Career Ending Moments

The Dean Scream

What was so bad about what Howard Dean did? Yelling out the names of different states (in the US)? It never made sense to me.

Michael Richards’ comedy show rant

"Which one of you bitches is my mother??"

-Phoebe Cates in LACE

Roseanne singing the National Anthem and grabbing her crotch.

Joe Biden, 2024 Presidential Debate

R3 That was one of the most shameless, pathetic, down right appalling public melt downs I have ever seen. I wouldn’t left though. I would roasted the living shit out of his ass first. The audience would have beg me to go on stage.

Dan Quayle teaching a child how to spell.

Elizabeth Berkeley in Showgirls.

Michael Beck in Xanadu.

[quote] Roseanne singing the National Anthem and grabbing her crotch.

Her show was #1 in the ratings and stayed there for years after that.

Kathy Griffin and the Trump head thing. I think she could have recovered, but she started acting nutty after that (nuttier than she had been).

[quote]What was so bad about what Howard Dean did? Yelling out the names of different states (in the US)? It never made sense to me.

R2 It wasn’t the state names, it was his frightening “YAAAAAAH”

Dean was losing before the scream. He and Dick Gephardt got into a tiff, hurting both candidates. Gephardt wound up 5th in Iowa & withdrew. Dean came in third & limped to NH.

Donald Trump grabbing women by the pussy.

Oh, wait...

R14 You meant to write November 5, 2024.

I’d choose one of the faux pas made by JD Vance, but I have a feeling we haven’t reached peak Vance yet.

All of them, Katie.

When Christa McAuliffe entered the Space Shuttle Challenger

R18 savage

I'm not a witch, I'm you.

The Ashlee Simpson jig

When Sia released that film about the mentally disabled child.

Hillary deciding she needed a private server.

Trump choosing Vance.

R24 We can only hope...

[quote] I’d choose one of the faux pas made by JD Vance, but I have a feeling we haven’t reached peak Vance yet.

THE BEST IS YET TO COME!!!!

Not letting Gary talk me out of Life with Lucy.

There are a few. Many actually. Let’s me think on this and get back to you

Anyone else remember the shocking moment when George HW Bush checked his watch during a debate with Bill Clinton?

Oh my stars and garters. A more innocent time.

“Deplorables” and it got such a laugh and cheer when it was said, It was one snappy retort.

Russia. Let’s invade our partner in crime Russia.

When Harry met Meghan.

R32 is a Royalist

When Megan met Harry

"What was so bad about what Howard Dean did?"

The Rethugs successfully saturated the media that he was mentally ill.

Marco Rubio caught simultaneously

SUCKING COCK

and

GETTING FUCKED UP THE ASS

"Deplorables” and it got such a laugh and cheer when it was said"

Hillary got the last laugh, as Trump has lost billions as a result of running for POTUS 3 times. He lost his cash cow "The Apprentice", fake charity and university, businesses, branding, endorsements, his reputation and almost his life. And hopefully soon his freedom.

Mary, maybe a play would cheer you up.

R36

And trump not Clinton now controls the USSC. And the right will control the SC for years to come.

And you can be doing the happy dance now in July but I will wait until they count the fucking EC votes.

Paula Abdul at the 1991 MTV VMA Awards.

Harris picking Pete as VP .

EDITED: sorry I thought this thread was about predictions not history.

When Muriel added an edit function.

Paula Deen shit the bed with her racist comments.

R2, it really does look ridiculous now, doesn't it? What a big deal over nothing! It's just cheesy, it's nothing like, I don't know, banging a couch or grabbing someone's privates.

Side of beef Hillary

r43, I'm still upset at mainstream media for running with that idiocy

R45 the MSM should be forbidden to show the stupid things that pols do while running for office without permission?

Yes. We need an effective and professional censorship board.

R45 isn't arguing for censorship, they were just saying that it's ridiculous that the MSM blew it up into something it wasn't and ran it into the ground. If only they cared this much about Trump's felony counts.

bullshit. reporting on his scream is one thing, but as I recall it became a 24/7 rant about it for a FUCKING WEEK. that's nonsense.

Forbidding someone to say or show something YOU DON'T LIKE is the very definition of censorship.

R50, you're trolling. Once again, that poster wasn't arguing for censorship, they were saying it's ridiculous that it was ran into the ground.

It’s easy to stop the press with running with these stupid stories you don’t like about couches and cute pictures of tanks just put your boot up their ass real hard and camps

I found that camps work really well

R2, during the campaign Dean was thought to have a short temper and be a bit unhinged. That was his particular narrative that dogged him. When he did the scream it seemed like confirmation of all of that. That’s why it was so bad at the time. Anyone else could have done it and nobody would have noticed. But with him it seemed extra crazy.

They are saying the MSM should be forbidden to say certain things about candidates. That's a clear definition of censorship. Did you ever have a civics class? Saying the call to forbid showing certain things is not censorship is one of the dumbest things ever said on Datalounge. That's saying something. Find better words like: "I wish the media would focus more on policy than a forever loop leading us to believe that a candidate was crazy for screaming. When in fact his microphone had stopped working so he was yelling so everyone could hear him." See how the English language works?

And who cares how someone spells a fruit? Why run that story for decades?

Not quite career ending, but we were spared of Mel Gibson for awhile after this. ("Sugartits" didn't help much, either.)

“The bitch set me up”

Karen Lynn Gorney, Saturday Night Fever

r50, fuck off, cunt

#44, I still believe she was poisoned or drugged at that event. And that photographer stalked her til he got the shot. But she'd never admit it because it would make her sound loony.

R2 The media were the primary factor for coloring Howard Dean as unpresidential for his hollering of the state names as a rallying call. How does that make one unfit for the presidency? And yet they normalize all of Trump's horrific actions for 9 years.

r60 It wouldn't make her sound nearly as loony as you.

Paula Abdul's performance of Vibeology. But what should have received MORE attention was the "plane crash". Paula insists that she was in a plane crash. One that there is no record of. She is clearly out of her mind. She and Britney should meet up to make tik tok dance videos.

Crispin Glover on Letterman

[quote]Karen Lynn Gorney, Saturday Night Fever

The movie didn't derail her career.

The story goes that she was a guest on Dinah Shore's talk show with other rising actresses of the moment and was higher than a kite. Dinah was livid and told friends in the industry that she was a trainwreck.

Never saw the Dinah episode, but she did an episode of Fernwood Tonight around that time, where she was wearing sunglasses and seemed spaced out.

R64 His heel basically missed Dave's head by a couple of inches. I would have thrown his ass out as well.

"because you'd be in jail" kind of ended Hillary's run. That's when i decided to vote for President Trump.

#67, because pottymouth, juvenile threats is what you seek in a President?

R68 Please learn to use R instead of # when replying to a post. Otherwise, you're talking to yourself.

I voted for her, but jeez this is still painful.

When you are a gay male flight attendant and you go batshit crazy when a black man taps you and asks for ice for his kid and you have him arrested.

I wonder if he is a DLer?

What is the scandal about the Paula Abdul performance? I can't see anything that bad about it.

You cunts are REALLY slipping.

Ashlee Simpson's lipsync/backing track fuckup on SNL

Ha, let me try that again. Ashlee Simpson's lipsync/backing track fuckup on SNL

R67 needs to remove her cunt from the premises.

Even Cheryl is wearing a gas mask.

Let's keep this thread free from 2016 post-mortems. If anyone tried but failed for a long and complex stack of reasons and it was never just one single career ending moment, it's Hillary.

When that tape leaked of Stephen Collins admitting he molested kids and was glad he never had sons because he would molest them or some sick shit like that. I think that was around 2014. Definite career ender.

Glenn Miller, # 1 in the world at that time, deciding he was tired of plane delays and was going to catch an unauthorized flight to France so as not to be late..

Sinead O'Connor was a top tier pop star in 1992 when she stood and ripped up the Pope picture on SNL and got shredded 1000x worse than the picture did. She was marginalized in pop music ever since.

At the time, few people understood how pervasive and extensive the priests-molesting-children scandal was across the entire Roman Catholic Church. It was an epidemic and it damaged so many young lives. Sinead was right, but she paid for it dearly.

R80, it's very sad what happened to her. But, at the same time, I also don't think she cared enough to play the pop game.

Stephen Collins is nuts, calling a 13 year old “young lady” or “young woman.”

His wife only spilled the beans, IIRC, when they were going through their divorce.

He maybe nuts r82, but I don't get how calling a 13 year old girl "young lady" is a bad thing. It's routinely done. How many times do parents scream "you get right back in here young man?" They aren't referring to their grown children. "You're raising such a nice young lady." That used to be a good thing. Or has that changed?

When Mommy caught me walking around in her heels in front of Daddy.

R83, he’s diminishing the fact that he molested a minor.

Context is everything here.

R75 Ashlee may have killed her own career, but MAD TV nailed the coffin shut.

Trump appearing at the NBAJ today and torpedoing his Campaign. His handlers actually pulled him 30 minutes early! Lol!

Context is everything R83? I’m what context did he use it? In an inappropriate one?

R84 Honey, that's when your career got started.

Charles Rocket says the f-word on SNL.

... then he died.

Deney Terrio accusing Merv Griffin of sexual harassment

It's a disgrace that Deney Terrio has to endure unwanted sexual advances from Merv Griffin and because of his status and money Merv was able to kill that lawsuit against him.

Donald Trump's racist ramblings before the NABJ on July 31, 2024.

(sing-gasps) So take a look at me now!

How can anyone seriously compare Stephen Collins' admittedly imprudent oversharing with the artistic holocaust presented by R94?

I thought Tom Cruise jumping on Oprah's couch was the finish of him but nope.

The Golden Palace.

R96 At least he didn't fuck it!

JD Vance's nomination to be Vice President.

[quote]Donald Trump's racist ramblings before the NABJ on July 31, 2024.

Sadly, it’s actually career-enhancing for him because his fanbase is mostly racist too.

I’m hungry.

When the Hillary campaign went to see Hamilton.

When I did the right thing. For once.

When I sang with Rob Lowe.

The Oprah interview

That should have been an ending for Rob Lowe, R104, but he bounced back okay.

Felicity Huffman and the college admissions cheating scandal.

R103 Mike Pence reached out to Dan Quayle and other constitutional scholars and confirmed that:

1. The Vice president doesn't have the authority to reject the EC votes and send them back to the states.

2. He would put himself in legal and criminal jeopardy

3. His action would have put the US into a constitutional crisis.

Ergo, Mike Pence would have become a criminal just like Trump. Some people make it sound like he should get special applause for doing the correct thing. If anything he just did not bow to pressure to do the illegal thing.

The ashlee simpson thing was so ridiculous. Like how hard would it have been to just have them turn the mic on and sing the song?

[quote] Like how hard would it have been to just have them turn the mic on and sing the song?

Trust me, you don't wanna know.

Getting busted for toe tapping in the rest area men's room.

"I am not gay, I never have been gay. I love my wife"

Withdrawing large amounts of cash to buy the silence of the underage man I sexually abused.

R109 like

I’m headed to Subway. Does anyone want me to bring them back something?

Speaking of Subway and career enders....

I have a wide stance!

Aren't we Tim?

I was molested...but not by Jared.

R115, reading about him and the fact that his college roommate remembered having the biggest porn collection he had ever seen. It's so creepy. I hope he stays in jail for a long, long time.

Versace going to the News Cafe for his morning magazines instead of sending his assistant like he usually did.

This debacle. The dancing at @ 1:21 is hilarious!

That was his video director's instructions, and not his idea. I guess dancing in a music video was considered inappropriate image for a talented rock guitarist.

OJ and his last fight with his x-wife.

Sonny Bono goes skiing.

R124 .....one....last...time....

Get off my lanai Sonny Bono.

FUCK YOU ALL!!!

Flashing my tits and pussy in Showgirls.

Andy Dick has made a career out of ending his career.

Meow

That swedish cow climbing out of a pool, trying to remain relevant in 1941 by attempting to be modern and glamorous hoping to increase her appeal to filmgoers in the US.

Funny they had her in all that getup and the most she could do was a glorified doggy paddle. At least she didn’t Efron herself diving in.

Atlanta Braves pitcher John Rocker giving that racist interview to Sports Illustrated in 1999. He was pitching well before that interview, but the backlash (deserved) that he got from it followed him until his career ended a few years later. It totally derailed him. He was also suspended like 15 games for what he said. Seems like a real piece of shit.

A J Clemente’s first day as a news anchor.

That moment Mom got a little peeved...

Paul Reubens' arrest for indecent exposure.

Michael Richards' racist tirade.

R133 Queens is the most ethnically diverse county in the USA. Even if his ignorant ass from Georgia didn't know that, he should at least know better than to display his bigotry in a high profile interview.

[quote]Paul Reubens' arrest for indecent exposure.

Reubens had a tough time of it for awhile, but that event did not kill his career, r,136.