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  • i love him so much. <3 joaquine i love you so much forever and ever <333

  • Either way, after what happened to river, you would think he would be more against drugs. But yet again he's talented, so he'll probably die young anyways. The talented ones always do.

  • Funny thing is that he admitted recently... something. Joaquin admitted something..

  • The male news anchor is such a dumb ass, tyt should take away his right to talk.

  • it totally was not an act, i has all the signs of weed, but the sort of weed that makes you paranoid (as he was) - or he is just the sort that gets paranoid on weed like how some people do, or he just took a shit load of it. it was totally weed with paranoia.

  • it was an act for his documentary/film

  • @liamrenn actually if youve watched the documentary "im still here " you wouldve seen how upset he was from what he had done, joaquine ,he is litterallly messed up in his head. he is a brilliant man, but he does have some issues, through his whole documentary you can see this.ive heard he was in some type of cult with his familly when he was younger, from his parents believes. also his brother river was also pretty wierd too. i believe this made him that way.

  • @liamrenn and also my mother has a disorder, that reminds me of him. i see that he probably has same thing. he is very anxious and he went into a break down, i belive he has CPTSD. (Complex post-traumatic stress disorder) i hate that people make a joke of him. he was 100% serious on this. he needs some support . he is a brilliant person, but at this point he was going through a break down. he was also very nervous. the combination is not a good mixture.

  • Drugs do fit into a vegan diet.

  • I think Charlie Sheen is just doing the same thing 

  • @BlackInsanity1 i dont think sheen could pull off the hipster hobo look

    

  • Mr. Cool.

    I wear my sunnnglasses at night!

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  • @penguinsoulja96 Way to spell dumb ass you dumb ass.

  • @Chaoitcme

    *Arse

  • TYT.. is that a typo of tit? Cause that's exactly what these two hosts are... tits.

  • i love joaquin phoenix even more...

  • I'm kinda like that at job interviews nd i dnt do drugs ;(

  • what was the problem? everyone + Cenk is weird not Pheonix

  • Turns out Ana was right. You go girl!

  • well the guy just came out with documentary about him being on drugs so idk what to believe, if he is acting its oscar worthy

  • TYT are retarded

  • @bebobobalu ...why?

  • First off watch the full episode. Secondly he appears to be doing a character. Very much Andy Kaufman. Watch this and make your opinion. Andy Kaufman on Letterman (June 24th 1980)

  • responses to THESE douche bags

    1. you're a fuck

    2. fuck you stupid pop news fucks

    3. fuck you

    4. fuck you fucks

    honestly really he decides to change his career and hes on drugs? he changes his career, hes on drugs? and some people have to laugh at him and be fuckers and make him all nervous and make fun of him for his choices, people like this are the pubic hairs on the toilet of society

  • Them two presenters are no lifes. If I saw them I would slap their face and laugh.

  • @mirwin931 Ya, you'd slap a 6,2" tall, 190lb heavy 40 year old Turkish guy in the face, it'd go really well for you - 19 years old & skinny

  • @Kougeki1000 I'm 6''5 240 pounds, ill do it for him

  • @rorson Careful fatty, you might get a heart attack :( Go take a nap.

    Spanish people, psh

  • @Kougeki1000 Fat :S Spanish? :S are you Turkish, like the cunt on the TV?

  • @Kougeki1000 When you're 6' 5", 240 pounds isn't dangerous for him, it's dangerous for you.

  • I know someone who is a huge fan of Phoenix and was torn because of this interview. Obviously, Letterman wasn't the only one fooled. Joaquin, that may have been hilarious but it wasn't very considerate!

  • @spaciousgalaxy Not everyone was fooled. If you saw the interview all the way to the end, his demeanor completely changes once the music plays. Maybe he thought the cameras were off, that's when you could see for sure Joaquin was just acting up for something.  The fact someone was off stage filming him was another clue. Letterman knew what was up.

  • it was a publicity stunt for one of his movies >.<

  • I still can't believe valuable and expensive air time was wasted on interviewing this drug casualty. Garbage in, garbage out.

  • @smialek316 it was a promo for a movie

  • kcchief....r u serious. how was it not an act...how is it still not clear to you exactly? how....

  • Interesting watching this in late 2010, experiencing all that we have in the past couple of years.

  • i don't like the new Joaquin Phoenix, he used to be cool and a great actor, but now he's just a fat rapper that has a long beard i hate. Come back old Joaquin Phoenix

  • Male host is a worst actor then Joaquin. He should just give Joaquin a bj now and save us anymore of this bs...

  • Its been confirmed, it was all an act for the film 'I'm still here'. What an actor.

  • its like a Zach Galifianakis character

  • there is somuch acting in it.. its definitely not for real.. cool guy!!=)

  • Hip Hop-the refuge of the illiterate and untalented!

  • I know its a Hoax for 2 specific reasons

    1. He suggested to play his music on the show, but immediately mad an excuse to turn attention from doing it immediately.

    2. He has to wear glasses to keep in character.

  • HE IS NOT ACTING. He is on drugs, I've been around and honestly will say i've done enough shit to know...your options 2 and 3 were the right ones. Drugs and being out of your mind coincide He was wearing sunglasses INSIDE so no one could see how fucked up he was and the hobo appearance is typical for white rappers, especially if they are going for a white rastafar look.

  • @warofrazors999 The right word is Whitestafari

  • @warofrazors999 It's been confirmed it was all an act lol. There's a film coming out on it, it's a documentary, also he has another proper interview with david letterman.

  • @2pakiMakabeli it wasnt an act he even went back on letterman and they were joking about it and he appologized

  • @KCChief4evr Yes he apologized for deceiving Dave Letterman.... Are you seriously that daft?

  • @KCChief4evr yes it was an act he even said it was for his movie that casey afflack was filming his brother in law

  • there's nothing wrong with looking like that, but he was acting pretty strange.

  • Jim Morrison reincarnation..

  • AM I NOT MERCIFUL!????

  • "youd have to be a hell of an actor to do that" uh ya this is Joaquin Phoenix, there arent very many better actors. I dont know why hes underestimating him so much, he must not have seen his movies.

  • Haa.. he sorta reminds me of Larry Charles here.. the director.. HELLO!

  • I just thought this was an awkward interview...

  • the sunglasses gives it all away i wounder what his eyes looked like

  • what kind of drugs do that to a guy,that's what i'd like to know, crack doesn't give you that kind of high,nor heroine let alone weed, so what kind of drug? i think either he just lost his mind or he is really acting.

  • @IamJohnyD clearly he shot (IV'd) some H or some oxy's

  • @xpurity666 ya he for sure is railing 80's or some good Chiva... watch him scratch his face, dead give away... maybe some zanny's too

  • He's a genius. And insane. He's an insane genius.

  • @shamantics most geniuses, are insane

  • I really don't like this fat piece of shit turk douche.

  • that wasnt acting...hes high on opiates or uppers...get ur heads outta ur ass

  • maybe he wants to trick us and faking

  • I think he was high but i dont think he done this on purpose, i think Letterman pissed him off at the start of the show about his beard. i think his way of retaliating was, to just yes, no. Like he had had enough. To me that whole beard part shook him up, he looked nervous as hell after that.

  • these guys are fuckin retarded its not a fuckin act.. they just dont know shit about drugs so they just automatically assume its fake.. i think he might have been on acid or shrooms and just having a bad trip.. thats why he was so uncomfortable on the show.. and is also the reason he's hiding his dilated pupils

  • This add just poped up: "Seek Jesus now, Jesus loves you...Pray now" .......0_0...WTF Google???

  • the way he acts in this is like Zack Galifanakis in between two ferns

  • whats wrong with being on some drugs and then having fun faking your on drugs?

    I do it all the time and doing otherwise would take all the fun out of taking drugs in the first place! Sheeeet! Catch up!

  • he s on cloud nine no doubts ?

  • what a clever man :)

    

  • If you've ever seen someone on drugs you'd know hes obviously on coke and is nervous having memory lapses, just cracked out.

  • hes obviously on drugs if you've ever seen someone on drugs or had a friend that went of the deep end.

  • 6:51 <-------- Of course the BLACK man would know if it's drugs.

  • it wasnt an act

    he's messed up

    he likes it

    sometimes depression gives u a good feeling

  • mann this guy's legit he convinced people he was serious here and that he likes rap.... fuckin priceless

  • People on drugs don't necessarily spin off into some elaborate fantasy world. If he was on OC's or xanax or something he could've just been really out of it and not thinking about anything at all. My guess is that it was an act though.

  • i had a friend who would act this way when he/we took opiates he said he couldnt think on them...hes in a mental health clinic now

  • @shmayy

    yah totally i knew a guy who was being treated with methadone for heroin addiction, and he would be the same way

  • god i hope hes not on drugs and i hope he goes back to acting

  • God, he looks so bad. I hope he shaved and cleaned himself up.

  • not high and bad acting ... he hardly hides his amusement

  • My guess is that he is on OC's.

  • HELLZ YEAH

  • Best acting of all time right here friends.

  • Opiates or methadone or any kind of heavy muscle relaxant. I've been that high before. Can't respond can't move can't think.

  • @picklesnorf101 i guess everyone is diff but opiates always relaxed me and id have 0 nervousness about naything...i wouldnt go on letterman w/o them hahaha jk

  • Drugs. DEFO.

  • I think Jayar is over analyzing. He is on opiates. I also think he was feeling insulted, and I also noticed the smile Jayar was reffuring to and I just think it was o0ne of those 'yeah I'm feeling insulted but I can't look insulted because I know where I am.

    Cenk is 100% right. It is SO obvious that Jesus has never taken any drugs because anyone that has knows he is high.

  • My friend is a painfully shy drug-addict who is exactly the same as this guy. He even grew a beard to hide his face and wears singlasses, just like Joaquin. I hate how the audience are mocking him by laughing - can't anyone see how embarrassed and nervous he is?

  • YES exactly. I thought the samme thing. I think he was feeling more insulted than anything and it was making him uncomfortable which is why, in my opinion, he gave the short answers as he did.

  • drugs definintly

  • I've heard people on drugs take like that and nervous people on stage.

  • My response... I've actually known people where that is their personality. I haven't seen him before, so I can't be sure that it is just his personality. From everyone's response though, I'd say it wasn't before.

  • @Scardy he was on the show a few years before that and did a great job on the show, its not his personality, he is completely diff here, strung out on opiates...i would know, i am too....

  • @xpurity666 ya dude is for sure railing some 80's, I know from years of experience that the only thing makes somebody act like that is some good Chiva or an a couple zanny's and some oxy... watch him scratch his face, total giveaway

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  • He looks just like Charles Manson.

  • he was ripped and probably rushing. He even went for water as a distraction.

  • Definitely acting :)

  • This is funny. IT reminds me of what Cripsin Glover did all those years ago. I have a feeling this is joke.

  • If he was a drug addict he would shave his beard so he would give the apearance that he was not a bum in the minds of others; unless he knew that was what we would think so he grew it out to show that he didn't care. Then again, he is a phenomenal actor and I would not put it past him for the entire segment to be an act. Perhaps both?

  • i love what cenk said at the end:

    "i dont take A LOT of drugs"

    like hes saying i take a few but im not an addict or anything LOL

  • thats what i thot 2

  • he is stoned out of his fucking mind

  • Harmony Kareen acted a lot similar with letterman, it's because letterman and his audience are a bunch of phony fucks.

  • you mean like you? you racist pig. go watch Kim Kardashian you fucking racist hypocrite. call me a nigger lover as your watching Kim Kardashian videos, your just mad cuz youll never have a cock like a black man!

  • I love him and his brother too. I hope he gets better!!! God bless Peace n Love~!@!

  • i dont watch his show but what i've seen of letterman so far has really put me off him. He's insulting to his guests!

  • i think he just doesn't give a shit about being on tv......kinda like a whatever feeling

  • joaquin's beard is only a little shorter than the bush over my cock, i can only hope my cock will be as famous as that beard

  • i dont understand why people think he is acting... he is in a career full of wankers and he is real... david letterman is insulting.. he doesnt want to be there thats all it is

  • i completely agree.

    this isnt funny in anyway whatsoever.

  • hahaha funniest episode ever

  • Its like he's doing an impression of Zach Galifanakis.

  • couldve been so many drugs, any downers or benzos, could've been tripping balls wearing sunglasses to hide his pupils or his red eyes.. just baked as hell.

    or he was on like 800 mics of lsd and couldnt keep his thinking straight enough to manage more than one word answers...but he's probably just acting & stoned, they're not mutually exclusive

    im sure anyone trying to create such a druggy self-image must do some drugs to fit the bill

  • Dude! It is so fake.

    Look at the little grin at 1:58ish.

    He's an actor who got bored.

    The dude always had an odd sense of humor.

    He's doing it for kicks!

    I hope... lmao

  • i wanna punch that bitch in the face. he was high case closed

  • Why does it have to be either 100% "REAL" or 100% "acted". I would say that all sorts of interactions we have day in and day out with people are somewhere in the middle, like this one. I just don't get the need to classify this here. It is after all, a talk SHOW. On the other hand, I believe Letterman to be more genuine than many of his critics would think him to be. Whatevs.

  • u really think he's on drugs after seeing his brother die while he was using?

    I dont think so..

    MUST be a TOTALL act LMAO

  • he asked dave "what do you have them on" because the audience starts laughing all the times over nothing.

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  • it was like Dave was talking to a shy child.... Phoenix looks like shit

  • He's on a come down, thats what happens on a come down, you get really un-comfortable, don't know whats going on and you can't express yourself, no matter how hard you try.

  • Yeah, I've got to agree.

    The first time I watched this, I thought the whole thing was staged between him and Letterman, but on a second watch, I'm not sure, because his discomfort was palpable and, having been on hallucinogens myself, that discomfort is very familiar...

    But if it was staged, then it was quite well acted.

  • soooooooooooo staaaaaaaaaaged!

  • We're working on the documentary about Joaquin's transition to rap and are currently looking for extra footage from Jaoquin's concerts, if you want to submit this video for possible inclusion in the film, visit joaqdoc (dot) com

  • Amazing... hehe I havent seen that one yet. Damn hes fucking playing it perfectly well. Phoenix, your going big and its coo hehe ... might even backfire but hey. Bringing back some good ol' Andy Kaufman? ''New age''? Hehe wrestling was too obvious... had to make it just abit more credible. Rap? hahaha... good thinking. You scored big on that show... keep it up! If someone can pull it off, its you.

  • Amazing video!

    getmovies4free(dot)tk

  • I love this character that he has created. It works for him well.

  • hes not acting.... i know what drug he was on

    i used that thing for some time and quit because its terrible... you feel like its only you on this world... u think u feel good but for real u feel bad

    i wont tell name of that thing because some people may wanna to use it

    and sorry its hard to explain coz my english sux

  • A lot of hallucinogens can make you feel like that.

  • i second that, nils4545

  • who gives a fuck, really, these people care too much about this arguement

  • it was so obious he was acting i dont understand how u cud think otherwise

  • He wasnt acting, and no drugs. Hes himself. Sensitive and shy as he is it appears he is on drugs. Acting is a creative form, if you notice, he aint creative at all. Plus, hes tired and bored in general, but no drugs. The rap thing? Because hes bored, tired and he also gets something out of it. If you going to say a person is acting youll have to know how a person is when not acting. Fact is, every interview Joaquin have done, hes been acting, until now, and thats why they think hes acting now.

  • He is acting. When Dave makes a comment about the Unabomber you can see he cracks a smile. Dave might not have been aware of the hoax but I think he was.

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  • i agree wit you! 100% this is just a funny hoax! And Dave is just playing along!

    Phoenix and Affleck is t makeing movie and they wants it to be as much realas they can make it!

    Phoenix is theee best!love him!!!

  • @typinbabe84 Why just because he smiles is he acting? If I was trying to be serious and someone asked me how my days with the unibomber were I would chuckle too.

  • Anyone who still thinks this was real is on harder drugs than the ones they "THINK" he is on or more of a mental case than they "THINK" he is. And, I use the term think loosely.

  • okay when you name a baby Joaquin Phoenix you almost guarantee him a future of this sort

  • its a stunt for a documentary hes working on but im sure he is on something anyhow.

  • He's high on cannabis indica. Weed. Obviously having a strong body high.

  • you dont take alot of drugs? so what drugs DO you take?

  • I thikn he just really really tired.. :P

  • i think hes just mentally screwed

  • Everybody please go to the search box above & type in - Joaquin Phoenix People's Choice Awards 2008. You'll see another example of him doing something far out & off the wall. Besides, He's not gonna quit acting hes only pretending to be a rapper because he is secretly shooting space camp 2 . I guess his character gets stuck on Mars and this is the reason why he looks like a caveman. And, another film might be in the works. The title escapes me at the moment.

  • this whole comment section is retarded

    LETTERMAN'S SHOW IS SCRIPTED. GET A FUCKING BRAIN, PHEONIX IS SELLING AN IMAGE

  • If the comment section is retarded, why did you contribute? Guess you found out something about yourself.

  • It was an act and I'm sure that Letterman was in on it too.That guy was right,he broke character for a second.

  • But off course he wouldnt smoke a joint..

    Being genius and a joint just dont ad up..

    Unless you are a nobelpricewinner LOOOOOOL

  • He looks just like one sitting home all day, smoking joints felling tottaly normal and straight....Until he got out LOL

    Lots off people suddenly looking at ya, high suddenly got low..For some reasson he feels slightly out off touch.....LOL...

    Been there done that AHAHAHA

    Quess he wont b smoking before going on air live again

  • First of all I think that he was acting..but I can´t really know of course....Watch andy kaufman doing the same thing in 1980 on letterman...but now he´s doing rap shows and what not....i think he is sooo sexy and such a great actor...so i think it´s a shame that he doesnt act anymore..if that´s in fact is true...YOU GO JOAQUIN! YOU´RE GREAT!

  • he wasn't acting he lost his mind and PROBABLY on drugs, but he lost his mind

  • rivwer was wacked on dope proabely on Breaking Bad meth

  • This guy has gone downhill

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  • Phoenix is a genius

  • I would say he is a genius too, if the Real genius Andy Kaufman didn't do this "sort" of bit over 25 years ago.  Just type - Andy Kaufman on Letterman (June 24th 1980)

    in the search box above & you will see what I mean. And the gullible people that believe this is real will also understand you can't believe everything you see. come on people! Get with the program.

  • My thoughts exactly :)

  • Hey. Thank you for the support. For a second there, I was beginning to think I had the only rational & logical mind on this thread.

  • if his disposition really is changed, why would he go on letterman?

  • note to all future actors...DONT DO SPEEDBALLS!! chris farley, jim bulushi, brad renfro, river pheonix RIP... cant u just stick to the herb?

  • Why do people think he is being fake can't someone change?

  • There is definitely something wrong. I think it might be a family history of psychological problems I mean his brother committed suicide which isn't the mark of a stable mind.

  • There is really something wrong, ´cause again I got this jerk Cenk Uygur on my screen. Is there any chance to block this dumbass? How can it happen that this Young Turks crap ranks first when I´m looking for "phoenix letterman"?

    And his brother River didn´t commit suicide; he died of an overdose. Maybe this is - in your terms - not a "mark of a stable mind", too. But if you want you´ll find "marks of an instable mind" in any actor´s/artist´s life, so this doesn´t mean a thing.

  • dumbass video you guys are fucking ignorant, it's acting, ACTING, ACTING. PHOENIX DOES WHAT HE WANTS.

  • to all the "happy campers" out there thinking he is doing a big prank for his so called Documentary.. I hate to burst your bubble but this is not an act. He has fallen greatly through the ice with deep mental problems hidden by shallow drugs. If you cannot deal with it its your problem but he is not acting.. which is killing me really. I love him but it's breaking my heart. He is ill... very ill.

  • It's not a publicity stunt.. I've seen this behavior coming from Joaquin for a long time even before everyone started talking about it..

  • Well he is a method actor, isn't he just preparing for a role?

  • What kind of role would that be? "The invasion of the bearded monk"? Or "how to confuse a TALK show with a sit down and shut up show"

    I don't think so. There's a simple answer to this: Drugs

  • if he was going to play a mentally challenged rapper in the near future, that would make more sense than simply drugs