OT: Awkward Moments in Late Night TV: #42323

[DeToxRox]

Steve O tonight on Adam Carrolla.

He was so bombed he was tackling Carrolla and breaking stuff on the set. The audience was dead quiet. I swear Carrolla did a good job not getting pissed and working with it but wow.

Talk about awkward.

Anyone else see this?

If not I suspect video up online soon.

[Neuqua]

I just saw a couple goats leave turds on Jimmy Kimmel's show.

[BigJohn&TheLions]

Steve O?

[DeToxRox]

Steve O?

From Jackass and Wildboyz.

[Zippo]

From Jackass and Wildboyz.
Adam Carrolla?

[timmynausea]

The best awkward late night moment was Crispin Glover on acid on Letterman.

[Wolfpack]

Another good one was Hillary Duff saying she "was obsessed with Hummers" on Leno, which Leno graciously clarified for the audience to mean the vehicles.

[Ksyrup]

The best awkward late night moment was Crispin Glover on acid on Letterman.
Best Letterman interview EVER was the one with Richard Harris, where he brought up his past drinking issues, in what appeared to be an honest attempt to let Harris discuss conquering his problem. Apparently Harris had told Letterman's staff that his past alcohol issues were off-limits, so he got really pissed and spent the rest of the interview hardly answering any of Letterman's questions. I think Letterman was taken completely by surprise and tried to apologize, but Harris refused to cut him any slack. Finally, after Letterman had tried just about everything he could to get Harris to be responsive, they sat there in complete silence for an awkward few seconds, then Letterman said: "So, how about that drinking problem?"

That was the gist of it anyway. I haven't seen that clip in well over a decade.

[VPI97]

Letterman + Andy Kaufman + Jerry Lawler = best TV segment ever.

[DeToxRox]

The Lawler/Kauffman one was amazing, but I agree with Tommy. Crispen Glover on acid was amazing.

[NoMyths]

In fact...

Crispin Glover's Letterman appearance (http://www.ifilm.com/ifilmdetail/2644822?htv=12)


First location turned out to be NSFW...this one's at IFilm. :)

[DeToxRox]

In fact...

Crispin Glover's Letterman appearance (http://www.ifilm.com/ifilmdetail/2644822?htv=12)


First location turned out to be NSFW...this one's at IFilm. :)

Hahah I was waiting for this. I am grateful you posted it.

[colt45]

is that what the SNL sketch was parodying during Christopher Walken's Psychic Friends Network? i may be way out in left field here.... i don't know if folks remember it. i thought it was f'in hilarious!

[MJ4H]

wow

[MJ4H]

dola: id like to see the richard harris interview. :D

[colt45]

see, it has chrispen glover as one of the friends. and the older brother from different strokes? willis, i believe it is. well, willis was a psychic frield as well. maybe i live in the early 90s a little too much...

[MikeVic]

I tried the Glover clip on iFilm, and the video is all multi-coloured... I can't see anything. Does anyone know why this is happening?

[timmynausea]

In fact...

Crispin Glover's Letterman appearance (http://www.ifilm.com/ifilmdetail/2644822?htv=12)


First location turned out to be NSFW...this one's at IFilm. :)

Wow. I know I'm the one that brought it up, but I hadn't actually watched it in a while. That is insane.

[Neon_Chaos]

hxxp://www.big-boys.com/articles/steveodrunk.html

[timmynausea]

hxxp://www.big-boys.com/articles/steveodrunk.html

Jesus. Crispin Glover was actually trying his damnedest to be a good guest and just couldn't do it, Steveo is completely oblivious.

[Qwikshot]

I tried the Glover clip on iFilm, and the video is all multi-coloured... I can't see anything. Does anyone know why this is happening?

Can anyone help with this, I have the same situation happening.

[DeToxRox]

Apparently at 5 am yesterday Steve O e-mailed Carrolla and told him he didn't even remembering being on the show.

Musta' been wild backstage.

[JeeberD]

Good lord. It's one thing to be drunk and obnoxious, but being drunk and destructive is a completely different animal...

[MJ4H]

that was awesome. hahaha

[dawgfan]

A couple things:

- My understanding was that Corrolla and his staff planned to have Steve O get drunk as part of the segment; whoops, that one backfired. I doubt they planned to get him that drunk...

- Crispin Glover is weird enough that I'm not entirely sure that Letterman appearence wasn't an Andy Kaufman thing where he was simply acting the whole time. He certainly had the earmarkings of someone tripping, but then again he's an actor, and if he had experience tripping it wouldn't be a stretch to think he could fake it as well

[rkmsuf]

I still think it a shame that they foiled Jimmy Kimmel's idea of having the audience drink during the show.

[JeeberD]

- Crispin Glover is weird enough that I'm not entirely sure that Letterman appearence wasn't an Andy Kaufman thing where he was simply acting the whole time. He certainly had the earmarkings of someone tripping, but then again he's an actor, and if he had experience tripping it wouldn't be a stretch to think he could fake it as well

From the iFilm board just below the clip, fwiw...

I wonder how there are still people who think Crispin Glover was on acid.He obviously wasn't that was just a role he was playing.That was acting,in a pure Andy Kauffman style.It's obvious for the fact that the same character,wearing the wig and the platform shoes will appear in Rubin & Ed, a movie which was released two years later if I remember correctly.And the same character,called Mr Furr,appeared in a video for his own song "clowny clown clown".Crispin said in an interview he wasn't him actually but an ill-at-ease guy who have known him back from school and that looked exactly like him.Of course this is not true but it bring us back to the Andy Kauffman thing.He also explained,when he was called some weeks later at the Letterman show to talk about the "accident"that he was just experimenting a new character and he wanted to see people's reaction.Oh I wrote so much!
Anyway,Crispin Glover is the man.

[timmynausea]

I've read that part of being in that character was being on acid, and he had told his agent ahead of time that he would be on acid on the show. They tried to talk him out of it. Dave knew ahead of time, that's why he doesn't even bother trying to salvage the interview once it starts falling apart.
So yeah, he was acting, sort of.

[sabotai]

Steve O tonight on Adam Carrolla.

He was so bombed he was tackling Carrolla and breaking stuff on the set. The audience was dead quiet. I swear Carrolla did a good job not getting pissed and working with it but wow.

Talk about awkward.

Anyone else see this?

If not I suspect video up online soon.
Yeah, I saw this. I try to give new shows a fair chance. I've watch Too Late with Adam Carrolla a few times. It's a terrible show. If you saw the whole show, you'd see that that audience was quite dead the entire time, not just during that segment. And that's the way it has been for every show. Whenever it is just Adam speaking, trying to be funny, the audience is dead.

Sometimes they'll laugh at something the guest says...

This show will not last long, Steve-O incident or not.

[dawgfan]

Yeah, I saw this. I try to give new shows a fair chance. I've watch Too Late with Adam Carrolla a few times. It's a terrible show. If you saw the whole show, you'd see that that audience was quite dead the entire time, not just during that segment. And that's the way it has been for every show. Whenever it is just Adam speaking, trying to be funny, the audience is dead.

Sometimes they'll laugh at something the guest says...

This show will not last long, Steve-O incident or not.

I like Adam on Loveline, and I liked the Man Show, but him solo - I'm not impressed. The promo segments for his show weren't in the least bit funny, so I never bothered watching any of them. Looks like I haven't been missing much.

[chinaski]

i love that Crispin clip, i remember watching that the first time it came on back in 86(?), so surreal. I thought there was a little more to it tho, that was his butterfly collection he brought with him and i swear he explains more about that to Letterman. I remember it gets even weirder, they go to commercial and when the come back, Cripsin is gone and they dont mention anything.

Crispin, Kauffman/Lawler and Harvey Pekar made me a Letterman fan for a good ten years. Todays stuff is pretty lame.

[chinaski]

dola,

People should go rent Rivers Edge if they havent seen it before, its a classic.

[timmynausea]

dola,

People should go rent Rivers Edge if they havent seen it before, its a classic.

The only thing I remember about it is that it had some wipers songs in it.

[Crim]

Crispin, Kauffman/Lawler and Harvey Pekar made me a Letterman fan for a good ten years.



hxxp://www.kinglawler.com/classic.html



:)

Crim

[Critch]

The reason the audience is dead during the Adam Carolla show is that there isn't an audience anymore, they did away with them after the first few weeks. Supposed to make the show more intimate, just makes it weird that the only laughter is from the crew.

I quite like it, but it won't last long.

[sabotai]

The reason the audience is dead during the Adam Carolla show is that there isn't an audience anymore, they did away with them after the first few weeks. Supposed to make the show more intimate, just makes it weird that the only laughter is from the crew.
Wow. I couldn't notice between crown and no crowd.