They were DRUNK or high!

Jeanine Pirro every night

Joe Namath

Joanie

New Zealand's own little dictator, Piggy Muldoon gets pissed and calls a snap election. Loses election.

Just one more reason to love Lizsha

Winona Ryder accepting an award that one time with the cast of Stranger Things.

Jessica

Mariah Carey being a drunken Ho!

David Cassidy, forgetting the words to Partridge Family songs. Danny Bonaduce looks stable.

Laura Jean 'Poon..she's an American citizen!

lush Fergie...but at least she didn't piss her pants!

Connie Chung singing on a piano.

Poor Anna Nicole.

another lush Fergie

Courtney Love

"I've been clean and sober for a fucking year! So all these drug yokes... Fuck."

On an unrelated note, I miss those short news roundups like in OP. You basically got all the important headlines with none of the crap.

Carrie Fisher near the end.

"Fisher has been seen repeatedly driving up to a sketchy LA apartment building for 30-second meetings with a mystery person."

Brigitte Nielsen

18 posts and you haven’t posted this classic yet?

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Poor Jessica. That was such a jarring clip of her.

Love that one R19

Liz Taylor at The Golden Globes

Joy Behar, isolating/working from home. The only thing missing is an alley and a paper bag.

Rachael Ray, wherever she's working from, can hardly keep those beady little eyes open, and that drunken smirk on her face needs to go.

A perennial classic

Blondie on uppers and downers.

No video, but the first documented case of celebrity dehydration that I can recall.

FUCK IT

I wonder if this is simply how Larry Kudlow rolls on the daily? He is uttery SLOSHED in this interview!!!

Amy Winehouse...mostly.

Wasn't Diane Sawyer drunk on election night 2012?

Richard Dreyfuss presenting Our Sally with her first Oscar

When has Kudlow been sober?

Kiefer! Although he seems like he would have been a fun drunk

R33 Have you seen his wife's artwork? There is some major self-medicating going on in that house.

Diane Sawyer was the most drunk person I've seen on live tv in years! She was sloshed!

R29, he was such a cokehead in the 80s.

I've been at an event standing directly next to Courtney Love listening to her talk about being sober with a glass of red wine in her hand! She doesn't count drinking, so when she says "sober" she just means from heroin, I guess.

R38 It can depend. I know people like that. If they are alcoholics, they can do drugs, and consider themselves sober as long as they don't drink. So I guess she is the opposite of them.

Stoned Courtney Love crashes Madonna interview.

Yes, and neither type of person is sober at all. They're just not enjoying their favorite drug/high.

Liza always.

Courtney love is a funny mess, LOL.

Hope she stays sober.

Can you paint R35?

Horrible version of this song but Liza looks stoned AF here

R41 Yes and no, if they aren't and were never addicted to alcohol, I see no reason why they can't still enjoy alcohol while abstaining from the substances they are addicted to.

Diane Sawyer, wow! Kinda love it though.

Jessica Savitch's life was just so sad.

R1 wins

Courtney Love when she threw the shoe at Madonna

There have been too many instances of celebrities being drunk/high in public to count. Truman Capote was on some talk show, totally zonked out on something. Gelsey Kirkland was coked out on the Merv Griffin show. Cybill Shepherd appeared drunk while a presenter at the Academy Awards. Ricky Lee Jone seemed very high while accepting a Grammy as Best New Artist. Elizabeth Taylor was drunk off her ass while presenting a Golden Globe award. Jimi Hendrix always seemed stoned. Drunk, drugged celebrities making fools of themselves...it happens a lot.

Don't forget about me,

R51 Here's Truman Capote drunk

R53 & R54 When were either of them NOT drunk?

R56 Exactly!

R48 Savitch was only 36 when she died and I can’t get over how old she looked pretty much her entire career. Drug use doesn’t age everyone equally but it really did a number on her in that regard.

Bowie coked to the gills on Cavett

Kanye's uber-cringe moment

Pretty much every third episode of "What's My Line," after 1958 had Dorothy Kilgallen stoned.

Every 60s Judy Garland TV show she was on.

R60 or the entire panel of any Match Game that originally aired Wednesday through Friday. They shot those in the afternoon, after the cast had, had a liquid lunch.

Diane Sawyer drinking during commercial break. She took a pill and washed it down with a sip from a giant glass of red wine.

Nicolas Sarkozy

Tom Brokaw always sound(ed) drunk to me.

I don't have footage because it was too long ago, but I saw a classic interview on Australian TV in 1977 with Robert Shaw, who was supposed to be promoting The Deep, but was completely off his face and would only rave incessantly about what a wonderful and VERY beautiful, fit, strong man Nick Nolte was. He would not be swayed from his theme no matter how much the host tried - not even when the host proposed that Jacqueline Bisset was also quite a good sort, hint hint.

I have never seen a rumour about this on the DL, but I think your great-aunt in Peoria would have got the message if she'd seen this.

Wasn't Dustin Hoffman drunk one time when he presented at the Oscars?

John King from CNN. I think it was the day Osama bin Laden was killed and King had to present the news.

Someone upthread mentioned Dorothy Kilgallen. In one of the WML episodes Kilgallen was so drunk that she was slurring her words. At one point she slurred so badly that she pretended it was a sneeze instead.

Bea Arthur was supposedly drunk on the set.

Richard Burton in The Exorcist 2

Dick Van Dyke was drunk throughout the filming of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. He quit drinking soon after.

R67- “John King from CNN. I think it was the day Osama bin Laden was killed and King had to present the news.”

On Sorkin’s The Newsroom, the Jeff Daniels character had ingested a lot of edibles at a party before the bin Laden story and delivered the news high as a kite. I wonder if Sorkin based that on John King.

Don't forget about me!

I win.

^ So high I couldn't link my own performance correctly.

^^ Still too high! *giggle*

Remember me?

Who else?

Patty Duke at the Emmys

God it’s thread would make anyone stop drinking. Not pretty.

You bitches are slipping.

You guys are slipping. Not ONE clip of Elizabeth Vargas yet???

The formerly beautiful Jack Kerouac.

I Googled "The View drunk because of r82. How'd we forget about this one?

I remember watching Jessica Savitch and thinking she had such was so good at what she did and that she had a bright future ahead of her. It was, like, a couple of weeks later that she did that sad, dreadful performance. When, she died (was it like a day or two later) it was no surprise. She had so much potential as a reporter.

[quote] I remember watching Jessica Savitch and thinking she had such was so good at what she did and that she had a bright future ahead of her.

Actually, her future was already headed downhill well before the infamous drunken broadcast. She was no longer the rising star she had been a few years earlier. She had been demoted at NBC. Connie Chung had replaced her as the anchor of the weekend newscasts, and Savitch was reduced to doing the one-minute NBC News Digests.

[quote] She had so much potential as a reporter.

No, she sucked as a reporter, which is why she was hated by her NBC News colleagues. Her talent was her ability to read the news and connect with the audience. But she had no ability to actually go out and gather the news and report it.

Barbara was SAVAGE to Elizabeth. "We all knew....well, we all knew...yes, we ALL knew". Jesus Barbara, laugh at her already!

How did Paula Abdul get away with that? I guess American Idol was such a juggernaut at the time. The show must go on!

Ace Frehley of Kiss, drunk and coked out in an interview with his bandmates on the Tom Snyder show. Although drunk/high celebrities usually come across as embarrassing and pathetic, Ace Frehley's boisterous behavior was actually the highlight of the show. Snyder was so amused by him that he was in tears from laughing so hard.

R86, that's a huge talent. The ability to look into that camera and have the audiences believe in you is what TV news is about. People like Linda Ellerbee were upset because they had far more reporting skills but were way less talented as broadcasters. The irony is that if she lived, her career would have had a resurgence because that became the era of things like Inside Edition, Entertainment Tonight, etc. shows where she could have been showcased well.

I was working at NBC at the time and it was true that they no longer put her photos up in the lobby because they were routine defaced with people taping straws to them.

R90 That's awful, some people are so mean.

"The irony is that if she lived, her career would have had a resurgence because that became the era of things like Inside Edition, Entertainment Tonight, etc. shows where she could have been showcased well."

Maybe. Or maybe not. Jessica Savitch was a VERY disturbed person, almost pathologically ambitious and needy. I tend to think that she would have thought it beneath her to do trash tv like Inside Edition and Entertainment Tonight. She wanted to be taken very seriously, not viewed as a lightweight.

By the way, I really don't seem what was so explosively disastrous about that news digest segment that supposedly ruined her career. Yeah, she flubbed it, but what was the big deal? I see news anchors on NBC and other networks who stumble over their words and THEY aren't ruined by it. On local newscasts the anchors frequently flub what they're trying to say. It's annoying, but they don't get fired over it.

R92 If she had lived longer, I could have seen her on cable news.

Ben Affleck on Bill Simmon's Any Given Wednesday.

I wasn’t aware there were so many Affleck drunk videos. Amusing. Thank God I’m not a celebrity. But I also don’t go to work drunk - which is basically what that is.

[quote]R92 I really don't seem what was so explosively disastrous about that news digest segment that supposedly ruined her career. Yeah, she flubbed it, but what was the big deal?

Her first sentence is incoherent, and It was a live update (45 seconds?) She was so slurry she went over. That just wasn’t done.

The nightly news had a very buttoned up, conservative air back then. You couldn’t have sloppy drunks representing NBC.

This is how sharply she prepared for earlier live updates, BTW. (And she’s not being a bitch... she’s absolutely right.)

[italic]”This is PRIME TIME television here, folks!”

Jessica Savitch is a fabulous bitch. She is made for the camera. Why anyone would put up with her is another question. I can’t imagine going to work with her every day. I’ve worked with people like her - they exist but karma often comes around for them. Usually personal life - which is where they pay the price for their cruelty.

[quote]R98 Why anyone would put up with her is another question. I can’t imagine going to work with her every day.

She is kind to the teleprompter guy, saying, “It’s not you, it’s me.” She even tells the booth she’s willing to be without a stage manager once in a while, but that it’s been happening every week.

It’s not like having a stage manager is some luxurious perk - they’re contractually supposed to be there so newscasters can DO THEIR JOB.

R99 That is exactly how I felt, if she was just being a bitch, she would have been one to everyone.

r79 Patty Duke was having a manic episode on that Emmy show

Paula Abdul has always maintained that she never drank. How is it possible to come across like a complete sloppy lush if you don't drink? What's her secret?

During the 1996 Republican convention in San Diego, a waitress refused to serve a drink to Tom Brokaw. because she thought he was already drunk. It was just his normal slurred way of speaking.

That's one of the tamer videos I've seen of her. She had a ridiculous temper and NBC always had access to all of her taped tantrums. The staff hated her so much that they did a video of her to Don Henley's Dirty Laundry and was the featured "bubble headed bleached blonde" and clearly says straight to the camera "who do I have to fuck to get out of this contract?"

If she hadn't been killed, she would have been fired. She had almost no friends in high places at the network. She burned too many bridges and even the crews didn't want to work with her. That's significant.

There will likely never be another movie on her life, but Jessica Lange should have done it decades ago.

Pills r102

Paula Abdul thinking a contestant had completed both of his songs when he had only sung one of them at that point.

This but it’s cute — and I’m glad The Departed was a surprise win.

I was glad to see William F Buckley Jr. at R83 (I think).

When I hear the name William F Buckley Jr. all I can envision is Johnny Carson‘s version of Buckley.

Stevie in her Klonopin days:

I just came across this beauty because of TikTok.

R110, that clip must’ve given MadTv so much material. The jokes wrote themselves back then.

Joan Rivers at the Logie Awards is a favorite of mine. She drunkenly ad-libbed the introduction, joking about how short Tom Cruise is, mentioning that he wasn't present at the conception of his own baby, admitting that she didn't know who the fuck these Australian stars were, and other hijinks. She was both blotto and hilarious all throughout, and I loved every minute of it.

R1 SNL's Cicely Strong does the best parodies of a drunken Jeanine Pirro!

Mean and drunk Jon Hamm.

(R66) it was a Golden globe awards. Dustin Hoffman was so drunk he wouldn't shut up. He went on and on. He had won for Rain Man. He was thanking everybody from the caterers to the janitors. I think shortly after that they put a time limit.

"I like a drink as much as the next man. Unless the next man... is Mel Gibson."

This is another fun drunk moment, this time with actresses Regina King and Jackée Harry, talking a bit about their 1980s sitcom "227," Jackée's big titties, and other topics.

I'd love to see Jessica Savich today on the View chewing up the other ladies and spitting them out.

"This is mid-morning television, bitches!".

R62 Drinking wine on the set? How unprofessional.

R84 Probably the only way he could handle being around those broads.

R110, that Whitney is straight out of Mad Tv. Like, not even a parody.

I don’t think that was wine that Diane Sawyer was drinking. I think it was coke or Pepsi.

I think Savitch was interested in celebrity, although she couldn't admit that because those were the times that women were struggling to her journalists and she was shamed by other female journalists for being an excellent newsreader. Although they were trash TV (though the phrase hadn't been coined yet), she would have ascended to the top of celebrity, which was likely her goal all along.

A lot of Whitney clips would qualify

Ballet dancer and "Dancing On My Grave" author Gelsey Kirkland here at 10:10 on The Merv Griffin Show.

And she looked bad here too

R123 Savitch was interested in more than celebrity. Remember, she was the anchor of PBS' Frontline and her ambition was to anchor the evening news. Her problem was that she was never really a reporter. She was an anchor. NBC made the mistake of making her their Senate correspondent, when they hired her. She wasn't prepared for it, and NBC kept pulling her away to do promotional work, limiting her ability to grow in the role, and leading to her failure. They should have developed her as an interviewer like Barbara Walters, rather than as a reporter.

R127, but she was a terrible interviewer as well. She often subbed for Tom Snyder and she had nothing to say. She was unprepared and couldn't carry on a conversation.

I remember watching the TV movie on Jessica Savich in the 90s and really liking her. But I was a cokehead back then.

Oh god, can you news queens create a thread to discuss Jessica Savitch? ENOUGH ALREADY!

Anyway, back to the topic at hand!!

[quote]R127 Savitch wasn't prepared for it, and NBC kept pulling her away to do promotional work, limiting her ability to grow in the role,

I am rather amused by my bad eyesight. It’s always livening things up.

I thought this said,[italic] “limiting her ability to [bold]grow in the rodeo.”

R131 Well her first anchor job was in Houston, so she probably covered some rodeos.

[quote]R130 Oh god, can you news queens create a thread to discuss Jessica Savitch? ENOUGH ALREADY!

A great running gag on Match Game was Brett's annoyance with the buzzer which signified a wrong answer. This is a really funny montage of them and Brett is drunk in all of them except perhaps when she's in the purple dress.

What’s even weirder to me is watching old talk shows where the host and/or guest are smoking. I sometimes watch the Johnny Carson’s on Antenna TV and I’d say until some point in the very early 80s you would see him smoking. It’s very strange but kind of cool to watch!

It seems like the male guests smoked back then. The male guests and Bette Davis. Even Lucy and the rest never smoked on those shows.

Dean Martin frequently appeared drunk but it was hard to tell if he actually was or if he was just pretending to be to get a laugh. Remember him on Johnny Carson flicking his cigarette ash into George Goebel's coffee cup? I think he was doing his drunk act then, too.

R137 There have been reports that until his son's death in 1987, it was largely an act. The glasses usually contained Martinelli's apple juice. However, after his son had died, the alcohol was real.

Here excuse was cold medicine but I think she also had a couple of hi-balls before she went to the court.