There is rarely a day that I would ask anyone to watch thirteen minutes and forty seconds worth of any YouTube video. But today is one of those days. And I’m sorry to tell you of the content: It’s a radio interview with Bill Bob Thornton and his new-ish band The Boxmasters.
Normally I’d tell you all the good times to fast forward to but truly, this must be watched from beginning to end. The finer nuances, such as the totally pained look on the faces of Billy Bob Thornton’s band mates and the incredulity of the interviewer, cannot be overlooked. I don’t know if BBT was on drugs or just encountered a circa 1780 wagon-wheel table in the green room, but his reactions to this interview are riveting-I can’t look away.
Also, I need a Canadian to tell me this: What is the broadcasting equivalent of a Genie and how can I get one awarded to Jian Ghomeshi? This dude was absolutely amazing in keeping his composure and sticking with interviewing this fuckwit, even after discovering that he didn’t bring his drums.
Wow, he MUST have been high..
If not.. what an a-hole.
Some good comedy though :)
Yeah, this guy is a pro — he’s been at it for a long while. You know, I’m not aware of any awards honouring radio hosts in Canada…. guess we should get a move on.
Joaquin Phoenix, are you out there? This is how it’s done!
So I’m a Canadian, and I’m not sure what the equivalent of a genie is (probably some industry award named something lame like, The Canadian Broadcast Industry Award), but I just can’t help myself from commenting on the dicksmear Billy Bob Thornton. Why is he so LAME? His gig was so transparent! It isnt’ news that he’s a complete loser, but this is so crazy! From the pathetic attempts at dismissing Jian’s legitimate questions, to irrelevant anecdotes of his loser childhood (well what was it Billyboob, baseball, monster comic diorama’s, or music archiving?) It seemed that his intention was to be an asshole no matter what. My favourite (Canadian sp.) part is when, after referring to his youth as “hillbilly” (or maybe it’s implied, whatever), he insults his Canadian audience as being boring, or referring to them as “mashed potatoes without gravy”, he insinuates that we put a lot of gravy on a lot of things up here….um, yes…Billy Bob? you are from the SOUTH. you fucking invented gravy! poor Angelina Jolie.
I agree; being a Canadian myself.. I totally forgot.. All I know is the Junos lol
BBT is a downright Twat. I saw this vid yesterday before you posted this, and it is absolutely ridiculous how rude he’s being.
Complete douchebag of the day.
‘favourite’ is the ENGLISH spelling.
BillyBob is a bit of an arsehole, eh?
wooow.
Wow. BBT seemed REALLY high or just REALLY wanted to be a dick! ha!
I read elsewhere that he was such an a-hat because the interviewer mentioned his acting career even though he was specifically told not to. I cannot stand BBT and never have, but I feel terrible for his bandmates. This probably isn’t anywhere near the worst he’s ever been to someone in their presence.
thank you for posting this wendie. i would have missed it.
we need a new word for asshole. “fuckwit” is a good attempt but this calls for a whole new level of expletive.
I agree, and thanks for pushing us to watch it. Usually I’d ignore something this long.
HOLY FUCK this guy is HORRIBLE. I cannot believe it. You aren’t kidding that the radio interviewer deserves a major award.
I love Jian with all my heart – he’s a total sweetie. I know him through his time with Moxy Fruvous (and my former days at a record label). Love, love, love him.
What Roma said. Except I don’t have any former days at a record label. But Moxy Fruvous — totally awesome. I miss them. Jian is terrific.
Thanks, I did have to have some coffee with that…OMG, what a total dick. Who really cares if the guy introduces you with context on how the listeners might know him…to ruin the interview and press for his bandmates shows no class.
The Genie’s are Canada’s equivalent to the Oscars. They are given out to recognize the best of Canadian cinema by the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television. Sad to say, as a Canadian, that the show itself is pretty lame and the average Canadian doesn’t take it too seriously, although there are some amazingly talented people making films in this country. To answer your question about getting Jian Ghomeshi nominated, he would either have to compose or edit music for a Candian movie, or direct another documentary (as he did in 2006’s “The End”), since he’s mainly in broadcasting. And this interview just furthers my belief that Billy Bob Thornton is just the worst type of person.
She didnt ask what a Genie was or how he could get one…she asked what the broadcasting equivalent to a Genie was.
I can’t help but start laughing when he starts going on about some magazine about building monsters when Jian asks him about his music interests when he was younger. I don’t know how Jian kept his shit through that.
Those poor bandmates, they tour with this moron?
WATT THE FAAAAWWWWK his poor bandmates – they look absolutely miserable & humiliated. kick billy bob outta that band STAT, amigos!! if they’re not using his fame to further the band’s career, why not have any Joe Shmoe take his place? they could have a lot more fun. and music’s supposed to be fun…
F U, B-Bob.
I’ll tell you what just happened here. He’s turned me off now of every paying attention to his band or their work. Bye bye, Box-whatever.
Yeah, seriously! And Billy Bob was so damn cocky about himself and his music. What an asshole. I had never heard of the band and now I don’t want to hear their music. Oh, and 3 records in a year? Seriously? Those can’t be of very high quality…
That was TOTALLY worth 13 minutes. What an awful, immature person. I did stuff like that when I was like, 5. That DJ was awesome though — he was respectful, but definitely pushed back. Not that I was interested in BB’s band in the first place but…now I’m really really not.
Haven’t read all the comments so don’t know if anyone has told you yet, but the Canadian equivalent is a Gemini award.
Lainey posted the video yesterday. At the beginning I was really thinking he was acting. Towards the end it became obvious, as Lainey said:
“He is bitter, bored, sarcastic, pompous, conceited, and f-cking rude. It’s obnoxious. And embarrassing. And very unattractive. Above all things unattractive.”
Gross. What a gross human being. I work admin in a radio station and radio personalities do not get due credit a lot of the time. This gentleman deserves a big fat “good job!” for maintaining his composure and not shrinking back from BBT. He met him head on. Give that man a raise.
WhAT a DICK!
He’s an ACTOR – this is a set up to get people talking about the band
Exxxxcept for the fact they canceled their Canadian portion of the tour after their show in Toronto. If you’re looking for publicity, you don’t normally drop out of your tour.
Pretty much agree with what everyone has said except I don’t think he was either high or being an ass. I think he was high and is an ass. Or still another possiblity is that he’s Joaquining us. The interviewer/dj was great. That’s why I could never have a job like that, I have absolutly no patience for that kind-a shit. And his band mates, ugh! I felt so uncomfortable for them.
“would you say that to tom petty?”
oh my gosh I died
I guarantee you, that guy could have asked Tom Petty any question he wanted. Petty is way too cool and laid back to act like such a jerk.
Wow…what a tool.
Urgghh… I’m really not a fan of Jian (despite my love for everything that airs on cbc radio1) but I actually felt bad for him here.
If you follow Q (the radio program) on a regular basis you realize that Jian is pretty clueless and fairly pompous, but even he doesn’t deserve this.
I couldn’t disagree more. I am Canadian. I listen and love CBC radio and think Jian Ghomeshi is a helluva classy guy that enhances the air waves.
BBT needs his head checked. It’s broken.
my favorite part is when BBT asks if he would ask the same question to Tom Petty, at which point the interviewer says yes, and BBT is totally caught off guard with his douchliness.
what a jerk.
I had a vision of Angelina and Brad watching this in their kitchen on a laptop, and Brad just looking at her going “really? REALLY? you found THIS attractive?” and Angelina going “OMFG did I dodge a bullet or what? Thank GOD I didn’t let him have any custody over Madd!”
BAHAHAHAHA.
I watched this yesterday and was blown away at what an asshole Billy Bob was. And that interviewer is a freakin’ saint.
Hahahaha. This cracks me up. What a douche.
BUT I’m still a fan of Billy Bob and his acting.
He’s such a middle-aged ass. I feel bad for the other band members that probably have to put up with his crap all the time. You can see it in their faces “oh crap, Billy is in one of those moods again.” Pathetic.
haha, he just wanted to know what he listened to as a kid.. and suddenly bbt was being a dick. I don’t really get it. It would have been nice to hear more from the other band mambers, one of them had some interesting things to say about the band. bbt was more like “no, don’t talk about me, but please do, because I like to remind people to not do it.”
How in the hell can he even suggest he’s on the same level as Tom Petty!! Please..I feel sorry for the band.
The interviewer should have completely tuned out Thornton after his response to the second question and only interviewed the other members of the band for the rest of the period. It would have been the greatest “dis” ever. Is BBT really that arrogant and stupid to believe that anyone who is going to interview him as a musician is not going to at least minimally refer to his acting career? How is that Kevin Bacon doesn’t have any issues when he is being interviewed with this brother? Oh, that’s right — probably because he doesn’t have half the ego of this a-hole.
What a petty reason to be such a DOUCHEE. The interviewer made one comment about how Billy Bob was an actor, and then talked about music and the band FOR THE REST OF THE EFFING TIME and he throws a hissy fit…
I really don’t understand what Angelina ever saw in this Fucktard..
On a sidenote, sorry to offend anyone, but it really drives me nuts when people say Where and it sounds like Hoo-air, and What sounds like Hoo-at…even if he was a nice guy that would still turn me off
…Hoo-en I was little reading my stupid magazine blah, blah, blah…yuck
heehee
OMG!! i know exactly what you mean. and then i can’t focus on what the person is saying because i’m too focused on the way they pronounce their “wh”…. haha it annoys me too.
You can see him smiling a little while giving the insane answers. He knew how much press the Joaquin Phoenix interview on Letterman got.
Would any of us of heard of this interview otherwise?
Wow…that was…amusing, his incoherence was…wow.
Mostly I feel sorry for the guys in his band. Seems like they fear him, or maybe they fear that something he’s going to say will end up in a nasty mood swing. I wonder if those guys are regretting letting BBT play with them. That interviewer certainly knows how to bob and weave but his jab was weak, it may have cost him his job but he should’ve thrown his ass out. Fuck BBT! Sorry Boxcutters, won’t be looking up your tunes any time soon.
He is either on far too much medication, or not nearly enough.
WOW thanks for posting this one Beet just WOW…Ilove BBT in films damn this is a new perspective
GREAT PLAN, insult your audience before performing…what a clever guy.
Jian’s intro to the band was very much based on their music he mentioned BBT’s career casually as if to brush over it…
but yeah the faces of his band mates were sad before he even started talking lol they had to knew he was F*ed up before the interview
Jian is cute!
So I was clueless about BBT having a band, but now that I know about them, I pretty much hate them.
God! What a douchebag! And the rest of the band looks STONED. ugh…
they sound like they have no passion. Is this what drugs do to ppl?
My uncle won a broadcasting award and it was a Juno. It’s one of those Juno awards that they don’t broadcast on TV.
BBT is a total asshat. How rude.