There’s just something about a live performance that we all love.
After all, anything can happen during live performances.
That’s what makes them so exciting and unique.
But with the thrill of showcasing talent live and unedited comes the risk of embarrassing flubs.
These are some live performance bloopers you won’t be able to watch without laughing.
(Sorry, cartoon grandpas everywhere.)
These days, it’s kind of awkward to watch Travolta do anything “The People v. O.J.
Simpson: American Crime Story,” anyone?
Why do you think this is?"
According to Brooke Shield’s live 2011 Tony’s flub, the answer is three.
Speaking withVulturea few days later, Shields said of the viral gaffe, “I was beyond embarrassed.
I wanted to give up show business.
I f***ed up.
They counted me in wrong; the teleprompter was wrong.
I felt like I was having an aneurysm.”
Okay, we understand it was the Tony Awards, but that’s a bit dramatic.
Even host Neil Patrick Harris said it was “worth the wait.”
I see what you did there, Leno.
That’s when everything went sideways in the live performance.
Admirably, the rest of 1D sang on, leaving Styles to embarrassingly collect himself.
Sorry, Mr. Styles, the internet never forgets.
Unfortunately, his stomach had other plans.
He then doubles over and lets loose a remarkable amount of barf.
Then he runs offstage.
The Biebslater tweeted, “And ….
Milk was a bad choice!
After belting out her star-making hit, Perry dives onto a gigantic, real cake.
The clip ends with Perry literally pulling herself offstage, dragging her now useless legs behind her.
Did that happen to be a rum cake, by any chance?
It’s easy to forget the words to the song what even are “ramparts” anyway?
(The New York Times sports section evenreported on his “long pause"when recapping the game.)
Oh, you were also directing fighter plane traffic?
My bad, Mr. Bryan, we didn’t realize this level of multitasking was going on.
Almost as soon Bay walks out on stage, he’s immediately distressed.
Seconds later, he says, “I’m sorry” and flees the presentation.
Yep, that just happened.
Mariah Carey’s NYE show disaster
Where do we even begin here?
Even the dancers should have stopped dancing and helped me off the f***ing stage.
Extra points for the guy who clearly panics after almost dropping her on the dip at the 2:30 mark.
Imagine if she would have lost.
Luckily, he was fine.
“Just a little blood, but, whatever, rock and roll,” Jonas famously said backstage.
Top that, Axl Rose.
So, we guess that makes her the Celine Dion of bungled national anthem performances.
Oh wait, that’s exactly what happened.
“Just a bit outside,” the announcer says, tongue firmly in cheek.
Wait, he was joking about that, right?
“I’m gonna fall eventually one day, so let this be it,” she said.
That’s spoken like a true entertainer right there.
Did we mention that?
The piano is also on fire.
It’s bananas, but we guess that’s kind of Gaga’s thing.
We’re just glad she was okay to live and fall another day.
“Oh my God!”
That was not the only part of Grande’s appearance to go south.
“She’s gone.
“We were supposed to come down?
I thought we were supposed to exit?”
Grande asked, admitting it was “my bad” when told otherwise.
“‘Moonlight,’ you guys won best picture.
This is not a joke.”
It all went down during a 2019 Foo Fighters show in Sweden.
Ever the trouper, Grohl continued the show, not realizing the extent of his injury.
He then talked to the audience as he lay in a stretcher and a team examined his injuries.
“When it happened, I didn’t feel a thing.
I tried to get up and walk and my ankle collapsed under my weight.
It’s gone,'” Grohl subsequently toldEntertainment Weekly.
But it still didn’t hurt …
I was just laughing.
I couldn’t believe it happened.”
The crowd roars, while Bono his back turned to his fallen guitarist keeps on singing.
He later took toInstagramto reveal he hadn’t emerged entirely unscathed, sharing a photo of his scraped-up arm.
“Didn’t see the edge, I’m ok!!”
he wrote in the caption.
True to his word, Hammett nailed it on his second attempt.
The following year, Dell’Abate visited"Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Thanks for the laughs, famous folks!
Even Mimi herself has probably gotten over that tragic NYE performance.
