Few men in America have mastered the on-air temper tantrum quite like Bill O’Reilly, so study at the feet of the master with this gem from his Inside Edition days. Again, like Michael Bay, this freak out comes courtesy of a malfunctioning teleprompter. Only instead of walking off the stage, O’Reilly hangs in there. He’s a fighter. His move is to verbally abuse the producer and the teleprompter, and then cap it all off with a high-octane string of F-bombs.

The Unintelligible Verbal Diarrhea

Apparently Dennis Rodman is a little sick of his multiple visits to North Korea continually being called into question. But then, traveling to a repressed regime while failing to address said regime’s crimes against humanity does tend to make people a little prickly. Fortunately for us, Rodman’s passion is matched only by his total lack of verbal dexterity, giving us this hall of fame example of an incomprehensible tirade:

"People around the world. I’m going to do one thing. You are a guy behind the mike right now. We are the guys here. We do one thing. We have to go back to America and take the abuse. Do you have to take the abuse what we going to take?"

The Random Act of Violence

Well, the movie Ed Harris is promoting here is called A History of Violence, although that doesn’t really explain why he suddenly goes apeshit crazy, pounds the table, and hucks a glass of water at the wall. But whatever, in terms of unadulterated stunned silence, this is the route to take. Who’s to say he won’t jump over that table and chuck a reporter against the wall as well? See? It’s all about instilling the fear. That’s how you silence a room.

The Racist Rant

Yep, blind racism is almost as good as violence when it comes to sending jaws dropping to the floor. This classic gem from Michael Richards has him losing his shit during a stand up comedy routine after some people heckle him. Richards goes all David Duke on the guy and the crowd is understandably shocked. If you want to freak out but maintain friendships and, you know, generally continue to be accepted by society, this is not the way to go. But if your goal is to just straight horrify people, then unhinged hate speech is pretty much always a home run.