Jon Stewart recently revealed during a live appearance with Stephen Colbert that Hugh Grant was his all-time, least-favorite Daily Show guest and was banned from the show after an appearance to promote Did You Hear about the Morgans. I accidentally read it as “Hugh Jackman” at first and I was like, “Whaaat? That’s insane!” And then when I re-read it and it was Hugh Grant, I was like, “Oh, well… yeah, that makes sense.”
Stewart’s least favorite guest of all time is Hugh Grant, “and we’ve had dictators on the show”. Grant spent his time at the studio complaining that he had other places to be. “He’s giving everyone sh*t the whole time, and he’s a big pain in the ass,” Stewart recalled.
Grant also complained to the staff about the clip that was selected of the movie he was promoting, Did You Hear About the Morgans? – a clip that was obviously supplied by the film’s publicist. Stewart recalls Grant angrily asking “What is that clip? It’s a terrible clip.” “Well, then make a better f**king movie,” Stewart said, adding that he would “never” have Grant back. [ThirdBeat]
To be fair to Hugh Grant, imagine having to do 10 straight hours of interviews about this movie:
This is why I fully support actors, whenever asked “what can you tell us about your character?” Answering, “Well, Bob, my character is basically this guy I pretended to be for short stretches in exchange for money.” That should be the only answer.
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Sounds like he . . . *sunglasses* did a bad thing. YEEEAAAHHH!
I’m pretty sure all will be forgiven if he does his next Daily Show interview in his cannibal get-up from Cloud Atlas.
Maybe if he brought in a pair of Elizabeth Hurley’s panties to smooth things over…
Anyone stupid enough to step out on Liz Hurley is an asshole. But dammit if I don’t watch the shit out of Love Actually.
Jesus Christ. Of all the fucking Hugh Grant movies you could’ve picked, you chose Love Actually.
There were Hugh Grant movies he could have picked?
About a Boy is pretty cute.
But, then again, chubby British children singing rap songs will always be funny.
It’s an ensemble cast Vince!
“About a Boy” is not bad. He plays an asshole getting blackmailed by a kid.
Gawdammit, I was ready to riff on I’m just a boy… standing in front of the internet… asking it to…
About A Boy. Jesus.
I’m sorry, but if you don’t like “About a Boy”…and Chris Hansen isn’t hunting you, you’re a bad person. Wait, no, even if Hansen is hunting you I guess you’re a bad person, but seriously, I will throw an inappropriately dense chunk of bread on the head of anyone who doesn’t like that movie.
Also, “Love Actually” had Bill Nighy in it…there should be no other requirement to watch a movie. In case you wanted to know. I rest my case. Case dismissed. Let’s drink a case.
LOL
If you have been reading Filmdrunk for any length of time you should know that Vince loathes “Love Actually” above all things.
Or maybe I’ve just been reading Filmdrunk for too long.
PS:
The best ever Hugh Grant movie is an old barely seen one from the early 1990s called “An Awfully Big Adventure.” He plays a coke addicted, gay, director of a low rent theater production of “Peter Pan” in 1950s England. He’s just a massive, bitchy, asshole in it, but always with the smallest touch of charm—which is kind of how I imagine him in real life.
There’s actually an awesome scene in it where the usual guy who plays captain hook (as a comic villain) dies and Hugh Grant’s character has to take over for him and he plays it totally mean and over the top and terrifies all the children. IT’s maybe the best thing Hugh Grant has ever done.
The best Hugh Grant movie is Sirens. Portia de Rossi and Elle Macpherson naked, and Sam Neill basically calls Grant a hypocritical idiot.
I like him that 9 months. He was the main character right?
Vince are you one of those people that thinks Love Actually isn’t awesome? What is wrong with those people? I think their hearts are two sizes too small.
Or our brains are too sizes 2 big.
Listen, I’ve been reading this blog since 1970, and you’ve been wrong about a ton of stuff during that time. Over the years you’ve made statements supporting the later works of Happy Madison & calling for more films about dancers banding together to save the rec center, but never have you said something as ill-informed and foolish as to disparage Love Actually. Trust me, I’m a five time Comment of the Week winner.
Love Actually is only notable holding the world record for artlessly cramming a record number of cloying rom-com tropes into one movie. Also, it has future-Bilbo feauxing. Maybe nerds just like it retroactively.
My previous post would have been ten times more devastating if it didn’t read like I had a stroke while typing it.
I think that was the point Wumpus, it’s incredibly self-aware. Plus it’s rated R, and that was a dying breed in rom-coms before Love Actually. I really can’t think of a romantic comedy I have enjoyed more. Do Apatow movies count?
Love Actually reminds me that the best thing I can say about most romantic comedies is that they aren’t 135 minutes long. The guy who wrote 4Weddings1Funeral and The Tall Guy went on to do this and War Horse. Fuck you, time marching on.
Yeah and Vince likes his balls cupped when he gets a BJ. Thanks for the lesson.
Love Actually is one of the few romantic comedies an actual male can watch without wanting to kill himself. There aren’t very many of those.
I know so many women that would gouge your eyes out just for suggesting Hugh Grant isn’t perfect. Their devotion is gross. And now I’m off to watch Star Wars for the 412th time.
You need to hang out with younger women.
As do we all.
I’ve never seen Love Actually. Am I really missing out on something here?
If you’re XY, no you’re not.
I wish the show hosts would call these people out for being dicks while they’re on the show. I feel like Stewart would be one of the best to do it.
That’s one of the reasons why Letterman is THE BEST interviewer on late night. He has no qualms about eviscerating someone if they do something to piss him off or if he thinks they are just generally famous for loathsome reasons.
I’m glad you embedded that trailer. I’d assumed Did You Hear About the Morgans? was a documentary about Morgan Freeman, Morgan Fairchild, Tracy Morgan, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Harry Morgan AND Henry Morgan, directed by Morgan Spurlock. Which sounded kind of cool.
But this? Not so much.
Somehow I think this is all going to end with Hugh Grant showing up with flowers saying that he’s just a boy, asking another boy to forgive him and to love him.
I was really hoping for a fish-out-of-water story about some City Slickers spending time on a ranch. Imagine the wacky hijinks they’ll get into. At least there’s no way they’ll be exposed to some homespun wisdom from the locals, and realize there’s more to life than the ratrace.
Also, Sarah Jessica Parker riding a horse is like a monkey riding an ape.
Hugh has been trying to get ‘Love Actually 2: The Search for Curly’s Gold’ made for a long time.
“This is why I fully support actors, whenever asked “what can you tell us about your character?” Answering, “Well, Bob, my character is basically this guy I pretended to be for short stretches in exchange for money.” That should be the only answer.”
Except Daniel Day Lewis. That guy studies his characters to the most tiny detail. Like how Lincoln pissed: did sit or did he stand? did leave the seat up or did he kindly put it down? did he wash his hands? The guy is dedicated.
There are a few actors I’ll really listen to. D-Day is def one.
But mostly I change the channel.
Sarah Jessica Parker looks like a horse.
*crickets*
I’m sorry, it’s been a long day and I’m tired.
Yes, but I would rather watch Kenneth Pinyan’s home videos than a Sarah Jessica Parker sex tape.
I was going to write that Hugh Grant’s only positive contribution to the world was his role as Lisa Simpson’s future love interest in “Lisa’s Wedding.”
Luckily I googled that shit first b/c it turns out that character was voiced by Mandy Fucking Patinkin and was just a parody of Hugh Grant.
…. I’ll cool story, bro myself out of here.
To be fair to Grant, word did get to him about this and he turned around and said “No, that’s fair. I was a dick. I wouldn’t have me back either.”
Kind of refreshing to see an actor own up to being an insufferable douchebag, not try to pass it off as having a bad day or there was stuff going on behind the scenes or any other type of excuse. He just said “Yep. I was a tool. That’s totally on me”
Yeah, but what else can you do publicity wise? You need to make a comment, and you’re not gonna go to war with someone with the credibility of JStew.
The interview is pretty awful. Hugh Grant muscles a smile through most of it.