Star Trek actor William Shatner turns into nightmare guest on U.S. chatshow

The Daily Mail ^

[Crazieman]

William Shatner became one of the all-time nightmare guests on an American TV show after making a series of rude hand gestures at the host.

Red-faced and visibly sweating the 78-year-old Star Trek actor appeared out of sorts on the long-running Tonight Show.

He appeared on the programme, hosted by Conan O'Brien, to promote his biography and up-coming TV series. William Shatner

Out of order: William Shatner flicked his middle finger at host Conan O'Brien during an interview on the Tonight Show in the U.S.

But his behaviour got so bad at one point new host Conan O'Brien walked off stage before getting on his table and shouting: 'What is wrong with you.'

Network bosses blurred out the Captain Kirk actor's gestures in the broadcast.

The actor mimed masturbation and flicked the finger at host Conan during the interview.

[Big Giant Head]

He’s dead, Jim.

[rod1]

Guess he went to warped drive.

[Centurion2000]

Guess he’s pissed he didn’t get a cameo role in the last Star Trek movie like Leonar Nimoy.

[GeorgiaDawg32]

methinks he’s been sniffin dilithium crystals again..

[BallyBill]

Conan will do anything to get some of the heat that Letterman picked up.

[EyeGuy]

Obviously a cranial Tribble infestation.

[hershey]

What’s the problem? BO flicked a middle finger at Hillary during the campaign and his followers thought he was very clever.

[Seruzawa]

If my wife died like his did I might never recover. Who knows? Maybe the poor guy got sucked into the shrink machine and is on 5 different medications right now. It happens to a lot of the Hollyweird crowd. Most of us can’t afford to see shrinks so they can’t f*** us up.

[mainepatsfan]

Then he should invite Sarah on his show.

[SamAdams76]

Say what you want about Shatner but he’s got the greatest version of “Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds” ever recorded and you can’t take that away from him.

[Travis McGee]

At least Shatner isn’t boring. No matter what, he will pull some amusing stunt or retransformation.

[Just another Joe]

He’s dead, Jim.

He's senile, Jim.

[Sacajaweau]

Just look at the music world and the filth they put out "FOR YOUR KIDS"....or the "sex ads" on TV....which are no longer confined to late night...or "Girls Gone Wild"...or all the "go gay" shows

The whole industry lacks morals and good taste.

[Veto!]

He must think he’s still on Boston Legal. Denny Crain would surely flip the finger at Conan. Actually, so would I.

[F15Eagle]

I was thinking the same thing.

[hugorand]

I'm sure Kirk meant to do this

[SkyDancer]

The result of having his way with that green lady ...

[cripplecreek]

One of Shatner’s greatest multiple roles. A spoof of 7even

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVMLivHTXac

[Jewbacca]

Not the first time.

[kjo]

you made me spit up a mouthful of pepsi on my keyboard.

[Wolfie]

Topped only by his version of “Mr. Tambourine Man”. Or more correctly: “MR TAMBOURINE MAN!!!”.

(PS - This has cheap publicity stunt written all over it).

[mgstarr]

A little too much saurian brandy in the green room.

[Danae]

Blame it on the Romulan Ale.

[Cicero]

Probably he raised his middle finger as a way of saying, “Beam me up, Scotty.”

[savedbygrace]

It’s the Mad Cow.

[crazyhorse691]

I would flip off Conan myself given the chance, but, only with my left hand because he just ain’t worth the pain to configure my busted right hand into the single digit salute.

[KarlInOhio]

He got split into Good Shatner and Evil Shatner on his Priceline flight.

[hiredhand]

At least Shatner isn’t boring. No matter what, he will pull some amusing stunt or retransformation.

That's pretty much what I was thinking! :-)

[This_far]

... on Conan O’Brien...

How low does he have to go ( )

[Revolting cat!]

Luuuuuccccyyyy!!!

[murron]

He is a dirty old man. I’ve seen him in other venues, not just Boston Legal, where he was very off-color.

[Krankor]

Maybe the "evil" Kirk was beamed on the set.

[WVRockDJ]

Yup, me 3. Shatner’s a hoot. The guy is such an attention-whore. And at 78, still gainfully employed!

[Travis McGee]

Amen!

[Jonah Hex]

No, no, that was the BAD Captain Kirk, from the episode "Turnabout Intruder"! Nobody knew he was recreating an Star Trek episode.

Well, that might work as an excuse for a room full of trekkies.

[Dallas59]

[KarlInOhio]

From Saturday Night Live:

William Shatner: Of course, that speech was a "re-creation" of the "Evil Captain Kirk" from um... Episode, um... [ Emcee whispers ] THIRTY-SEVEN... uhh... called... [ another whisper ] "The Enemy Within."

[AnnGora]

I would not expect anything less from the Shat.

[Snickering Hound]

[JRandomFreeper]

When you're 78 and change your own drawers, you can do whatever the FY want.

I'm looking forward to getting older. My family cringes.

/johnny

[GeronL]

drugs? booze? recently became a US citizen and now fins out we have socialist Prez?

[GeorgiaDawg32]

darn it..I warranty everything except keyboards..:)

[Owl_Eagle]

I CAN NOT BELIEVE I just spent 15 minutes watching some stupid youtube video of Shatner and Obrien from May 2008!

Screw you Daily Mail, for not including some type of link. You too Google.

I’ll just take Crazieman’s word for it that the cat is stone cold nuts.

[Lord_Calvinus]

Watched the clip on Hulu. Seems to be blown WAY out of proportion.

[GeronL]

I don’t think Kirk ever acually said the words “Beam me up Scotty” although there was a “Beam us up Scotty” once

[Chickensoup]

How did his wife die?

[Armedanddangerous]

she drowned in a swimming pool several years ago.

[Dahoser]

The result of having his way with that green lady ...

Marta (Yvonne Craig) just might do that to a fella, even a Starfleet captain.

[dead]

Wow, on two threads today, I've found reason to post the following link:

Common People

It's only the most underated song of the last ten years. A Shatner duet with Joe Jackson. Ben Folds on keyboards.