Holy fuck! :eek: Nasty.
No one’s mentioned Kanye West interrupting Taylor Swift’s acceptance speech at the VMA’s a few years ago? To her credit, I love how shocked and embarrassed Beyonce was.
Or his “George Bush doesn’t care about black people?”
Oops! :smack:
Anyway, here’s the most infamous episode of the Newlywed Game. Not nearly as horrible as some others, but certainly a memorable one.
Or Jarvis Cocker interrupting Michael Jackson at the Brit Awards.
Heavy metal band The Cumshots and their special guests Fuck for Forest gave a performance at the Quart Music Festival that was, well. . . , it just was. It really was.
You can find it on Redtube by searching for Fuck for Forest.
I have to wonder just what the festival organizers were thinking when the surprise performance took place.
How have I NEVER seen this??
Came in to post about this one. My dad knew him and was on the way to the press conference, I believe, when he heard the news. Oy.
Most excellent.
Well, from back in the newsreel days (okay, not exactly live TV), there was that little airship malfunction with the Hindenburg http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xiAT9xvTVKI
Not really.
There is just no way you can prepare for every emergency and have back up procedures in place. Theaters are not run by NASA.
Now if something is risky, they may have some sort of contingency plan but not for things like blown entrances.
Jarvis became a bit of a hero for me when he did that. About a year later I found out that we have mutual friends, and got to meet him.
He said that he had regretted doing this, because afterwards he received so many death threats from irate MJ fans that he had to go into hiding for the next 12 months.
Is radio acceptable? And something that isn’t depressing?
I heard this live on BBC Radio 4 (national network in the UK) one morning a few years ago and it had me cracking up for the entire day.
A fantastic addendum to that story is that Bob Mortimer, who used to be a lawyer and is a mate of Jarvis, offered to represent him and accompanied him to the police station. When they got there they saw MJ’s legal team lined up and looking fierce, so Bob did a runner!
Another Radio 4 example. I had the pleasure of hearing this as it happened, while driving to work. The presenter was talking about a government minister, “Jeremy Hunt, the Culture Secretary”, but was visited by the spirit of Reverend Spooner and swapped the C for the H. A true :eek: moment, made more hilarious by his attempt to pass it off as a coughing attack. As I recall, his fellow presenters ribbed him about it periodically for the remainder of the programme.
Jenny Slate was the last SNLer to say “fuck” into a live mic. To their credit, she stayed on the show for the remainder of the season.
On some talk show I don’t remember the name of, Erik Estrada clocked Bill Maher during a commercial break. They both covered it with admirable professionalism right afterwards.
Jane Dornacker was giving a traffic report on WFAN radio when the helicopter crashed into the Hudson River. Listeners were able to hear her final words: HIT THE WATER! HIT THE WATER!
That was a weird juxtaposition.
I, too, saw Lee Harvey Olswald murdered “Live – On TV!” I was fourteen years old. It was so horrifying that I ran away upstairs to my bedroom and burst into tears. My parents followed me and had to calm me down.
Has anyone yet mentioned the 1974 Academy Awards where a streaker dashed across the stage?
David Niven’s witty retort however was not an ad-lib. Since streaking at big venues (like sports games) was a phenom of the day, the producers had instructed all their presenters to say that line - in the “off chance” that a streaker got on stage.