Robert De Niro yells “Shame on you!” at former assistant while on the stand
Robert De Niro especially didn't appreciate the claim that he would take phone calls while using the bathroom
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Perhaps unsurprisingly, given how much fun getting sued generally is, Robert De Niro does not seem to be having a good time today in court. He’s on the stand today in the case brought by his former personal assistant, Graham Chase Robinson, who has accused her former boss of subjecting her to—among other things—unwanted physical contact, sexually-charged comments, “stereotypically female duties like housework,” and other “office wife” duties like making her “scratch his back, button his shirts, fix collars, tie his ties, and prod him awake when he was in bed” even after De Niro made her an executive at his Canal Productions label. (You can read more about the accusations here.)
But it was another very specific allegation that pushed De Niro over the edge today, with Deadline reporting that he shouted “Shame on you, Chase Robinson!” on the witness stand when asked whether he had ever “audibly urinated while in a bathroom on a phone call with his assistant”—which, and this is not to be taken as an opinion in favor of either side of this suit, is the kind of stereotypical “bad boss” behavior that a bad boss might do in a comedy about a bad boss.
De Niro later offered exasperated responses like “Give me a break with this stuff” and “You got us all here for this?” while reacting to the list of things he’s been accused of. He also exclaimed “She implies that she’s out in front of the building on her knees scrubbing the floor” when asked if he had ever asked Robinson to scratch his back—with De Niro also “gesticulating on the stand as if to demonstrate that he was asking for help with a hard-to-reach spot,” as Deadline describes it.
De Niro was reportedly on the stand for “about five hours” over the past two days.
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Who the fuck hasn’t?
Well I’m going to be more careful NOW since apparently this is an indignity that’s worth millions in potential damages.
Fucking Winston Churchill and LBJ wouldn’t last five seconds in the 21st century.
Churchill’s bathroom, November 1 2023:
“DAMMIT”
“And then what did President Johnson do, Miss Robinson?”“He…he made me take down his order for…tailored pants.”
Hey, Jumbo needs plenty of room.
Gotta have plenty of room between hwhere your nuts and and your bunghole. Wait. This was in 1964. Maybe it was the penile freedom afforded by these Haggar Slacks which emboldened Lyndon and got us into Vietnam.
Exactly. I’ve pinched a loaf a few times while on the phone.
So this is a thing worth going to court over? They weren’t even in the same zip code at the time. sounds like a money grab to me.
I gotta say, secret pro tip for anyone else who occasionally needs to take a leak during a long call, don’t piss into the water. If you piss against the side of the bowl its a lot quieter.Also, obviously learn to use the mute button, but the wall thing is helpful just in case you aren’t sure if your mute button is working.
Piss against the wall. Got it.
My stream is too strong and would definitely chip the drywall like a pressure washer
Ah, youth.
Got it.
My dad was a loud pee-er and he used to typically come home from work as we were sitting donw to dinner. He’d go into the bathroom (which was right next to the kitchen) and do a loud fucking pee which nobody else remarked on but I thought was disgusting. Thirty years later, I am still a side-of-the-bowl man just to keep things quiet.
I mean, I’m just saying. The sink is right there next to the toilet and you’ll NEVER hear any splashing if you’re pissing in the sink.
Ew.
Shower/bathtub works too
Maybe I’m just too short but I never understood how sink pissing works. Most bathroom counters are above my dick, which makes sense since the counter is for washing your hands and face, so having it much lower means you have to bend over more.Like, are people climbing up on the counter? Stepstools? Is everyone else a giant?
It’s all about angle and velocity.
I always thought sink pissing was a tall guy perk.
You can also just sit down!
Phone calls on the shitter always reminds me of this David Sedaris bit.
But you do
believe in talking on the phone while sitting on the toilet?Well,
it’s not a belief, she said, but I mean, sure. When asked how she
explains the noise, Tiffany scrunched up her face and held an imaginary
receiver to her mouth. I say, (STRAINING) don’t mind me, I’m just trying
to get the lid off this jar.Her
face returned to normal and I thought of all the times I had fallen for
that line, all the times I had pictured my sister standing helpless in
her kitchen. Try tapping the lid against the countertop, I’d said, or
rinse it in hot water, that sometimes works. Eventually, after much
struggle, she would let out a breath. There we go, she’d say. I’ve got
it now. And then she would say thank you. And I’d hang up thinking,
well, it’s a good thing she called me.
I’ve never read that piece, but now I worry that Amy Sedaris needs more fibre in her diet.
It’s from this.https://www.thisamericanlife.org/241/20-acts-in-60-minutes/act-eleven-7There’s apparently a BBC version with a funnier ending.
Eventually, after much huffing and puffing, she would let out a long breath, murmur “There we go”, and thank him for his advice. “And I would feel powerful,” he recalled sadly, “believing myself to be the only man on Earth who could open a jar over the telephone.” Only Sedaris could tell of his sister’s multi-tasking during a bowel movement, and still come off sounding needy.
https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/features/the-week-in-radio-a-flush-of-joy-from-painfully-funny-family-portraits-8225275.html
Sounds like everyone’s a winner from that outcome.
Different Sedaris, this was about Tiffany not Amy.
His stories like that never fail to make me weep with laughter. “True Detective” from “Naked” is my all-time favorite. Helpless with laughter.
Shame on you, Robert De Niro; you’re ruining Robert De Niro for me!
How does Robert De Niro have such a pussed out staff. This is an outrage.
Robert De Niro
Bela Lugosi
Snuffleupagus
Parker PoseyHalfway done.
“I pay you 6 figures a year to scratch my back, and you sue me? You talkin’ to me?”
So it doesn’t sound like he made her go to the movies- sit in the front row next to him as he guffawed while smoking a cigar, stuck his thumb in her mouth, or he didn’t lash himself to the undercarriage of her Toyota Camry in order to horn in on a girls’ weekend. I’m a little disappointed that this 80-year-old new dad sounds a little ho-hum.
And he’s 80- he’s probably peeing all the time.
There’s men that can be hired. Two pieces of pipe and a bicycle chain. He won’t be so scary after that.
Not to mention that time he made her punch him over and over again just to prove a point.
If I were Ms. Robinson, I’d be constantly looking over my shoulder for Joe Pesci.
Alternate headline: “Oblivious Old Man Sued For Acting Like An Oblivious Old Man”