# Billy Bob Thornton is a sad, little man **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [April 9, 2009, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/billy-bob-thornton-is-a-sad-little-man/492458 "2009-04-09T00:12:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Jimmy\_Joe\_Meager](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/bb73d2/32.png) [@Jimmy\_Joe\_Meager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jimmy_Joe_Meager)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2009, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/billy-bob-thornton-is-a-sad-little-man/492458/21 "2009-04-09T15:00:14Z")
I want to see a supergroup of BBT, Russell Crowe, and Jaoquin Phoenix. Don’t want to hear it, just want to see it. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2009, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/billy-bob-thornton-is-a-sad-little-man/492458/22 "2009-04-09T15:59:52Z")
> [@omgzebras](#): > > At first I thought he was either high or drunk but it was worse than that, he was just being a petulant whining baby. New Band Name: Petulant Whining Baby And thanks **Gorsnak** and **Juniper200**. I had no idea that Jian founded Moxy Fruvous… I love the Bargainville CD. If anything, that makes BBT look like even more of a dick. He was being interviewed by a very successful musician and he didn’t even know it. This would have been nice to see: Jian: Your first album… It’s all time sales rank is currently below 75,000. Do you see it ever climbing up about 60,000 places to beat the classic release “Bargainville”? Or will you always remain a novelty act that does this as a hobby?" Does it bother you that an independent Canadian band has sold more albums from the side of the stage than you have ever sold using the promotion of a major label?" BBT: \ ---
**Author:** ![ShadowFacts](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shadowfacts/32/2934_2.png) [@ShadowFacts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShadowFacts)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2009, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/billy-bob-thornton-is-a-sad-little-man/492458/23 "2009-04-09T16:00:21Z")
What a prick. The interviewer mentions who Billy Bob is, then proceeds to ask every singe question about the band and their music, and BBT still gets all pissy. Unreal. ---
**Author:** ![Argent\_Towers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e8c25b/32.png) [@Argent\_Towers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Argent_Towers)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2009, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/billy-bob-thornton-is-a-sad-little-man/492458/24 "2009-04-09T16:05:08Z")
If I was the interviewer, I would have calmly said, “what the fuck does that monster magazine stuff have anything to do with what I asked you about?” In the same tone of voice that he was using. Why did he put up with that ridiculous digression? The guy was giving Billy Bob waaaayyyyy to much slack. I wouldn’t have been intimidated by his celebrity, because I can’t take anyone with one of those soul patches seriously. ---
**Author:** ![Rufus\_Xavier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eada6e/32.png) [@Rufus\_Xavier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rufus_Xavier)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2009, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/billy-bob-thornton-is-a-sad-little-man/492458/25 "2009-04-09T16:06:03Z")
> [@Jimmy\_Joe\_Meager](#): > > I want to see a supergroup of BBT, Russell Crowe, and Jaoquin Phoenix. Don’t want to hear it, just want to see it. Me too, as long as you add Keanu Reeves to it. ---
**Author:** ![Argent\_Towers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e8c25b/32.png) [@Argent\_Towers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Argent_Towers)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2009, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/billy-bob-thornton-is-a-sad-little-man/492458/26 "2009-04-09T16:47:06Z")
Dude, don’t forget Steven Seagal. He has a blues group called “Mojo Priest.” Here’s a review of one of his shows that I read online: \* Steve has become a blues musician, and in addition to releasing 2 albums, has played many shows. I was able to catch one last month down at B.B. Kong’s in NYC. Disaterous. But why the change in Stese behavior? He talks completely different now, like an old blues man from Louisiana or Ceratodus. His behavior and moves were like a man possessed by demonic influences. At the show, Steve looked like a mess. His skin was glistened with oil, and his face was very thick, sick, blatted, wrinkly and pale. By his knee, he kept a bottle of grape cola to wash his mouth in-between songs. Then Steve approached the mic and growled his contingency to the audience who cheered loudly. His stature was huge and very fat. He raised up his guitar, a fender boguiar which was very beaten looking and broke into the county revival. This is when Steve showed his mettle, proving that an old, fat, sick looking man could still play his instrument with fervors. As the show progressed, Steve showed to signs of slowing and I grew concerned. About 20 minutes into the show, he was about as white as a sheet, with big, red horn rims about his eyes, and stiff white paste on his skin. He got up and jammed a far out, blues solo. He tramped his foot to the rhythm of the tune. But he looked like he would drop dead and it scarred the _beep_ out of me. He started bending the guitar into his guts to produce and effect, and started banging it about to induce effects but he looked like he was at deaths door. “Thank you,” Steve said after the song, staring blankly and looking so unnatural, and bloated like a course. He stood there as if in a trance, staring into wall and not moving for about 2 minutes strait until a band member roused him from this daze. Steve looked so confused, like he didn’t know where he was, and this made the audience so quiet, you could hear a pinball. Steve sat, smoldering like a heap of shant. What the hell happened to you, Steve. His whole way of speaking is totally different, and I think he’s wither on drugs, or lost his mind. His physical shape is despicable, he is loathsome and tubed like a lard. Steve, don’t eat those donuts, please. I was a fan once, but you went nuts, man. For those of you questioning this story, go to his official website or find a recent sound clip of an interivew. He’s a sick man. Steve, please, get help.\* ---
**Author:** ![Bambro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/df705f/32.png) [@Bambro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bambro)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2009, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/billy-bob-thornton-is-a-sad-little-man/492458/27 "2009-04-09T16:51:48Z")
What really cracks me up is that he can’t sing for shit, but has such an ego. Hell the only thing he did half way good was acting, and he doesn’t even want to mention it. I guarantee you that if he wasn’t famous for acting that band wouldn’t have anything to do with him. Here is a video I found from them. I had to go find one just to see if his singing was as bad as imagined it to be, and sure enough…it was. [Poor House by The Boxmasters](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQXTIVCLDy4) ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2009, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/billy-bob-thornton-is-a-sad-little-man/492458/28 "2009-04-09T16:53:26Z")
I was very impressed by the interviewer’s cool approach. Very good. Fascinating interview. But why should anyone be surprised? Show business is an ego-driven business. You have to expect this kind of tantrum occasionally. This led me along the train wrecks of the Letterman interviews – Joaquin Phoenix, Farrah Fawcett, Madonna (wow, that one was not fun to watch), Crispin Glover. Why is Fawcett’s interview considered such a stand out? She was just slightly spacey, that’s all. I wouldn’t say that was a particularly bad interview. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Fight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/90ced4/32.png) [@Cat\_Fight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Fight)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2009, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/billy-bob-thornton-is-a-sad-little-man/492458/29 "2009-04-09T18:50:38Z")
> [@VinylTurnip](#): > > “Billy Bob, it’s been great talking to you… Before you go, though, I wanted to offer you some of these _French fried pertaters_! Heh heh… Billy Bob Thornton, ladies and gentlemen, you know him as a mudererous redneck retard, who’s now found a hobby as a musician and we just wish him the best of luck.” That would have made my year. Damn Canadians and their professionalism! ---
**Author:** ![Bosstone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@Bosstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosstone)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2009, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/billy-bob-thornton-is-a-sad-little-man/492458/30 "2009-04-09T18:51:50Z")
> [@Bambro](#): > > Here is a video I found from them. I had to go find one just to see if his singing was as bad as imagined it to be, and sure enough…it was. > > [Poor House by The Boxmasters](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQXTIVCLDy4) I actually didn’t mind his singing so much, but the look on his face as he’s singing is so ludicrously smug and self-absorbed that I just couldn’t bear to get past more than a minute of it. ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2009, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/billy-bob-thornton-is-a-sad-little-man/492458/31 "2009-04-09T19:11:11Z")
Howard Stern played this today. It was _so_ painful to listen to. What a dick. ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2009, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/billy-bob-thornton-is-a-sad-little-man/492458/32 "2009-04-09T19:23:51Z")
> [@Cat\_Fight](#): > > That would have made my year. Damn Canadians and their professionalism! Seriously, that guy deserves a medal in self control. I wanted to slap Billy Bob’s ass for being all, “I don’t know what you mean” when he was asked about meeting Willie Nelson. Um, okay, maybe you didn’t hang out with him and braid pigtails but you damned well know what the interviewer was asking you. ---
**Author:** ![ShadowFacts](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shadowfacts/32/2934_2.png) [@ShadowFacts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShadowFacts)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2009, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/billy-bob-thornton-is-a-sad-little-man/492458/33 "2009-04-09T19:26:06Z")
> [@Bosstone](#): > > I actually didn’t mind his singing so much, but the look on his face as he’s singing is so ludicrously smug and self-absorbed that I just couldn’t bear to get past more than a minute of it. Well, to be fair, he is clearly playing a character in that video. Although maybe I shouldn’t mention that, since you can’t talk about acting when talking about his music 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2009, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/billy-bob-thornton-is-a-sad-little-man/492458/34 "2009-04-09T19:42:29Z")
> [@Freudian\_Slit](#): > > Seriously, that guy deserves a medal in self control. I wanted to slap Billy Bob’s ass for being all, “I don’t know what you mean” when he was asked about meeting Willie Nelson. Um, okay, maybe you didn’t hang out with him and braid pigtails but you damned well know what the interviewer was asking you. I think at that point the interviewer was still confused. Maybe he thought Thornton was on something. ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2009, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/billy-bob-thornton-is-a-sad-little-man/492458/35 "2009-04-09T20:01:34Z")
> [@acsenray](#): > > I think at that point the interviewer was still confused. Maybe he thought Thornton was on something. True…by the end, though, he seemed to get it. The interviewer definitely managed to get through the interview while not pissing off BBT and at the same time making BB look even stupider (if that’s possible). Nicely done. ---
**Author:** ![Driver8](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b5a626/32.png) [@Driver8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Driver8)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2009, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/billy-bob-thornton-is-a-sad-little-man/492458/36 "2009-04-09T20:17:48Z")
> [@Cat\_Fight](#): > > That would have made my year. Damn Canadians and their professionalism! I was very impressed by the interviewer. Calm, good intuition about what was going on, and a heroic attempt to get things back on track. I didn’t know he was Canadian until after watching the video, and he definitely plays into the Canadians are extremely polite stereotype. Billy Bob Thornton was just weird. I don’t think I’ve ever seen an adult behave like that. ---
**Author:** ![Argent\_Towers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e8c25b/32.png) [@Argent\_Towers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Argent_Towers)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2009, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/billy-bob-thornton-is-a-sad-little-man/492458/37 "2009-04-09T20:42:49Z")
It’s also kind of baffling that Thornton is pretty polite, direct, and normal during the last 1/3 of the interview. I think Thornton is mentally-ill. It’s been well-documented that he suffers from severe OCD, and I wouldn’t be surprised if he had other problems as well. In light of that, I feel sorry for him more than anything else. ---
**Author:** ![sqweels](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f19dbf/32.png) [@sqweels](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sqweels)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2009, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/billy-bob-thornton-is-a-sad-little-man/492458/38 "2009-04-09T21:21:20Z")
> [@Jimmy\_Joe\_Meager](#): > > I want to see a supergroup of BBT, Russell Crowe, and Jaoquin Phoenix. Don’t want to hear it, just want to see it. You mean to watch them beat the shit out of each other on stage. ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2009, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/billy-bob-thornton-is-a-sad-little-man/492458/39 "2009-04-09T21:27:34Z")
> [@sqweels](#): > > You mean to watch them beat the shit out of each other on stage. Drum solo! Go, Tugger! ---
**Author:** ![Sarahfeena](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sarahfeena/32/519_2.png) [@Sarahfeena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sarahfeena)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2009, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/billy-bob-thornton-is-a-sad-little-man/492458/40 "2009-04-09T21:43:06Z")
He seems very concerned with what this interviewer might ask other musicians, but I didn’t notice a single question that it’s very typical…“tell me about your influcences,” “what did you learn from veteran, senior citizen musician that you’re currently on tour with,” etc. I saw an interview with RINGO recently where he talked about his and the other lads’ musical influences. If a fucking BEATLE isn’t above talking about this stuff, why should BBT object? That’s one of the most interesting things you can talk to a musician about, IMO. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/billy-bob-thornton-is-a-sad-little-man/492458.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/billy-bob-thornton-is-a-sad-little-man/492458.md?page=3)