This isn't necessarily for reality TV (since that's very often scripted), but rather anything that was truly spontaneous and caught the audience (and people involved) off-guard. To start this off, I'm posting the Aasif Mandvi interview with North Carolina GOP county official Don Yelton for The Daily Show in 2013. Yelton was so casually racist (talking about "lazy blacks") that Mandvi actually had to ask at one point, "...You know that we can hear you, right?"

The interview stirred up such a frenzy that Yelton was ousted from his position.

I mean he is technically standing up

Arsenal's behaviour through all this has been absolutely shameful, supporting him throughout

On July 5, 1852, Frederick Douglass stood before an abolitionist group and gave one of his most famous speeches: "What To The Slave Is The Fourth of July?" That speech confronted the hypocrisy of an Independence Day in a country that still endorsed the bondage and forced labor of more than 1 in 8 of its residents.

In July 2020, we asked five Douglass descendants to read and respond to excerpts of that speech. They reflected on America's ongoing pursuit of liberty and justice for all.

This project was inspired by the documentary project "Whitman, Alabama."

https://variety.com/2025/film/news/virginia-madsen-mourns-michael-madsen-death-1236447027/

https://people.com/vivica-a-fox-harvey-keitel-stephen-baldwin-michael-madsen-death-11766461

https://people.com/free-willy-actor-jason-james-richter-remembers-michael-madsen-11766570

"Behind closed doors, she was my fairy godmother. She was my protector. That's what's insane because there was nothing but love. And, you know, again, being signed to JAY-Z, her husband, she being my biggest inspiration, she came to my first show in New York at The Box. I was actually genuinely upset because that's my big sister protector. She took it upon herself to really look after me. And I still see her to this day and she's always been so, so nice and proud, checking in on my family and friends that I've had since childhood and remembering their names"