Tom Cruise (Cruel Laugh Basically)

On David Letterman Late Show

[@mrmathh3680]

Impressive, very nice. Let's see Christian Bale's laugh

[@Jejking]

American Psycho's everywhere, dayum 👀🤣🤣

[@eliastheod]

Epic comment 😊

[@MonsieurDrobot]

Here because of that comment!

[@gmcd2816]

Why would you compare this to American Psycho? 🤔

[@georgeclooney3481]

his is the interview that inspired Christian Bale in his role as Patrick Bateman in American psycho. A whole lot of smiling and laughing with nothing behind the eyes. A never ending façade.@@gmcd2816

[@cougargold]

Tim Cruise laughing so hard about asphyxiating someone in the plane. American Psycho indeed.

[@Jah_LEASE_yah]

The, “we turned his oxygen off” story is the most Patrick Bateman story I’ve ever heard someone tell irl.

[@leahsamaniego4507]

Truly sociopathic

[@catchyclaws52]

For real. Like… WTF? 😳

[@Painting866]

He is crazy.

[@samanthacartwright3407]

Tom Cruise is a psychopath.

[@joruss443]

Tom almost killing a guy: 😂😭🤣 Dave: 👀 👄

[@rupomarupa6812]

There is an idea behind Tom Cruise

[@untalented5157]

Some kind of abstraction

[@5spec]

But there is no real me.

[@315916]

​@@5spec only an entity

[@OAudaz_]

​@@315916 something illusory

[@TonySopranoGo]

@@OAudaz_and though I can hide my cold gaze

[@timebombII]

Imagine just chatting and laughing and having a good time being yourself and all of a sudden people say you have an intense laugh with nothing behind your eyes 😂

[@rykerjensen4498]

I’m most confused by the crowd laughing after every sentence…

[@CommunalPissRug]

It's late night, it's what they do. Kinda sucks though cause it ruins the momentum of storytelling

[@junoantaresofficial]

It's to remind the people watching on TV that there's a live audience and it's recorded on air. Because apparently we need forced laughter to and applause to remember that 🙄

[@elajaff9422]

I know right, audience laughing at letterman asking climbing technical questions was confusing 🙄

[@solidiersnake]

​@@elajaff9422 It's because it was somewhat obvious (normal) questions. Tom was like: "Why is he asking me all tha stuff? Makes no sense."

[@Granola-ld1by]

it's bc letterman kept asking boring questions

[@shanemane4249]

It seemed Tom had been holding in that laugh for a decade

[@juanjoyaborja.3054]

This is the interview that inspired Christian Bale in his role as Patrick Bateman in American psycho. A whole lot of smiling and laughing with nothing behind the eyes. A never ending façade.

[@babablacksheep32]

That laugh was very real.

[@bluesti3]

Eh, don't just pile on because that's what some dumb news story said. Most of us totally disagree... this seems SUPER genuine and hilarious.

[@andersolsson8918]

This isnt true

[@thesweetape]

The constant smiling/ dead eyes throughout the interview was very odd, and the lack of empathy for the passenger during the pilot story is certainly reminiscent of a sociopath. However, that story was absolutely hilarious lol

[@Sebastian-np7uc]

This interview was not back in the 90s. He said here that his kids were 9 and 11, and if you look up when they were born it means this interview was maybe in 2004

[@classicdoomslayer1479]

Impressive, now let's see Paul Allen's inspiration

[@SlavicPurpose07]

It’s creepy how accurate Christian bale got to this interview

[@L3ONARDO07]

He wasn’t even talking about this particular interview.

[@nd-31570]

this isn’t even the right interview

[@mick2spic]

@@L3ONARDO07 Bale himself didn’t mention anything at all. But what supposed interview do you think Bale got inspired by?

[@jordansmyth4655]

He got inspired by his laugh and his easy going happy attitude when he had no emotion whatsoever in his eyes.

[@brandonrath623]

this interview was done 2 years after american psycho came out.

[@JFMuni]

i know people say tom is creepy and this interview was an example but like ... this interview was kinda hilarious

[@Steertanzer]

It really wasn't... Guy is a clown, but not the funny kind.

[@SStupendous]

This was literally the inspiration for Christian Bale's mannerisms and performance in American Psycho

[@jimmymcgill2772]

@@SStupendous to be fair, Christian Bale's mannerisms and performance in American Psycho was also kinda hilarious at times.

[@queenieburgers50]

Yeah, and so did the audience. People watching this on TV in the 90s laughed too. I've seen it a few times, laughed every time.

[@SStupendous]

@@jimmymcgill2772 Yep. gotta agree

[@Kragatar]

"So what happened when you turned his oxygen off?" "He was very quiet." 🤣

[@ApexVenator]

This is like something from Seinfeld or Curb I swear. The incessant questions about rock climbing when Cruise is there to talk about some movie probably are gold

[@davidferguson1225]

In the middle Tom ducked out saying I have to return some videotapes

[@maarten452]

is this that crhish? This is fred I know you're a better gentleman than thish sir

[@reynaldojohnson4792]

3:34 so I wouldn't have picked this as Tom Cruise's creepiest but this story and how hilarious he finds it...OK I get what Bale is talking about

[@stillbrian9448]

This goes right up there with Jimmy Fallon and Bradley Cooper

[@jtof9371]

lets see Paul Allen’s Letterman interview

[@elidelhotal3003]

“I almost killed someone!!! 😂😂😂😂😂😂” -Tom Cruise

[@alainelee8392]

His name was Paul Allen...

[@balazs8330]

And then i listened to 'hip to be square'

[@Aivottaja]

*Roaring laughter from the audience*

[@aracelibobelli]

This is the laugh of a man who doesn't have care in the world 😎.

[@NyscanRohid]

💀🩸🪓😎

[@adrienneraeash3440]

He's got the entire machine of Scientology behind him. 🤷

[@revert6417]

The guy in the back of the plane was Paul Allen

[@nerdwhitenerd]

2:20 the scientology slips out for a brief moment..

[@WDZ29]

Bret Easton Ellis wrote Tom Cruise into the novel he lived in the same building as Bateman

[@suredeydo]

American Psycho

[@reynaldofrancis8960]

Same

[@Samuroichi]

@@reynaldofrancis8960 same

[@Vermiliongod22]

I love this Christian Bale fact!

[@supremejonnyyah3426]

Everyone looked for this comment

[@gabrielh8840]

This is actually one of the most hilarious interviews, I come back to this video every couple years for a good laugh lol

[@dianacryer]

I’m not a TC fan but I’ve done the same thing. The first time I saw this video I laughed so hard I had tears.

[@preesi1403]

If you laugh you need a psych evaluation

[@trentboultoriginal]

​@@preesi1403Nope ,People they just exaggerate it coz They hate him for He's a Scientologist, He knows his job;He's a trained pilot and ex-Scientologists I know em,They start their vids sayin' Tom Cruise could get away with murders implying We don't know how many murders He's done. Fuckin idiots

[@Mister_Malice]

He is a true maniac.

[@Aivottaja]

"Yeah, 9 11" *Cruise laughs and the audience laughs*

[@regibson23]

This interview was in 1999.

[@taylorduncan4740]

“Oh my God it even has a watermark”

[@OddWoz]

Imagine laughing this hard and diabolically about _literally suffocating someone_ in the back of the plane so you could fly a little higher and a little longer. Tom Cruise in a nutshell everyone.

[@billklingon6806]

I would not feel safe around this man in ANY situation.

[@xc9034]

Well that’s good because you will never get near this man in any way, shape or form

[@billklingon6806]

@@xc9034 And that a loss for me 😂

[@xc9034]

@@billklingon6806 I mean it would be a win if it was the opposite so sure

[@bobbysanchez70]

Watching these old interviews back you realize how fake everyone is, the audience literally laugh at everything, they can't have a normal conversation

[@Kragatar]

I can imagine that passenger watching this, realizing that's why he has brain damage and can't remember anything, deciding to sue Tom Cruise for turning his oxygen off, then forgetting two minutes later due to his brain damage.

[@space99dude]

Yeah but I get it was a choice between the pilot and passenger. Obviously need the pilot awake so everyone survived.

[@1337shire]

​@@space99dude they flew at a higher altitude to get to their destination faster, not out of necessity. Traded that guys brain cells for some extra time.

[@powergrindnoisecrustfunkfo3566]

Impressive, let’s see Paul Allen’s interview.

[@samk.4158]

Ive had this kind of laughing before. Particularly after ive smoked weed. Its like the laughing is so strong it controls you

[@Yucaipawatchdog]

I don’t know, that laugh seems pretty genuine to me when he’s talking about being in that plane.

[@novajohansson3194]

That is the worrying part

[@marca4443]

This is so classic. It will never get old

[@Jdracker21]

When I feel sad, I watch this video

[@cgcg5060]

Hahaha I feel like I'm watching myself whenever I have told a story when I see Tom Cruise telling this story.. now I know why people think I'm crazy LOL

[@ElectrostatiCrow]

Same. Tom Cruise is just like me for real.

[@timothywyatt72]

I told my tattoo it's I want to scars on my face and blacking out my eyes it was painful but I did not twitch after he was done I demanded for a mirror he said what I repeat it and angry i said mirror!!! As I was moving solely not just yet of getting up I started to cackle and laugh he said in an upsetting way I did what I could are you okay? As I got up look at myself and that bigger mirror he says sir are you okay as I laugh even louder in pain and laughing and calmly said I never felt better with the creepiest smile don't ask why you will never understand why

[@coolnamebro]

This was hilarious. People urgently need to loosen up.

[@sashlipinski7034]

Can't believe some of the comments. That's a totally real laugh. Just because he may be part of a nut job organization, doesn't mean he doesn't have a sense of humor. That truly was some funny shit.

[@testtest2609]

He's really tickled at the guy's suffering. Totally not a sane reaction, more like a sadist's/psychopath's reaction.

[@ksvlk2022]

@@testtest2609 c’mon it was a funny story

[@lorimiller4301]

People laugh every time someone falls down. It's not very nice but it can be really funny. 🤭😁🙃

[@axr519]

​@@lorimiller4301In this case, the analogy should have been the guy who pushes someone down the stairs later jokes about it while laughing, rather than just other people finding the fall funny.

[@mnfreeman]

Funny also how no one seems to have the same criticisms of conventional religions which are all equally bizarre and cultish. Or criticisms about the way we don't seem to have any problem with half the world in poverty. It's just minds reacting to things that are not familiar to their program.

[@roundhill4083]

It’s hard to fake laugh that hard. what a talent.

[@morten1]

It's hilarious that Dave just keep on asking more questions about climbing "So, do you enjoy that activity?" :D

[@chris_freaky305]

Holy shit I see where the inspiration was taken here

[@UserX860]

Tom is hilarious. He takes no question seriously 😂

[@Samazing2023]

The exact same laugh as Christian Bale in American Psycho

[@helicopterouniversal1942]

"I'm supposed the way I was lying"😅😅😅

[@TheMilwaukeeProtocol]

I see it, I see it.

[@DNSL_]

damnnn I see it now, the inspiration for american psycho

[@cullenavent6585]

didn’t this come out after american psycho?

[@jordansmyth4655]

Nope this was in 1999, American Psycho was made in 2000

[@DJSlipstream1]

Tom just wanted to show everyone his new business card, eggshell white... Nothing else.

[@ZebtanStyleshop653]

I really enjoyed that 😂

[@D0ntTickleMe]

Bateman being based on this makes perfect sense. 😂

[@txubaka.psychedelic.trance]

its almost like tom is thinking about killing letterman

[@Khm__24]

Impressive, Very Nice. Let’s see Paul Allen’s Laugh 🙂

[@caringguy32]

It's a great interview, thanks for sharing this, never seen Tom laugh this hard, it's great.

[@jacobraiford7701]

This interview cements why his role in Collateral is eerie af. This dude is a nut. 😂

[@michaelwilliam179]

I watched this after smoking a joint, so fucking funny

[@JOHNDT4]

That was hilarious!!! Lol😂

[@annaczgli2983]

The last story was hilarious!

[@cassandrabuitron427]

This is like a really bad first date where one person is doing all the work

[@kidrinke]

it's called an interview dumb fuck

[@TheDavveponken]

Ok, watching American Psycho tonight again

[@rexdinarocky]

“Try getting a reservation at Dorsia now you Fu___ Stu___ Bas___! “ Tom turns off oxygen.

[@wanderson.castilho]

Did anybody note Letterman farted on the minute 2:26? Tom definitely noted it.

[@allpointsorganized]

He's just laughing really hard! There were thousands of less social filters in 1999 compared to 2023. No doubt those were sincere laughs from Cruise & Letterman! Cruise might be focused and very intense, but he's no psycho. When you have that much money, fame and influence, it's going to cause you to see the world a little differently and more strangely than the rest of us.

[@testtest2609]

Letterman is alarmed and tries injecting some sense into him in bits but Tom is too oblivious and too far gone. This is something that truly earns the adjective "terrific".

[@theorbitalone7283]

@@testtest2609 nah bro this shit funny af 🤣

[@miserylovesyou7540]

i mean, i think it's just one of those moments (someone commented the same thing on this video) where you're laughing, you know you should stop, but the harder u try to stop the more u laugh. idk why our brains do this but it happens to all of us, seems like it was just caught on camera here. on the other hand, cruise is known as a staunch supporter of Scientology, and that shit gets real weird and real unethical very quickly. so...idk that being said, i thought this interview was hilarious.

[@trentboultoriginal]

The copilot was none other than the missing precious SHALLY Miscavage. *

[@WolfofSid64]

I am 1:30 into this video and this man has given the most bare bones answer to the questions, like he doesn't want people to know what he's doing. I can see how Christian Bale got inspired.

[@joshswenson8390]

1999 is a different era ... 😳

[@reikosuzuka8608]

How to put down annoying flyers down for a nap. Having climbed mountains, i understand what he meant by...it wasnt dangerous but the guy was sleepy. Its a weird phenomenon, cuz youre safe, but it feels like naptime came early.

[@carlsanderson4062]

It's a very internal joke, he's reliving the moment in a safe perspective....I laugh about things uncontrollably after the fear and worry is gone...it proves he's human with a great sense of humor.

[@miss_memuch]

Bold to assume he was “worried” about the man’s life

[@sallyw101sw]

Who's here because of Christian Bales copycat performance in American Psycho Comment ?😂

[@nicholasjohnson6919]

Very nice, very nice. Now let's see Paul Allen's interview

[@Kat-tr2ig]

While the story is funny and his laugh is contagious, there is something very off about him, and those of us who have dealt with psychopaths (in our jobs or personal life) can very easily pick up on. His deadpan eyes, the over compensation on being friendly, his body language, tone of voice, posture, the very deliberate words he speaks... all of these things may not be obvious for some but for others it makes our skin crawl.

[@thosedzones6430]

Can a psycho literally conquer the action genre in hollywood?

[@johnnywalked20]

@@thosedzones6430 can a businessman and a demented senile be president of the united states?

[@heisenberg6142]

@@thosedzones6430 why not bro wow he’s a celebrity so he can’t be Hollywood doesn’t give af who u are

[@OO-lz9ns]

He’s probably a sweet person he just got odd eyes , they’re droopy kind of . I’ve met crazies with big beautiful eyes

[@MujahidOmer]

Dude. You need help

[@adamkorekach9936]

He has no self-control on these tv appearances. Oprah, Letterman. Like a giddy schoolboy.

[@silverback1953]

this is one of the most hilarious simple interviews of all time

[@maxletsch4045]

Letterman with the Hans Landa line of questioning

[@vladimirroman4011]

Like a true anime villain.

[@reynaldojohnson4792]

I don't think you can really be a "celebrity" let alone a very popular one, without having psychopathic capabilities

[@mattp3797]

Another Martini, Letterman?

[@Captainslow556]

There really is nothing behind his eyes

[@Joeythajanitor]

Damn…I would’ve never noticed

[@CatdaddyM]

This is what inspired American Psycho’s character, according to Bale

[@HHH-ye1ro]

That plane story is hilarious!!!

[@ashleyvaughn4305]

And did you catch the age of his kids...? 9 and 11. 🙄

[@Regina.6692]

@@ashleyvaughn4305 so?

[@brandonrath623]

@@ashleyvaughn4305 god forbid he mentions the correct ages of his kids, btw this interview was in 2004 when he was promoting collateral, not in 1999 like a lot of ppl are claiming.

[@chefmike857]

It’s called cocaine

[@oui2611]

the crowd laughs for no reason just like tom, because the crowd can subconsciously sense that tom cruise's persona is entirely put on. Tom feeds on that sort of energy and it becomes synergy which enduces tom to laugh uncontrollably for no reason.

[@chadneal8398]

Nothing out of the ordinary about this interview. It was funny cuz tom couldn’t keep it together. Theres that moment in everybody’s life when we’re trying to tell a story thats so funny to us we have a hard time keeping it together. That was the moment for tom. The interview was hilarious and if he got a psycho rap from it then the real psycho’s are the ones claiming the interview odd.

[@testtest2609]

He couldn't hold it together about a guy's hands cramping from lack of oxygen he perpetrated. Even Letterman is horrified & puts in a few digs but the man is too deranged and unselfaware to notice that Letterman is not laughing with him. Tom is in his own psychotic line of reasoning/bubble that it's actually hilarious smh...very cringe

[@weareafteryou3975]

@@testtest2609he was laughing too thougu

[@adrianneavenicci]

I don’t believe for a second he goes actual mountain climbing and Letterman knows it. Cruise looks so uncomfortable in that chair and at 1:34 he slips and says “wall”.

[@espositolne]

I think he's trying to avoid saying specific places to avoid mobs

[@mannyfox8089]

TC is an adrenaline junky… no reason to think he wouldn’t climb actual Mts

[@AncientCityMusic]

@@espositolnethen you’re an idiot. Cruise is clearly a narcissist and a pathological liar. This interview shows how evident that is

[@jonforpresident04]

That’s because he’s talking about rockclimbing and Letterman is talking about mountaineering. They are two different activities, but these guys don’t realize that they’re not talking about the same thing during the interview.

[@tokahontas7346]

Lol Tom is Soooo full of himself creepy much definitely american psycho vibes

[@fedequito1983]

He can response quickly to some questions thrown at him....

[@AdnanAla-bh5hp]

Christian bale I'm here because of you. you bastard

[@jacobtaylor3598]

This man has probably killed someone for real.

[@mickaziza]

This is nice.

[@1lost_sheep]

I think he's laughing because this guy is interviewing him as if he's a rock climbing specialist

[@finjakke]

I think Tom Cruise is mostly dumbfounded by the bizarre line of questioning here.

[@krisn138]

He slept the whole way… so that was nice.

[@bloodsling]

I love this interview lolol,never seen Tom laugh this hard.

[@mo19702009]

I 💝 this enterview. No idea why so much drama, it's just a male telling how he, and a friend did something men do a lot... something stupid. Just a normal male. I love him.

[@e.l.norton]

It actually wasn't stupid. It was about resource management in the cockpit to ensure the guys who needed it, the ones flying the plane, had adequate oxygen. At that altitude it's not dangerous to the passenger, just a funny story. Better the passenger fall asleep than the pilots.

[@testtest2609]

He's really tickled at the guy's suffering. Most people would feel empathy not find it hilarious.

[@e.l.norton]

@@testtest2609 The guy didn't suffer. He slept. It's actually a very funny story.

[@testtest2609]

@@e.l.norton His hands went into claws which is an extreme pain reaction to oxygen loss from extremities being diverted to the organs...this can result in PTSD. You don't know what you are talking about. Do not play with people's oxygen levels...I know sadism is being normalized thru breath play etc but people need to stop normalizing loss of oxygen.

[@e.l.norton]

@@testtest2609 His hands went NUMB. That is the opposite of an "extreme pain" response. Stop over-dramatizing.

[@nelspalmerur6926]

I simply am not there.

[@angusc.k.c6946]

Everyone talking about how this was actually funny. I hadn’t laughed once. I love Tom. But damn those eyes make me so uneasy.

[@dougdoug9223]

I dunno about you man but I'm laughing to the point that there's tears in my eyes. The plane story is hilarious

[@anujoseph_10]

​​@@dougdoug9223nah it's not funny. It's his laugh that made you think so

[@edwinbauza3767]

2:24 POUUUUUUNG!😅

[@mskidi]

One of the very few times in this show Letterman actually laughed. Cruise was laughing so hard, he managed to drag Lettermans' depressed sorry ass out of his eternal misery for just a while

[@wavadelic1]

😂😂😂😂

[@davidporter671]

You must be a big Jimmy Fallon fan

[@christianromero6604]

😂 🤣 I'm dying here..lol...

[@jayfrommeloworld1526]

😂😂😂 his laugh contagious asf 😂😂😂