Actor Joaquin Phoenix and late night talk show host David Letterman shared a special moment a couple nights ago on the Late Show. Phoenix, who is now clearly either insane or doing one hell of a publicity stunt, appeared on the show to promote his new film Two Lovers – and did anything but. As Letterman asked him questions, Phoenix, with long hair, a Moses-like beard and wearing sunglasses sat quietly and occasionally muttered to himself, or expressed his displeasure with Letterman making fun of him. It was an odd scene to say the least — which of course means instant online gold.The incident drew the most streams of the Late Show since last October when then Presidential candidate John McCain was on. The Phoenix interview drew over 2.5 million views on CBS’ sites in just the first 36 hours after it aired, according to CBS. And that doesn’t even include YouTube numbers (where I first saw it).While hundreds of people posted the video on YouTube after it aired, most of those have been removed at CBS’ request. But you can still find a slightly edited version on CBS’ official YouTube page, where the video already has over 1.4 million views. Watch the edited interview below, to see the insanity for yourself.

Wierd - first time I've been blocked on youtube from watching a USA based youtube video because because I live in the UK. I've had it happen with American TV / Live type channels but I guess we Brits aren't aloud to watch the David Letterman show anymore - maybe it's something to do with movie release dates - but surely this is a review / interview with the movie director or actor ? - I don't know who this guy is, but i still object to the censorship of this interview - just coz i live in England, it's bad enough we aren't allowed to listen / sign up with pandora - now we are banned from watched us TV in UK even on video it seems. Youtube today mac donalds tomorrow... The video that won't play ===> p-s one of the reasons this bugged me is because I am subscribed to http://www.shoppingblog.com and they have star youtube clips, and it's a real shitter if you are banned from watching something mainstream on a youtube clip - it almost provokes me into going some where really nasty instead just to give them the V's... I imagine your average teenager would feel cheated like that too! I know lets ban people from normal youtube clips and get them download chucky eats babies or something perverse instead.

I grew up idolizing this dude….this just cracks me up in so many ways.

That Joaquin Phoenix interview from Dave last night was a classic. "Joaquin, I'm sorry you couldn't be here tonight."

Joaquin Phoenix's appearance on Late Show left everyone, including David Letterman, feeling confused.

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