bad guy in that clip.

You must be an immature piece of crap to think it's okay to invite a guest under pretense of helping him promote a project of his, only to totally blindside him with an ambush.

The infamous Judge Mathis appearance on the Wendy Williams show didn't happen on live TV, but it's quickly becoming a classic.

No. Britney shaved her head prior.

God, I wish video existed from a drunk Kathleen Turner in a post Oscars Nightline openly rolling her eyes and pursing her lips at something stupid which Hollywood reporter Judd Rose (now dead) said. It must have been around 1989.

Daniel Jones' 105 freeway suicide; this was huge news in Los Angeles when it happened, and the local station covering it got a lot of flack for airing it live without a delay during a time when it would usually be airing cartoons.

Jones' poor little dog was in the truck when he set it on fire. Warning, very graphic.

Former Floridian Congresswoman and current felon Corrine Brown, attempting to speak passable English.

Amateur sketch of the Leprechaun in the tree at timestamp 00:43. "Could be a crackhead."

Holy shit, a lot of blood came out of that guy at r201.

And Rosie o was a cunt for ambushing tom selleck, as well as a hypocrite for bitching about guns while at the time was a spokesperson for Kmart which openly sells guns and ammo. Duh!!! The only things I like her for are when she had the epic fight with hasselback, and when she did her spot on impersonation of trump. Not everyone who doesn't love Rosie is a "freeper". Fucking grow up asshole at r194.

They're raping everybody out here.

This interviewer loses it. And lost his job because of it.

Link at R179, I dont know who Cathy Burke is but she starts her acceptance speech by saying "It's about fucking time" and nobody fainted.

According to the comments r208, that was a comedy sketch but it was very funny.

R167, Priceless - Miss Lake Dardanelle, Naomi Shore - nothing like a prissy White girl trying to belt out a Black woman's ballad in an off-key Operatic style while wearing a cheap knock-off Christian Lacroix pageant gown

The lack of self-awareness is stunning.

As she reaches for those notes (she's reaching in the wrong place) she bends her body as if she is straining to take a dump - and that's pretty much what she does, a big steaming one

"You were a little pitchy, Dawg."

Trolling public access TV, old school style. The craziness starts at 1:10. The guy can't catch a break.

Sorry, Miss Lake Dardanelle Naomi Shores

You ARE waking up tomorrow morning and finding there's NOBODY there

Someone got yelled at over this. Rosie thinks she's talking to the mayor of Philadelphia on the phone. It's actually a Howard Stern fan. It's actually sad.

R209, please turn in your gay card. We have been instructed to cut it in half.

[quote] And Rosie o was a cunt for ambushing tom selleck, as well as a hypocrite for bitching about guns while at the time was a spokesperson for Kmart which openly sells guns and ammo. Duh!!!

That wasn't the hypocrisy as much as the fact she at the time employed armed bodyguards . Protection for me but not for thee,

Ms. Leslie Uggams forgets the words and starts singing jibberish to the tune of, irony of ironies, It Has To Be Good.

Dear god r145 for the win. OMG. LMAO.

R217 posts as if Ab Fab ever mattered.

R208 is a dutch speaking Belgian sketch comedy show called In de Gloria. It's supposed to be about a host who was fired for laughing at a guest, the whole sketch is him looking back to the firing for laughing at a guest who had his tonsils removed and had his voice changed due to a bad recovery.

"You must be an immature piece of crap to think it's okay to invite a guest under pretense of helping him promote a project of his, only to totally blindside him with an ambush."

You must be immature AND a freeper to think asking someone questions is equivalent to an "ambush" - only a freeper airhead would defend a gun nut like Selleck.

"Former Floridian Congresswoman and current felon Corrine Brown, attempting to speak passable English."

I bet you think Sarah Palin is a genius.

Obviously r223 doesn’t know the full story and eventual happy ending behind the clip at r102 (which I was going to post but r102 beat me to it).

A potentially unhinged moment when a reporter was doing a live shot and she thought a dog came into the scene but others felt it was a mountain lion.

The people calling it a mountain lion were unhinged. She and the dog were pretty chill. A mountain lion would have ambushed her from the back and dragged her into the bushes. Cute vid!

R229, the lights were on and she definitely couldn't even see the animal but if you saw the whole video even the studio reporters were scared for her when they cut back.

r228 A cougar? Pooch's owner is the cougar.

From a 90s German talkshow - a female writer and anti-abortion activist gets so pissed off at a politician that she storms off, but first has to awkwardly get rid of her microphone, nearly stripping in the process, then angrily throws the microphone and a glass into the audience, hitting someone in the face. Oh, and the politician is a pre-Kanzleramt Angela Merkel.

Was this Gong Show episode live, in which panelist Jaye P. Morgan flashed her boobs?

"The Bowling Green Massacre"

By Kellyanne Conway

Any video footage with Kellyanne Cuntway is unhinged. Every bit of it.

Whoopi and Joy walk off the set of THE VIEW mid-interview with Bill O'Reilly, only to be admonished by Babwa shortly thereafter. What a disaster.

R186 I had forgotten all about that stupid Hat Lady Jan Wahl. Is she even still alive? You could tell from her ridiculous movie reviews that she didn't know shit about film. I used to see her on the local SF news and ask, "How the hell did this idiot ever get on TV?"

I remember a very bitchy confrontation between Raquel Welch and Elizabeth Vargas on Good Morning America because Raquel was incensed that Elizabeth wore the same color (bright orange IIRC) to interview her.

Can anyone find a clip of that?

Stephen McDaniel discussing the disappearance of his neighbor. During the interview he learns they've found the woman's body. Turns out Stephen was actually her killer.

R211 I actually was involved in a fender bender with Channel Four's Jim Vance in Washington DC. He rear-ended my car when he reached down for his cigarette which fell in his lap. This was in the early 1990's near Dupont Circle.

Wow, [R241]. Even with some truly creepy posts in this thread (although I can't bring myself to watch the suicide porn), what you posted is downright chilling. Now I feel compelled to see what followed...off to Google I go!

Bette Midler offers to drop her dress for Israel during a telethon in 1973. Here's the offer. She's hilarious. This clip ends before she does the deed. If anyone has the rest, I'd be grateful.

Good one, R247!

Remember when the Today Show camera was gliding along the crowd of people on the sidewalk outside the studio, and a woman decided to flash the camera? I actually missed it (at 12 seconds) the first couple of times I saw the clip, but Katie Couric obviously saw it!

How blatant Taron Eggerton was in public with Hugh Jackman. They were obviously hooking up and Taron Eggerton didn't seem to care who knew it.

Humorless Bill Cosby insults Wanda Sykes' grammar during an awards show.

Julian Clary jokes about Norman Lamont (a politician from the British conservative party)

From 1991...Tom Snyder is filling in for Bob Costas on his "Later" TV show and the guest is Howard Stern. Things go south fast.

[quote]You must be immature AND a freeper to think asking someone questions is equivalent to an "ambush" - only a freeper airhead would defend a gun nut like Selleck.

HURR DURR, HURR DURR.

You're so stupid. FF'ed and blocked.

Another British one. Richard Littlejohn gets called out for his homophobia against lesbians by Michael Winner

Oldie but goodie: TV host pukes on air.

Epic (but very awkward) cat fight between Gore Vidal and Norman Mailer.

Ruby shooting Oswald was the 1st ever unhinged.

Iggy pop off his face on Australian TV

Grace Jones doesn't like posh English guys. She completely loses it around 6mins.

Oh God, R261, you’re psychic, I was JUST going to post the video of Jones and Harty.

Lol R262 - it also reminded me of this Ollie Reed classic - can't believe nobody else has posted it yet.

David Icke on the Terry Wogan show. I remember watching this one when it aired and it felt really awkward.

[quote]Not everyone who doesn't love Rosie is a "freeper".

+1,000,000

[quote]Not everyone who doesn't love Rosie is a "freeper".

Why can't the alt-left get this?

Faith Hill losing it after Carrie Underwoods name was called. Female Vocalist of the year at the CMA Awards....

[quote]Why can't the alt-left get this?

Because there is no "alt-left."

[quote]Because there is no "alt-left."

Hil-fucking-arious.

Soupy Sales had a live after-school kids show in New York. A regular bit was somebody knocks at his door and they do some bit. The kids didn't actually see the stagehand doing the bit at the door, just Soupy's reactions. Once on Soupy's birthday the producer put more then a stagehand at the door. This went out live to millions of NYC area children BUT the camera shots over Soupy's shoulder were closed circuit only to the control room and Soupy's monitor so he thought this was what was broadcast. . Even in black and white you can see Soupy blushing.

Creepy old man hitting on young girls. I think the blond is Siouxsie.

R245 -- do you know Prof. Anderson? The sign she was holding read "Pageants hurt all women."

She's been involved in the Kavanaugh resistance, featured as a legal expert in the Senate Democrats press conference in September.

I'm on Grace's side about this incident, but it was really funny to see this talk show host fending off her school girl taps as though he were sparring with Muhammad Ali or something.

Get a load of the bitchy commentary from the narrator.

Ha, ha, how dare he turn his back on Grace.

The (Australian) Today Show has a lot of stuff like this.

Karl Stefanovic is a hottie.

BBC interview with Anthony Weiner. Nasty from first second.

R275 Well that's [italic]one[/italic] way to deal with an intruder lmao

There is no such thing as "alt-left;" that is a ficticious creation.

Truman Capote struggling to get through an interview.

[quote]There is no such thing as "alt-left;" that is a ficticious creation.

What do you prefer? Uber-left? Super-left? Left of left? Excruciatingly liberal? Radically intolerant?

[quote] that is a [bold]ficticious[/bold] creation.

That is a fictitious spelling.

Faye Dunaway: “La La Land!!!”

Paula Abdul OWNS this thread. Skip to 23:45 if it doesn't take you there automatically. When they move to Simon's prediction you can still hear her wheezing in the background. I love that drunk bitch.

Warren, you're incorrigible!

This isn't live, but still very weird -- Paula Abdul's longtime stalker was allowed to audition on American Idol.

The stalker later killed herself in the trunk of her car, parked outside Abdul's house.

Very sad -- she's clearly unhinged.

Another gem from wise sage Paula.

[quote]The stalker later killed herself in the trunk of her car, parked outside Abdul's house.

I knew that she had killed herself in the car but I never heard the trunk.

How did she do? Shot herself? Suffocated?

I always thought it would be funny if I were a celeb that had a stalker and then I turned around and used all my money and resources to stalk my stalker. Like park out in front of his family's house. Call incessantly and hang up...

I wish we could find the episode when Paula critiqued a performance that hadn't happened yet. It was an episode of "American Idol" where the contestants each did 2 songs in one show, taking turns (they each did their first song, then in the same order they each did their second song). Paula reviewed a performance that just happened, then for the same singer she went on to say, "For your second song, ..." and went on to give a critique, even though he hadn't sung that one yet. Randy Jackson reminded her of that fact. She was confused because she had watched the rehearsals of both.

Stank ho Jessica Hahn is offended Joan Rivers considers her a stank ho.

Wow, Joan went low really fast.

Remember when she walked out of her CNN interview after a blow-up when the anchor pointed out that some of her jokes are a little mean.

Literally every Trump news conference. They will one day be classics of the unhinged live tv genre.

Joan would get pissed when any interviewer would criticize Melissa's "career". Makes me think that it was a sore point for her, too.

Can we get back to fun unhinged TV. This thread is meant to amuse.

I remember that r287. It was hilarious to see the confusion.

I found the Paula Abdul confusion moment, r287. Starts at 0:17.

Milla on some French programme.

R289 Sad hateful Joan. If I had been married to that cow I would have killed myself as well

Serge Gainsbourg tells Whitney Houston he wants to fuck her live on French télévision.

R298 Thanks. I'd never seen that before.

Somewhere deep down in my heart I still love you...

Dr D David Schultz assaults John Stossel.

More public-access goodness: The Spirit of Troof, or, when crackheads find Jesus (allegedly).

Yoko Ono "Piece for Soprano." Sorry in advance.

Whitney was at the height of her powers in that vid @ R298. Just stunning. She should have slapped that old troll.

R300, that isn't real - it's photoshopped.

Everything goes wrong for poor Marc Monroe .

Bill Close KOOL TV hostage on air. Saw it live.

I can't believe I forgot about Margarita Pracatan. She has a wealth of material on YouTube.

Frank Reynolds reported Ronald Reagan dead, which was wrong. The Washington Hilton got nicknamed the Hinckley Hilton after this.

[quote]Yoko Ono "Piece for Soprano." Sorry in advance.

That should have come with a FLASHING WARNING sign!

R4, forever in our hearts..that is American Solid Gold!

McGregor vs. Khabib post fight.

Great video at R302. Stossel sued (and got) $425,000 for those two slaps. The wrestler said in an interview that Vince McMahon told him to rough the reporter up, but McMahon denied it and says the wrestler did it on his own.

I'm only at R41. Agree Oprah looked fantastic.

Entertainment capitol of the world

GOD BLESS AMERICA

Michael Jackson Live from Neverland...letting us know they examined his penis.

Leaving aside the on-air suicides I think the hostage situation in r308 wins. Looking it up I see this was in 1982 which I guess explains why I wasn't familiar with the incident. The gay guy had a point, I can see Johnny Cash as a prophet.

Hulk Hogan accidentally chokes out Richard Belzer on his show and then lets him fall and smack his head on the ground, cutting his head

Saw this on Antenna TV last year....from the Tonight Show, a martial artist attempts to chop through flaming bricks, catches his hand on fire and burns his hand badly

r306 Where would we be without our "But it's photoshopppppppppped!!!!!!!!!!" queens?

[quote]R289 Wow, Joan went low really fast.

Joan Rivers was a crotchety old bitch...and not even that funny.

I never liked Joan Rivers as entertainment. I think I'd've hated her as a human being.

Just dove into the case of MCDaniels at R241. I picture 2 of our trolls like this guy. Chilling.

[quote]Where would we be without our "But it's photoshopppppppppped!!!!!!!!!! - " queens?

Sorry to burst your bubble, snookums, but if the puzzle really was "Luck Be In The Air Tonight", then the letter "I" in the word "air" would have already been revealed, along with the other ones already turned over.

David Horowitz of the syndicated "Fight Back" was put in a hostage situation as well.

So I have known about r3 for a long time but never had the guts to watch it. I clicked the link because I wanted to see what he said before he pulled out the gun. I wasn't expecting him to shoot himself so fast -- ugh, shouldn't have watched. As he is waving the gun around someone yells, "Don't do it -- this will hurt someone" or something similar.

One of the most unhinged live sports moments ever: Cal vs. Stanford (and John Elway) Big Game '82. This moment is simply called "The Play"

(Stanford thought they had the game in the bag with just seconds left)

R329 I've always loved this clip, more for the sports announcer losing his shit than the incredible play itself.

News anchor and colleague reporter insult one another during interview. You can start at the good part, 1:16, then go back to the beginning if you're interested in what built up to that moment.

The Bradford stadium fire

Couldn't watch Bette at R248. Not after learning today that the human tattooed skin lampshades was a big made up crock. Screw you!

r332, I'd never heard of that. Crazy scary.

Why would people stand chanting as they watch a massive structure on fire? Straight men are stupid my God.

This video has cracked me up for a few years now. Random joggers stop for an interview during a snowstorm in Portland.

Chelsea describing how the snow is the prefect texture for running - that's what puts this one over the top to me.

R336 - Yes! She is so bourgeois in her little interview!

I don't know who thought it was a good idea to have this homeschooler Scripps Spelling Bee winner on a live morning news interview.

What a mess for poor Kiran Chetry. Is this why she's not on CNN anymore? I hope the segment producer took some heat too.

R289, who is that CNN reporter petty pig. Despise her! Deep hatred. Is it still working? Please tell me she's canned.

R338 is autistic, so obvious. He acts very similar to my autistic cousin.

R340 LOL..."He's been asked to leave the ball game for ruining a good pice of pizza"

I see nothing wrong with R289, Joan was a bitch as always and I'm sure she's in hell bitching around too.

If the live version weren't terrifying enough, you have this animatronics version of Orange Cheeto for your amusement, thanks to Disney. Cringy Donald Trump.

This always cracks me up.

R344, is that Matt Lauer questioning and rebuking an eyewitness? Stupid woman thinks it's a big jet. Unbelievable. Get cancer. An aggressive form, douche. Is that Lauer?

R337, everyone of every stripe, color, creed from every corner of the world over hates this bitch. Loved this in the first release. Tibetan monks have room for disdain.Iceland laughed so hard. This went globally viral at the time.

My sisters look like this snooty type with resting bitch faces. The shock on people's faces when they become animated with big warm personalities is a sight to behold. Especially nervous people in service positions. They give off an air of ice cold princess. Knocks people for a loop. Always a treat to take them to restaurants when they're in town.

You knew that fall hurt and knocked her wind out. So much sweeter. Now they ARE familiar with snow, I guess.

R338 They made that poor woman haul out those tuna sandwiches... and asking him to spell "scambridae" and so forth. It was probably none of her doing.

She did an admirable job and though the kid obviously has problems, he was charming.

Probably tame for this thread's standards, but it made me laugh/smile/raise a brow at the time. To improve my language skills I used to watch a lot of Japanese entertainment television, dumb fluffy stuff about native popstars and filmstars, and during that time came across some weird shit. But the one that stands out to me isn't so much bizarre as it is curious and cringeworthy.

Several years ago in January during a morning interview on NicoNico (eng: 'Smiley Face', a kind of webstream show about popmusic), a teen rock band discuss what they think is funny or strange about their bandmates for the camera. One of them laughingly pipes up that their lead-singer Kenta is "bisexual". Nbd really, even by Japan's standards, except Kenta stares at the floor blushing for a minute after this Reveal and then hilariously scrambles to cover his embarrassed reaction of "WHAT AM I SUPPOSED TO SAY ABOUT THIS?? THIS IS LIVE TV!" (funnier because he's from Osaka and that accent is the Japanese equivalent of a tough-guy Brooklyn/New Yawk accent) by re-enacting the damning evidence his bandmates brought forward (that he likes to sleep next to other guys) to make it seem innocent and platonic. What's interesting is that he doesn't deny being bi or gay, only that he doesn't have sexual designs on his bandmates. Kenta is so thrown by his quasi-outing that he even exclaims that any affection he has for men stems from his father and his overbearing mother. He'd fit right in on the Datalounge.

The segment went from shocking to awkward to silly in the space of 120 seconds, which makes it memorable to me. Japanese men working in mainstream media/entertainment don't really come out or talk frankly about sex, either, so it's a little wild to see (watching it back you notice the female interviewer with them was clearly thrown off-guard by this topic, too). It's a cultural shock that there's still such awkwardness around bi men and that in some parts of the world the idea of m/m intimacy is still a punchline or a way to embarrass someone.

tl;dr I gasped, I laughed, I cried. Get your shit together, Japan.

[quote]Rosie O'Donnell ambushes Tom Selleck. This is the first time she showed her "true colors" on her show and showed that she wasn't Little Miss Innocent.

I forgot how well he handled that little ambush of hers. That was not the place for that shit.

[quote][R187] must be a freeper to think Rosie is the bad guy in that clip.

...And you must be a walking cliche because she IS the bad guy in that clip. Selleck didn’t come to that show to speak for the NRA. She wanted him to admit some kind of culpability in what happened at Columbine on national TV. That’s a little fucked up.

r338 Kid is McLovin's autistic gay brother.

R353, wasn't it also revealed at the time that she had armed body guards? I think this was the beginning of her fall from grace. Her "Queen of Nice" image started to crumble.

"And you must be a walking cliche because she IS the bad guy in that clip. Selleck didn’t come to that show to speak for the NRA. She wanted him to admit some kind of culpability in what happened at Columbine on national TV. That’s a little fucked up."

It's a little fucked up that people on a gay board would defend NRA gun nuts. Go away, deplorables.

[quote]It's a little fucked up that people on a gay board would defend NRA gun nuts.

Exactly. So he didn't go on the show to specifically talk about guns. So what? He was public about his position on guns and the NRA, so I'd say it's fair game. He should be able to defend his position - if he can't, then he shouldn't be public with his support of the NRA.

Not to mention that he is a fucking closet case coward.

For those who've gone through this whole thread, which is your favorite?

Mine would have to be "Strut that Ass."

R357, there are too many to choose from. So far, mine would be the woman who insisted on doing a "man-on-the-street" interview and then began removing her clothes.

Hopefully this thread is just getting started!

BUMP!

This is a thread for the ages! My favorite is Serge hitting on Whitney. Where has that been hiding all these years?

Serge hitting on Whitey was on "Can I Be Me" which has been on pay cable lately.

R359 I saw that as it happened way back a million years ago on Sunday afternoon French TV. I was watching from Italy. It was pretty embarrassing but something you'd expect from Gainsboug.

Gainsbourg is how I imagine all French male heterosexuals to be.

R364 So you're quite a bigot. Do you make sweeping generalities about all nationalities and races?

[quote]It's a little fucked up that people on a gay board would defend NRA gun nuts. Go away, deplorables.

It’s also a little fucked up that you're on a message board and can’t read. I stated that I’m not a Freeper. If you can’t see the difference between inviting someone to talk about their political choices and ambushing them on national TV...YOU’RE the deplorable because that’s the type of shit THEY pull.

[quote]Exactly. So he didn't go on the show to specifically talk about guns. So what? He was public about his position on guns and the NRA, so I'd say it's fair game. He should be able to defend his position - if he can't, then he shouldn't be public with his support of the NRA.

He can, he did and then it backfired.

r367, I can read. I just don't believe you. Anyone can claim that they're "not a Freeper" but you sure sound like one to me. I don't know any real liberal who would defend Selleck in any way, shape, or form. The fact that you think Selleck has done a good job defending his position just shows what a dumbass freeper you are.

Check out Joseph McCarthy at r368. Are you now, or have you ever been a freeper?

Have we forgotten about Sharkeshia?? Sharkeshia, nooo!!!!

I can't find the original video for this so I had to settle for the ripoff:

You can tell by the look in her eyes this bitch is crazy.

Look at the utter moron at r369 who thinks calling out someone on a message board makes you Joe McCarthy. Typical freeper logic.

Bug flies into reporter's mouth.

Man flees big black Cockerel

R351? But you're not Japanese. Okinawa is famous as a ghetto land. Who you kidding? Youself?

R369/72. Catfight!

Besides no miss brown or charle murphy?

Guess no time for that?

Grumpy Chad Myers hurricane freak out

Guy kills turkeys in the background as Sarah Palin gives interview.

Right, R348? In hindsight you can see what misogynistic cuntbag Matt Lauer was. Of course he later says it was a big plane with no reference to the actual fucking eye witness who you know, was there and saw it

Pity he didn't have a meeting in Windows of the World that morning.

There was absolutely nothing wrong with what Lauer said.

He said to the witness: "to be honest, I didn't get the impression it was that big a plane...."

He wasn't "questioning and rebuking an eyewitness".

He was simply basing his impression on the plane that was circling the building that could be seen earlier....he was assuming that was the plane that hit.

When he sees the footage, he corrects himself.

r388 He corrects himself without acknowledging what the two previous eyewitnesses had claimed. r387 It doesn't make him a misogynist, just a cuntbag.

It's supposed to be fake, but here is the supposed Christine Chubbuck live suicide tape. (It's only about 15 seconds, and it keeps looping over and over)

Star Jones walks off "The View" when a pimp starts pushing her buttons.

It's hard out there for a pimp. It would be even harder if you had Star Jones in your "stable."

The stinking mess Ellen left on the carpet

[quote]I bet it ain't me!

So Youtube is "live TV" now?

Arthur Godfrey fires Julius LaRosa live

Mel Gibson calling Dean Richards an asshole. You can skip to about 3:15 if you are in a hurry:)

This is for the Boris calling everyone a freeper when they disagree with him about Rosie odonnell.

Hugh Grant on The Tonight Show...first interview after his arrest

Gay activists interrupt a taping of The Arsenio Hall Show

Paris Hilton appears on Late Show to talk about her clothing line, movie and perfume....but Dave is only interested in talking about her time in prison

The [bold]06:40 mark [/bold]in this compilation is my favorite news fail.

Everything seemed to go wrong for poor Tess at Chanel 29 that night! But she soldiers on...

: (

r1, Love you R1. Marry me.

R402, "Imagine seeing this big cat roaming around your neighborhood".

Reporter menaced by turkeys

This could well be the funniest TV news clip ever.

In the clip at R383, why does the guy have flour on his hand?

Connie Chung -- once a promising national news anchor -- humiliating herself after the cancellation of her low-rated MSNBC show.

Reporter and cameraman shot on live TV. The news anchor’s face as it happened is priceless but she recovered and soldiered on with the broadcast.

R410, the reporter (24) and cameraman (27) died at the scene, the interviewee survived and the shooter killed himself later.

Marimba Lady still makes me laugh.

The weatherman's smooth recover from his swearing is what makes this.

This is how it is DONE!

Say what you will about Jessica, she kicked ass!

I don't get it, R412. What's funny about the marimba player? While she was no virtuoso, she wasn't cringeworthy or even bad.

David Bowie on the Dick Cavett show. He’s so coked out it’s scary. Amazing he survived as long as he did.

At R402's video link, the last giggling anchor's kinda hot in an '80s way. Jeff Moore, sort of a nerdy Fred Dryer.