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Niven made a joke about Opel’s “shortcomings” that really made many suspect that the stunt (and ensuing joke) had been deliberate — although Niven has denied this. Adding gas to that concept, Opel was not arrested however as an alternative gave an interview for the press.
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One extra Oscars incident in celebration of Oscars season: when La La Land was mistakenly introduced because the Best Picture winner. The yr was 2017, and the ceremony was nearly over when Faye Dunaway and Warren Beatty took the stage to announce the final and most prestigious award of the evening. But as a consequence of an envelope mix-up, Dunaway mistakenly introduced the winner as La La Land.
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As Beatty shortly got here again to elucidate, the cardboard within the envelope had learn Best Actress: Emma Stone, La La Land – it was the cardboard for an award Stone had already received earlier within the evening. In Beatty’s second of confusion, he tried to indicate the cardboard to co-presenter Dunaway. Dunaway, solely seeing the textual content La La Land, introduced them because the winner. Backstage (and shortly, onstage as properly) chaos erupted as the error was realized. Moonlight’s producers and solid changed La La Land’s, and so they made their acceptance speech.
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In 2015, Steve Harvey additionally introduced the improper winner within the Miss Universe pageant.
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Like the Oscars, we had the Superbowl not too way back, and again in 2004, the soccer match gave us some of the notorious reside snafus of all time: the Janet Jackson nipple flash.
The incident was known as an “unrehearsed, unplanned, utterly unintentional” wardrobe malfunction, with a representative for Jackson saying that Timberlake was supposed to rip off that part of the top, but that there was supposed to be a bra underneath that instead “collapsed.”
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2004 was a giant yr for reside snafus, apparently — not solely is it the yr of Nipplegate, however it’s additionally the yr Ashlee Simpson was famously caught lip-syncing on Saturday Night Live.
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When the improper monitor started to play (the identical one she’d already carried out), Simpson didn’t sing, and as an alternative did a wierd dance. She later blamed the band earlier than saying she’d misplaced her voice as a consequence of acid reflux disorder and was ordered by docs to not sing. The singer’s profession was undoubtedly affected, although it continued.
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In one other controversial SNL efficiency, on Halloween evening 1981, punk band FEAR carried out — and to the shock of producers and viewers at house, they (together with the busload of followers they’d introduced in to be their viewers) began primarily destroying the stage.
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The band brought about a reported $200,000 of harm that evening, and the published was minimize off earlier than their final music, after one of many followers they introduced screamed, “New York sucks!” into the mic.
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The Replacements had been additionally banned from SNL after Paul Westerberg by accident dropped an f-bomb and Bob Stinson did a somersault that uncovered his naked butt.
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But maybe essentially the most notorious SNL efficiency was when Sinead O’Connor carried out. Last minute, O’Connor had requested to carry out Bob Marley’s “War” a capella instead of “Scarlet Ribbons” as her second quantity. She additionally requested for there to solely be one digital camera, and for it to be a close-up of her, so she may maintain up a photograph of a hungry baby and impart on the viewers a message about defending children from baby abuse*. Instead, through the reside broadcast, O’Connor held up a photograph of Pope John Paul II, stated “fight the real enemy,” and tore up the picture (to protest baby abuse within the Catholic church) earlier than leaving the stage.
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O’Connor’s fame by no means really recovered, and the efficiency was even mocked on future SNL episodes — however some thought it courageous, particularly in a contemporary lens, and Lorne Michaels seemingly has not less than slightly admiration for the act, although it was reported afterward that NBC banned her from the present.
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One final SNL one…when solid member Charles Rocket by accident let the f-word slip in a Dallas-themed sketch within the eleventh episode of Season 6. The second grew to become much more well-known on reflection; Rocket was fired for the slip-up, and virtually the whole remainder of the solid adopted when the season ended early two episodes later as a consequence of a author’s strike.
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One-time competitor of SNL, the reside sketch present, Fridays, aired briefly through the Nineteen Eighties. In one skit, starring Andy Kaufman and Michael Richards, Kaufman repeatedly broke character and tousled on his strains. This led to an all-out brawl between Kaufman and Richards.
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It later got here out that the incident had been staged by Kaufman, however audiences actually didn’t know that, and neither did the crew members who ran onstage and tried to interrupt up the brawl. The stunt labored, with Fridays co-creator John Moffitt saying it was answerable for getting the present renewed for one more season.
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Of course, we would be remiss to not point out on this submit the second that began the Taylor Swift Kanye West feud: when Kanye interrupted Swift’s acceptance speech for Best Video by a Female Artist on the VMAs to say that Beyoncé ought to’ve received as an alternative.
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Celebrities, together with Beyoncé, reacted with shock, and far of the viewers booed. Later within the evening, Beyoncé invited Taylor onstage to “have her moment” after Bey received Video of the Year.
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Another iconic VMAs second was Britney Spears and Madonna kissing onstage. While it might appear tame by fashionable requirements, again in 2003 the 2 heterosexual pop music icons locking lips unexpectedly on reside TV dominated the information circuit for a very long time and cemented itself as an iconic popular culture second.
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Madonna additionally kissed Christina Aguilera moments later (the digital camera panned to JT and missed this) — although apparently, it was alleged to be J.Lo, who could not make it as a consequence of her filming a film on the time. Apparently, Pink and Gwen Stefani had been additionally requested to be concerned.
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Speaking of awards exhibits…whereas performing at the side of Rock of Ages on the 2009 Tony Awards, some viewers had been shocked to note Bret Michaels get hit by a chunk of falling surroundings.
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It at first appeared Michaels was high-quality, with host Neil Patrick Harris joking that Michaels introduced “a whole new meaning to headbanging.” However, the story grew to become extra dramatic with time — ten months later, Micheals almost died from a mind hemorrhage he stated was associated to the incident.
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Finally, let’s finish with one the place the superstar wasn’t so fortunate. Tommy Cooper was a Welsh comic and magician who died on reside TV whereas acting on the British selection present Live from Her Majesty’s. Cooper suffered a coronary heart assault moments after he started a phase, however the viewers, believing it was merely part of the sketch, simply laughed as he died.
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The present’s host, Jimmy Tarbuck, realized what was occurring and had the present minimize to business. The present continued (not one of the performers knew that Cooper was useless, solely that he was not feeling properly, and Tarbuck was advised he was alright in order that he’d be capable to end internet hosting the present) whereas makes an attempt had been made to avoid wasting Cooper. Cooper was delivered to the hospital and pronounced useless.
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