14 Celebrities Who Had To Field Wildly Disrespectful Questions
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When you're a megastar, dealing with the press is just part of the job. Those silly morning show interviews and tedious press junkets seem run-of-the-mill, but they can really wear a person down. Not to mention that society seems to think that celebs, thanks to their fame and fortune, are exempt from basic decency and decorum. Look: it's Comedy 101 to punch up and be tough on people with power. That shit goes all the way back to Willie “The Big Bardo” Shakespeare. But the principle of speaking truth to power doesn't mean there isn't a line. We forget that some of these stars get hugely famous at really young ages. We forget that they have their entire personal lives on display. It's undeniably funny that Ben Affleck has a giant phoenix back tattoo, or that he got closure from his breakup with Ana de Armas by chucking a life-size cardboard cutout of her in the (hopefully) recycle bin, but at the heart of those stories is a real person struggling with real issues, and we should be sensitive to that.
UNLESS YOU'RE HERE WITH CHAD AND DICK “THE DICK” STIFFY ON WFT 107.5 IN THE MORNING! The unfortunate thing about press junkets is a lot of media people need to cross the line to get ratings, leading to celebs having to navigate awkward and obtrusive questions like these:
![Quentin Tarantino CRACKED.COM Krishnan Guru-Murthy set Tarantino up with a highly divisive quesiton: Why are you so sure that there's no link between enjoying movie violence and enjoying real violence? QT shut him down real quick: Don't ask me a question like that. I refuse your question.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/5/2/793652.jpg)
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![Lady Gaga CRACKED.COM In 2011, Anderson Cooper brought up a bizarre rumor in a highly disrespectful manner: There was a rumor that you had a male appendage. That you were a hermaphrodite. Gaga handled it with incredible grace: Maybe I do. Would it be so terrible?](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/5/3/793653.jpg)
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![Taylor Swift CRACKED.COM BREAKING NEWS: Ellen might be a jerk. She dragged poor Taylor through a slideshow of her famous exes, just to watch her squirm. Swift tried to politely bow out, saying I don't know if I'm gonna do this. Ellen shot back with Yeah, you will.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/4/4/793644.jpg)
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![Mariah Carey Cleativa CRACKED.COM Ellen devised a f*ed up, Jigsaw-esque trap to make Mariah announce her pregnancy on her show. She gave her a glass of champaigne, and challenged her to either drink, or explain why she wouldn't: Let's toast to you not being pregnant, if you're not pregnant.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/5/1/793651.jpg)
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![Baby Spice CRACKED.COM Emma Bunton made the mistake of trusting Howard Stern. He brought up the fact that she lost her virginity at 16, a line of questioning she tried to politely reject with a short you've done your research. When he made a crass, and truly? not at all clever play on her stage name, she was obviously deflated: I really thought you weren't gonna be this rude to me.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/4/8/793648.jpg)
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![Mayim Bialik CRACKED.COM Bialik is a nerd, and plays one on TV, but one reporter didn't seem to know that. When asked how many people think you can solve calculus at the drop of a hat because of her nerdy character, Bialik reminded her about her real life credentials: I actually was trained in calculus for several years. Yeah, I'm a neuroscientist.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/4/7/793647.jpg)
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![Olivia Munn and Ken Jeong CRACKED.COM While promoting 2016's Ride Along 2, some jokester asked them whether, if a mass shooting erupted in a night club, they were morally clear to ditch the bill on their bottle service. Both were unamused. The same reporter asked Jeong to take a look at her tonsils.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/4/2/793642.jpg)
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![Anne Hathaway CRACKED.COM In 2012, Matt Lauer referenced a recent wardrobe malfunction: that Hathaway had suffered, creepily saying we've seen a lot of you lately. Hathaway expertly the conversation: I'm sorry that we live in a culture that commodifies the sexuality of unwilling participants. Which brings me back to Les Miserables...](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/4/0/793640.jpg)
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![Robert Downey, Jr. CRACKED.COM While promoting Age of Ultron, a reporter asked RDJ a clunky question about his checkered past: You've talked about your relationship with your father, taking drugs and doing all of that... Junior tried to pivot, but ultimately walked out when the interview got a little Diane Sawyer-y for his taste.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/4/3/793643.jpg)
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![Jane Fonda CRACKED.COM While promoting her 2017 film Our Souls at Night, Fonda was asked by Megyn Kelly why she's not proud to admit you've had work done. Fonda gracefully pivoted: We really want to talk about that? Let me tell you why I love this movie that we did, rather than plastic surgery.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/4/5/793645.jpg)
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![Jerry Seinfeld CRACKED.COM In a 2007 interview, Larry King forgot whether Seinfeld had been cancelled, or had gone out of its own accord. Jerry laid into him as King tried to throw to commercial: You think I got cancelled? Is this still CNN? Do you know who I am?](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/4/9/793649.jpg)
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![Mila Kunis C lpy*k6e Ce Cekc GO Miam CRACKED.COM Kunis was promoting the 2011 film Friends With Benefits when a Russian reporter tried to grill her about Justin Timberlake's career choices: Why is Justin in movies? Isn't music enough? Kunis fired back, in Russian, What kind of question is that? Why are you here?](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/4/6/793646.jpg)
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![Lindsay Lohan CRACKED.COM David Letterman wouldn't stop prodding at her most vulnerable personal scars: How many times have you been in rehab? How will this time be different? What are they rehabbing, first of all? She tired to shut him down with a blunt We didn't discuss this in the pre-interview.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/5/0/793650.jpg)
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![Samuel L. Jackson HOLLYWOOD ATLANTA CRACKED.COM Laurence Fishburne notable for not being Samuel L. Jackson, among other things -- starred in some Super Bowl ad in 2014. When a reporter asked Jackson if he got a lot of attention from the ad, Jackson said You're as crazy as the people on Twitter. I'm not Laurence Fishburne! We don't all look alike!](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/4/1/793641.jpg)
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