Dax Shepard
\n<\/span><\/h2>\nHe obviously clawed his way back to fame and fortune, but earlier in his career he was banned from Conan\u2019s show until he sobered up. He says he blacked out during a pre-interview prep session, and completely blew the interview \u2014 \u201cI show up on the show, I don\u2019t know what he\u2019s talking about. I can tell he\u2019s cueing me up for stories I\u2019ve told but I don\u2019t know any of the stories\u201d \u2014 while also breaking the set\u2019s coffee table.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n
13 Joan Rivers (Or More Accurately, Johnny Carson)
\n<\/span><\/h2>\nWhen it became clear that NBC wasn\u2019t going to entertain the idea of Rivers replacing Carson, she took an offer to host her own show at Fox. When Carson found out, he banned her from his show, blackballed any actor who would agree to guest on\u00a0her<\/i> show, and even Jay Leno upheld her ban when he took over\u00a0The Tonight Show<\/i>. Rivers summed up Carson\u2019s attitude as \u201cI found you, and you\u2019re my property,\u201d and his legacy has soured to that of a sexist brat.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n
12 Bill Hicks
\n<\/span><\/h2>\nHe probably would have had a long, fruitful career had he not died of pancreatic cancer in 1993, but he considered his banned\u00a0Late Show<\/i> set to be the death knell of American comedy. A few months before his death, he made his 12th appearance on the show, but CBS found his material \u2014 about pro-life zealots, Jesus and the Easter Bunny \u2014 too controversial, and nixed it before air.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n
11 Crispin Glover
\n<\/span><\/h2>\nWhether performance art or genuine, his nervous, acrobatic diatribe on\u00a0Late Night<\/i> caused David Letterman to cut the interview short and America to say \u201cthat\u2019s enough Crispin Glover for a while.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n
10 Abel Ferrara
\n<\/span><\/h2>\nConan said Ferrara attempted to escape his interview in 1996: \u201cHe was this wild eccentric. And he fled during the show before his segment. He ran away, got on the elevator, and was out on the street.\u201d A producer captured him, and the resulting interview was chaotic and contentious.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n
9 Trista Sutter
\n<\/span><\/h2>\nThe OG\u00a0Bachelorette<\/i> failed to make an impression when she went on Leno in 2003 to try to promote her big\u00a0Bachelor<\/i> spin-off. Leno said he went to the parking lot after the show, was asked by some random woman to take a picture with him, and didn\u2019t realize it was Sutter herself.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n
8 Ringo Starr
\n<\/span><\/h2>\nWorld\u2019s luckiest man Starr hated living in the shadow of his more famous bandmates, and he didn\u2019t help the situation much by angrily and preemptively harping on it in an interview with Sherrie Hewson: \u201cWhat are we doing here? Shall we just get Paul McCartney out of the way? Let\u2019s get Paul McCartney out the way. You want to talk about Paul McCartney?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n
7 Kathy Griffin
\n<\/span><\/h2>\nIt was a picture of a fake beheaded Trump that finally did her in, but she\u2019d been provoking late-night and daytime hosts for decades. She was banned from\u00a0The Late Show<\/i> for a few years because of her potty mouth, from\u00a0Today<\/i> for dunking on the hosts and from\u00a0The View<\/i> for a raunchy joke about Howard Stern and Barbara Walters.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n
6 Tom Cruise
\n<\/span><\/h2>\nActing like a four-year-old in a bouncy castle while Oprah babysat wasn\u2019t enough to convince America that Cruise was actually psyched about his Scientolo-rific engagement to Katie Holmes (or to any of his past or future wives, for that matter).<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n
5 Bobcat Goldthwait
\n<\/span><\/h2>\nHe was banned from Leno\u2019s show, fined and charged with arson after turning around and lighting his chair on fire in 1994. He insisted he\u2019s a satirist, not an arsonist: \u201cIf I were an arsonist, I would have been sexually aroused on\u00a0The Tonight Show<\/i>. Instead I was bored shitless like the rest of America.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n
4 Jackie Mason
\n<\/span><\/h2>\nWhile doing a set on\u00a0The Ed Sullivan Show<\/i>, Sullivan gave Mason a gesture to indicate that he had two minutes left. Mason gestured back in acknowledgement, which Sullivan was\u00a0certain<\/i> was a middle finger, and subsequently banned him from the show. Sullivan issued an apology two years later, but in the interim, Mason\u2019s six-episode contract was torn up and he was all but blackballed from the industry.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n
3 Harmony Korine
\n<\/span><\/h2>\nThe director was notorious for making apparently cocaine-fueled appearances on Letterman\u2019s\u00a0Late Show<\/i>, but he got banned from the show when Letterman went to greet Meryl Streep in the green room and found Korine rifling through her purse.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n
2 Robert De Niro
\n<\/span><\/h2>\nGreat actor; boring dude. Graham Norton has said he\u2019s the worst guest he\u2019s ever had on his show \u2014 \u201cHe\u2019s not a storyteller, or very verbal. He\u2019s a benign presence.\u201d \u2014 and even adrenaline junky Jimmy Fallon has said he\u2019s his most boring interview \u2014 \u201cIn real life, he doesn\u2019t talk much\u2026 just one-word answers and nodding.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n
1 The Dorks From \u2018Husbands\u2019 (1970)
\n<\/span><\/h2>\nDick Cavett had on director John Cassavetes and actors Peter Falk and Ben Gazzara, who took off their shoes, wrestled each other and sniffed each other\u2019s feet until Cavett walked off the set. He recalls seeing the audience melt in disappointment in real time: \u201cThey were delighted, at first, and then the smiles disappeared. And then they looked just sort of grim and horrified and disapproving.\u201d A producer told them afterward: \u201cI really have to congratulate you. You probably unsold more tickets to this movie than most movies get.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.cracked.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Okay, just go out there and talk about the movie, maybe\u00a0make up a cute childhood anecdote\u00a0aaaaaand okay his shoes are off and he\u2019s wrestling the bandleader. Well, it was fun while it lasted. 14 Dax Shepard He obviously clawed his way back to fame and fortune, but earlier in his career he was banned from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2249886,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2249885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/14-Celebrities-Who-Torpedoed-Their-Reputation-From-A-Talk-Show-Couch.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2249885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2249885"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2249885\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2249887,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2249885\/revisions\/2249887"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2249886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2249885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2249885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2249885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}