What famous actor dared to rip one on live television?
What did Kathie Lee Gifford say to Martin Short that got her into hot water?
Who accidentally grazed her co-star's breast?
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When Martin Short was interviewed by Kathie Lee Gifford on NBC's Today back in 2012, the
host committed a rather unfortunate faux pas.
Short was there to promote his new flick Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted, but Gifford ended
up asking him about his relationship with his wife Nancy Dolman, referring to her in
the present tense.
But unbeknownst to Gifford, Dolman had died from cancer two years earlier.
"He and Nancy have got one of the greatest marriages of anybody in show business.
How many years now for you guys?"
"We…uh, married 36 years."'
Rather than correct Gifford, Short instead chose to joke that the two had remained married
for so long because he's just really "cute."
Gifford later apologized for the mistake, as she tweeted,
"I send my sincerest apologies to Martin Short and his family.
He handled [the] situation [with] enormous grace and kindness and I'm so grateful."
For his part, Short told E! News that he held no animosity toward Gifford for the slip-up,
as he insisted that it was an honest mistake.
As he put it,
"On live television, people make mistakes.
There's no ill will intended.
It's nice to aspire to be kind of elegant."
British morning TV is known for many things: cups of tea, lighthearted chatter, and of
course, the floating weather map.
What it's not known for, however, is bad language.
Unfortunately, Australian actor Isla Fisher didn't get the memo when she appeared on This
Morning to promote The Great Gatsby in 2013.
During the interview, Fisher recounted an anecdote about the Cannes Film Festival and
ended up accidentally saying a word Brits consider a swear word.
Host Philip Schofield asked her to verify a rumor that her co-stars Leonardo DiCaprio
and Tobey Maguire held a raucous party at the festival, with Fisher demanding that they
keep quiet while dressed in a robe.
"It was my husband and I, we did put on our robes, but we did it more for a joke.
We didn't actually bollock anyone.
Oh, is that (gasps) Oh no, I'm so sorry."
"That's all right.
I'm so sorry, she's Australian!"
Despite the slip-up, Schofield assured Fisher that she was fine and that the show was in
bigger trouble than she was.
Considering the ridiculous antics that Fisher's husband Sacha Baron Cohen has gotten up to
in interviews, her little gaffe is basically nothing by comparison.
Nevertheless, cursing on a family-friendly talk show is undoubtedly not, in the words
of Cohen's most famous character, "very nice."
Nobody wants to get caught unaware with a live mic.
But that's unfortunately exactly what happened to Tony Danza when he appeared on Jackonsivlle's
ABC station WJXX to discuss his work with Disney in 1998.
As host Kim Chapman was preparing for the show, she tried to tell Danza that he was
on air, but was completely oblivious as he was too busy muttering under his breath.
His rant included such sentiments as,
"You end up on those news shows so often, you know, and those news shows are terrible.
[...] You always think that you're doing those good morning shows, but this is one of those
news shows.
I'm telling you, this is crazy.
I don't want to do this."
"I'm going to be part of the local news.
How exciting!"
Chapman tried her very best to get Danza's attention, presumably to stop him from humiliating
himself any more than he already had.
But it was all to no avail.
Eventually, the interview began and Danza realized that his rant had been broadcast,
so he asked Chapman if she had heard him.
He then asked her if she agreed with him, even if just "a little bit," to which she
responded,
"Well, you know, it's how I make my living, so, you know."
The jury remains out as to whether Danza showed her who's the boss.
Ryan Gosling has a bit of a reputation as a giggler.
For example, when La La Land was mistakenly declared the Best Picture winner at the Oscars
in 2017, he was apparently the only person at the ceremony to find the situation hilarious.
Similarly, who can forget the unforgettable Saturday Night Live sketch "Close Encounter,"
in which he snickered uncontrollably as Kate McKinnon recalled her alien probing experience?
So when Gosling appeared on British talk show This Morning in October 2017, it was hardly
surprising that he laughed constantly at anything and everything, which was compounded by host
Alison Hammond's frequent quips.
Gosling was so overcome by the titters that he could barely continue with the interview.
Hammond was supposed to be discussing Blade Runner 2049 with the actor and his co-star
Harrison Ford, but she instead ended up drinking whisky with them.
Gosling in particular appeared to be having a blast.
"Is there a mic I can drop?"
(drops bottle) "Well, it's lovely to meet you both."
Hammond later reflected on the now-iconic interview with HuffPost UK, as she explained
that Gosling's playful persona made her feel more at ease.
As she put it,
″[Ryan] asked the question, 'Are you a big fan of the film?', and I was like, 'Well,
no I'm not!
Do I tell him the truth?
Do I lie?
What do I do?'
But I thought, you know what, my mum always says, always tell the truth, so I said, 'I've
never seen it, babes,' and I think that got things going.
He started laughing and I started laughing, and it settled the moment."
Leslie Nielsen cut a grave and debonair figure, but he was among the silliest to ever walk
this planet, and he would be the first to admit it.
When he stopped by the British chat show Wogan in 1989, the Airplane!
star was responsible for a rather embarrassing moment.
As host Terry Wogan cut a slice of airplane-shaped cake for his guest, Nielsen audibly farted.
"Are you (farts) cutting me a slice?"
What makes this blooper even funnier is that Nielsen was hardly rattled by this random
instance of flatulence, as he instead found his own fart noises hilarious.
This prompted Rogan to remark:
"Do you know, I wondered, I wondered why they called you a society entertainer."
In a 2020 interview with The Guardian, Nielsen's Airplane!
co-star Robert Hays revealed that Nielsen actually often carried a fart-sound device
with him.
As he recalled,
"[He] had this little thing he called his machine.
He'd squeeze it and it would make a fart noise.
He'd wander over and casually lean against the wall as he was talking — and let rip.
While filming, he'd use it during his lines to me.
[...] Keeping a straight face was the hardest part of the whole film for me."
The fact that Nielsen remained a class act throughout his absurd shenanigans only served
to endear his fans even more to him, while also making his antics even more hilarious.
Surely he can't be serious?
In February 2014, acting legend Samuel L. Jackson appeared on Los Angeles' KTLA to chat
about the RoboCop remake that he was starring in.
Host Sam Rubin proceeded to ask him about his Super Bowl commercial, but alas, he was
apparently confusing him with another African-American actor.
"I'm not Laurence Fishburne!"
"That's my fault.
I know that.
That was my fault.
You know what?"
"We don't all look alike!"
But Jackson took the gaffe in good humor, as he softened a potentially explosive moment
by teasing Rubin.
The host then apologized, while also claiming that he didn't confuse Jackson for Fishburne,
but instead was referring to a Captain America ad that ran during the Super Bowl.
Although, he later admitted,
"But I immediately felt so dumb, I didn't bring that up — and he gave me the shellacking
that was well deserved.
[...] I'm really embarrassed about it, and I very much apologize to Samuel L. Jackson
and anyone else who was offended for what was a very amateur mistake."
Jackson joked about the incident on Twitter, as he posted a photo of himself wearing a
t-shirt that said "I'm not Laurence Fishburne."
He then talked about the shirt during an appearance on The Graham Norton Show later that year.
"Fish and I have been going through this for, like you said, a very long time.
He and I have been standing together when people came up to him and started talking
to him about Pulp Fiction."
With mere minutes' notice, novice interviewer Chris Stark was asked to handle the questions
for Mila Kunis during a 2013 BBC appearance to promote Oz the Great and Powerful.
The entire interview was one big blooper, not least because of how vastly unprepared
Stark was.
He tried his best, but he was clearly out of his element.
At least the always affable Kunis seemed to really enjoy the experience, as she quipped,
"This is way more fun for me."
Instead of talking about the film, the pair ended up chatting about, among other things,
Watford Football Club, British chicken restaurant chains, and the interviewer's mates and their
weird nicknames.
"There's Sir Dosser the convict, Chango the beast."
"You are awesome, like these are your friends?"
"Yeah, they're my boys."
Stark ultimately ended the interview by asking Kunis to go to a soccer match.
He later talked with Express about the surreal experience, as he admitted,
"With the Mila Kunis thing, that was just me being me, but I can't tell you the fear
when I had done that interview.
[...] I thought I had screwed it up, I didn't have the confidence then.
I actually thought that was game over."
Ultimately, though, it proved to be a positive experience, as he explained,
"It was my first lesson of just be yourself and that is enough."
While promoting her sitcom 2 Broke Girls on a 2014 episode of Conan, Beth Behrs accidentally
got a little risqué with her co-star Kat Dennings.
They shared a palpable rapport throughout the interview, but their bond was perhaps
a little closer than anticipated.
While discussing the merits of DuckTales versus Saved By the Bell, Behrs accidentally brushed
her hand past Dennings' breast.
"I just touched your boob by accident!"
"What?!"
This led to Conan O'Brien hilariously demanding that the clip be replayed so that he could
see it.
The moment was then indeed repeated in slow motion, as Dennings rolled her eyes incredulously.
All in all, Behrs' hilarious proclamation of this accidental boob-touching is worth
chuckling over, especially considering Dennings and O'Brien's equally hilarious reactions.
It might not be the best idea to try to correct the grammar of a Harvard graduate.
Jennifer Garner learned that the hard way during a 2003 appearance on Late Night with
Conan O'Brien.
While promoting her ABC show Alias, she was discussing the specifics of playing a spy.
When she mentioned having "sneaked" into the writers' room to learn about future plot developments,
O'Brien repeated a bit of what she said, but replaced the word "sneaked" with "snuck."
And that's when the trouble began.
"'Snuck' isn't a word, Conan, and you went to Harvard and you should know that."
Now, nobody likes having their grammar corrected, and O'Brien was left to look on incredulously
at Garner's admonishment.
However, he had the last laugh as he whipped out a dictionary to prove his guest wrong.
"'Snuck': past and past part.
of 'sneak'."
It was of course all in good fun, but we suspect that Garner still hasn't recovered from that
burn.
Jimmy Fallon is notorious for breaking character in the middle of a scene.
Bradley Cooper, on the other hand, tends to have a more restrained veneer that's tough
to crack.
But it seems that Fallon is one of the few individuals who can unravel Cooper's silly
side.
When the actor appeared on The Tonight Show in 2014 to promote his return to Broadway,
he and the host could barely make it through the interview thanks to a case of the giggles.
The incident was precipitated by some ridiculous wigs that the pair sported, as Fallon burst
into laughter at any innocuous statement that Cooper made.
"We can't use that.
We'll cut this down, but- (laughter) (unintelligible) talking about, the elephant man's bones, wearing
these hats."
Regaining composure proved to be an impossible feat.
And this wouldn't be the last time that this duo would giggle uncontrollably in each other's
company.
In 2018, Cooper was interviewed by Fallon to promote A Star is Born and, once again,
they inexplicably erupted into chuckles.
It remains a mystery why Fallon, of all people, is able to tickle the funny bone of the usually
stoic Cooper.
This is, after all, the man who once told The New York Times that his inspiration comes
from healing "the wound of being a human being."
But whatever the reason that Fallon can rouse Cooper's silly side, it's undoubtedly entertaining.
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