When film fans talk about their favorite Christmas films, the action classic Die Hard regularly appears in these lists. Even in ours Top 24 Best Christmas Movies the strip secured 4th place. There are always discussions about whether the film should even be classified as a Christmas film.
Lead actor Bruce Willis was a guest on Comedy Central’s annual Roast series in 2018, where celebrities become the target of unpleasant gags presented by colleagues or personal relatives. Instead of just plugging away, Willis also used his appearance to humorously end the eternal Christmas movie discussion about Die Hard once and for all.
That’s what Bruce Willis called Die Hard at the Comedy Central Roast
According to Comic Book, Bruce Willis responded to fans’ statements that Die Hard was clearly a Christmas film with a clear counterargument
Die Hard is not a Christmas movie. It’s a goddamn Bruce Willis movie!
With this tongue-in-cheek statement that Die Hard is not a Christmas film, but a Bruce Willis film the actor fired back against a parade of nasty gags that he had to endure during the show.
One of the highlights of the Comedy Central Roast at the time was an appearance by Willis’ ex-wife Demi Moore, to whom he was married for 13 years and has three daughters. According to Entertainment Weekly, Moore said that Willis and she were married during the period when there were only three Die Hard films. Which in her opinion would make sense, there the last two films in the franchise were so bad had been.
Where can you watch Die Hard?
If you want to watch the action classic with Bruce Willis now, you can Die Hard directly on Disney+ watch in the streaming flat rate.
This article first appeared in a similar form on Moviepilot in 2018.