Brad Garrett (Everybody Loves Raymond, Elio, Christopher Robin)

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<v Speaker 1>My name is Jim Cummings and welcome to tuned In.
<v Speaker 3>Welcome back, everybody to another episode of Tuned In with
<v Speaker 3>Jim Cummings in a new studio. That's right, How do
<v Speaker 3>you like it? We're here in Las Vegas. I'm producer
<v Speaker 3>Chris joined us always by the legend Jim Cummings.
<v Speaker 4>How are you doing today, sir?
<v Speaker 1>It's another day in paradise.
<v Speaker 4>Absolutely an Today we have a very special guest for you.
<v Speaker 2>Couldn't make it actor to meet.
<v Speaker 3>In voiceover actor, multi talented the amazing Brad Geary.
<v Speaker 2>Thank you for trying the day. Hi, thank you. You
<v Speaker 2>do that too. The crowd, that is the crowd. I'm
<v Speaker 2>used to this. Where's Ray? Yeah, good to see him.
<v Speaker 2>How are you? How are you liking Vegas? Oh?
<v Speaker 1>It's nice and warm.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah this is not this is that's true time, that's
<v Speaker 2>true to one hundred and twenty I think fifteen days
<v Speaker 2>last summer. Kid, it was. It's just it's brutal.
<v Speaker 1>Do you do the egg thing? Just put it out
<v Speaker 1>of iron skillet out there? And because I heard that.
<v Speaker 2>That, well, well I'm homeless, so okay, so I do so. Yeah,
<v Speaker 2>so I make my eggs on the sidewalk and then
<v Speaker 2>I sell them or or trade them. You know. It's yeah,
<v Speaker 2>it gets great. I should try the egg thing. Yeah,
<v Speaker 2>I should try that, because you know, I got a
<v Speaker 2>lot of time. And seriously, at this point, it's like,
<v Speaker 2>what am I going to do here? It's a fun town, man,
<v Speaker 2>It's changed so much.
<v Speaker 4>How long have you lived out here for?
<v Speaker 2>Well? You know, I'm here half the time, more more
<v Speaker 2>so lately because I have my club at MGM, but
<v Speaker 2>I still live in LA But I've been working the
<v Speaker 2>strip since eighty six. Wow, which is it? Yeah? Eighty six.
<v Speaker 2>I started at the Desert in opening for their different people.
<v Speaker 1>And yes, open there was a singer.
<v Speaker 2>There was, there was a singer never made it, never mad. Yeah,
<v Speaker 2>Frank Sinatra, Oh that one who called me Greg Barrett. Yes,
<v Speaker 2>that for four years and I didn't have the stones,
<v Speaker 2>you know. And my mom came to the show and
<v Speaker 2>she says, why are you taking a bow to someone
<v Speaker 2>else's name? And then she tip it back leave with
<v Speaker 2>the band member. But I said, Mom, it's no big deal.
<v Speaker 2>It is a big deal. Your name is Brad. He's
<v Speaker 2>calling you. And I went to Jilly, you know, his
<v Speaker 2>main bow after a couple of years, and I would, hey, Jilli, uh,
<v Speaker 2>can I ask you a question? And immediately he would
<v Speaker 2>you want the gig or not? That was Jilly Wow,
<v Speaker 2>And I said, of course I want the g I said,
<v Speaker 2>but Frank's calling me u A Greg. What is your name?
<v Speaker 2>I said, Brad, And he goes, do you want to
<v Speaker 2>go correct them? And I said no, no, not really,
<v Speaker 2>So for about you know, quite a while, I'm taking
<v Speaker 2>about to Greg Barrett, and even backstage he would say,
<v Speaker 2>Greg got me more eyes, and of course I would
<v Speaker 2>do it. But it was it was fun because it
<v Speaker 2>was like him and Sammy and Eliza Minelli would come
<v Speaker 2>by and you know, refill the prescription. And it was
<v Speaker 2>it was, it was a blast. It was you know,
<v Speaker 2>it wasn't the old Vegas like we love, but it was.
<v Speaker 2>It was the end of well an era. It was
<v Speaker 2>an era.
<v Speaker 1>It was an error, man, no kidding. And now you're
<v Speaker 1>up on the Vegas Mount Rushmore.
<v Speaker 2>Well, I don't know. I'm working. I'm working the food
<v Speaker 2>court d MGM. If you're there, come by, get a
<v Speaker 2>corn dog for you too, chewy, please come by. I
<v Speaker 2>don't think he has a badge to be in here.
<v Speaker 2>And it's you know, it's a it's a wonderful business.
<v Speaker 2>It's it's humbling, you know because I wasn't a big,
<v Speaker 2>big theater for a while. And then Ray took care
<v Speaker 2>of that. Thank you. Put him near the food and
<v Speaker 2>so it's great. So I'm in the club and he's
<v Speaker 2>going to be like in the main theater in a
<v Speaker 2>few weeks. So it's going to be it's kind of
<v Speaker 2>going to be like life. I atating art. I'm working.
<v Speaker 2>It does not sound right, Yeah, well it is with
<v Speaker 2>his act because you know he has material, you know,
<v Speaker 2>he has material.
<v Speaker 1>Let me know that.
<v Speaker 2>You know, I just roast people until they complain. And
<v Speaker 2>but it's gonna be fun. We're gonna do a little reunion.
<v Speaker 4>Oh that's good.
<v Speaker 2>See if he remembers me. I've never met him. Looking
<v Speaker 2>forward to seeing that.
<v Speaker 4>Remind everybody loves. For those of you curious, yes.
<v Speaker 1>Yes, and for the three of you who don't know, yes,
<v Speaker 1>could before. I don't know.
<v Speaker 3>We have some young people watching. Man, you know you
<v Speaker 3>never know? No, No, it's it's definitely. I'll tell you how.
<v Speaker 2>You know. When the the career is kind of over,
<v Speaker 2>people think this is not this happened.
<v Speaker 1>Please don't say you start a podcast. No, no, if.
<v Speaker 2>It was successful, is this one? I would do it.
<v Speaker 2>But people are starting to think I'm Kramer. Why don't
<v Speaker 2>you know? Yes, I know, yes, yes, I'm where that hat. No,
<v Speaker 2>I know, I know, but no, they really and it's
<v Speaker 2>it's yeah, you know, they're like, are you Kramer? And
<v Speaker 2>I'm like, yes, you know. I don't even want to
<v Speaker 2>get into it, and I'm so insecure I don't want
<v Speaker 2>to say no. But it's like the careers at the
<v Speaker 2>point they they're not sure how they know you either.
<v Speaker 2>With the high school Oh you're you're you're Kramer, you know. Yeah,
<v Speaker 2>it's funny. I get that or be Arthur. I get
<v Speaker 2>Arthur because of this because his size the ted ted smaller.
<v Speaker 2>How old are you? Six eight six eight, six eight? Yeah?
<v Speaker 1>I had you at ten for some reason, six ten
<v Speaker 1>six ten? What are you?
<v Speaker 2>Everyone sixten?
<v Speaker 3>Well, that's true, you know, I mean, and is it
<v Speaker 3>true that you hold againness book a world record for
<v Speaker 3>tallest lead actor.
<v Speaker 1>That I don't.
<v Speaker 2>I don't pretty cool, I don't know. I think is
<v Speaker 2>that really? Well?
<v Speaker 4>One in my research I came across.
<v Speaker 2>The stat that's a great stat. I think Andre is
<v Speaker 2>the john.
<v Speaker 1>But the guy.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, well was he a lead though? He was? Well,
<v Speaker 2>I'm really not a lead you have.
<v Speaker 1>I don't know, Jackie Gleason, I'm pretty sure you are.
<v Speaker 1>That was that was That was that was That was
<v Speaker 1>cool as hell.
<v Speaker 2>You were great. Thank you. Ray had a great line.
<v Speaker 2>He goes up, they should call the movie Jackie the
<v Speaker 2>NBA Years.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah.
<v Speaker 2>That was a lot of fun. Yeah, that was a
<v Speaker 2>lot of fun.
<v Speaker 1>You sounds just like him. Yeah, well you you started
<v Speaker 1>in your act, you you did a lot of impressions.
<v Speaker 2>When I started out, it was just that's really all
<v Speaker 2>that's all I did. When I started out, it was
<v Speaker 2>very very you know, my beginning standard was very you know,
<v Speaker 2>not that there's an incredible growth, but at the beginning,
<v Speaker 2>it was very pedestrian.
<v Speaker 1>Well, you were a star search the king of star Search.
<v Speaker 2>Star Stears was the beginning. And I know, I'm eighty four. Wow,
<v Speaker 2>hard to believe. Yeah, how long have you been doing? Pooh?
<v Speaker 1>Yeah about eighty four.
<v Speaker 2>Honestly, that's amazing, I think, yeah, I think that's right. Yeah. Yeah.
<v Speaker 1>And I was doing Tigger on and off, depending on
<v Speaker 1>God rest his soul. You know. Paul Pauline, he was
<v Speaker 1>going back and forth to Africa too. It was back
<v Speaker 1>during the famine.
<v Speaker 2>Who was going to Africa? Paul Winchell during the famine.
<v Speaker 1>During the famine, he can't touch great food out of here.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, you know, I don't.
<v Speaker 1>And he developed this.
<v Speaker 2>How do you you know what he'll take the Yeah, yeah,
<v Speaker 2>I mean that can't be good. Yeah, yeah, well he was.
<v Speaker 1>And you know, in the Mississippi, because I was a
<v Speaker 1>decade on but living New Orleans a long time, there's
<v Speaker 1>these things called mud puppies mud guppies, and they have
<v Speaker 1>a sort of a lizardy face and a and a
<v Speaker 1>tail on the back. They look like mutants. I swear
<v Speaker 1>to God, this is a real thing. Look it up
<v Speaker 1>and apparently they're nutritious as hell and you can raise
<v Speaker 1>them and crap and mud and you spin in the
<v Speaker 1>dirt and you throw them and they so he took
<v Speaker 1>them over to Africa. I developed as I mean, you know,
<v Speaker 1>trigger knucklehead Smith curing hunger. It's a natural progression.
<v Speaker 2>And he invented the artificial heart that I knew. You know,
<v Speaker 2>I'm very good friends with his daughter, a Wood, who
<v Speaker 2>does a lot of boys, and I just love her
<v Speaker 2>to death. She makes me laugh, like you've worked with
<v Speaker 2>her right, oh many many minutes.
<v Speaker 4>Coming on the podcast next week.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, she really Oh she is so funny and you
<v Speaker 2>know what she makes me laugh.
<v Speaker 1>She's she's so so quick and so I know, and.
<v Speaker 2>So like droll. You know. David Copperfield, who uh yes
<v Speaker 2>was was uh my lover for a while sitting theater
<v Speaker 2>cap theater cap, speaking of caps in theater camp. We
<v Speaker 2>had a little uh we did Fiddler together, me and
<v Speaker 2>uh uh and he played you know, the butcher and
<v Speaker 2>I have you. But he's he's an amazing guy and
<v Speaker 2>an old time. I used to open for him, like
<v Speaker 2>in the eight out for Copperfield, and he's just a
<v Speaker 2>great guy. But he has a magic museum, which is incredible.
<v Speaker 2>I mean he's got artifacts and things that nobody owns
<v Speaker 2>and he's really into Uh yeah, I hate saying his puppets,
<v Speaker 2>you know, which makes you, It makes you wonder, makes you. Yeah, right,
<v Speaker 2>it's a it's And he had some original Jerry Mahony's
<v Speaker 2>that like April couldn't believe and and he actually gave her,
<v Speaker 2>gave her one of the puppets and it was just
<v Speaker 2>it was just amazing. Yeah, or sulted to her maybe yeah, maybe, yeah,
<v Speaker 2>but it was amazing. But she makes me happy a
<v Speaker 2>living Yeah, of course you do so since the eighties.
<v Speaker 2>But wow, that's a credible And then you would do
<v Speaker 2>Tigger when when when Paul was gone, he was literally
<v Speaker 2>the chances of being able to That's how brilliant you are.
<v Speaker 2>I mean, two of the most comic and I know
<v Speaker 2>you do thousands, but I mean you've but you're such
<v Speaker 2>a good actor. Oh thanks man, you really really really
<v Speaker 2>are man, And it's just an honor to because I
<v Speaker 2>you know, it's funny. I would I only did a
<v Speaker 2>few sessions with you, with you in the room in
<v Speaker 2>the early days. Yeah, yeah, And I would watch you
<v Speaker 2>work and then I'd go home and I put my
<v Speaker 2>head in the oven because I would say, this is
<v Speaker 2>this is this is not worth it. You know. You
<v Speaker 2>just had that way of wherever your mom would sit
<v Speaker 2>around and gotta go get a biscuity, know, because it
<v Speaker 2>was just it was how'd you break? Can I ask
<v Speaker 2>how you broke it? I mean, like, what was your.
<v Speaker 1>First Well it was it was right when Disney Channel
<v Speaker 1>first started up and they were looking for programming. They
<v Speaker 1>were trying to recycle a bunch of stuff, and we
<v Speaker 1>had an audition for Lionel the line they were redoing Dumbo.
<v Speaker 1>They were redoing Dumb but it was people, and it was,
<v Speaker 1>you know, so little people. Some people in like two
<v Speaker 1>or three people inside of the elephant costume.
<v Speaker 2>It was in costume.
<v Speaker 1>It wasn't animated, but they needed yeah, well all sorts
<v Speaker 1>of people in. Yeah, in costume.
<v Speaker 2>In those days, you could do that, and there was
<v Speaker 2>a round up little people. They would do anything. They
<v Speaker 2>would do anything you tell anything, go go, you know,
<v Speaker 2>I got French draining.
<v Speaker 4>In the yard.
<v Speaker 2>I go in there and serious is true.
<v Speaker 1>No, absolutely, And they they figured they needed Timothy the mouse,
<v Speaker 1>but they couldn't. I mean, how how do you do
<v Speaker 1>a mouse?
<v Speaker 2>You know?
<v Speaker 1>So they made him a lion and it was like
<v Speaker 1>a four foot lion. Okay, so but it was still
<v Speaker 1>the same little guy, you know, Timothy both circus, you know,
<v Speaker 1>and he sounded like sort of a little chicagoy mouse guy.
<v Speaker 1>And so I did the voice, but they just assigned
<v Speaker 1>him lion, all the lion. And that was and fortunately,
<v Speaker 1>excuse me, they they did sixty five episode got covid gym. Yeah,
<v Speaker 1>very dry and dry in this town. I don't know,
<v Speaker 1>you know, my eyes are.
<v Speaker 2>We stop at the wet market on the way potato chips. Yeah,
<v Speaker 2>but uh, that was like your first big It was.
<v Speaker 1>My very first gig and fortunate and I didn't have
<v Speaker 1>an agent. I just lucked out and got an audition
<v Speaker 1>from a guy. I was working at the video depots
<v Speaker 1>and a guy named sal Romeo had just made this
<v Speaker 1>terrible B movie.
<v Speaker 2>Uh.
<v Speaker 1>We were probably you were great. You were great.
<v Speaker 2>Thank you You played that one guy. But you know,
<v Speaker 2>it's amazing what I have to give the credit. There
<v Speaker 2>were five little people inside me. Oh yeah, I didn't
<v Speaker 2>do any of the acting. Yeah, and my first marriage
<v Speaker 2>that was by the way, really I just hid everything.
<v Speaker 2>The French coat, you know, my offices.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, okay, okay, yeah, you don't want you comfortable in
<v Speaker 1>that chair, right, there's everyone.
<v Speaker 2>Everyone's good, there's a chair here. I have to give
<v Speaker 2>birth to that later. So that was your first guy,
<v Speaker 2>that was first ko depot.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah right, well he gave me, got an audition and
<v Speaker 1>I got the job.
<v Speaker 2>Was he involved in this?
<v Speaker 1>No? No, he just knew a guy, okay, you know,
<v Speaker 1>just like a guy. I knew a stories man. I
<v Speaker 1>didn't have an agent, and it took sixty five episodes
<v Speaker 1>and I went from Megan like I don't know, three
<v Speaker 1>hundred bucks a week to make it seven seven hundred
<v Speaker 1>bucks a week, really big fat money.
<v Speaker 2>Now, so now I'm in the chips. Now you're and
<v Speaker 2>when did you quit eight selling the portapes there? Yeah?
<v Speaker 2>Yeah right, yeah we might have done that. Yeah maybe no.
<v Speaker 2>I one of my first jobs. I'm embarrassed to say it,
<v Speaker 2>but one of my first jobs was and this is
<v Speaker 2>how I met a good friend of mine, Darryl, who
<v Speaker 2>ended up working at TGA Friday TGI Fridays with me
<v Speaker 2>years later. This is like the early eighties. I had
<v Speaker 2>a job. It was where we had to sell adult
<v Speaker 2>videos to like the children, right, but we children don't know.
<v Speaker 5>No.
<v Speaker 2>Wow, I'm glad you said that. Yeah, so there were
<v Speaker 2>these kids and no we would we would have to
<v Speaker 2>sell them over the phone. It was phone calling to
<v Speaker 2>different video stores. Wow, this is the early eighties. And
<v Speaker 2>we would call we go, hey, we had to pick
<v Speaker 2>a fee. This is Brad from Supreme Not is that
<v Speaker 2>my well yeah, it was really not my real neighborhood.
<v Speaker 2>It was it was gun there, Craig. It was gun
<v Speaker 2>the gun Tha Garret, Baby, let's have a hand for
<v Speaker 2>this guy.
<v Speaker 4>Are you serious? Yeah?
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, it was Gunther Gunther and uh. I would call
<v Speaker 2>and I would say, hey, we're from Supreme Video and
<v Speaker 2>we're fine, we don't need any more. Uh. And I said,
<v Speaker 2>well we got some new one we have, you know,
<v Speaker 2>shower Rangers or or my favorite brother Harry, Harry Poter
<v Speaker 2>Patrol was yeah that was good.
<v Speaker 4>Or uh yeah, I'll shaving private Ryan.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah that was one. What's that smell.
<v Speaker 1>Shaving Ryan's privates?
<v Speaker 2>Yeah? Another good one. That's a good one. But we
<v Speaker 2>us and they're like, no, no, no, we're good. We're good.
<v Speaker 2>But I actually I actually did that for Speaking of
<v Speaker 2>Video Deep So that's a great story. And it was
<v Speaker 2>all in costume. Yeah, that show.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, it was all in costume. And uh and no,
<v Speaker 1>I wasn't in costume, right, but by the time, by
<v Speaker 1>the time sixty five episodes were up, I had an agent. Sure,
<v Speaker 1>so I didn't have that downtime where you're where you're
<v Speaker 1>you're poor, lucky, you know, you're working, you're working now,
<v Speaker 1>you're poor, now you have enough to live on and
<v Speaker 1>so uh and I was very you know, an knock
<v Speaker 1>on wood and yeah, I never saw that's incredible and
<v Speaker 1>it's you know what's interesting. We were talking about it
<v Speaker 1>the other day in one iteration or another. Mickey Mouse Club,
<v Speaker 1>Mickey Mouse Clubhouse, Mickey Mouse, House and Mouse, Mickey Mouse Boy.
<v Speaker 1>We got a lot of Mickey Mouse, Mickey Mouse and
<v Speaker 1>the Roads to Racers on more Mickey Mouse. And it's
<v Speaker 1>still got We just wrapped for the first time since
<v Speaker 1>my career started. On the left, I don't have a
<v Speaker 1>Mickey Mouse episode on my calendar.
<v Speaker 2>Was like a couple of weeks ago, right, Yeah, just
<v Speaker 2>a couple you did Mickey No, I was always.
<v Speaker 1>Pete, you were.
<v Speaker 2>There. You go, pal, How you doing, buddy? Yeah? That
<v Speaker 2>big cat. You know I auditioned oo.
<v Speaker 4>You did that?
<v Speaker 2>Of course I did. Maybe we're we're going to get Jim.
<v Speaker 2>I know I have one voice, seriously and two speeds.
<v Speaker 2>You know, there was no rain.
<v Speaker 1>Seems to be working.
<v Speaker 2>It's like I look at my stuff and it's like
<v Speaker 2>that's that's just bloat with a limp. You know, it's
<v Speaker 2>like it's it's unbelievable. People would go like, a can
<v Speaker 2>you do anything different? But it's like you, yeah, it's
<v Speaker 2>like a plethora of stuff when you were young, did
<v Speaker 2>you know, I mean, were you always doing like did
<v Speaker 2>you impersonate people in the family or teachers?
<v Speaker 1>Oh, that's exactly what I did.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, that's what I did.
<v Speaker 1>God Rest their soul. My uncle Sam and my aunt
<v Speaker 1>Grace have been in a lot of cartoons.
<v Speaker 2>For real.
<v Speaker 1>Uncle Sam was he was all in the dragon or
<v Speaker 1>some goddamn Is that for real?
<v Speaker 2>Yeah?
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, that's how we talked to God Rest his soul.
<v Speaker 1>My cousins are so.
<v Speaker 2>They did animation.
<v Speaker 1>No, no, they just they were just they were in Youngstown.
<v Speaker 2>Oh they were meant they were okay, But then now
<v Speaker 2>so their voices.
<v Speaker 1>And then my grace she wash from Pennsylvania and she signed,
<v Speaker 1>that's all I like that. Hey, yeah, I'm gonna tell
<v Speaker 1>you what I'm gonna do.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, were you fashion this up.
<v Speaker 1>For your aunty honey?
<v Speaker 2>Honey?
<v Speaker 1>Just get tell them make the same same thing. And
<v Speaker 1>that was and she was.
<v Speaker 2>She that for them? I mean they had Yeah.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, that's the matter with him. You know. I used
<v Speaker 1>to get that a lot. If you're a fan of
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<v Speaker 3>And you started out doing impressions earlier in your career.
<v Speaker 3>I did Bill Cosby. I really want to hear the
<v Speaker 3>bill cause yeah.
<v Speaker 5>I will see with the people with before before the
<v Speaker 5>rape rape.
<v Speaker 2>Yes, you can do up doc. You know the story
<v Speaker 2>of what he brought me on the Tonight Show. He
<v Speaker 2>brought me on the Tonight Show and I was working
<v Speaker 2>in Vegas. This is when I started in Vegas. I
<v Speaker 2>was opening for Crystal Gale and the d I and
<v Speaker 2>he was at the Hilton and he was at the
<v Speaker 2>last minute he was supposed to fill in for Carson
<v Speaker 2>as a host because Johnny got sick and it was
<v Speaker 2>really and he had a show at the Hilton and
<v Speaker 2>the you know.
<v Speaker 5>Listen a little if the plane gives me to the burbike.
<v Speaker 1>I liked the mouth, you look like that's what kills me.
<v Speaker 2>And they said, all right, we need a comic. So
<v Speaker 2>we were with the same agency, not the same agent,
<v Speaker 2>and you know, they were pushing me. And again, you know,
<v Speaker 2>I'd done the Tonight Show, nothing great, really, nothing to
<v Speaker 2>write home about. I got through. You know, I got
<v Speaker 2>one of these and I got one of these, so
<v Speaker 2>it was kind of a bush. But so I got
<v Speaker 2>a call and they go, Bill, once, I have you
<v Speaker 2>on the Tonight Show today today. So I go, okay,
<v Speaker 2>they go, you're gonna go. So they go show up
<v Speaker 2>at the airport and it's Carson's jet and Carson yep
<v Speaker 2>and I get on the plane and you know, growing
<v Speaker 2>up he was you know, he was one of my
<v Speaker 2>hero especially for stand up And I get on the
<v Speaker 2>plane and there's Cosby and this is when the Cosby
<v Speaker 2>Show was on, this is the early eighties. And he's
<v Speaker 2>holding a calendar section of the Time magazine and he's
<v Speaker 2>on the front of it and he's holding it, oh for.
<v Speaker 2>And I walk on the plane and I'm a little
<v Speaker 2>shaky and there's a huge spread in front of him
<v Speaker 2>of fruit and cheese. And I get on the plane
<v Speaker 2>and I nod and he goes, kiwi okay. So I
<v Speaker 2>sit down and there's you know, and I go, I
<v Speaker 2>sit away from me. He goes, please have a zeato,
<v Speaker 2>what is it? Se down and I sit down next
<v Speaker 2>to him and we take off. It's a forty minute
<v Speaker 2>flight and he doesn't say much and very cordial and
<v Speaker 2>right before we land because I had my little set
<v Speaker 2>set up. Now, usually you work on a Tonight Show set,
<v Speaker 2>it takes quite a while, but you know, I found
<v Speaker 2>out it literally twenty four hours. So I'm like, well,
<v Speaker 2>I know what I'll do. I'll close with Cosby. He's hosting.
<v Speaker 2>It'll bring the it'll bring the house down. Other than that,
<v Speaker 2>I don't have much, you know, I'm doing my you
<v Speaker 2>know Hackey seven eleven jokes. Yeah, with Bubby or whatever.
<v Speaker 1>And you had to have like four minutes six six six,
<v Speaker 1>and I don't have six now, you know, to be honest,
<v Speaker 1>I don't have six now.
<v Speaker 2>Forty years later, So we're about to land and he says, hey, Brian,
<v Speaker 2>are here, you do it? Im pressure will be and
<v Speaker 2>I went yes, yes, and he goes, don't do it tonight, okay, okay,
<v Speaker 2>and I was like yeah, yeah, and he goes, I'm serious. Oh,
<v Speaker 2>and I go into like I think I'm having an anerism, right,
<v Speaker 2>So I'm like, well, I could do Rodney, but I'll
<v Speaker 2>tell you you're okay. You know, I was, what's doing
<v Speaker 2>Rodney at the improv?
<v Speaker 1>Good?
<v Speaker 2>When I started out? He was doing Rodney at the improv?
<v Speaker 2>And I hear from the back of the room, why
<v Speaker 2>don't you get your own fucking act? Okay? And I
<v Speaker 2>almost started to cry. I remember, you know, I was nineteen,
<v Speaker 2>and I welled up and I went, oh my god,
<v Speaker 2>that's Rodney. And he just walks on stage like like
<v Speaker 2>right after that, whoa. And I'm like, You're okay, You're okay,
<v Speaker 2>all right, good luck with your life, you know. Have
<v Speaker 2>We ended up being buddies later later in life, but
<v Speaker 2>it was like, oh my god, that was you know,
<v Speaker 2>that's something that that's brutal. It was brutal.
<v Speaker 1>That is insane.
<v Speaker 2>So I end up cut to the chase the Tonight
<v Speaker 2>Show and the set's going very average. Okay, well it's
<v Speaker 2>going okay. Cos me watching the set and I got
<v Speaker 2>like I got like one of those yeah, but it
<v Speaker 2>was it wasn't great, it was okay. It was like,
<v Speaker 2>you know, I knew people were looking at me going
<v Speaker 2>it's got great cadence, you know, because you know, nothing
<v Speaker 2>really is, and I know I got thirty seconds to finish,
<v Speaker 2>and you know, the act really didn't build mm hm.
<v Speaker 2>So I'm like, I'm going to do Cosby. Yeah, okay,
<v Speaker 2>pull it out. And the place goes nuts and he
<v Speaker 2>is stone. So I wasn't called over, nor did I
<v Speaker 2>deserve to be. I get on the plane. I gotta
<v Speaker 2>fly back with him. Oh really yeah, because we both
<v Speaker 2>have a show perfect and you know right away, I'm
<v Speaker 2>like a good chance he's really gonna touch me now
<v Speaker 2>because you know it's a it's a win win. And
<v Speaker 2>I'm on the plane and not a word, not a word,
<v Speaker 2>and I'm saying yeah, the sphincter was like the sphincter. Gun, Yeah,
<v Speaker 2>you're saint sphinx, yeah, sphincter. Yes, you always had a
<v Speaker 2>way of doing it correctly and not a word for
<v Speaker 2>the forty five minutes and uh, you know, I'm not
<v Speaker 2>saying anything. And we landed at the Karen here at
<v Speaker 2>the private and these two limos come up and I said,
<v Speaker 2>thank you for having me. I really uh huh just a.
<v Speaker 2>That's when I was. That's when the drinking really got heavy.
<v Speaker 2>And double therapy you double.
<v Speaker 4>Oh god, that's sober for quite a while now.
<v Speaker 2>Just celebrated twenty eight years graduation. Thank you. I don't
<v Speaker 2>recommend it. It's been it's been very lonely and both No,
<v Speaker 2>it was thank goodness, goodness, yeah, great, thank you man,
<v Speaker 2>thank you. Yeah. I had to had to. Yeah, but
<v Speaker 2>that's a beautiful thing. My god. Yeah, let's jump over this.
<v Speaker 2>I may I may take a tipperah yeah, recover just yes, exactly,
<v Speaker 2>just I missread.
<v Speaker 3>Just let's jump over to your voice acting career, so God,
<v Speaker 3>if I'm not mistaken. Two stupid dogs? Was that your first?
<v Speaker 4>That was?
<v Speaker 2>That was?
<v Speaker 1>Uh?
<v Speaker 2>Do you know Donovan Cook who was the director so talented? Yeah, yeah, exactly, God, darn.
<v Speaker 2>I'm sure you worked.
<v Speaker 1>On that, yes, Pete, yeah, yeah, my my, my old Yeah.
<v Speaker 2>He was in Three Musketeers.
<v Speaker 1>Well I think he produced it.
<v Speaker 2>You're right, you're right. Anyway, Mark Schiff the comedian played
<v Speaker 2>the small stupid dog, and again, you know my range.
<v Speaker 2>It was like don't need it, which is e or
<v Speaker 2>which is bloat on percocet, which is you know it's
<v Speaker 2>a little yeah, but two stupid Dogs was was actually yeah,
<v Speaker 2>that was my favorite. Was Hanna Barbara you remember them?
<v Speaker 2>And uh absolutely, Joe Barbara. I'll I remember he you know,
<v Speaker 2>I have a I was young. He walked in and
<v Speaker 2>he heard me do a couple of lines and he
<v Speaker 2>called Donovan over. He goes, were there other people? Yeah,
<v Speaker 2>for a wider net, and Donovan fought for me, and
<v Speaker 2>and that was that was fun to this day. I
<v Speaker 2>don't know, you know, I had this because he's so
<v Speaker 2>talented and really funny writer. And there was a thing
<v Speaker 2>where the dogs it was I was like a big
<v Speaker 2>sheep dog and and and Mark Shift was the docs
<v Speaker 2>and and we were really you know, we were two
<v Speaker 2>stupid dogs. And we would do something where we would
<v Speaker 2>eat something or shoe on a shoe and then one
<v Speaker 2>of us would throw up a corn cob okay, perfect
<v Speaker 2>full full, and you know we would ask, you know,
<v Speaker 2>you know this is happening a lot, Donovan, what does
<v Speaker 2>it mean? It's not important? Take forty you know, okay?
<v Speaker 2>And then one day he said, because one day I'm
<v Speaker 2>going to tell you because I'll run into them every
<v Speaker 2>few years, or we'll text or email out of the blue.
<v Speaker 2>And I've always you know, and I go, I know
<v Speaker 2>the corn cob meant something, and you know where my
<v Speaker 2>mind goes, not good? Ye, yes, And I said, could
<v Speaker 2>you just tell me when? Yeah, one day, one day
<v Speaker 2>I'll tell you. So if Donovan, if you're listening, I
<v Speaker 2>want to know what the corn cob meant.
<v Speaker 1>Oh, you're over.
<v Speaker 2>There, that's a camera. I don't work much. I keep
<v Speaker 2>looking at my guy over there because he's he's hitting
<v Speaker 2>the ball pretty heavy.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, you can hear that sounds.
<v Speaker 3>I wanted to also ask you do you have a
<v Speaker 3>musical background, because Entangled as hook Hand, you had a
<v Speaker 3>little musical number and I'm curious.
<v Speaker 2>Well, I'm not sure how you're asking that. It's funny.
<v Speaker 2>I was incredibly off key. And Alan Minken is that
<v Speaker 2>his name? Alan, please don't correct me, okay, because I
<v Speaker 2>know you sing. When they of this entangled, I go, uh,
<v Speaker 2>you know, I'm kind of tone deaf and I'm not
<v Speaker 2>a good singer. And he's like, that's what we want,
<v Speaker 2>and I said, well perfect. So I go in there
<v Speaker 2>to lay it down and I'm, you know, really nervous
<v Speaker 2>because I've had this song for a week. It was
<v Speaker 2>a great song, and uh was it? Everybody? You got
<v Speaker 2>a dream? I got a dream. I got a dream,
<v Speaker 2>that's right, and I'm happy to teach you how to do.
<v Speaker 2>So I'm like, oh god, God, I just hope there's
<v Speaker 2>not many, you know. And I go there and they
<v Speaker 2>have the Disney Wire, which I know you've done so
<v Speaker 2>these incredible singers the chorus, but I really don't sing.
<v Speaker 2>I wish I could. I think every comedian wan you sing? Yeah,
<v Speaker 2>right right? Okay? What was Can I get a little sure?
<v Speaker 1>What would you like to hear some today evening?
<v Speaker 2>That will be a stranger?
<v Speaker 1>That's it?
<v Speaker 2>You know, I think that was really bad, just a little.
<v Speaker 2>I love that. I love that. You know. I lost
<v Speaker 2>my virginity of that song too, Yes I did.
<v Speaker 1>Wow, I lost your virginity too.
<v Speaker 2>It's gotta be around it somewhere.
<v Speaker 1>Christ Oh, don't try this at home.
<v Speaker 3>By the way, of course, you guys both worked on
<v Speaker 3>Christopher Robbin.
<v Speaker 4>Of course you were you guys ever in the studio
<v Speaker 4>together for that.
<v Speaker 2>Never Jim doesn't allow that. I know people know that
<v Speaker 2>about Jim. He goes, nobody, nobody over five eight.
<v Speaker 1>Well, you know, well, you would come on and you
<v Speaker 1>were so you were bone dry and which was superb,
<v Speaker 1>and you're like the perfect Igor. And my favorite, one
<v Speaker 1>of my favorite lines in the movie is a tigger
<v Speaker 1>comes on and he gets introduced or something and he
<v Speaker 1>has to launch into the tigger song and you know
<v Speaker 1>who who and you turned to the little girl and
<v Speaker 1>he goes. He does that a lot, and it was
<v Speaker 1>just it was like boom. It was it was like
<v Speaker 1>get that out of my neck.
<v Speaker 2>Okay.
<v Speaker 4>Did you know like Jim originally auditioned for e or Oh,
<v Speaker 4>I'm sure.
<v Speaker 2>And after that I may lose it.
<v Speaker 1>No, no, no, no, but that's true. That is true.
<v Speaker 1>You know I I uh when when at what point? Way,
<v Speaker 1>I mean way back before.
<v Speaker 4>Like before you even had Pooh or Tigger.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, before really well, you know, they they said because
<v Speaker 1>Pooh was gone for I think it won the Academy
<v Speaker 1>Award in sixty five, and then we started the series
<v Speaker 1>eighty yeah for Winnie the Pooh and Tigger two, winning
<v Speaker 1>the Poo in the Day for eyor uh and uh
<v Speaker 1>and Winnie the Pooh. It was the three shorts because
<v Speaker 1>they made three shorts, they put him together to make
<v Speaker 1>it over. Then it was like seventy two minutes put together,
<v Speaker 1>so then they could could release it as a movie,
<v Speaker 1>which they did. That won the Animated Oscar for that year.
<v Speaker 1>Then that took twenty years off. You know, you went
<v Speaker 1>an Oscar. Okay, well that's enough. But I was glad
<v Speaker 1>because it gave me a chance to grow up. And
<v Speaker 1>then I used that twenty years to get older and uh.
<v Speaker 1>Then I went and auditioned, audition for Gopher Pooh. I
<v Speaker 1>didn't feel good about Owl. I might have tried an owl,
<v Speaker 1>but Pooh and Ticker. Anyway, I came home and I
<v Speaker 1>called my agent and I go, well, so what do
<v Speaker 1>you audition for Pooh? Tiger? Nailed or I am e
<v Speaker 1>or really yeah? Yeah, and and and she says, you're kidding.
<v Speaker 1>I said, no, no, no.
<v Speaker 2>You have to know your pool is no.
<v Speaker 1>But I thought it was okay, you know. And and
<v Speaker 1>so she calls me up a week later, as they do,
<v Speaker 1>and she goes and this is prior to you being
<v Speaker 1>e or obviously, but he said, well, I have bad
<v Speaker 1>news and I have good news. I said, give me
<v Speaker 1>the bad news. You're not or yeah, you're gonna be
<v Speaker 1>kidding me. I'm notty, what do you mean, I'm not here? No,
<v Speaker 1>they gave it to Peter Cullen, and I go, you
<v Speaker 1>lose to Peter Cullen. You shut up and go you know,
<v Speaker 1>of course, lick your wounds. You know. She's however, you
<v Speaker 1>are Winnie the Pooh and Tigger. I said, you had
<v Speaker 1>you had a yeah you had or yeah, you know,
<v Speaker 1>you know.
<v Speaker 2>I mean, wow. So I did your I auditioned for
<v Speaker 2>your in the eighties for for a Valentine's Day.
<v Speaker 1>Oh okay, yeah yeah.
<v Speaker 2>And then I did like a couple of games, and
<v Speaker 2>then things got busy and stand up and I was
<v Speaker 2>on the road and there were a couple of sessions
<v Speaker 2>I couldn't do unfortunately, and then uh, I think Colin
<v Speaker 2>got Peter but optimist Brian optimist. Yeah, yeah, it was incredible.
<v Speaker 2>I did one of the early transformers on TV when
<v Speaker 2>it went TV. Did you do it?
<v Speaker 1>Yeah? I did a couple of them.
<v Speaker 2>You did?
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, it was after Bernard Schleppie, I think Yeah, Smegma, Smegmazoid. Sorry,
<v Speaker 1>smeg Mazoid. I can't.
<v Speaker 2>I always loved Sure, sure the chasidic transformergzoid. You're standing
<v Speaker 2>on my side burn Yes?
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, oh man, man, who has more fun than this?
<v Speaker 2>Yeah? We're lucky people, aren't we doing what we loved? Yeah,
<v Speaker 2>we're very lucky.
<v Speaker 1>That's what I always say. It's the stuff that used
<v Speaker 1>to get me kicked out of class. Yes, and did
<v Speaker 1>you know? I mean I don't. I hope I didn't
<v Speaker 1>ask you this, but but when did you know that
<v Speaker 1>you were going to you know what I'm gonna do.
<v Speaker 1>I'm gonna grow up and I'm going to do this
<v Speaker 1>this this well.
<v Speaker 2>You know, I know it sounds like cliche or trite,
<v Speaker 2>but it seems like people. Uh yeah, I was very odd,
<v Speaker 2>you know, if you I know, that's hard to believe.
<v Speaker 2>I know that's hard to believe. Yes, give me a
<v Speaker 2>moment to smell my fing well you sing, But you
<v Speaker 2>know I was like I was like six feet of thirteen.
<v Speaker 2>I couldn't catch a ball. I couldn't throw, I couldn't
<v Speaker 2>make a layup. I looked like Wisa Manelli if she
<v Speaker 2>was putting a stretch machine. I had like short hair.
<v Speaker 2>I had dark circles under my eyes. I looked like
<v Speaker 2>a when I was four, Like I saw pictures of
<v Speaker 2>what I was four. I had these bags under my eyes.
<v Speaker 2>It looked like I was holding down three jobs as
<v Speaker 2>a four year old. I always looked like I was,
<v Speaker 2>you know, help me, help me. So I was bullied
<v Speaker 2>all the time. And you know, people that knew me,
<v Speaker 2>they're like, you're a giant. Just close your eyes and swing,
<v Speaker 2>you know. And you know I was bullied by teachers.
<v Speaker 2>This is how ball. Yeah. So I was like teachers. Yeah.
<v Speaker 2>So it's like, yeah, I'm telling you, Oh, here it goes.
<v Speaker 2>You know, look at them swanda down the hall. You know,
<v Speaker 2>because I had a little you know, I had a
<v Speaker 2>hump in those It was only a thirteen year old
<v Speaker 2>with a hump from slouching. But I used my humor
<v Speaker 2>to kind of you know, but my humor was kind
<v Speaker 2>of you know, a little abusive and zetzi because it
<v Speaker 2>would turn the attention onto the perpetrator, you know what
<v Speaker 2>I mean. But if you can make a bully laugh
<v Speaker 2>and people like, there's no way you could be bullied.
<v Speaker 2>You're a giant. But as we know, the bigger they
<v Speaker 2>are all right, thank you. And also, you know, how
<v Speaker 2>was your childhood? Did you have a good one? Do
<v Speaker 2>you ever get it? Yeah? So when you have parents
<v Speaker 2>that are kind of struggling to parent, you try to
<v Speaker 2>make them laugh because you know they're not happy, and
<v Speaker 2>you know I had that. Unfortunately, I bombed in front
<v Speaker 2>of my parents and they would boo, which was rough
<v Speaker 2>during passover. Yes, you know, it just passed the herosis,
<v Speaker 2>but it was. But I think that's where a lot
<v Speaker 2>of it was. And I found that was really the
<v Speaker 2>only thing I did that created you know, obviously attention
<v Speaker 2>and stuff like that, but but I knew early on.
<v Speaker 2>It's like I when I started, and you probably ran
<v Speaker 2>into this. You know there were class clowns, but when
<v Speaker 2>you can make the teachers laugh, yeah, that was kind
<v Speaker 2>of where you go, wow, this is more than you know.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, well, I always wanted to be the class wit
<v Speaker 1>as opposed to class clown because we had a clown
<v Speaker 1>and you know, and he would do tricks with his
<v Speaker 1>boogers and I said, okay, he's the clown. He Pitpy
<v Speaker 1>Balario is he's the closest name Pippy Valerio. No, it
<v Speaker 1>wasn't it was Pitpy Valario.
<v Speaker 2>It was no one's name Pippy Balerio vv Valerio.
<v Speaker 1>See so now it makes sense.
<v Speaker 2>Let me turn up the miracle here. You got me? Okay,
<v Speaker 2>Pippy Valeria.
<v Speaker 1>And he would make booger sculptures. So he won, He won,
<v Speaker 1>He just won. I didn't want to compete, so I
<v Speaker 1>would say things. He would do things.
<v Speaker 2>You know that's hysterical. Okay, that's kind of where I was,
<v Speaker 2>stuck somewhere between Pippy and the class wit. Okay, I would, yes, yes,
<v Speaker 2>I would force people to make booger sculptures. See. I
<v Speaker 2>was kind of the I was the heavy. That's a trip.
<v Speaker 2>Where did you grow up again?
<v Speaker 1>Johnstate, Ohio?
<v Speaker 2>Really? Yeah? All right?
<v Speaker 1>Man home of Boom Boom Mancini yep yead O'Neill And
<v Speaker 1>now me, I guess so, And I think.
<v Speaker 2>It's a great place to be first discovered there. Who
<v Speaker 2>was Chlamydia? Oh? Yes, yes, great singer, incredible stripper. Ye
<v Speaker 2>Chikuterie is going to be a jiggles if you can
<v Speaker 2>catch him.
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<v Speaker 3>Do it now, Well, let's let's fast forward because we
<v Speaker 3>haven't thought about. Everybody loves Raymond. So that's got to
<v Speaker 3>be a life changing The most popular show on the
<v Speaker 3>TV for years, for years.
<v Speaker 2>Oh yeah, I got lucky, Yeah, I got lucky. Auditioned
<v Speaker 2>uh for for Raymond?
<v Speaker 1>Well they got lucky too, Man, you knocked it.
<v Speaker 2>Out of the park's absolute.
<v Speaker 1>You crushed it, crushed it.
<v Speaker 2>Thank you. I owe that to Ray and Phil Rosenthal
<v Speaker 2>who ran the show. And how many statues, Well they
<v Speaker 2>took two back because they caught me at the MGM
<v Speaker 2>and they went, he can't have those. But yeah, you
<v Speaker 2>crushed it. Thank you. You know again, amazing writing. It
<v Speaker 2>all comes down to the writing. I think for the
<v Speaker 2>I mean the ensemble was you know we got lucky.
<v Speaker 2>You know, you got Peter Boyle, you got you know, Roberts, Patty,
<v Speaker 2>you know, and dumb and Ray who Uh. You know
<v Speaker 2>what I do love about that man is is he's
<v Speaker 2>so multi talented. I mean he finally directed, wrote, and
<v Speaker 2>started his movie about Queen's which was so I mean
<v Speaker 2>we always knew he you know that he could definitely direct,
<v Speaker 2>and of course, right but you know, so much comes down,
<v Speaker 2>you know, to the writing and you know, me and Ray,
<v Speaker 2>you know, we were sitting there during like our first
<v Speaker 2>table reading, We're going, you know, I can't believe Peter
<v Speaker 2>Boyle is you know, playing our dad, and he goes,
<v Speaker 2>all right, can yeah he was young Frankenstein and you're yeah.
<v Speaker 2>But right away I was like, I'm gonna love this guy.
<v Speaker 2>But he uh the same humble, uh, you know, self
<v Speaker 2>effacing dude that that that got the pilot. I mean,
<v Speaker 2>nothing changed him. He's just he's a good a good
<v Speaker 2>guy and we still have fun. And you know, we
<v Speaker 2>knew how lucky we were, and I knew how lucky
<v Speaker 2>I was. You know, I auditioned for it. I didn't
<v Speaker 2>have an agent at the time.
<v Speaker 4>Either I believed it or not.
<v Speaker 1>Yep, well that's a miracle.
<v Speaker 2>It was a miracle I had. I had a couple
<v Speaker 2>of great managers at the time. That really just I said,
<v Speaker 2>I read the script and I just immediately knew a
<v Speaker 2>way to go with it. And that was a different
<v Speaker 2>way because you know Ray's show. I mean, when he
<v Speaker 2>made the pilot, he was living across the street from
<v Speaker 2>his folks, right, his brother just moved home with his
<v Speaker 2>parents again from the NYPD after divorce. Ray was like,
<v Speaker 2>I can only write what I know, and this this
<v Speaker 2>is my story. Wow. But Richard who was who I
<v Speaker 2>played his brother was a cop obviously, and he was
<v Speaker 2>a shorter guy and kind of scrappy. You know. They
<v Speaker 2>were thinking of like Danny DeVito wish type of guy
<v Speaker 2>that was over well. I mean, you know, again I read,
<v Speaker 2>I came back and I read for the network. But
<v Speaker 2>I just felt like, what if we play this guy
<v Speaker 2>so beaten, you know, he's he's coming second his whole life,
<v Speaker 2>you know. And I had a little acting little tidbit
<v Speaker 2>I would use the beginning, I said, Ray was an
<v Speaker 2>only child, but they forgot to tell Robert, you know,
<v Speaker 2>And it was like this was something that kind of
<v Speaker 2>just stayed with me, and it was a fine line
<v Speaker 2>of plain beaten. You know, there's a lot of him,
<v Speaker 2>for sure, but there's a way of playing beaten without
<v Speaker 2>always being the victim. And I love when they would
<v Speaker 2>write stories where Robert would have the upper hand, you know,
<v Speaker 2>which was rare because he wanted the life that everyone
<v Speaker 2>around him had and that you know, and and Peter
<v Speaker 2>and Ray wanted to be that single guy out there,
<v Speaker 2>you know, catching a robber and having a woman in
<v Speaker 2>the draguzzi. So that was the only thing I had
<v Speaker 2>over them that I could kind of use. But you know,
<v Speaker 2>it was it was I just knew immediately who I felt,
<v Speaker 2>and I was worried because I was going a different
<v Speaker 2>way than what they wanted. They wanted like a real
<v Speaker 2>scrappy guy. And I said, you know, can I try something?
<v Speaker 2>They were open to it, and and I got really lucky. Man,
<v Speaker 2>you got to you gotta be ready. It's like I
<v Speaker 2>when I talked to young actors, You got to you
<v Speaker 2>got to be ready. You know, everyone wants an agent
<v Speaker 2>and a manager before they've developed their craft, right, I
<v Speaker 2>mean yeah, very very different. Social media. Everyone's a star
<v Speaker 2>and everyone's on TikTok and it's really weird now, and
<v Speaker 2>it's weird and it's sad and it has very little
<v Speaker 2>to do with honing your craft.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, and it's a lot of creates, a lot of
<v Speaker 1>false hope.
<v Speaker 2>I think that's a great look.
<v Speaker 1>Look how many likes I got?
<v Speaker 2>Yeah? Yeah, does that translate? Yeah, yeah, that's a very
<v Speaker 2>good point. I remember a few years ago social media
<v Speaker 2>blew up and the networks were getting you know, oh,
<v Speaker 2>this person has you know, four million followers, and they
<v Speaker 2>give him a pilot and they wonder why they can act.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, and yeah, so it's yeah, well it's sure different though. Yeah,
<v Speaker 1>you go from twenty seconds to twenty minutes.
<v Speaker 2>The big jump. It is a big jump.
<v Speaker 3>What's fascinating to me is you did such a good
<v Speaker 3>job creating that character, Robert, that they brought him into
<v Speaker 3>other films and television shows which I've never really seen.
<v Speaker 3>We were talking about it earlier, and the only other
<v Speaker 3>character I can think of who like plays a character
<v Speaker 3>is like Ron Burgundy, Will Ferrell, you know, he'll have
<v Speaker 3>him do little stand up stuff. And what was that
<v Speaker 3>like where it's like, we want this character in this
<v Speaker 3>show or this movie.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, well, you know, I didn't do a lot of that,
<v Speaker 2>but there was a few. There was a little crossover.
<v Speaker 2>But the thing is is after the show's over, you know,
<v Speaker 2>they always want a type of guy like that, because
<v Speaker 2>you know the businesses. It's it's like all these things
<v Speaker 2>that you've seen, all these reboots, none of them work.
<v Speaker 2>And they don't work because it's lightning in a bottle,
<v Speaker 2>as you know, when you ever show that clicks and
<v Speaker 2>you can't get everybody back thirty years later and expect
<v Speaker 2>the magic because the magic was that time it was
<v Speaker 2>being done and the synergy of those new writers. I mean,
<v Speaker 2>we had these writers that came from all you know,
<v Speaker 2>a lot of them were stand ups, and they were
<v Speaker 2>just so incredibly funny. You know, we're after every take,
<v Speaker 2>you know, every after every take, every all the writers
<v Speaker 2>gathered the director, they go let you others and these
<v Speaker 2>writers have four or five six different you know, blows
<v Speaker 2>that we call it before, you know, for the end
<v Speaker 2>of the scene or one liners at which you're like, god,
<v Speaker 2>they're all good. So a lot of people have asked me, boy,
<v Speaker 2>there must have been a lot of improv in that show.
<v Speaker 2>There was really none, because you know, no, there wasn't.
<v Speaker 2>I mean, you know, we would once in a while try,
<v Speaker 2>but the right was when it's that great, you don't
<v Speaker 2>dare improv because you got the gold. You know, once
<v Speaker 2>in a while we puts around. You know, Ray had
<v Speaker 2>a great way of coming up with a different one liners,
<v Speaker 2>as they all did. But what's great is people thought
<v Speaker 2>it was a lot was improv because there was that
<v Speaker 2>chemistry with the cells and you know, we were able.
<v Speaker 2>Anyone could hit it over the fence, any one of
<v Speaker 2>those actors. And you know what was great is it
<v Speaker 2>was really a support system. I know that sounds cliche.
<v Speaker 2>I mean we were close. We were all very different people,
<v Speaker 2>coming from very different avenues of the business, but we
<v Speaker 2>there was a closeness about it, and that comes from
<v Speaker 2>the top. And and well yeah, and I you.
<v Speaker 3>Know, I'm really curious about one thing. And this is
<v Speaker 3>a little more personal question, so forgive me, but.
<v Speaker 2>You ask anything.
<v Speaker 3>There was a point in time where you held out
<v Speaker 3>for a higher salary. I'm curious what specific moment triggers
<v Speaker 3>that where it's like, oh, I'm not doing this anymore,
<v Speaker 3>I need to get paid more. Like is there a
<v Speaker 3>specific moment like do you find out like oh Ray's
<v Speaker 3>getting paid this or like this show is so popular,
<v Speaker 3>Like where's that moment in time where it's like, you
<v Speaker 3>know what, I'm not doing this anymore unless you guys
<v Speaker 3>give me what I deserve.
<v Speaker 2>Well, you know, you got to be very very very careful,
<v Speaker 2>you know when you take a stand. So when you
<v Speaker 2>when you take a stand. And the stand I took
<v Speaker 2>was for the supporting cast. You know, I was like,
<v Speaker 2>I'm either going to end up, you know, a really
<v Speaker 2>ridiculous martyr or they're going to see the difference. You
<v Speaker 2>know what when Ray was making is A is a
<v Speaker 2>co creator and the star and that was you know
<v Speaker 2>in those days, that was unheard of. It's never been
<v Speaker 2>matched to this day for a sitcom. I didn't know that, yeah,
<v Speaker 2>and totally deserving. What I was looking for is you know,
<v Speaker 2>it was an ensemble and there was a supporting cast,
<v Speaker 2>and I was you know, when I started, I was
<v Speaker 2>at at the very bottom where I deserved it to be.
<v Speaker 2>I had approved. I didn't expect, you know, to get
<v Speaker 2>what Peter and Doris were getting starting out. But after
<v Speaker 2>a certain amount of years and after it being a huge,
<v Speaker 2>huge success, and I waited, I waited around, didn't seem
<v Speaker 2>like it was coming, and I said I'm going to
<v Speaker 2>take you know, I'm going to take a stand, and uh,
<v Speaker 2>you know, you do it alone, and you do it
<v Speaker 2>in a vacuum, and it's very, very dicey.
<v Speaker 3>Because everybody kind of like focuses on you. Then Ray,
<v Speaker 3>it's like, oh.
<v Speaker 2>There's there's no question.
<v Speaker 1>But I knew it takes a little gland.
<v Speaker 2>It takes a little gland. And if I was on
<v Speaker 2>a drama, I would have been killed. But at the
<v Speaker 2>end of the day, I knew they weren't going to
<v Speaker 2>get rid of Ray's brother, and whatever I would get,
<v Speaker 2>Peter and Doris would get, and we were all in
<v Speaker 2>it together. And then one day I find out they're back.
<v Speaker 2>They went back and they said we got to go
<v Speaker 2>back and I said, well, okay, and they said I
<v Speaker 2>was the lone wolf in it, and everyone's like, dude,
<v Speaker 2>you know. And I had, you know, the network calling
<v Speaker 2>me and they said, you know, you're being written out
<v Speaker 2>of the show, you know. And I said, God, I
<v Speaker 2>I find that hard to believe, you know, And they said, yeah,
<v Speaker 2>tell us right now me too. Do we write you
<v Speaker 2>out or are you coming back? And I said, well,
<v Speaker 2>I'm saying this with one gratitude. Write me out and
<v Speaker 2>they did, and I dropped a little crab cake in
<v Speaker 2>my pants. I'm not going to lie. There was one
<v Speaker 2>episode of the two hundred and eleven I'm not in
<v Speaker 2>Wow yet one and and you know what, it's okay.
<v Speaker 2>It's okay because everyone involved, I knew got it and
<v Speaker 2>I understood the fear, and I know where you know,
<v Speaker 2>Doris and Peter were and they're like, you know, we're
<v Speaker 2>a little up there, we're a little older'n we're gonna
<v Speaker 2>call it. And I said, okay. And I mean they
<v Speaker 2>called me and they go, you know, honey, you're not
<v Speaker 2>in this, and I went, I get it, I get it.
<v Speaker 2>But you know, at the end of the day, you're
<v Speaker 2>alone in it. At the end of the day, it's
<v Speaker 2>about everyone else, as it should be. And that's okay.
<v Speaker 2>And it was a real good business lesson because I
<v Speaker 2>remember I got a call from you know, Les Moonvis,
<v Speaker 2>who was incredibly kind of the show head of the network.
<v Speaker 2>He supported that show and believed in it. You know,
<v Speaker 2>when we were on on Friday nights, we were getting killed,
<v Speaker 2>we were getting killed on Friday nights, and less believed
<v Speaker 2>in the show. And he was great to everybody. And
<v Speaker 2>he says, I'm going to put you on after Cosby,
<v Speaker 2>and he did, you know before the you know, before
<v Speaker 2>before everything including me doing him on the tonight show. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
<v Speaker 2>he said, we're going to put you I believe in
<v Speaker 2>the show. And he put us on after Cosby, and
<v Speaker 2>of course people saw it and and uh, you know
<v Speaker 2>that was the thing. So everybody kind of stepped aside,
<v Speaker 2>and less Moonvish called me live from the US open
<v Speaker 2>uh and he goes uh. He goes, you know, we
<v Speaker 2>got to figure this out. And this is after and
<v Speaker 2>they were filming that episode. He goes, we got to
<v Speaker 2>figure this out. And I said I'd love to. And
<v Speaker 2>he goes, you know, this isn't looking good for for you,
<v Speaker 2>And I said, I get it. I get it. I said,
<v Speaker 2>but if you look at what I'm asking for, and
<v Speaker 2>I know we're not going to close on that. I said,
<v Speaker 2>if you look at it and you take it over
<v Speaker 2>nine years, it's what I started at. Yeah, and he goes, uh,
<v Speaker 2>I get that. I get that. And I said we're
<v Speaker 2>not remotely near the lead money, nor should we be.
<v Speaker 2>And I said, I think whatever I get, Doris and
<v Speaker 2>Peters should get. You know, well, they're already back. And
<v Speaker 2>I said I know, but they deserve it. They deserve it.
<v Speaker 2>And he was amense and you know I was back,
<v Speaker 2>but it was you know, I won't lie to you.
<v Speaker 2>You know my dad, God rest his soul was you know,
<v Speaker 2>death of a salesman. That was my father. He was
<v Speaker 2>in sales his whole life. His life was not great,
<v Speaker 2>his childhood sucked. He was in sales his whole life.
<v Speaker 2>And he said something to me, because you know what
<v Speaker 2>we are in a sales We have to sell. Except
<v Speaker 2>for you, we have to sell ourselves every day. You
<v Speaker 2>your soul. But we're constantly you sell, That's right, we're constantly.
<v Speaker 2>I don't care, you know, unless you're the big, big,
<v Speaker 2>big boys and women. You know, you're constantly having to
<v Speaker 2>prove it.
<v Speaker 1>Absolutely.
<v Speaker 2>My dad said something I'll never forget in business when
<v Speaker 2>when he was going through a time, he goes, you know,
<v Speaker 2>in business, man, remember one thing, you got to know
<v Speaker 2>who's got who, and the key is to make a
<v Speaker 2>deal that works for everybody. And then when it works
<v Speaker 2>for everybody, it's a home run. But you got to know.
<v Speaker 2>And I remember when I was I was served legal
<v Speaker 2>papers because I was in breach for not showing up
<v Speaker 2>on the show. My dad was fighting cancer at the time,
<v Speaker 2>and I'll never forget. He was on his couch, sprawled out,
<v Speaker 2>really having a rough day, and I was sitting right
<v Speaker 2>on the floor next to him, and I was like,
<v Speaker 2>and he went, hang in there, hanging there. It's going
<v Speaker 2>to work out. It's an amazing show. They're good people,
<v Speaker 2>They're going to do the right thing. And you know,
<v Speaker 2>where a lot of parents would say, you're never going
<v Speaker 2>to make this money again, go back. And he looked
<v Speaker 2>at me, a guy that worked seven days a week
<v Speaker 2>his whole life, he said, wait it out. Waited out.
<v Speaker 2>And I never ever forgot that he was able to
<v Speaker 2>see it all works. But it was. It was. It
<v Speaker 2>was really cool, you know, and I felt it could
<v Speaker 2>be a win win, and and CBS was great, and
<v Speaker 2>and HBO, who was involved in it at the time,
<v Speaker 2>they were great. Ray was great, Letterman's Company was great.
<v Speaker 2>A lot of people were involved. And you know, it's
<v Speaker 2>the way you do it. You know, there's no reason
<v Speaker 2>for it to become an f U match. You know,
<v Speaker 2>you have to understand it is business. It is the
<v Speaker 2>business of show, you know. And they were and I
<v Speaker 2>understood where they were coming from, you know, and they
<v Speaker 2>were like, you know, who were you before the show?
<v Speaker 2>And I said, absolutely, but i've However, the last five years,
<v Speaker 2>I think i've you.
<v Speaker 1>Know, yeah you you earn't your stripes?
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, but those days in TV are over, totally, totally over.
<v Speaker 2>It is now a very different game.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, boy, it really is, isn't it. There's there's nothing well,
<v Speaker 1>I don't do they even I mean, what's it's the
<v Speaker 1>latest big sitcom?
<v Speaker 3>I guess we're talking about that not too long ago,
<v Speaker 3>the big modern family, Modern Family.
<v Speaker 4>And now I feel like show.
<v Speaker 3>The only real sitcoms per se left are like cartoon
<v Speaker 3>ones like Family Guys, Simpson's.
<v Speaker 2>It's one of the toughest genres, as you know. And
<v Speaker 2>I think audiences have become so sophisticated because television is
<v Speaker 2>what film used to be in my opinion, as far
<v Speaker 2>as the quality, I mean, some of the shows that
<v Speaker 2>are out today, oh my god, are better than most
<v Speaker 2>of the stuff of the theater. Because in TV, the
<v Speaker 2>streamers are now starting to leave the creatives alone. Here's
<v Speaker 2>the keys to the stage, give us eight episodes. Let
<v Speaker 2>me know if you need anything. So all the great
<v Speaker 2>creatives who are tired of being beaten up by the
<v Speaker 2>studios and noted to death. Do this do that where
<v Speaker 2>you have attorneys and accountants give the notes on shows.
<v Speaker 2>Those days are over. And now that's why you look
<v Speaker 2>at TV and you go, wow, look how amazing he committed.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, doing making a pretty good splash out there, no
<v Speaker 1>qui his cowboy.
<v Speaker 2>Hat, Yeah, no question. I mean, you know, look at
<v Speaker 2>the stars that are on TV, Coral and Aniston and
<v Speaker 2>Reese Witherspoon and Lord we were.
<v Speaker 4>Just talking about that show four seasons. Have you seen
<v Speaker 4>that show?
<v Speaker 2>It's terrific.
<v Speaker 4>Yeah, it really is so well done.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, so well done. Yeah, oh my god.
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<v Speaker 2>Do it now?
<v Speaker 4>All right? Well, now time it comes the time in
<v Speaker 4>the podcast, we're going to play a little game. Are
<v Speaker 4>you Are you up for it?
<v Speaker 3>It's a voice swap game. I'll explain la against this guy.
<v Speaker 3>It's not going against. It's not going against. There's no
<v Speaker 3>you got to keep your shirt.
<v Speaker 2>Thank god. Fortunately, yes, thank god.
<v Speaker 3>So how it works Jim Jim will say a line
<v Speaker 3>of one of his characters, one of his famous characters,
<v Speaker 3>in his character voice, and then you'll repeat that line
<v Speaker 3>but in one of your character voices.
<v Speaker 2>I only have two voices, so let's do too. Then okay,
<v Speaker 2>there you go. Okay, so I'm in large. Yeah that's okay.
<v Speaker 1>Well I'll throw a little dark wing duckcatcher.
<v Speaker 2>Ah, there we go.
<v Speaker 1>I am the terror that flaps in the night.
<v Speaker 4>How about his blow?
<v Speaker 2>I am the terror that flaps in the night. Yes,
<v Speaker 2>I'll terror.
<v Speaker 1>It gets no respect.
<v Speaker 2>You really do the face?
<v Speaker 1>I know, the face is what's really puts over there.
<v Speaker 2>You're okay, all right? You know I would have that day.
<v Speaker 3>You know, we see that with a lot of people
<v Speaker 3>when they do impressions, they really morph into the person.
<v Speaker 4>Yeah, it's fascinating to watch.
<v Speaker 3>I mean James Arnold Taylor, you know James Arnold Taylor
<v Speaker 3>man his impressions and he'll go through and like you
<v Speaker 3>just see the contortions in his face with every little
<v Speaker 3>character because he does this one man, you know, sixty
<v Speaker 3>second little thing where he just goes from you know,
<v Speaker 3>character to character to actor to the actor and he'll
<v Speaker 3>transition mid sentence and it's just fascinating.
<v Speaker 2>He was Harry Jim Carrey's yeah, Oh.
<v Speaker 3>Absolutely, okay, And now we'll do the voice swap backwards.
<v Speaker 3>So let's let's do a line is e or and poo?
<v Speaker 4>How about that?
<v Speaker 1>Oh okay, legs for remembering me, Thanks for remembering me
<v Speaker 1>and bringing the honey.
<v Speaker 2>God see that. That just that's amazing. I hear you
<v Speaker 2>do that, and I go, I'm gonna be okay.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, he's a he's comfort food for the soul is
<v Speaker 1>and we need it now more than ever, don't we? Yeah,
<v Speaker 1>more than what you said?
<v Speaker 2>What has happened?
<v Speaker 1>I know too much? Bouncing too many bound And.
<v Speaker 3>Then I have one more written down from the movie planes,
<v Speaker 3>your character Chug and the specific wheels. The specific line
<v Speaker 3>is corn. It gives you gas. Corn, He gives you gas.
<v Speaker 3>Who is one of your characters who would say that?
<v Speaker 3>Who has a who's the gassest character?
<v Speaker 4>Tas?
<v Speaker 2>Okay?
<v Speaker 4>Corn? It gives you gas?
<v Speaker 1>Well had that deep corn? It gives you gas.
<v Speaker 2>Complete with.
<v Speaker 1>Lost a little air on that one.
<v Speaker 2>Sorry, gang, How lucky is your grandkid? Oh yeah, I
<v Speaker 2>mean I mean I know you're he one.
<v Speaker 1>No, God, a couple of months.
<v Speaker 2>Oh not even not even Yea, it's going to be
<v Speaker 2>grandpa and you're going to have all these and it's good.
<v Speaker 2>You're gonna be the fave. Yeah, it's going to be.
<v Speaker 1>It's gonna be a beautiful.
<v Speaker 2>Taz Who did Taz before you?
<v Speaker 4>Wow?
<v Speaker 1>Blank? Yeah, he's You know.
<v Speaker 2>I want to say something real quick because I know
<v Speaker 2>you've always been incredibly humble and and truly truly wanted greatness.
<v Speaker 2>Well you know what it is. You know what it
<v Speaker 2>is because we know the ones that that don't have
<v Speaker 2>any of that that wonderful grace which you've always had.
<v Speaker 2>But when you came backstage I'll say this real quickly,
<v Speaker 2>uh to the green room at the comedy clubs and uh,
<v Speaker 2>the comedian John Dacrosso was was on the show who
<v Speaker 2>has has done some voice work and is really talented
<v Speaker 2>with with when you walked in and he knew you
<v Speaker 2>immediately immediately, and he was like this this he goes,
<v Speaker 2>this is one of the great he goes, because this
<v Speaker 2>is my mel blank. And he said that and it's
<v Speaker 2>really there's no question, no, no, no, And he got emotional.
<v Speaker 2>He's a great guy, he's a great stand up. It's
<v Speaker 2>a funny actor and he but when you walked in,
<v Speaker 2>because I didn't want to tell me because I knew,
<v Speaker 2>we knew you. And when you walked in, I watched
<v Speaker 2>his face. I was the guy with the crazy must
<v Speaker 2>Yeah yeah, did you go get the bar at an hour?
<v Speaker 1>Monopoly guy?
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, yeah, the monopoly exactly. But it's just great to
<v Speaker 2>see the reaction of people when they when they know that,
<v Speaker 2>and it's it's You've been such a gift to so
<v Speaker 2>many of us and always a mensch. And when I
<v Speaker 2>started out, you were in one of my first sessions
<v Speaker 2>that I think we did with Bill Cop Yeah.
<v Speaker 1>Possibly two Stupid Dogs, Yeah yeah, or one of those.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, and uh Eke the Cat, I think you were
<v Speaker 2>in the Yeah yeah, and what that goof Troop? I
<v Speaker 2>was goof Troop? Yeah, we repeating that.
<v Speaker 1>And in the movie movie another.
<v Speaker 2>Movie, I was Tank, which is like you know, yeah
<v Speaker 2>and you repeat of course. But uh, just thanks to
<v Speaker 2>be so great on and off stage, man, God, thank you,
<v Speaker 2>we love you and that and a lot of people
<v Speaker 2>that knew I was doing this podcast, are like, please
<v Speaker 2>tell Jim what he means to it, you know, and
<v Speaker 2>and everything. It's very true because I was brand new
<v Speaker 2>and you were always so kind, and you know, you're nervous.
<v Speaker 2>You walk in around these legends and you're even though
<v Speaker 2>you know we're in the same age ish, you know,
<v Speaker 2>you you have heroes early on.
<v Speaker 1>I'm much older than him, by the way, just for
<v Speaker 1>the record, in the lot, yes, bless.
<v Speaker 3>That seems like a very natural end. Thank you so much,
<v Speaker 3>so much, Thank.
<v Speaker 2>You, Craig Barrett. Ladies, I tell you he once said,
<v Speaker 2>that's that Jewish. There's a tall drink of water. I
<v Speaker 2>could knock him out. I did it with Sammy, right, smokey.
<v Speaker 2>He called Sammy smoky. He called Tammy smoky. Yeah, I know, yeah,
<v Speaker 2>smoke Yes.
<v Speaker 4>I'll just do a little outro here.
<v Speaker 2>Sure well.
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<v Speaker 3>do you have anything that you want to advertise or
<v Speaker 3>plug it all? No, No, it's all over, it's all right, amazing,
<v Speaker 3>all right, Well, thank you very much.
<v Speaker 4>That was great