The Night Jason Voorhees Crashed The Arsenio Hall Show
In the summer of 1989, Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan was slashing its way into theaters.
But instead of lurking in the woods of Crystal Lake, Jason Voorhees showed up somewhere even stranger – the set of The Arsenio Hall Show.
Yes, the hockey-masked killer sat down for a “chat” with Arsenio in what remains one of the weirdest and funniest late-night interviews of all time.
Arsenio introduced him as a “deranged sociopath” before leaning in with mock seriousness: “You’re angry, man. What happened? Did you get cut from the hockey team in high school?”
The audience howled while Jason just sat there in silence.
The jokes kept rolling. Arsenio pointed out that Jason killed 16 people in Jason Takes Manhattan – a lower body count than usual. “Are you getting soft?” he asked. “Are you losing a step?” Again, Jason didn’t budge. That blank, silent stare said it all.
Jason did bring a clip from the movie, though! Afterward, Arsenio pitched some fake sequels that had the audience in stitches: Jason and the Three Babies, Jason Rabbit, even When Jason Met Sally.
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