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70 Men Ages 5-75: What's The Most Embarrassing Thing That Has Happened To You?

We asked 70 men from ages 5 to 75: What's the most embarrassing thing that's ever happened to you? From first impressions to mistaken identity, take a look at what these guys of every consecutive age have to say about the moments that have gotten them red in the face.

Released on 10/20/2020

Transcript

[Interviewer] What is the most embarrassing thing

that ever happened to you?

When my dad says I have a bad day.

When I get embarrassed, I really laugh.

So I don't get embarrassed.

There's this girl, Saudi

and it seems like I kissed her on the cheek, but I didn't.

She bumped into me.

So when I slept in class.

When my friend told me to do a split

and my pants ripped a little.

I don't really want to share that.

My mom singing.

When I was eight years old,

I had my cousin over and ended up peeing in the bed

and my brother was laughing at me.

When I left school with no shoes.

Once during a soccer game, I was about to score

and then I fell over the ball.

When I was on a cruise I walked into a door

'cause I thought it was an automatic door.

I was like flailing my hands around a lot

and then I accidentally put my finger up a girl's nose once.

I was talking to one of my friends

about someone that we didn't really like,

and they were standing like right next to us,

I was doing a BMX trick to impress a girl

and I broke my arm.

Losing a wrestling match in 13 seconds.

When I graduated, throwing my graduation cap in the air,

we were in an indoor room

and I hit the chandelier and it fell down.

This year was my first year of flying in 10 years

and I did not hear the pilot

make that announcement that we were about to descend.

So when I looked outside of my window and the plane dropped

and the wing started shaking, I was like, oh [beep].

And everybody on the plane started looking at me

and I was like, please stop.

I pissed myself in third grade.

I had never thrown up from drinking before.

So I guess I just didn't think that could happen.

And then I very much did in the back of a cab.

It was in college.

I was with the next girlfriend and we were at

the rooftop as we were making out.

And my twin brother came in and walked in on us.

I would say me 11th grade I had a twerking video

that kind of went like fake viral.

And I went to my gym class and I saw one of the teachers.

Apparently he said that he had saw the video

and I was just cringing mad hard.

I would say sending a text message thread to my mom

that was kind of between me

and a person that I was dating at the time.

Doing West side story and a community theater play.

And there's like a little basketball scene and somebody

threw the ball too high.

So I went to catch him when I came down,

totally fell flat on my butt.

I was in a restaurant with my friend in Mexico

and the waiter was really attractive, really cute.

And my friend encouraged me to try to talk to him,

that I should ask him out.

And so I did, or I tried to,

and the second that I went to ask him out,

the whole restaurant got quiet and it did not go well.

When I was a junior in high school,

I had an assignment to read a poem in front of the class.

Instead of reading a poem,

I decided to sing Taylor Swift's song Forever and Always.

When I was 13, my dad caught me

watching his porn collection.

When I forgot my lines in a school play.

When I was about six-ish.

I got so nervous when I asked a girl out,

when I was a lot younger before I had all this confidence

that I peed myself.

I tripped and fell in front

of a group of my friends skating.

I didn't pass my driver's exam, the driving portion.

Right before I started medically transitioning,

I was still being read as female

and still using the women's restroom.

And I remember this time I was in the bathroom

and someone was coming directly to that stall.

And this woman looked at me and jumped back.

You know, she felt like she was

in the room with someone who was not supposed to be there.

So I suppose it was embarrassing

and also affirming to who I am.

Having the A-train close on me

right when I got to the platform.

I was fired.

I sat in a chair and it broke.

I don't get embarrassed

'cause I didn't care what people think.

I don't want to talk about it.

I was in class in elementary school

and I pissed my pants.

So I used to work for the U.S. Open, I was a ball boy.

I was on the court.

Went to go get the ball, my foot comes out

of my sneaker in front of everyone.

I'm pretty shameless.

I don't really get embarrassed easy.

When I was at camp and I had to do a speech

in front of everybody.

All of a sudden, as I was walking off stage, my pants fell

and then I tripped over the down the steps.

I had a pie thrown in my face on my birthday

at a family gathering where my friends

from high school had come to the party.

I called someone by the wrong name.

I was given a bottle of whiskey to share,

while I was at my wife's cousin's home.

I thought she gifted it to me, but it was a mistake.

Having a hole in my pants the whole day

and not realizing it until

someone was nice enough to tell me.

I wet the bed during basic training in the military.

I can't really think of anything.

I really don't embarrass easily.

It was winter time.

I'm trying to walk across the street,

hit black ice and boom.

I was in a nightclub full of people

and tried to jump a barrier and fell, didn't make it.

I tripped on a runaway.

As a kid I took some dried fruits

out of a bottle and my aunt seen it

and I did it without a permission.

I had a moment when I was younger,

where I walked up behind a girl who I thought was my sister

and I started massaging her shoulders.

And it wasn't her.

Nothing.

Singing in high school acapella.

I don't think it was received well,

I should have had some accompaniment.

I went to a musical theater callback.

It turns out I wasn't called back at all.

When I was in the fifth grade,

I actually got my fingers stuck in a map on the wall.

They used to call me Saturday Night Franco.

I used to love to dance.

And I was dancin' in a disco in Manhattan

and I did some move, bent down

and my pants just ripped in the back right in half.

I'm a drummer.

And we were shooting a video as a band

and we had a set list.

The song came up that I was supposed to do

and I was supposed to start.

And I started the wrong song.

One morning without knowing it,

I rode to work on the subway

with a face filled with bloody nick tissues.

I can't say.

Nothing.

I don't get embarrassed.

I don't think I've ever had anything

really embarrassing 'cause you know,

people don't approach me too much.

' Cause you know, they say I'm intimidating.

I am intimidating a little bit, but I'm really a nice guy.

So a lot of people don't play to many games with me.

Going to an appointment and forgetting my wallet

and having to convince the transit workers

that you've never heard this story before.

And let me on the train.

Probably, when I told everybody,

make sure your cell phone was off and then mine rang.

I was playing golf and I farted,

but it didn't come out as a fart.

I was in a play in college

and I was playing an African dancer

and they had these grass skirts on us

and my skirt fell off on the stage.

I don't get embarrassed.

Boy.

I'm on a train coming home from a chore.

I had almost diarrhea.

I went on stage and unaware that my zipper

to my pants were down.

I don't really get embarrassed.

I don't know.

Embarrassment has a level all its own.

It feels the same every time it shows up.

When the focus is on me.

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