Memories from back then, early 1997:



This was funny (imo.): Rosie O'Donell calling Prince - not TAFKAP - but the nickname "Taffy"....

- and Prince replied, "you know what that rhymes on, don't you"?.... "Good night"...

both were laughing.

they seemed to have good chemestry between them: Prince and Rosie. Very nice interview. The performance of "Somebody's Somebody" was brilliant. Did he play "The Holy River" too.. ??



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I have to respectfully disagree.
The Rosie O Donnell interview was a cringefest.
If Prince had had a shred of self respect he would have walked off.
He looked uncomfortable and awkward when she was totally ripping the piss right out him.
He was plugging Emancipation though so he was never going to leave.

muirdo said:

He got my respect because he stayed. It showed he could take a joke. It's not like he expects to sit w/ a comedian and NOT have a joke cracked about his name or whatever. You can't expect Prince to be a diva 24/7 just because someone gives him a zinger. He's not the only funny person in an interview.

ernestsewell said:

point taken,
I just thought she was being a bit cruel.

muirdo said:

i agree.... i could tell prince was not feeling how rosie was conducting the interview...but the performances were good....

a funny moment was when prince was doing "the art of musicology" for mtv.

his performance of "Cream" had me laughing up a storm

to be honest i never really thought that prince was funny

but i thought his interview with tavis smiley and the marvin Gaye and the kids incident was funny and i can think of some songs of his which i thought were funny

I thought his performance on The Today Show where he dressed up as Bryant Gumble was quite funny

This one from 1999 where the band plays The Greatest Romance, suddenly says "I don't know, I'm feeling like Prince today" and the band starts to play Alphabet St.

I've always thought Prince was funniest when performing. His interviews spoil the magic for me sometimes.

I've missed most of Prince's interviews...and it was always an issue of me missing them...Just like the concerts.

I love Rosie, she had a fun show, I missed the Prince one tho

That would be when he went on the Today Show dressed as Bryant Gumbel. Priceless!!



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HatrinaHaterwitz said:

lol' the kid is a fool...lol

The Muppet thing was cool when he was talking to the Security bear
at the beginning.. and its always "fun" when he is on Leno and TALKS
to Jay.
I loved when they were playing pranks on each other and Jay
told Prince that one day he was gonna wake up naked Chained to
a lamp post!! I'd pay to see that.....

And watching Princes reaction when Leno was dressed up like a
Security guard was cute too.
I think People who don't think Prince has a good sence of Humor
are fools....
I have followed him since 1980 and seen him live MANY MANY times
and seen darn near all there is to see of him... and he has a
good wit!

RakelRosalita729 said:

yeah I thought she was funny too,

- I didn't catch the cringe part, maybe becuz I'm danish? (not english speaking?)

HatrinaHaterwitz said:

He eatin' a couple o' Chiclets?

My favorite is the We Are The World performance - as we all know did not participate ("I'd rather wrote a song instead" HELLO). I've seen this several times, that he is dressed in yellow, in front of the whole gang and he is not singing, but he is lip syncing with a lollipop. ANYONE REMEMBER THIS?

SmearMrTroof said:

Quincy Jones offers him a mic then Prince offers Quincy his lollipop,when Quincy goes to suck it Prince pulls it away.
I think I heard somewhere that Quincy wsas might pissed off with Prince after that. :

The muppets.

He has been funny from the start
In one of his early TV interviews he stopped answering verbally and started to hold up fingers to communicate those answers.The presenter was lost.

Part of this might be due to shyness but I feel that Prince had gotten bored with the anal questions.

Ther interview where he eats crackers and Sucking of the Lollypop

i liked the over the top RR Hall of Fame solo with the red pimp hat

wtf?

On The Tonight Show, when done performing... struts over 2 Jay Leno and guest, Mel Gibson...

"Mel Gibson! What's shakin' Baby?? U...U wanna go see a movie?"

That had me rollin'...

Giovanni777 said:

A lot of regular folks wouldn't have picked up on what Prince was thinking, but for us fans.....well, THAT was embarrassing to me. He was just ITCHING to talk God w/ Gibson, and spout his stauros nonsense.

nyse said:

Same, I loved that

"That's all I learnt. For real"

jfrost said:

I believe that was American Bandstand, Dick Clark was the host. That was funny, hahaha.

Prince almost getting punked by Jay Leno on the Tonight show. When Prince popped out of the sun roof letting Jay know he wasn't falling for the security guard bit it was too cute. It was really funny when Jay allerted P to the hidden camera...the laugh Princey made and how he ducked back into the limo once he realised where the camera was is an absolute tv funny moment classic!!!

I had forgotten about a lot of these! Thanks guys!