Billy Bob Thornton is apparently in a band called the Boxcutters. They’re a real big deal, at least in Billy Bob Thornton’s mind. So big a deal, in fact, that he’d rather his movie career not be mentioned in the context of a radio interview. Perhaps, “rather” is too moderate a word. What I mean is: If you mention that he’s an actor, he will cut you. Or, at the very least, become the biggest fucking toolbox you’ve ever heard: A petty, belligerent, stupid, loutish, despicable man.
I’m not exaggerating here, people. And the poor interviewer, the CBC’s Jian Ghomeshi, does as best as you can imagine with the situation, but it’s a lost cause. It’s awkward. Embarrassing. And irredeemable. Thornton is either angry and non-responsive or he just speaks spiteful gibberish. Listen for five minutes and if you don’t loathe Billy Bob Thornton afterward, then there is something wrong with you. You will be shocked. And appalled. And disgusted.
Oh. My God. What the fuck is this??? It almost feels like they set this up on purpose--a like, "let's fuck with the audience sort of thing." This is unreal.
"Would you say that to Tom Petty?"
What the fuck.
Posted by: Sapphiar at April 8, 2009 5:54 PM
Holy Christ is this guy ever annoying. You're a white trash hillbilly who somehow scored a gig in Hollywood. Do you think people give a shit about you because of your sparkling personality? Get over yourself.
And I am Canadian and we don't just "sit there". Mashed potatoes with no gravy. Well, you know what, Billy Bob? Your FACE has no gravy. Yeah. Eat that, asshole.
Posted by: Sapphiar at April 8, 2009 6:03 PM
Your FACE has no gravy
I have no idea what this means, but it is now my official comeback to any insult.
I heard him being interviewed on Kidd Kradeick (a syndicated morning show) about a year ago and it was incomprehensible. His behavior was really erratic too. Plus, iirc, he French kissed one of the women on the show and randomly picked up one of the guys totally up off the floor. Everything about the interview was very bizarre.
Posted by: elsie at April 8, 2009 6:10 PM
Billy Bob Toolbag has been playing THE. SAME. CHARACTER. since 1997.
Posted by: BarbadoSlim at April 8, 2009 6:11 PM
Wow. I have negative amounts of respect for him.
Posted by: Netraphim at April 8, 2009 6:12 PM
"I'm not an actor!"
Well your not much of a fucking singer either
Posted by: B Bear at April 8, 2009 6:13 PM
I'd like to try the stuff the guy is on. Just a little. And then listen to that gibberish again. I bet he makes sense then.
I put up a link over on the Pajibalove before this thread came out. Not bragging, just adding to the proper thread. And to post a link to the the video of the interview. You can actually see the stabbiness in BBT's eyes. I listened to this this morning and was actually afraid he would come through the radio and kill us all.
To put it into musical terms he might understand (but maybe not...) I used to like him, but that's all over now.
i remember a french interview with him,it's very surrealistic,very dadaist! so officialy,Batman guy isn't more number 1 on Top 10 US a**hole!
Posted by: avatar at April 8, 2009 6:36 PM
Ho. Lee. Shit. Whatever BBT's on has gotta be potent. What a trip! That, or he's got some kind of dementia or cognitive disorder. You'd almost think he's a politician, all the "I don't know what you're talking about"-type responses. Seriously, this dude was married to Angelina Jolie (ick, Angie, why??) - WTF happened since then? I've always appreciated him playing himself in Sling Blade...oh, wait, that wasn't an autobiography? This interview makes a whole lot less sense now.
Posted by: lordhelmet at April 8, 2009 6:38 PM
Sling Blade was a pretty damn good movie, though.
Posted by: DarthCorleone at April 8, 2009 6:42 PM
@avatar, don't worry, Bale's still my number one.
I kind of want to buy that interviewer a pie or something for putting up with so much shit as gracefully as he could
Posted by: coveredinbees at April 8, 2009 6:43 PM
He could have at least done the interview in his Sling Blade voice....mmm-hmm.
Posted by: dave at April 8, 2009 6:44 PM
This guy…. I don’t even know what….? I mean he’s just such ahh……. I don’t really know….what…..he thought he was doing? Well….umm…I think now the real question is….where can I get a subscription….to that monster magazine?
Posted by: Jack at April 8, 2009 6:59 PM
Only because this asshole doesn’t have to make a living with his music can he behave in such a deplorable way. I goddamn guarantee you if this piece of shit had to pay his bills with his insufferable music he’d act differently. Fuck him and his asswipe band, and by extension, fuck that big lip big head emaciated bitch he was fuckin’, the both of them with their vials of blood. And fuck her piece of shit republican daddy.
Posted by: Pookie at April 8, 2009 7:23 PM
Fuck this court. Fuck Jim Lahey. Fuck Randy. Fuck those two idiot cops right there. Fuck suit dummies; as a matter of fact fuck legal aid. Fuck Danny and Terry's Buffalo Chicken Wings. Fuck all the old wood in here. Fuck the moon, fuck corn on the cob, fuck squirrels. Fuck me, fuck you, fuck everything!
I like the part where the DJ asks him about music and he prattles on about fucking monster movies and magazines and shit like that.
And Pookie is 100% right, if this were his day job he wouldn't be acting like a fucking prick.
Posted by: annoyingmouse at April 8, 2009 7:34 PM
Word, Melodie. That was one hell of a shit-terview.
And Jian/CBC know how to be gracious interviewers who often come off way smarter and more mature than their subjects. No surprise there.
Posted by: Natural 20 at April 8, 2009 7:35 PM
True story. I work for a local news station and one of our entertainment reporters managed to get an interview with good ole' Sling Blade when he was pimping whatever paycheck-grabbing shit movie he made. (I think it was for Mr. Woodcock. During the course of the interview, he actually called her "honey" and "babe" throughout, grabbed her knee and arm constantly and asked if she wanted to meet later for "drinks." Having knowledge of his philandering ways and not sure what kind of panty crickets she would walk away with, she politely declined.
Billy Bob is a dirty, ugly old man and one mean motherfucker. Someone who's been told he shits gold and farts incense for far too long.
Posted by: Roaddog at April 8, 2009 7:35 PM
Thank you Melodie for helping me remember something:
Fuck You Rowles. There, someone finally said what needed to be said.
Posted by: Pookie at April 8, 2009 7:39 PM
Drinks? What's wrong with drinks? Pretty ladies deserve drinks.
Posted by: Pookie at April 8, 2009 7:42 PM
Let it be known all throughout the pajibaverse that Pookie ain’t afraid to call anyone out, be they a king or a street sweeper, they all will feel his sharp tongue.
Posted by: Pookie at April 8, 2009 7:46 PM
I'm guessing she turned the drinks down because the right mix of cocktails and conversation is undie grease. Also, shes happily married with a doting husband and three kids. So maybe she didn't feel like pointing her soles towards heaven for a dirtball likely to leave a lasting gift of HPV, The Herpes or the aforementioned panty crickets.
Posted by: Roaddog at April 8, 2009 7:56 PM
Is this the new Joaquin Phoenix method of interviewing? Be a grade-A douchebag and refuse to answer questions so that everyone listening and/or watching is reeeally reeeally uncomfortable?
Posted by: Lindsay at April 8, 2009 8:02 PM
Me, I prefer the soles to be pointing downward.
Posted by: Pookie at April 8, 2009 8:03 PM
I still like them fried taters mmmmmmmmmmmm.
Posted by: , (the commenter formerly known as bucdaddy) at April 8, 2009 8:07 PM
Maybe there's some kind of Dickface of the Year Contest he and Joaquin Phoenix are rivaling over. Evidently Billy Bob's already won.
I must say, the interviewer handled him well.
Posted by: Cindy at April 8, 2009 8:21 PM
Where is Dwight Yoakam when you need him?
Posted by: Megs at April 8, 2009 8:21 PM
I don't know if I can bring myself to listen to this. I listen to the show every day, but I have the flu and didn't wake up to hear any of the broadcast until the Glengarry Glen Ross interview was underway. When Mio came in, they brought it up briefly, and seemed REAL shaken.
Well, I've had the good fortune to meet Jian Ghomeshi on a few occasions, and he is an absolute darling. Funny, intelligent, forthcoming, dispenses good advice--an all-around peach. I don't know if I can handle hearing some mouth-breathing troll bitch from hell rip into one of the Moxy Fruvous dudes.
I got to ask him who his worst interview was. And he stopped laughing, turned dead serious, looked me in the eye, and said very, very solemnly: 'Harrison Ford. Harrison Ford is a jerk.'
Which sounded about right to me. I guess this blow-up had to have been epic if it made news on American shores. Eek.
CBC-1 gets some live wires. Back when that Kanye West song 'Touch the Sky' came out, they did an interview with Eval Kneieval...hmm, I can't spell that, can I? His reactionary character was only trumped by his raging sexism, which was soundly thumped by an olympic-level degree of racism. There's your hero, folks. Don't you have a hole to fall into? Y'know, the one of posthumous obscurity?
As for this taint-slap: I'd say that karma wins and that God is going to cut you down, Billy. But looking at that miscarriage of an abortion of a face you're sporting, it's clear that that process is already nearly done.
So Laura Dern was going to marry that thing, huh? Bullet Dodged.
Posted by: Jo 'Mama' Besser at April 8, 2009 8:27 PM
Christ on a cracker, I hope that interviewer got combat pay for that mess. Or at least a few minutes out back to kick BBT in the crotch a coupla hundred times.
Posted by: Wednesday at April 8, 2009 8:29 PM
Poor poor Jian! He's one of the best interviewers the CBC has, and somehow he ends up with this whackjob. I couldn't watch more than a minute of that interview, the awkward was too much to handle. I felt bad for the other members of the band, too, who seemed genuinely embarrassed about how BBT was acting, but obviously they know who he is and how he acts, and they should've just cancelled the appearance. Nobody wants to listen to that.
Posted by: Jacqueline at April 8, 2009 8:34 PM
Damn, I never thought I'd feel sorry for one of the guys from Moxy Fruvous. That was INSANE.
Looks like someone's grabbing top spot on Yaweh's Shit List.
Posted by: Jo 'Mama' Besser at April 8, 2009 8:50 PM
I'm listening to it right now, and...uh...wow. Poor dear Jian! He really is a pro. (He's also the hottest thing on CBC since Strombo, and it's a sin that he's confined to radio, but that's neither here nor there.)
....Excuse me? Now Billy Bob's dissing Canadian audiences because we don't throw things? Oh, screw right off, mister! Argh. He disgusted me before this, but now? A pox on him! A pox, I tell you!
As if anyone wants to hear about the first naptha-snatched slag he accosted.
And how tedious was that song?
Shades of Sook-Yin Lee versus Massive Attack.
These dick-slaps think they're so great. We'll see who has the last laugh when I put them up against Kathleen Battle in the Octagon. You're scared now, huh?
Posted by: Jo 'Mama' Besser at April 8, 2009 8:57 PM
"Once I was the King of Spain/
Now I jam with Moxy Fruvous."
One of the greatest songs EVER written.
I love Jian and believe BBT to be less than a shit stain on Hollywood's boxer briefs. He's a one note hack who surrounded himself with talent in "Sling Blade" and has been a Super-Sized Bucket Of Fail ever since.
Attention, Radio Folks... ignore this drug addled moron and he'll slink back to Babylon, where the (alleged) size of his penis helps him continue to get work.
Posted by: Spender at April 8, 2009 8:59 PM
oh come on. y'all are overreacting. it's not that bad. it's actually kind of funny. i was giggling through most of it.
Billy Bob was behaving like a bit of dick but Ghomeshi does a pretty good job of standing his ground and calling Billy Bob out for being a dick. by the end of it Billy Bob is kinda sheepishly answering the questions because Ghomeshi smacked him down and made him look like a pussy in front of his band buddies.
it's like he tried to pull a Joaquin Phoenix but didn't have the balls to go full retard.
Posted by: causaubon at April 8, 2009 9:08 PM
Don't fuck with Jian, Billy Bob, he's a national treasure. Go-meshi-go!
Posted by: Agente Provocatrice at April 8, 2009 9:09 PM
Jo, what is this about "Sook-Yin Lee versus Massive Attack"? I'd love some info.
Posted by: Kara at April 8, 2009 9:12 PM
Oh, Kara. It was some sad junk. I think it must've been about ten or eleven years ago, because I seem to remember them doing promotion for Mezzanine at the time.
Aside: how weird was it the first time I saw House, heard 'Teardrop' playing, and saw there was nary a fetus to be found? And then Hugh Laurie started talking with an American accent and I think I swallowed my tongue.
I love Hugh Laurie, I wish we were friends. Can you imagine? PARTY AT KATE BUSH'S CASTLE!! DAWN AND LENNY ARE BRINGING POTATO SKINS!! STEPHEN PROMISED HE'D BRING HIS 'WILDE-LY OUTRAGEOUS LATKES!! WHO'S GOING ON EMMA THOMPSON STREAK-WATCH?!?! JOOLS HOLLAND? OKAY!'
*sigh*
Back on Topic.
As I remember it, Sook-Yin-- like her equally audacious comrade-in-waves Jian--had the temerity to try to set a history/context for the viewers (it was on MuchMusic) before the interview proper began. That's where the problems began. One of them started getting audibly displeased, and was fidgeting--you know, just making it uncomfortable and kind of de-railing the line of questioning. She asked him if there was something they wanted to address, or wanted her to address, or something. And he started in on not liking her line of questioning. I don't think she had asked any questions yet, but there was this general air about them that said that they didn't want to be hassled with their own history. I hope I'm being clear.
At that point, she decided to just start in on their current album/tour stuff, and that made things worse. So, he gave her some words about that. Then she asked if there was something specific that they wanted to discuss, or if they would feel comfortable addressing the audience directly, and if they could work with that.
Two didn't say anything, one mumbled incoherently, but you could tell that he was annoyed. About what, I don't know, his speech wasn't really comprehensible. More complaints about the questions and her. So she basically said, you're an adult, and I'm being accommodating and professional, so grow up.
It came out after that it was all a shit-disturbing ploy on their part, and 3D gave her a big hug after taping stopped. Okay, so they weren't being serious, but they basically humiliated and belittled her on national television for shits and giggles. Even said she was great afterward. Jokes are jokes, but when you sabotage someone in that way, you're still a maniac.
And that's what I remember. Ah ten after ten, the hour when 'Q' repeats.
Posted by: Jo 'Mama' Besser at April 8, 2009 10:10 PM
That was surreal.
What a fucking douchebag.
Although, made me love Jian even more than before.
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Posted by: yx at April 8, 2009 10:21 PM
Thanks for putting up the video Dustin. You can really see the undiluted arrogance and pretention in ol' BB's eyes. I think Jian is still out there somewhere trying to drink this one off....
Posted by: Odnon at April 8, 2009 11:15 PM
Hey Billy Bob, come over to Edmonton, you'll have a great show of me throwing things at you (seeing as that's what you're into these days). You'll get a nice dose of Canadian gravy, you fucking douche bag!
I just want to get this straight, so he was miffed that, against his request to the producers of the show, Jian mentioned his acting career; so then when that happens he decides to do his best Gary Busey impression?
Posted by: Darcy at April 8, 2009 11:33 PM
Wow, I thought Russell Crowe took 10 Odd Foot of Grunts too seriously. Maybe BBT is featuring in the same actor turn musician doco as Joaquin Phoenix
Posted by: Dave Shepherd at April 8, 2009 11:56 PM
Jee-suz...awkward much? I actually thought the interviewer, while coming off as a little limp-dicked trying to rein in Billy B and get back on topic, availed himself pretty well in the end. Jian did what he could to save the interview and more importantly stand up for himself--Not all his fault Mr. hypersensitive, pretentious dickweed wasn't having it. I know what it's like to try and get an interview out of the recalcitrant, arrogant and stand-offish. Not fun...
Posted by: stryker1121 at April 9, 2009 12:05 AM
Wow. What the hell did I just watch?
I give Jian a great deal of credit for not losing his shit in what must be the most bizarre 13 minutes ever.
Well, if it works for Joaquin Phoenix . . and apparently Billy Bob is a such a superlative actor he blows even Joaquin's latest weird away.
I have to admit, I won't listen or watch. I'm still to scarred from Gene Simmons being the World's Biggest Douche on Fresh Air. That was all sorts of evil, but not so much bad.
I think the interviewer allowed himself and his interview to be hijacked by BBT. Why focus on him at all? Direct all your questions to the rest of the band who actually have something to say. I think it was pretty obvious from the first question to BBT how this was going to go.
Poor Terry Gross had only Gene Simmons to talk to, this guy had 3 other band-members.
Posted by: king at April 9, 2009 12:45 AM
If he didn't sound exactly like my brother that would have been hilarious.
I missed the Joaquin Phoenix bit. When did that happen? Anyone got a link?
Posted by: The Queen of Mice at April 9, 2009 12:52 AM
My fellow Canadians, please, learn how to put a motherfucker down! This, is why we can look like pussies. Some piece of penile discharge acts like an unequivcal FUCK and we attempt to smooth it over and continue upon our merry way. Jian should have choked the fuck out of that bitch.
I will never, knowingly see another Billy Bob Thorton movie again.
Oh, and to the rest of the band: guilty by association motherfuckers.
Posted by: admin at April 9, 2009 12:58 AM
I will never watch another Billy Bob film again. I wish I was going to the show just so I could throw shit at them. FUCK YOU Billy. Jian, you are amazing.
Posted by: tart at April 9, 2009 1:14 AM
I wish people would stop throwing around the terms "white trash hillbilly" like it was a bad thing to be. We have feelings, too, you know!
Posted by: AdaHaze at April 9, 2009 1:41 AM
Thanks for the info Jo. Massive Attack doesn't come off very well. It baffles me that musicians/actors/etc. don't behave when they're interviewed. After this I'm not interested in anything BBT does.
Posted by: Kara at April 9, 2009 2:36 AM
Someone needs to fuck this bitch up with some truth.
Posted by: Jo 'Mama' Besser at April 9, 2009 2:39 AM
That felt awfully like a prank. Maybe he's trying to get on the Joacquin Phoenix "Look at me, I've lost my mind!!!! (It's a movie.)" bandwagon.
His "I've made eight albums" face needs punching. Tantrumy moron.
Posted by: Grafty at April 9, 2009 6:28 AM
@Jeremy F.
Please reserve the term "hillbilly" for someone from the hills. BBF is from the flat part of Arkansas.
Posted by: Arkansan at April 9, 2009 7:51 AM
I agree with Lord Helmet, something about that was 'off' enough to make me think BBT was HIGH out of his GOURD or he's suffered some...deterioration, mentally.
I mean, it wasn't just the dickish attitude and nonsensical muttering, it was how he was looking at stuff when he wasn't being directly addressed, he looked confused and addled like an autistic kid thrown unprepared into a whole new environment, trying to take in and comprehend this overload of new information.
Seriously, does anyone know f even a RUMOR he might have some medical condition?
Cos I dont even know if drugs or being a prick can explain what I just saw.
Standing O to the DJ for handling it with aplomb and care, I'd have punched the fucking hick in the neck 'HILL BILLY HICKY, BITCH' I'd have screamed 'your FACE has no gravy!!'
Posted by: Nadine at April 9, 2009 8:47 AM
Is Billy Bob touring with the Hanson brothers from the movie "Slap Shot?"
Posted by: Phil at April 9, 2009 9:15 AM
Jay-sus, what's wrong some basic fucking courtesy? "I don't know?" That's the shit grumpy teenagers pull, not grown men.
He's also the hottest thing on CBC since Strombo, and it's a sin that he's confined to radio, but that's neither here nor there.
a-MEN.
Posted by: Sarah at April 9, 2009 9:37 AM
That was bad, but check out this trainwreck with Bryan Adams slowly come apart:
Hmm. Well, all I know is Jian can pour his gravy all over me anytime.. *wink wink, nudge nudge....*
Posted by: Janey at April 9, 2009 12:45 PM
Bryan Adams interview a trainwreck? How so?
Posted by: DP at April 9, 2009 1:04 PM
Mmmmmmmmmmmmmm.....douchy.
Posted by: eastvillagenyc73 at April 9, 2009 1:27 PM
This doesn't surprise me at all. I saw him perform in Amsterdam years ago and he was a complete dick. He insisted on introducing every f*ing song with an excruiating dull story why he wrote it, completely taking the pace out of the concert. When some guy from the audience yelled "just sing the song!", he went completely ballistic, kicked a mike stand in the audience and walked offstage. He came back after about 10 minutes and by then the crowd was scared shitless it to meekly applauding after everying song and wishing they were allowed to leave soon.
Oh, and he demanded that nobody drank or smoked in the theatre. Which for that time and that particular theatre was highly unusual. His sngs were rubbish anyway. So, boo to Billy Bob Thornton.
Posted by: dugs at April 9, 2009 1:28 PM
Billy obviously did this stunt knowing that it would cause a stir and wind up all over the net. Think about it, if he just acted normal and gave a straight forward interview how many people would have even heard it or known about it? Very few. But he sits there and acts like a douche for 13 minutes and it's all over the internet today, it is even on CNN's website. He's a douche but he knows how to get easy and free publicity for his crappy band that nobody cares about.
Posted by: Joe at April 9, 2009 2:16 PM
Okay, I don't know if anyone else noticed this or cares, but the second guy on the right is Dan Baker aka Unknown Hinson (Unknown-fucking-Hinson). This, to me, is all I could concentrate on. If you don't known who this guy is, do yourself a favor and Google him—your welcome!
Posted by: Donocaster at April 9, 2009 3:25 PM
At least the world will know him as a "musician" from now on. Though I doubt few will search out any of his caterwaulings.
Posted by: Odnon at April 9, 2009 5:04 PM
Billy Bod forgets he was a fat hick nobody not too long ago...grade A douche. fuck him and shitty music. not a good actor except for Sling Blade which I am sure came easy,playing a retarded hillbilly murderer...
Posted by: anthony rech at April 9, 2009 6:10 PM
The Queen of England has less formalities to jump through. "How dare thou speakest of what I have deigned inappropriate?! Now I will have my rarerabbit!!"
The guy NEVER asked him a non-musical question. Ol' Billy Bob is my new Lord Doosh-a-bag.
Posted by: fredbronski at April 9, 2009 6:43 PM
Wow.
Just....wow.
So weird.
I had no idea there were so many Canadians and CBC fans who read this site.
...
But seriously, what is BBT on? He looked senile, like an old man with greasy, unwashed hair in a retirement home with a blanket over his lap.
I think I love Jian even more deeply than before.
Posted by: Kelly Booth at April 9, 2009 8:21 PM
I can't believe Daniel Stuart Baker would stoop to being in a band with this cock. I think he's too embarrassed by Billy Bob's behavior to talk too much, but that guy is fucking awesome. Check out anything by Unknown Hinson, allow it to wash the taste of ball-sweat that is the essence of Herr Thornton from your mouth.
From everything written above, sounds like B-Bob is a dick, but probably even moreso at a 6 a.m. radio interview (the bitching about having to take his dwums out so early is where I get the idea). Some people are wretched on not enough sleep.
But fuck him for dumping on our Hot Jian, and our poutine and our audiences. Obviously (to me), Jian stuck it out because he is very professional, but also just killed him with the ol' Canadian kindness in a great, diffusing way. I do that with my recalcitrant kids - it's called active listening and it's the best because there's no escaping your actions - pussy if you give up, but busted if you stay in.
"So, young man, you are actually saying here that you hit your sister because you felt sad that you don't have a fancy outfit of your own? I see. That must be hard for you to see her getting so much attention. Would you like me to find a fancy thing for you too? We do have capes and crowns and scarves...Oh, never mind? Well then, okay. Glad we had this chat."
Posted by: replica at April 10, 2009 3:17 AM
Oh Jian. I'm personally hot and cold on the guy (some of his interview subjects are bewildering.. though perhaps he's not to blame) but I totally respect and love that he kept his ground, calling him out on it.
I actually woke up to this interview (right at the monster mag/tom petty segue) on my radio alarm and was paralyzed in bed with angst while having no freaking clue who he was talking to at the time.
The video put a whole new dimension of bullshit, pointless arrogance in the constant fucking eye-rolling. Gaaaahd.
Posted by: Jams at April 10, 2009 5:37 AM
hey, cut Billy Bob some slack.
Just kidding. Kill him.
Posted by: voy at April 10, 2009 6:16 AM
Okay, so let's say you're like 50 years old and touring with Willie Nelson. Your manager drags your ass outta bed at 4 or 5 in the morning to go talk to some dude at 6 a.m. You're also supposed to cart your instrument there. You get there, and they tell you to smoke in a designated area. You ask them not to discuss your acting career because the focus should be about the music. What contribution do your band members have to the acting conversation?
I helped interview Scott Radinski back in 1994 or thereabouts. His band, Popsickle, I believe, was opening for NOFX in Omaha. My friend, Andy, was doing the interviewing. Scott asked, "Do you want the rest of the band?" Andy said "No," and then proceeded to ask him about pitching in the major leagues (Radinski was either pitching for the White Sox or Dodgers at the time). Radinski was miffed because he was convinced that Andy was a sportswriter.
Billy Bob was an ass, but still, I have empathy for him in this situation.
Posted by: Jez at April 10, 2009 10:04 AM
What? Empathy? WHY?
Christ, most people in the work world wake up at 5 am on a daily basis to go to their respective employment. Boo-fucking-hoo BBT has to wake up for a 20 minute interview? Which is staple for both actors and musicians when doing tours and promotions?
Fuck him.
Mad love for Jian, though. I like his hair.
Posted by: popejenn at April 10, 2009 1:47 PM
Who are the Boxcutters?
Posted by: ph at April 10, 2009 1:53 PM
Dear Billy Bob,
You can take your yankee loving, cum guzzling, fuck face drinking, shithole and shove it! If you don't like Canada then stay out you dumb redneck fuck. If I were Giam I would have taken theat mic and shved it so far up your ass your kids would cum. Eat shit and die muther fucker
Posted by: BILLY BOB FUCKFACE at April 10, 2009 11:44 PM
I'm a Canadian living in the south and let me just say that calling Billy Bob Thornton a redneck is an insult to rednecks!
Most people in the south are very wonderful, polite people who wouldn't dream of behaving this way.
Hey BBT--when was the last time you made a decent movie? Bad News Bears..The Alamo? I rest my case.
Canada is the birthplace of musical giants such as Neil Young, The Guess Who...maybe you missed that fact Billy which is odd since you appear to fancy yourself a 'music historian' (eyesroll)
Posted by: Northern Dancer at April 12, 2009 1:44 PM
"Who are the Boxcutters?" He was he was there to talk about the Boxmasters. NOT his acting career. Who is Jian Ghomeshi? (excuse me from being from the USA) Sounds like it could have been his stunt to gain notoriety outside of Canada. He and his producers broke a promise.This interview was hilarious. I thought Billy Bob handled it great. Jian seems to have an ego about himself being some great interviewer.
"I can't believe Daniel Stuart Baker would stoop to being in a band with this cock."
The guy has a strong enough character on his own. I don't feel he stooped. He an BBT are good friends. I was at the Jimmy Kimmel taping. The Boxmasters sound awesome. Danny Baker got to rip it up a bit during the show fade out. We got to see the rest. It the words of Carl Brutananadilewski, "Awesome! FRIGGIN' AWESOME!!!"
Posted by: Bifrons at April 22, 2009 6:00 AM
This isn't just his demeanor in his interviews, this is the way he communicates. He is defensive, and constantly combative in his personal life as well. I know, I have known him personally. He is unable to deal with anything people say to him, he suspects everyone in his immediate surroundings of ill intent; friends, lovers, relatives, you name it! In business you can only imagine how much worse he can be, but he is horrendous in daily life. He is intrusive, cruel, cowardly, accusatory, and dogmatic. He was physically abusive to all of his wives especially. "Women are all sluts " is one of his most popular things to say. Ladies he is not a tough guy it's all an act! If he were he'd be starring in action films in which he is OO7, or a similar character, but he cannoty get parts like that. Food for thought. Drugs? Many, he loses touch of reality and forgets where he is.Once I visited him at a hotel, when I commented that The tiffany Theater is just around the corner, he recanted "Ha what? Ha?" with a blank stare, as if to say "Who am I, and where am I?" It would be sad if he weren't scary and insulting to others.
Posted by: Melinda at April 28, 2009 6:48 PM
Billy bob who ?
Posted by: Stewie at May 5, 2009 10:10 PM
WTF! I'm so tired of these condescending pricks who feel they are so artistically superior that it gives them license to be an inconsiderate asshole and still expect to have themselves kissed. You can be creative, dynamic, interesting, expressive, and intelligent without being an absolute pita a$$hole.
Jerks like Billy Bob and Joaquin Phoenix, of late, should not be indulged for wasting our valuable time. Get your $hit together and when you are ready to be respectful and do your thing then I'll consider paying for anything to do with you.
Douchebags!
Posted by: JB at May 8, 2009 10:23 AM
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Oh. My God. What the fuck is this??? It almost feels like they set this up on purpose--a like, "let's fuck with the audience sort of thing." This is unreal.
"Would you say that to Tom Petty?"
What the fuck.