Danny DeVito might just be our favourite man of all-time. If it wasn't enough that Danny DeVito was in Taxi and directed Throw Momma From The Train and Matilda – the best Roald Dahl remake ever – he also lurches about apparently drunk on daytime TV.
At the moment Danny DeVito is doing his darndest to promote Deck The Halls, a rubbish looking film about some Christmas lights. It's just that his methods of doing it are slightly unusual. Yesterday Danny DeVito went on daytime TV show The View direct from a party with George Clooney and gave a virtuoso performance in dishevelled weirdness, rambling on incomprehensibly about the movie, sitting on Rosie O'Donnell's knee and calling George Bush a) something that was bleeped out and b) "The guy who eb eb eb eb eb eb eb eb eb eb eb eb wuh wuh wuh wuh wuh wuh wuh wuh wuh wuh ung ung ung ung ung." Danny DeVito has since phoned The View bigwig Barbara Walters to apologise, although it seems strange that anyone would want to apologise for the finest six minutes of television since the dawn of man.
The View is basically Loose Women for Americans, but instead of being hosted by Jane McDonald and the bitter woman who was once married to Shane Ritchie, it's hosted by prolifically confusing blogger Rosie O'Donnell, Barbara Walters, some shrieking conservative and another vaguely anonymous woman. But where on Loose Women a bunch of women talk about curtains for half an hour, The View manages to play host to some things that are actually interesting from time to time. And when we say 'from time to time' we mean 'yesterday and only yesterday', because that's when Danny DeVito turned up for an interview while apparently steaming drunk.
Usually when celebrities get drunk in public it's as a cry for help – witness Mel Gibson screaming about the fucking Jews or David Hasselhoff pissing in his trousers in an airport – but not Danny DeVito. Danny DeVito seems to be more of a 'Jackie Chan interrupting a concert' drunk, and all the better for it. Before Danny DeVito went on The View he wasn't downing lonely brandies, angry that Deck The Halls was only number four in the weekend box office – he was out partying with George Clooney. And if you can't let a man cut loose with the world's sexiest man and the manliest man's man in all of mandom, then there's probably something wrong with you.
Highlights of Danny DeVito's interview on The View included a long, rambling monologue about how much sex he had with his wife in Abraham Lincoln's bed during a stay at The White House, a bleeped-out tirade about George Bush and the single most impressive description of movie you're ever likely to hear, as Danny DeVito incomprehensibly yammered about Deck The Halls, pausing only to throw up a little bit in his mouth by the looks of things. Sadly, Danny DeVito had to inevitably sober up at some point, and when he did he phoned Barbara Walters to apologise, as the Boston Herald reports:
Danny DeVito apologised to Barbara Walters yesterday after his plowed performance on her daytime chat show “The View” – a spectacle that included Three Stooges impersonations of President Bush and too much information about a White House bedroom romp with his bride… Later in the day, DeVito’s rep Stan Rosenfield told TMZ that his client had asked for Walters’ phone number in order to say “what needed to be said privately” to her. Rosenfield also confirmed that DeVito and Clooney were out together the night before and that “they had a good time.”
And just so you know what's so brilliant, Gawker has a video of Danny DeVito on The View. We're pretty sure Danny calls President Bush "numbnuts" but feel free to chime in with any other suggestions.
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