Tom Cruise Reads The Top Ten Craziest Things People Have Said About Him On The Internet | Letterman

Did Tom actually eat a tire? The internet says yes.
(From "Late Show," air date: 12/16/08)
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[@peterddb1593]

Tom has a great sense of humor about himself and life. And it’s true. Do a top ten list while you can. You never know when a show might not be available any more.

[@lauralijames6316]

Shame Dave's show not on anymore.

[@TimeIdle]

I don't know. I think he vetted the list before reading it.

[@noitallmanaz]

He has no sense of humor about himself at all.

[@DaveRevst4548]

as long as you dont talk or joke about his cult

[@JustSomeCanadianGuy]

The Vick’s Vapo-Rub line is a great dig at his opinions over medicine with his Scientology. 🤣

[@jedijones]

The power-mad egomaniac completely insulated from reality fit with that too. 😆

[@J.C.3]

@@jedijones not as bad as other actors.

[@Vandicoup]

@@jedijones Still not nearly as bad as other actors. He's a got a great sense of humor about himself, is a genuine hard worker with a genuine and great work ethic and is truly a down to earth, chill type of guy, aside from all the Scientology stuff.

[@thereviewartistrrp5493]

There is some truth to what he is saying. I believe in medicine when you catch a sickness but when you rely completely on medicines your body will become a dependent. Now your on all types of medicine because your body can't function with out them. He must be doing something right. As far as the church of scientology goes. I know a little bit about that but I don't think Tom really is in like the others because of his high status. Their required to put it like 2 hours a day. I don't see how Tom would have the time to do that because he's making movies all the time. He probably shows up every once in a while.

[@kaejude9915]

@@thereviewartistrrp5493 watch Going Clear

[@rmjmoviereviews6876]

Tom has struggled with learning difference growing up. It feels comforting to see a man at his status only push through his difference on live tv. Much respect Tom.

[@lauralijames6316]

He had a very difficult childhood. He also fought the Movie studios when they were blocking him and refused to make his movies. He Stood His Ground. HE MADE HIS OWN MOVIES WITH HIS OWN MONEY. Yes he was already famous but still had to get all the money he had, cause he had bearly started his BIG BREAK!

[@jameswalker366]

What’s ‘learning difference’?

[@rmjmoviereviews6876]

@@jameswalker366 Learning "disability" was the old term for it. Or kids who have trouble learning information in the "traditional" way.

[@jameswalker366]

@@rmjmoviereviews6876 Thank you for clarifying. I presumed that is what you meant.

[@allendracabal0819]

Terminology has become PC-ified to the point where you can't even understand what it means anymore.

[@ultravioletron]

There is a reason why "Excuse me, I know what I'm doing" is most replayed....Only Tom Cruise can do stuff like that and get away with it 😆

[@blackiefitzpatrick6611]

"Excuse me, I know what I'm doing here." Funny.

[@jerzeyguy71]

No matter how you feel about Tom, he is a stand up guy, saw him on late late show flying with James in a P51 and some sort of older jet to promote the new Maverick movie.

[@MultiFreakface]

I'd be slightly apprehensive to say that anybody who's a vehement scientologist is a "stand-up" person

[@Or_else_it_gets_the_hose_again]

@@MultiFreakface What’s better than telling people a stupid story and having them believe you? Having them pay you for it!

[@Truth_Hurts528]

Tell that to the victims of scientology.

[@mintylamps]

he knowingly paid people one dollar an hour to renovate his house lmfao what a stand up guy

[@CATDHD]

you just like him and maybe his looks too. the guy reeks of insanity

[@serahbay8864]

he's always been and still is gorgeous, but his Valkyrie era was his absolute peak. he looked SO damn good

[@Kayla-Butterfly]

Yes and for me my favorite was the Vanilla Sky look ❤

[@cocobolz1895]

That hair strand is making me feel a lot of things

[@painfullyhonest9370]

He has definitely aged the best out of all the heart throbs!

[@Tojoj22]

Hell yeah

[@Rlrlrl1962]

He’s still a heart throb man

[@stoopid79]

He’s no Emilio Estevez….! Wait! Wha ……. Son of a ….!?!. .

[@stoopid79]

He’s no Emilio Estevez….! Wait! Wha ……. Son of a ….!?!. .

[@MrWeareone777]

@@stoopid79 He’s no Charlie Sheen …wait … what ?

[@aniket3724]

Tom Cruise will forever be the greatest movie star in the world

[@Julia25120]

True. Tom is the most famous star on earth. 💙

[@gofastER]

@@Zipp333 Tom Cruise wont hear him the roar of his jet.

[@adventuresona700dollarhard5]

The Last Samurai ❤️

[@akolyt]

hmmm no

[@orangewarm1]

No he wont. He's too weird. Al Pacino, DeNiro, Harrison Ford, Swarchzeneggar, Johnny Depp, Paul Newman, Robert Redford, James Stewart, Stallone, Brando, Eddie Murphy, Jack Nicholson. Nuf said.

[@celticqueen9762]

He's got a great sense of humor, I love that he can laugh at himself. 😍

[@TomCruise-ul5cf]

Thank you for appreciating my works despite there are still haters around my channel, I love you

[@JakeDisselt]

I'm Puerto Rican and the Vicks Vaporub line is just proven fact, my abuela told me so.

[@raggededge82]

The band playing "Cruisin'" for the outro was the best part

[@nancymcmonarch]

If that list had been authentic, he'd have stormed off the stage.

[@nms7872]

xenu would not let him

[@swirlingchi]

Tom Cruise was diagnosed with dyslexia at the age of seven and eventually overcame it

[@alba4203]

Scientology ha risolto la sua dislessia.l ha detto lui e i fatti.lui studia la storia la vita psichiatri etichette fake scienza

[@NoRiceToEat]

This is such a good look on him 😳❤

[@joycefolsom130]

Tom Cruise is really good to his fans. What he does in his private life is his own business.

[@Rattenhoofd]

Unless he's murdering people. Then it's not his own business.

[@e.friedrich2726]

Yeah, he is one of two main figures of a cult that abuses children and helps pedos. But that’s ok. He’s entertaining.

[@ihavegymnastics]

EXACTLY.

[@punkbastid973]

For me there are several Tom Cruises and post-Tropic Thunder Tom Cruise is my fav.

[@felipecorpuz2476]

That number 4 is hilarious if you know the reference! LOL

[@Mariavitoria-eu3oi]

What is the reference?

[@bored1ca]

You can tell he was loving it, he kept cracking up while reading it!! 😆😆😅🤣😅🤣

[@hawaiiusa6147]

Tom Cruise has a great sense of humour. He's awesome!

[@samandahidalgo4540]

Yes thats true I love Tomcruise too he is a great man a faboulous actor and I like to much the way he made his own stunts he really fantastic 💫🎬🙋‍♀️🤩🌟🌟🌟💫💫💫💫🤩🤩🤩💓

[@weezer1109]

Never realized how much he’s had to overcome with the dyslexia. He got a little rattled there.

[@rmjmoviereviews6876]

There are a few other actors who have dyslexia as well, Michael Dudikoff from the 1980's low budget actioner American Ninja, Danny Glover, Whoopi Goldberg, Keanu Reeves to name a few. I've read stories about actors who literally have to have someone read the lines to them to memorize their dialogue.

[@lolatank8328]

@@rmjmoviereviews6876 people just lack on info what is it lol

[@allendracabal0819]

He needed to be Heimliched.

[@tom_cruise_1986]

1:50 Oh man,l love the number 8 so much,that was absolutely unexpected,l totally love it

[@karthu1993]

I love Tom. His religion, his business. He doesn't deserve all the hate.

[@Ks-nb6sf]

I agree with you 100% his personal life is his business!!!! He is the Best

[@prathameshgandhi8329]

Ditto.

[@jfh9209]

Some day Suri will join his great religion and Tom will make up for all their lost time together!

[@karthu1993]

@@jfh9209 meh

[@handsomeX]

Thank you! 💯

[@glukaise]

he looked so good in here

[@MsHortel]

the vicks vaporub part was definitely a filipino thing 😁😁😁😁 i think tom is an amazing actor. he is worth the money spent on a movie.

[@The_Chameleon]

i thought that is EFFICASCENT OIL

[@thomascruise8683]

Hello thanks for your love ❤️ and support I really appreciate

[@MsHortel]

@@The_Chameleon vicks vaporub is like a gel. Has menthol smell. Lots of eucalyptus in it. We pinoys love it. We think it is the cure-all 😁😁😁❤️

[@The_Chameleon]

@@MsHortel the filipino comedian Jo Koy said that too about vicks vaporub in one of his stand up specials on netflix

[@AndorranStairway]

It’s amazing he knows how to pronounce blagoevich

[@bluebear1985]

A lot of people did at the time, as the then-governor of Illinois was in the news a fair bit over his controversies. One of them was his attempts to try and get Barack Obama's former seat in the Senate for himself.

[@JohnSmith-qq7yw]

Not so amazing that he's illiterate and didn't know how to read the word "heimliched."

[@itsmebubblesdarlingxx6092]

@@JohnSmith-qq7ywhe’s dyslexic

[@margotrobbie8582]

What’s that

[@itsmebubblesdarlingxx6092]

@@margotrobbie8582 where you struggle to read and pronounce words

[@coolpetsportugal947]

Number 4 killed him...and me 😂

[@claribelgarcia8344]

Tom Cruise legend and King 🔥🔥🔥

[@tomcruise3497]

I’m overwhelmed by your amazing compliment I appreciate a lot Claribel

[@smcgilli34]

Stunning that this was 15 years ago! Dang I am old...

[@TheRbruin10]

I forgot how good Late Night use to be.

[@tamarastarkheppner]

I just need to go back to David Letterman to remind myself what late comedy used to be.

[@claribelgarcia8344]

Love you Tom 💘💘 carismático siempre 😍

[@thomascruise8683]

Hello thanks for your love ❤️ and support I really appreciate

[@alba4203]

Questo è un problema per qualcuno 20 per cento

[@mc9145]

Omg he is so cute 🥰

[@pam0626]

Wow - #1 was a no-so subtle dig. It went right over his head.

[@westaussie965]

Looks best here😍😍😍😍😍

[@Radio-Spirit-Music]

These Top Ten jokes were fantastic.

[@jamesgarner8262]

Man, I miss Dave's Top 10 List!

[@HalloweenFreak31]

I love Tom 😂😂😂

[@Anothergoogleaccount1]

No.3 probably got someone fired 🤣

[@johnfake2739]

The funny thing is that something similar to but even more insane than #4 actually turned out to be true about Tom Cruise, along with - relatedly - #3, without the ending part about "oh wait, that's Letterman."

[@bhushanverma1062]

Legend🙌🔥

[@somerset8088]

Tom Cruise, the ONLY actor who makes movies that truly entertains us film-goers, from Risky Business to Rain Main to A Few Good Men to Top Gun to The Last Samurai to Mission Impossible to Too Gun: Maverick yet doesn’t get honored by the Oscars. I would’ve thought those flight sequences in Maverick would’ve gotten at least some technical category Academy Award!

[@liezeljacobs4552]

his just lovely to look at

[@janinealvia1848]

All things imaginable & unimaginable about Tom Maverick huh?! 😁

[@courtney5796]

The Future: "Just wait, it gets better!" lols

[@mcgurkryans]

#1 sounds like what Les Grossman would say

[@corabernal6432]

The Vicks vaporub is a real Hispanic thing. Truth 🤣

[@Or_else_it_gets_the_hose_again]

“We (Christian Bale and I) talked about how Martian-like Patrick Bateman was, how he was looking at the world like somebody from another planet, watching what people did and trying to work out the right way to behave. And then one day he called me and he had been watching Tom Cruise on David Letterman, and he just had this very intense friendliness with nothing behind the eyes, and he was really taken with this energy.” -Mary Haron, director of American Psycho

[@Or_else_it_gets_the_hose_again]

​@@HerptasticVideo Sorry, maybe because I didn't add Christian Bale's name to the quote, you thought it was referencing Justin Bateman. I fixed it.

[@Rnyargd]

Spot on!!

[@yohei72]

Perfect description. I could believe everything in this list and more, because Cruise is an American psycho.

[@yohei72]

@@HerptasticVideo I’ll never understand why people think Cruise is a good actor.

[@Or_else_it_gets_the_hose_again]

@@yohei72 He’s a Tommy Lee Jones, Ryan Reynolds, Morgan Freeman in the sense that he plays the same basic characters in every movie. People go see a Tom Cruise movie because they want to see Tom Cruise playing Tom Cruise.

[@shivanshuroy6992]

Tom Cruise🔥🔥🔥

[@AlexRodriguez-ti3wy]

2:22 How is that more believable than Scientology.

[@armchairguru1921]

Tom is as gorgeous here as in Interview With A Vampire!

[@trevmac8362]

To this very day Risky Business is still my favorite Cruise movie

[@colinmontgomery1956]

He was perfect in it. The shy, esrnest, awkward kid. Because he really was.

[@nobodynothing2594]

And that song & his choreography !

[@TomCruise-ul5cf]

I'm overwhelmed by your lovely compliment for how long have you been following me

[@moviefan8533]

Anyone catch the band playing Cruisin’ after he read the list?

[@howardrossell2771]

Tom Cruise ,Tom Hanks.Tom Berringer, Tommy Lee,Tommy Davidson, Tommy LeeJones,Tom Sellick, Tom Sizemore, Tom and Jerry, Tommy Chong, should all do a movie together. "They call me Bill" would be the title. 👍? 👎? It's genius I know.

[@bunger407]

I’d like to see a movie starring Gene Hackman, Hugh Jackman and Samuel L Jackson

[@rwhirsch]

he's dyslexic...i'm impressed that he could read the list so well.

[@effiemcfarland6735]

Tom The Best

[@marionpanzer5641]

Danke

[@elinblackburn7345]

dave, can you post a behind the scenes video of you digitizing the master beta tapes and uploading them to the… uhhh… youtube?

[@Teaghanmcdonnell]

Looked at this and said, “Will it be Ego crush or Ego build?”

[@HarrisonHollers]

Imagine if Tom Cruise was doing his Bruce Wayne for us and was Batman in the movies….

[@ahuachapan2]

Tom is coo coo....

[@Anothergoogleaccount1]

Christian Bale’s quote is why I don’t look at people in the eye. Im very polite and courteous but if a meteor flies through your chest killing you ill be like “damn bad luck” and move on without feeling anything for you

[@michaelose6678]

Good sport ! 👍

[@RaniaBhatti]

He doesn’t know what a heimlich is 😂

[@seanwebb605]

Right after this segment he stared his new job on Ellen.

[@mike04574]

This is like wired autocomplete before it was a thing

[@oasis9867]

What year is this?

[@docravikumarjha]

There should have been a direct Scientology joke.

[@heatherlewis9951]

#4 is totally true.

[@ruthecker399]

love dave

[@girlcheck]

He looks the same as he did when he was a young man. Incredible. Integral. Always stay true to yourself 💕

[@yohei72]

Plastic surgery is staying true to yourself?

[@Sam-pq3oy]

You know this wasnt filmed today right?

[@nobodynothing2594]

Lots of ways to stay looking younger with IV vitamin therapies & good healthy food & healthy lifestyle. At close to 60 He’s still flying the jets without having prescription lens & assuming a 20/20 vision. Beyond good I’d say! He’s done exceedingly well to keep his health.

[@proserfina21096]

best actor ever

[@JasMcKenzie]

Right, Marlon Brando, Lawrence Olivier, John Gielgud are total hacks in comparison to his greatness

[@lestat2558]

Back when Mean Tweets didn't exists in that day

[@theguy8275]

No the craziest thing is people say your 6ft 😂

[@bobbywoods684]

He's like any actor or show biz type people- a little weird. My personal favorite.

[@shiva9878]

❤️❤️

[@somethingyousaid5059]

Actually that was a very good clip.

[@sandrinel7542]

Impressive Tom Your personality!

[@sandrinel7542]

@@CruiseTom-ep3zc Bisou a toi Monsieur

[@sandrinel7542]

@@CruiseTom-ep3zc Merci bien

[@sandrinel7542]

@@CruiseTom-ep3zc Chapeau bas to you! Merci encore!

[@kathyrodrigueztorres6064]

Letterman should do my next guess needs no introduction with Tom cruise...that would be insane

[@tomcruise3497]

Thank you for the unending love and support I appreciate a lot

[@tomschmitz261]

turns out the craziest truths about him are REAL....

[@akfreed6949]

#11 - I wasn't acting in TAPS .

[@zarsgita]

he really not aging

[@WarriorEsoteric]

That was not the top 10 things people say about Tom Cruise

[@thechanneloffun3760]

😜🤓 No no no , Best actors of all time, The minions 🥺🤯

[@Gr8Layks]

*Damn, Scientology … you scary!*

[@parabalani]

What does scientology has to do with this dumbasso?

[@jweyek]

From the glorious days of the Blogosphere.

[@BloatedSewerCheez-It]

Blogs lol

[@richardabanono4511]

Tom Cruise 👍❤🎉🎶🎸

[@richardabanono4511]

I am fan of tom cruise since 1985 👍❤

[@richardabanono4511]

Thank you very much 🙏❤ i am from Philippines ✌❤🇵🇭

[@evilmario6061]

No-one mentioning how much Tom is irritated by Dave

[@matteowatteo1296]

I like his movies. Could care less about the rest.

[@klaasj7808]

most is true

[@JayRock21122]

Tom Drinks the juices of Younglings.

[@PiCheZvara]

Cruise is laughing, but that's just an act. Forced, but perfected PR laughter. He doesn't really find it funny. If you see this, you have a very high EQ.

[@sanazj3232]

I know! I was looking through comments to see if anybody else felt the same!

[@vladivanov5500]

If you use the words "very high EQ" unironically, you have a very low IQ.

[@americanpancakelive]

I know deep down in my heart that I should hate this guy, but, shit, I like him

[@TomCruise-wg8eh]

Smile, thanks for your love and support towards me ❤🌹

[@aleksandrakettner905]

❤️❤️❤️

[@TomCruise-ul5cf]

I love you more Aleksandra thank you for your lovely compliment

[@aleksandrakettner905]

@@TomCruise-ul5cf 🩷🎬🩷make next top gun with me🩷

[@ingridsanchez9787]

A Latino definitely wrote No. 4 😂

[@corabernal6432]

I would have paid to watch that Oprah show.🤣😎😂😮

[@johnpatty7489]

Except for right now