Celebrity interviews can go wrong for all sorts of reasons. Sometimes all it takes is one wrong question or comment from a reporter to make the whole thing go completely off the rails. Sometimes the exchanges are cringe-worthy, occasionally they're simply hilarious on their own. Because the internet is forever, we get to look back and laugh at them either way.
1. Samuel L. Jackson and Sam Rubin.
Sam Rubin was interviewing Samuel Jackson for the reboot of Robocop in 2014 when Rubin asked Jackson about his recent Super Bowl commercial. Unfortunately, Rubin was thinking of Laurence Fishburne's Super Bowl commercial. Jackson immediately knew who he'd been mistaken for, and got medieval on Rubin's ass for the mistake.
2. Tom Cruise and Oprah.
Tom Cruise declared his love for Katie Holmes in 2005 by jumping up and down on Oprah's couch and shaking the living hell out of her. He shook her so much that Gail and Stedman probably felt it. It also inspired another video with some famous editing that added the dark side of the Force:
3. Tom Cruise and Matt Lauer.
Speaking of Tom Cruise, he had a less than amused interview later that year with Matt Lauer on Today. When Lauer questioned him about remarks he made regarding Brooke Shields' postpartum depression and psychiatry, Cruise got incredibly angry in a very short amount of time.
4. Amy Schumer and Matt Tilley.
Australian radio hosts Matt Tilley and Jane Hall were interviewing Amy Schumer about her 2015 movie Trainwreck. It was going great until Tilly asked if Americans use the word "skanky," because that's how he'd describe the main character in the movie. Despite saying he wasn't trying to offend her, he did, and Schumer let him have it for the rest of the interview.
5. Morgan Freeman falls asleep.
This one doesn't involve a question angering Morgan Freeman. In fact, it's quite the opposite. While appearing with Michael Caine to promote the 2013 magician-based thriller Now You See Me, Freeman totally fell asleep during the interview. We know now there's one thing more soothing than Morgan Freeman's voice: Michael Caine's voice.
6. Jerry Seinfeld on Larry King.
Larry King made the mistake of asking Jerry Seinfeld to clarify whether he chose to end the his show or whether it was canceled. Seinfeld was mostly amused by the absurdity of the question, but he really unleashed a few jokes at King's expense in a way only Seinfeld can do.
7. Robert Downey Jr. and Krishnan Guru-Murthy.
Downey was being interviewed by British journalist Krishnan Guru-Murthy for the press tour of Avengers: Age of Ultron. He got angry when Guru-Murthy asked him about a 2008 interview in which he said it was impossible to leave prison and still be a liberal. It was followed up with questions about his past drug use and his relationship with his father. Downey flew out of there faster than Iron Man.
8. Paris Hilton and Dan Harris.
In a 2011 interview on Good Morning America with Dan Harris, Hilton was asked whether she believed her "moment" as a media obsession had ended. She didn't answer, but her time in the interview had ended, because she walked right off the set.
It's been over 10 years since Tom Cruise last did a super awkward interview, so he's long overdue for a new one. Until then, everyone will have to wait for a reporter to ask a cutting or irrelevant personal question to make an interview go viral.