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08/24/2007
Richard Branson Soaks Stephen Colbert
Remember that Nickelodeon show “You Can’t Do That On Television?” Where irreverent teens cracked jokes, ridiculed one other, and slimed and sprayed water on themselves? Yeah, well it’s back. Except this time with adult billionaires in suits, in the recent interview on the Colbert Report -- otherwise known as the “Colbert-Branson Trainwreck Interview.”
Now, last week we spotlighted the tongue –in–cheek Superbad meltdown interview. But this one, folks, featuring “rebel billionaire" Richard Branson, president of the newly launched Virgin America Airlines, is, without a doubt, entirely real. From the unscripted jibes back and forth to the full-blown water fight (a la Wild n’ Crazy Kids), this truly is an interview gone out of control.
After generously naming the first airplane in the fleet “Air Colbert,” Branson gets heated when Stephen Colbert’s gift of gab gets in the way of plugging his airline. And despite the friendly-ish handshakes at the show’s end, the lesson learned is clear: DON’T PISS OFF BILLIONAIRES. (And never put real coffee in a mug on stage!)
01/31/2007
Sienna Miller's F-Bomb on the Today Show
“Oh look at me. Aren’t I just so cute and happy? My new movie going to be amazing. Smile. Wave. Smile. Is this the Miss America wave that I’m cleverly abusing as my own? Why is the damn camera still on me? This is really awkward. F%*# …..”
Above is what I suspect to be the internal monologue of Sienna Miller prior to dropping the F-bomb on The Today Show this morning. In the brief interval between the video cutting out and going to commercial, the Factory Girl stopped awkwardly posing and took a moment to tell us how she really feels. Granted, this is no Janet Jackson nipple slip or Minnillo New Years. Probably, because a very smart producer seems to have heard the start of her cussin' and cut the audio from her mic.
