I imagine the idea of meandering from one banal TV show to the next doing interviews equates to torture for many actors and filmmakers. Flogging their new film the way a door-to-door salesman sells buckets has turned more than one movie star into an angry little grump.

Admittedly after being sequestered for months at a time in remote filming locations away from the prying eyes of the media, press junkets must be a difficult experience. Most celebrities understand the fact that without an audience they wouldn’t have a career and that even the most glamorous jobs have menial tasks.

We all have bad days but rarely must we endure them with millions of people viewing. Maybe it’s the mechanics of being asked the same question repeatedly or attempts to talk about their personal life that have turned many an interviewee feral. Either way you’d think that for the amount of money they’re making they’d be willing to grin and bear it.

The following will look at those prime examples of when interviews went awry. We honour the combination of angry divas and stupid questions that have provided such a rich source of entertainment.

10. Crispin Glover on Letterman
Debate still continues as to whether Crispin “George McFly” Glover was just putting on this act or was actually completely off his face. The end result was Letterman walking off the interview after almost having his head kicked in by Glover’s platform shoes.




9. David Cross and drunken reporter
Tobias Funke himself takes part in this painful interview that just gets worse and worse. I’m sure the excessive amounts of alcohol consumed by the interviewer didn’t help.




8. Quentin Tarantino on Channel 4
All the politeness of the first few minutes disappears as they both become openly hostile.




7. Tom Cruise on Oprah
Bat-shit insane.




6. Holly Hunter on ABC News
This is what you get when you let the work experience kid do the interview.




5. Corey Feldman on Stephanie Miller
For a man who is a walking joke he really can’t take criticism on his strange choice of outfit. Feldman, here’s a tip; black gloves make most people look like a serial killer.




4. Vanilla Ice and Jon Stewart
Jon Stewart clearly regrets giving Robert “Vanilla Ice” Van Winkle a baseball bat.




3. Michael Richards on Letterman
Apologising for career ending racist remarks has never been greeted with so much laughter.




2. Katherine Hepburn and Barbara Walters
Faced with the legendary actress Walters decides to ask the best interview question ever. “What kind of tree would you be?”




1. Tom Cruise on Today
I repeat, Bat-shit insane.




** Editor's Note **

Meg Ryan on Parkinson was a classic as well.

Here it is, in its entirety. CUE PAIN.

Meg Ryan on Parkinson. Part one.



Meg Ryan on Parkinson. Part two.