Top 10 Awkward Celebrity Interviews

Quentin Tarantino’s stint on the interview circuit promoting Django Unchained, a movie about slavery featuring, of course, his trademark funny, cartoonish violence has provided many examples of The Awkward Interview. This is when a celebrity with a strong personality runs into just the right interviewer to provoke heated debate, comical friction, and/or lots of uncomfortable moments. Presented, in no particular order, some memorable moments in awkward celebrity interview history:

1. Drunk Guy Does Terrible Interview With David Cross

“I write under the name Gordon Downs. But my real name is, uh, Senator Drinks-A-Lot.”

2. NPR Interviewer Asks Sigur Rós Really Stupid Questions

Awkward silences ensue.

3. Marily Manson Sons Bill O’Reilly

Marilyn Manson calmly, intelligently, gracefully defeats Bill O’Reilly completely.

4. Jon Stewart Obliterates The Hosts Of Crossfire With Logic

It doesn’t get much more confrontational than this.

5. Vanilla Ice Acts Like A Weirdo Who’s Bad At Rapping

Speaking of Jon Stewart, here he is on his old, thoroughly Gen-X MTV show encountering Vanilla Ice. Vanilla Ice turns out to be a weird guy. And smashes stuff with a bat.

6. Crispin Glover Goes Full Troll On Letterman

Also, he nearly kicks Letterman in the face.

7. Billy Bob Thornton Acts Like A Big Asshole On A Radio Show

It’s OK though, he was having sex with Angelina Jolie at the time.

8. Tom Cruise Explains Some Things To Matt Lauer

“Do you know what Adderall is?” “You don’t know the history of psychiatry. I do.” “You’re glib. You don’t even know what Ritalin is.”

9. Nardwuar Interviews Lady GaGa

I don’t think GaGa knows about Nardwuar.

10. Some British Guy Interviews Quentin Tarantino

Here’s the interview that inspired this list. The interviewer is determined to annoy Quentin, and he succeeds.

11. Quentin Tarantino Shows No Mercy To Jane, Local Movie Reviewer Lady

Bonus Quentin confrontational interview content.

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