David Arquette was a guest host on RAW in 2010, but his performance led to him believing that Vince McMahon was angry with it. He explained why to Chris Van Vliet on the Insight podcast.
The actor revealed that he spoke to WWE about some matches but they had zero interest in it: “They own everything. I mean, I had gone to them really early on to want to do it with them before any deathmatches or anything like that. But, it didn’t work out or they weren’t really interested. Never really get it, I don’t know. It was a whole mix.”
He admitted going off script during his segment, which may have annoyed McMahon: “Scream 4 was coming out, I contacted Triple H and I was like, ‘I think this could be cool.’ I went out there and I – I don’t know. It was after Scream 4, I was just in a bad place. I was going through the divorce and I started this night, you know, pretty wild. And it was in New Orleans, I just ended up staying up all night, like, you know. Came in just — voice was coming and going. I did, I really did. And I went out and I was like, I was trying to get heel heat or something that like, ‘Ah, this town, New Orleans’. But it was kind of off-script and I think I just pissed off Vince (McMahon), I’m pretty sure. I didn’t mean to. I have the utmost respect for him. But I didn’t know. Like, I didn’t, I didn’t, I wasn’t aware of – like, no one really smartened me up too much like, ‘Make sure not to do this. Stay out of’ – I don’t know. Like, I almost thought of it like, I guess I was thinking of it like it was a house show, but it was for RAW.”
