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Yikes! These celebrities called out their interviewers on live TV - Interviews are a great tool in unearthing little-known facts and getting to know the people behind the films, shows, and songs that we love so dearly. That being said, they're also stupendously entertaining when they go wrong. Check out this gallery to see the greatest moments of the worst interviews.
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Samuel L. Jackson - KTLA anchor Sam Rubin interviewed the actor on live TV and asked him if he'd gotten a lot of reaction from his Superbowl commercial. Jackson was quiet for a moment, then asked, "What Superbowl commercial?" Jackson hadn't ever been in one—but the 'Matrix' actor Laurence Fishburne had.
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Samuel L. Jackson - Someone off-screen clued Rubin in and he quickly apologized, but Jackson wasn't satisfied. "I'm not Laurence Fishburne! We don't all look alike! We may all be black and famous, but we all don't look alike!" Rubin kept trying to change the subject but Jackson wouldn't let him. "You're the entertainment reporter? And you don't know the difference?"
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Anne Hathaway - When promoting 'The Dark Knight Rises,' Jerry Penacoli of Extra TV started pressing the Catwoman about her figure and how she had to be in "perfect" shape. Hathaway deflected at first, saying, "It wasn't about being in perfect shape, it was about being able to do the stunts and the fighting perfectly."
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Anne Hathaway - Penacoli continued to talk about her leather suit, and asked further about her "feline fitness regime" until Hathaway asked, "Are you trying to lose weight? What's the deal man, you look great. No, no, seriously we have to talk about this. What do you want? Are you trying to fit into a catsuit?" Lesson learned.
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Scarlett Johansson - Jerry Penacoli strikes again! In an interview with Johansson and Jeremy Renner for 'The Avengers,' Penacoli asked the Black Widow if she was able to wear undergarments with her outfit, and the actress said, "You're like the fifth person to ask me that, what is going on? Since when did people start asking other people in interviews about their underwear?"
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Scarlett Johansson - Instead of dropping it, Penacoli said, "Because it is such a skin-tight—" but Johansson cut him off and said, "I'll leave it up to your imagination. Whatever you feel like I should be wearing, or not wearing, under that costume..."
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Rashida Jones - Walking the red carpet before the 2015 SAG Awards, Jones stopped to talk to TNT reporter Danielle Demski. After talking about Jones' dress, Demski said, "You look like you've just come off an island or something, you're very tan, very tropical." Jones, the biracial daughter of Quincy Jones and Peggy Lipton was visibly baffled and replied, "I mean, you know, I'm ethnic."
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Kanye West - In a 2010 interview with Matt Lauer, following West's statement that "George Bush doesn't care about black people," his show played a clip of Bush's response which called West's statement "one of the most disgusting moments of [his] presidency." West got fired up and said, "I didn't need you guys to show me the tape in order to prompt my emotion to what I'm going to say. Y'all don't got to do TV stuff with me. This is reality."
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Kanye West - Not quick enough on their feet, the station did a similar thing a few minutes later with a clip of West interrupting Taylor Swift as she accepted an award. West said, "How am I supposed talk if you're gonna run this thing in the middle of when I'm talking?"
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Taylor Swift - On the Grammy red carpet, an ET reporter said to the singer, "You're going to walk home with more than maybe just a trophy tonight, I think, lots of men." After staring at her dead in the eye, Swift said, "I'm not gonna walk home with any men tonight. I'm gonna hang out with my friends, and I'm gonna go home to the cats."
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Fifth Harmony - At the AMAs, an interviewer asked the group, "So if somebody in your crew were to act a fool and hoe it up a little, would anybody here call them out?" Camila Cabello had the perfect response: "I feel like we, as women, aren't in the position to be telling other women what to do and what to not do."
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Nicki Minaj - In an interview with Power 105.1, the singer had a very valid question for her unprepared hosts: "How are you gonna ask me about a video and you haven't even seen it? The video is four minutes. Y'all wanna either discuss something personal, or not discuss anything that I'm here to talk about. How do you not watch a video of an artist that's coming on your show?"
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Megan Fox - In an interview about her role in 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles,' the reporter asked if she thought it was time for more female heroes, and Fox replied, "Do you think that I would answer anything but yes to that question? Do you think I would be like, 'No, it's not time for women to be in movies, let's take it back 50 years.'"
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Bradley Cooper and Ryan Gosling - In an interview after 'The Place Beyond the Pines,' the reporter brought up how Cooper was voted "Sexiest Man in the World" and Gosling said, "Here we go. Oh boy … What is this, a slumber party? I feel like we should be getting pedicures and watching 'Beaches' if we're gonna have this conversation."
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Emma Stone - In an interview with Teen Vogue, Stone was asked about her changing hair color, and 'Spiderman' costar Andrew Garfield said, "I don't get asked that," to which Stone replied, "You get asked interesting, poignant questions because you are a boy."
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Ariana Grande - During a radio interview with Power 106FM, the singer was asked to choose between her makeup and her cell phone, and she replied, "Is this what you think girls have trouble choosing between? Is this men assuming that that's what girls would have to choose between?"
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Ariana Grande - The host kept pressing, asking if she can really go anywhere without her cell phone, asking how many hours she can go without it, and doubting her the whole way. They then asked about her favorite emojis, and she mentioned the unicorn, to which he replied, "Girls," and she retorted, "And boys ... You need a little brushing up about equality."
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Lorde - At the ARIA red carpet, a reporter asked the singer if she'd be able to keep up her success or if it would go "downhill" from there, and Lorde was understandably insulted. "What sort of question is that? You're the one with your bow tie hanging off!"
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Rihanna - At her Rogue Man fragrance reveal, a reporter asked the singer what she was looking for in the next man, and Rihanna replied, "I'm not looking for a man, let's start there."
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Jerry Seinfeld - Larry King was asking the comedian in 2007 about the end of his hit comedy series, clarifying, "They didn't cancel you, you canceled them," as if it was news to him. Seinfeld responded first with incredulity, asking, "You're not aware of this?" and then, "Is this still CNN?"
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Jerry Seinfeld - The actor went on to emphasize that his show was number one on television, and that of course it was not canceled. Then he asked to see Larry King's résumé. Awkward!
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Amy Schumer - In an interview following the release of 'Trainwreck,' Schumer said her character in the film was essentially herself. The reporter went on to call her character "skanky," but claimed he wasn't trying to offend her. She replied, "Whatever you're trying to do, you are. That's a rude question."
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Carmen Carrera and Laverne Cox - On Katie Couric's short-lived show, the hostess asked Carrera, a transgender model, not about her career but instead about her surgeries. "Your private parts are different now, aren't they?" Couric asked, and Carrera politely asked to talk about something else, but Cox was not satisfied.
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Carmen Carrera and Laverne Cox - Cox said, "I think that the preoccupation with transitioning with surgery objectifies people, and we don't get to deal with the real lived experiences," going on to list problems such as discrimination, violence, and employment concerns. To her credit, Couric was all ears and apologized later.
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Amy Poehler - A male interviewer was struggling with what women want in men, explaining, "Now you have to be awkward and adorable," and Poehler had the best response: "This feeling that you're having right now, which is like 'I have to be all things,' it's a feeling that women have every day and have their whole lives. So you're just starting to experience it now … and we have to deal with all those juxtapositions every day, but I'm glad you're finally experiencing it as a white male."
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Jennifer Lawrence - When the actress was inevitably asked to speak about "the pieces" she was wearing on the red carpet, she responded, "What do you mean? Like this is the top… and this is the bottom." She's not wrong.
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Rowan Blanchard - When asked on the red carpet if she had any dieting tips for other girls, the young actress said, "Try and reverse that. 'Do you have any dieting tips for other teenage boys?' I mean, come on."
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Abbi Jacobson and Ilana Glazer - Playboy asked the 'Broad City' stars why they're "sneakily" feminist, and Jacobson clarified that they're both upfront and proud feminists. Glazer added, "I think it's kind of crazy that we're still calling comedians 'female comedians.' That seems more like a sneak attack." Jacobson joked that if you play an episode backwards, there are hidden messages, and Glazer added, "'Diiiie, men' … that's all we're saying."
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Abbi Jacobson and Ilana Glazer - Then, when the interviewer asked about the show's lessons for "female friendship," Glazer replied, "There's this belief with no merit that media with women at the center applies only to women, but media with men at the center applies to everyone. Abbi and Ilana's friendship represents that ride-or-die dynamic for anyone to whom it speaks, not just women."
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Charlize Theron - The actress was asked at the Cannes Film Festival where all her on-screen rage in 'Mad Max: Fury Road' came from, and she replied, "Uh, surprise. Women have that. I'm not the only one."
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Yikes! These celebrities called out their interviewers on live TV
So bad, but so, so good
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The first rule in interviewing a celebrity is having your facts straight, and the second is having at least some degree of etiquette. Here is a gallery full of interviewers who apparently weren't informed of the rules, and the stars that gloriously fired back at them for it.
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