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They were moments never to be forgotten....
Either hilarious or tragic....
Did you see it?
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Fun Your Top Legendary TV Moments (Both Funny and/or Tragic)
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They were moments never to be forgotten....
Either hilarious or tragic....
Did you see it?
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Andy Kaufman's Tony Clifton "Dinah!" Incident (1979)
On the September 19, 1979 episode of the American variety talk show Dinah!, one of the scheduled guests to appear was performance artist and comedian Andy Kaufman, making his second appearance on the program, (having appeared two years before as his "Foreign Man" character), now set to arrive in the guise of his obnoxious lounge singer alter-ego, Tony Clifton.
According to Kaufman's co-writer Bob Zmuda, Andy got very inebriated on the way to the taping, so much so that when he arrived, he had forgotten to don his sunglasses to complete the disguise, making his very distinctive eyes and the special effects makeup demarcations very visible. After being introduced, Clifton started things off with a very off key rendition of the song, On the Street Where You Live, before greeting host Dinah Shore and guest co-host, Charles Nelson Reilly, and, although he had arranged to immediately begin a cooking segment, Clifton immediately broke form and announced that he wanted to sing a duet with Shore, (although he had been told beforehand that this wasn't possible, as she had a cold at the time). Shore reluctantly relented and the two went into an awkward duet of Anything You Can Do, I Can Do Better, before heading into the cooking segment.
Clifton announced that he would be making bacon and eggs on a stove that was provided. After placing butter and eggs into a sizzling cooking pan, and shoving the egg shells into Shore's hands, Dinah nervously attempted to prompt a commercial break, which Clifton responded to by becoming loud and angrily flicking drops of water at her. He then started to coax the audience into coming down from the stands to watch his eggs fry, but the tape was then stopped and Clifton was forcibly removed from the building by a security guard.
Sometime later, Kaufman was forced by his manager to reluctantly call Dinah to apologize. Kaufman claimed that he wasn't Clifton and apologized for his behavior, to which Shore replied graciously that she knew this and she told Andy that he was welcome back to her show, which he never took her up on. Afterwards, a false rumor, possibly started by Zmuda, who appeared as Clifton on David Letterman's show, began circulating that he had dumped the pan of eggs over Shore's head, but this isn't backed up by most who were there, including the security guard who threw him out.
Upon the episode's airing, Clifton's segment was cut directly after the duet; the disastrous cooking segment was never shown, and hasn't been to this day. It is believed that NBC may have destroyed the footage.
On the September 19, 1979 episode of the American variety talk show Dinah!, one of the scheduled guests to appear was performance artist and comedian Andy Kaufman, making his second appearance on the program, (having appeared two years before as his "Foreign Man" character), now set to arrive in the guise of his obnoxious lounge singer alter-ego, Tony Clifton.
According to Kaufman's co-writer Bob Zmuda, Andy got very inebriated on the way to the taping, so much so that when he arrived, he had forgotten to don his sunglasses to complete the disguise, making his very distinctive eyes and the special effects makeup demarcations very visible. After being introduced, Clifton started things off with a very off key rendition of the song, On the Street Where You Live, before greeting host Dinah Shore and guest co-host, Charles Nelson Reilly, and, although he had arranged to immediately begin a cooking segment, Clifton immediately broke form and announced that he wanted to sing a duet with Shore, (although he had been told beforehand that this wasn't possible, as she had a cold at the time). Shore reluctantly relented and the two went into an awkward duet of Anything You Can Do, I Can Do Better, before heading into the cooking segment.
Clifton announced that he would be making bacon and eggs on a stove that was provided. After placing butter and eggs into a sizzling cooking pan, and shoving the egg shells into Shore's hands, Dinah nervously attempted to prompt a commercial break, which Clifton responded to by becoming loud and angrily flicking drops of water at her. He then started to coax the audience into coming down from the stands to watch his eggs fry, but the tape was then stopped and Clifton was forcibly removed from the building by a security guard.
Sometime later, Kaufman was forced by his manager to reluctantly call Dinah to apologize. Kaufman claimed that he wasn't Clifton and apologized for his behavior, to which Shore replied graciously that she knew this and she told Andy that he was welcome back to her show, which he never took her up on. Afterwards, a false rumor, possibly started by Zmuda, who appeared as Clifton on David Letterman's show, began circulating that he had dumped the pan of eggs over Shore's head, but this isn't backed up by most who were there, including the security guard who threw him out.
Upon the episode's airing, Clifton's segment was cut directly after the duet; the disastrous cooking segment was never shown, and hasn't been to this day. It is believed that NBC may have destroyed the footage.
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Originally, host Steve Harvey announced Miss Colombia, Ariadna Gutiérrez, as Miss Universe 2015 and Miss Philippines, Pia Wurtzbach, as the 1st runner-up. However, moments after Gutiérrez's crowning, Harvey revealed that he read the card incorrectly and that Wurtzbach was the true Miss Universe. Paulina Vega then handed the crown over to Wurtzbach before the broadcast abruptly ended.
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That television moment (whether it be factual or fictional) that either stayed with you - or changed or affected you in some way.......
And are there any television programmes that - for whatever reason - you wish you had never seen?
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9/11.
Like a movie.
But it was happening.
Now. As I watched.
All I could do was stare in awe, fascination and a strange kind of powerless denial that this could really be happening.
Like a movie.
But it was happening.
Now. As I watched.
All I could do was stare in awe, fascination and a strange kind of powerless denial that this could really be happening.
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STAR TREK: THE DEVIL IN THE DARK....
Helped make me realise that rampaging monsters that run over you and leave you as a black, smoking acid-dissolved silhouette on a cave floor, may have feelings too!
Helped make me realise that rampaging monsters that run over you and leave you as a black, smoking acid-dissolved silhouette on a cave floor, may have feelings too!
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I can't think of any television programmes that should never actually have been made. But I did find the television play THREADS by the BBC to be profoundly disturbing. The image that affected me most was of melting milk bottles on a doorstep and a man literally pissing himself with fright at the nuclear mushroom cloud that had just appeared above his home town. While the play was a worthy depiction of the potential horrors that it seemed could very well happen at the time of transmission, there was absolutely nothing positive that could be gained from watching this show, other than a realisation of how one's death in a nuclear war might look like. I guess the only positive thing it did instil in people was as a terrifying warning - and a call to spur people into action to prevent this nightmare from ever coming true.
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That Oscar mix up......
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WARREN THINKING: "This doesn't look right. Should I risk reading this out? Ah fuck it, I'll let Faye do it."
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Coronation Street - Ken Finds Out About Deirdre's Affair With Mike
This was a huge thing at the time in the UK......
This was a huge thing at the time in the UK......
