Jeremy Piven Slams Billy Bush

I present to you the evidence of why celebrities hate doing press.

Seriously... the networks need to cancel all this pre-show Emmy/Oscar garbage, or at least find someone who has a brain AND can hold a microphone.

First, did anyone catch the idiot woman for NBC asking Annette Bening whether she'd like an Emmy to go with her Oscar?  Yeah, um... Annette doesn't have an Oscar, you nightmarish toad.  She has lost three times though, so, um... close.  She's "been happy to be nominated" twice to Hilary Swank and once to freaking Whoopi Goldberg, so I'm sure she's all really cool about it, and definitely willing to answer awkward awful questions on live TV and all.  Just for that encounter, here's hoping she wins for Running With Scissors.

Although Helen Mirren might have something to say about that.  Good lord... that movie just screams Best Actress.

But the even better showdown, was Jeremy Piven handing Billy Bush his lunch.  This idiot (apparently, the smart Bush) first asks him if he's seen Violet Garner (Ben and Jennifer's baby) recently.  When Piven says no, Bush then asks him whether he's seen Shiloh (Brad and Angelina's baby).  Piven gives him a big generous clue and says that he has had "116 other things to do... I don't go hunting for celebrity babies, thank you, Billy."

Incredulously, this idiot then asked him whether he's seen (wait for it) Suri Cruise.  I shit you not.  I can't believe Piven didn't just deck him on live TV.  Instead he went with, "You need another job. You have potential as a human being.  This may not be right for you. Seriously -- can you focus on other things?"

And my love for Jeremy Piven continues to grow...

Comments

[Brett]

Cancel these interviews???? It's the best part of the show! After watching Piven rip Billy and the Bening fiasco, I want the networks to make the red carpet an hour longer and sign those two interviewers for another ten years. I'm never missing a red carpet again.

[Jim Gleeson]

Wait, I think I have heard of this. The Emmys are some awards show right?

[davidwag]

Haven't we had enough Bush bashing in the past 6 years?

[Webpager]

Piven's THE MAN! Love these types of responses. He seems to be the kind of guy who would say, "Hey, I'm an actor. It's a job. It doesn't make me better or smarter or someone to look up to more than anyone else."

I agree with Brett... cancel?!! No way. This is more of a reason to watch and see the idiots who should be reading from a script, not creating one, trying to do impromptu reporting. Hummm...

I'd love to have heard some responses from George Clooney... Reporter: "Have you seen the children of this star or that one?" George: "Have you seen the ones that are dying or being killed daily in Africa? Want to see the pictures in my wallet? How about asking how we're going to save them?" George is the man as well.