Yet the Friday’s incident was brilliant, if one had a taste for the bizarre and lasted until the “punch” line. Who knew Jack Burns could do weird, non-comic, performance art?
That’s really quite sad.
Mike Tyson has probably been listed somewhere in this thread but him Biting the ear was the beginning for the end for him. Last night on Pardon the Interuption it was revealed that he wants to box woman.
I don’t know if Farrah Fawcett had any cred to lose when she went on Letterman 9 years ago, but watch and enjoy the classic. It’s worth your time.
Was it Wilt Chamberlain that claimed to have had sex with something like 19,000 women or so? Whatever the number, it worked out to some ridiculous day rate that was widely seen as a laughable lie.
Charlie Sheen and the Heidi Fleis ordeal. Not that he ever had a lot of cred but his behaviour is deserving of jokes and gentle derision.
I wish. Somehow she got a job leading a London production of Chicago. 
I also wish Ted Danson had bit the dust after appearing in blackface but he continues to get TV shows.
Please. :rolleyes: He appeared in black face at the roast for Whoopi Goldberg… WHO HE WAS DATING AT THE TIME. And Whoopi thought it was hilarious.
I think he does. He was a celebrity based on his accomplishments in the NFL, then he moved on to hosting MNF, and appeared in several movies which, if not blockbusters or classics*, at least did not suffer from his inclusion. Then, out of seemingly nowhere, his wife and an innocent bystander** are brutally murdered, he’s a suspect, and then people are coming out of the woodwork talking about his jerkish behavior over the years. Rarely has a facade crumbled so abruptly and completely.
*Some say, sorry no cite and they could be talking out their @55 anyway, that the NYE incident during which OJ smashed Nicole’s windshield and the police were called was touched off by Nicole saying, “Well, I dunno…a movie called The Naked Gun?”
**And that’s all he was. It’s galling, in retrospect, to think how eager people were to jump to the conclusion that Ron Goldman was Nicole’s boy toy. His fate is as sad to me, in its own way, as Nicole’s story. She certainly did not deserve her death either, but he didn’t do a damned thing except be there and be a guy: he had no idea what Odge was capable of.
Yeah, there’s no accounting for taste.
Agree with you – Kaufman’s genius was in pushing the joke so far that people started thinking he wasn’t joking. At the time, though, it pissed off a lot of people.
This has to be the least effectively answered thread of all time. The majority of answers are people whose careers improved after the “credibility losing incident” and the majority of the remainder had no credibility to begin with.
This made him lose all credibility? Funny, I seem to recall that right after Playboy published that artile, Carter was elected president.
Thus succeeding beautifully. Andy wasn’t a comedian; he was a performance artist whose works were, like those of many performance artists, often funny.
Yeah I think he was just being an omen of things to come where some US reporters now try to make the stories about them (Idiots standing in the middle of a hurricane or going on about their embedded experiences trading impartiality for the “feelings” of a news story)
Geraldo also lucked out after the fiasco of “Al Cappone’s Vault”
Jimmy Swaggert and the rest of the televangelists during the scandals of the 1980s.
Jimmy the Greek and Dodgers general manager Al Campanis lost their jobs after making racially charged statements.