1 00:00:20,062 --> 00:00:22,607 ♪ (GENTLE JAZZ MUSIC PLAYING) ♪ 2 00:00:38,998 --> 00:00:41,459 ♪ (MUSIC FADES) ♪ 3 00:00:42,794 --> 00:00:45,463 If Bob knew a documentary was being made about him, 4 00:00:45,546 --> 00:00:47,340 he would act like he didn't like it, 5 00:00:47,423 --> 00:00:49,634 and he would love every minute of it. 6 00:00:49,717 --> 00:00:51,552 He would love it. Are you kidding me? 7 00:00:51,636 --> 00:00:54,222 ♪ (UPBEAT ZANY MUSIC PLAYING) ♪ 8 00:01:00,770 --> 00:01:04,941 He would love it. Because he wouldn't want his material to go away. 9 00:01:05,024 --> 00:01:07,026 He would want to know everything. 10 00:01:07,109 --> 00:01:10,154 How did he look in it? Was he funny? 11 00:01:10,238 --> 00:01:11,781 Did you pick the funniest bit? 12 00:01:11,864 --> 00:01:14,116 I think he'd be in massive support 13 00:01:14,200 --> 00:01:17,161 of a documentary being made of him (CHUCKLES) 14 00:01:25,962 --> 00:01:28,381 I think he would love it, and I think he would 15 00:01:28,464 --> 00:01:32,385 want to be in it mostly by himself. (LAUGHS) 16 00:01:32,468 --> 00:01:35,721 If he was in it, he would probably make fun of it. 17 00:01:35,805 --> 00:01:37,223 He'd wanna fuck it up somehow. 18 00:01:37,306 --> 00:01:38,599 And he would be upset 19 00:01:38,683 --> 00:01:41,102 if he didn't get the most airtime of anybody. 20 00:01:41,185 --> 00:01:43,396 ♪ (MUSIC SWELLS) ♪ 21 00:01:47,233 --> 00:01:48,734 There will be one-- at least one person 22 00:01:48,818 --> 00:01:52,238 in this documentary that Super Dave is criticizing 23 00:01:52,321 --> 00:01:53,865 from the great beyond. (CHUCKLES) 24 00:01:56,617 --> 00:02:00,663 He'd be thrilled. "Really? Who's making it? 25 00:02:01,706 --> 00:02:02,915 When is it gonna air?" 26 00:02:04,625 --> 00:02:06,586 I think he'd get a kick out of the fact 27 00:02:06,669 --> 00:02:08,296 that I have to sit here and do this, 28 00:02:08,379 --> 00:02:10,298 knowing that I really don't want to. 29 00:02:15,845 --> 00:02:17,430 ♪ (MUSIC SETTLES) ♪ 30 00:02:17,513 --> 00:02:20,099 If this movie sells for more than ten dollars, 31 00:02:20,182 --> 00:02:22,393 -I'll be fucking amazed. -(CREWMEMBER LAUGHING) 32 00:02:22,476 --> 00:02:24,020 Ah! 33 00:02:24,103 --> 00:02:26,314 ♪ (UPBEAT MUSIC PLAYING) ♪ 34 00:02:28,816 --> 00:02:29,817 Our next guest is... 35 00:02:29,901 --> 00:02:31,944 The world's greatest daredevil entertainer, 36 00:02:32,028 --> 00:02:33,946 superstar of our day or any other day... 37 00:02:34,030 --> 00:02:37,158 You may know him from his role as Marty Funkhouser 38 00:02:37,241 --> 00:02:38,868 on Curb Your Enthusiasm... 39 00:02:38,951 --> 00:02:40,453 Please welcome the extraordinary... 40 00:02:40,536 --> 00:02:42,663 Super Dave Osborne. Dave! 41 00:02:42,747 --> 00:02:49,962 (CHEERS AND APPLAUSE) 42 00:02:50,046 --> 00:02:52,423 Oh, be still my heart. 43 00:02:52,506 --> 00:02:54,842 Super Dave is really Bob Einstein... 44 00:02:54,926 --> 00:02:57,178 JIMMY KIMMEL: I was a kid who loved to watch television. 45 00:02:57,261 --> 00:03:01,182 I had a little TV on my desk. And I loved the talk shows, 46 00:03:01,265 --> 00:03:03,726 I loved to watch Carson and Letterman. 47 00:03:03,809 --> 00:03:07,480 And I think that's where I probably first saw Super Dave. 48 00:03:07,563 --> 00:03:09,190 I call him Super Dave. (CHUCKLES) even though 49 00:03:09,273 --> 00:03:11,776 I know his name, I never called him Bob in his life. 50 00:03:11,859 --> 00:03:14,946 And he was such a great talk show guest. 51 00:03:15,029 --> 00:03:17,323 I'm going to do a thing with you, how to remember your name. 52 00:03:17,406 --> 00:03:18,866 -Say I'm at a party. -JOHNNY CARSON: Right. 53 00:03:18,950 --> 00:03:20,409 And someone introduces you to me, they say, 54 00:03:20,493 --> 00:03:21,953 "Super Dave, this is the great Jimmy Carson." 55 00:03:22,036 --> 00:03:23,245 -John, John. Johnny. -All right? 56 00:03:23,329 --> 00:03:24,747 -So... -(AUDIENCE LAUGHING) 57 00:03:24,830 --> 00:03:28,167 The way he mixed his corny, old jokes 58 00:03:28,250 --> 00:03:32,296 with this weird, angry approach was, uh, delightful. 59 00:03:32,380 --> 00:03:35,007 So, what I'm gonna do is, I'm gonna take your first name. 60 00:03:35,091 --> 00:03:37,343 -Yeah. -And I'm gonna take letter by letter 61 00:03:37,426 --> 00:03:38,678 and, and relate it to something. 62 00:03:38,761 --> 00:03:41,681 -Link it with something. -J, just incredibly gifted. 63 00:03:41,764 --> 00:03:46,310 -Well... -I, individually brilliant. 64 00:03:46,394 --> 00:03:50,982 M, you're married. M, you were married before. 65 00:03:51,065 --> 00:03:52,149 (AUDIENCE LAUGHING) 66 00:03:52,984 --> 00:03:54,318 -Y. -Good question. 67 00:03:54,402 --> 00:03:57,154 (AUDIENCE LAUGHING, APPLAUDING) 68 00:03:57,238 --> 00:04:01,158 When I was a kid, watching The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, 69 00:04:01,242 --> 00:04:03,953 I was obsessed with him instantly, 70 00:04:04,036 --> 00:04:09,125 because of his unique delivery and his hilarious demeanor. 71 00:04:09,208 --> 00:04:11,419 May I have everyone's attention, please? 72 00:04:11,502 --> 00:04:12,628 What is this, officer? 73 00:04:12,712 --> 00:04:14,588 There'll be a routine inspection of this party. 74 00:04:14,672 --> 00:04:16,716 -Everyone disrobe and remain calm. -(AUDIENCE LAUGHING) 75 00:04:16,799 --> 00:04:18,801 That was just my kind of humor. 76 00:04:18,884 --> 00:04:20,678 Uh, he was just something... 77 00:04:20,761 --> 00:04:23,764 just so off about him, and so different. 78 00:04:23,848 --> 00:04:25,474 Did you stick a gerbil up your ass? 79 00:04:25,558 --> 00:04:27,560 -Who told you that? -MARTY FUNKHOUSER: I'm not gonna tell you who told me. 80 00:04:27,643 --> 00:04:29,228 -Tell me who told you that. -It's not important. 81 00:04:29,312 --> 00:04:31,022 No, of course, I didn't stick a gerbil up my ass! 82 00:04:31,105 --> 00:04:32,398 -Don't get so upset. -I'm upset! 83 00:04:32,481 --> 00:04:35,901 First time I ever saw him was as the producer 84 00:04:35,985 --> 00:04:37,278 on the show Bizarre. 85 00:04:37,361 --> 00:04:39,030 -BOB EINSTEIN: What happened? -It sorta-- look, it's a boat. 86 00:04:39,113 --> 00:04:40,656 It's supposed to be an operating room. 87 00:04:40,740 --> 00:04:41,824 (AUDIENCE LAUGHING) 88 00:04:41,907 --> 00:04:43,409 It's supposed to be in a hospital room. 89 00:04:43,492 --> 00:04:45,494 -Bill Zaharuk, please. -This is a boat. 90 00:04:46,746 --> 00:04:48,622 -Oh! -(LOUD CRASH) 91 00:04:48,706 --> 00:04:50,541 And then, as time wore on, 92 00:04:50,624 --> 00:04:53,085 I would see him in-- I saw him in Modern Romance, 93 00:04:53,169 --> 00:04:54,962 I'd see him here, I'd see him there. 94 00:04:55,046 --> 00:04:56,756 The only reason you're going out with her 95 00:04:56,839 --> 00:04:57,965 is because of her ample bosom. 96 00:04:58,049 --> 00:05:00,342 That's despicable to say that to me. Of course not. 97 00:05:00,426 --> 00:05:03,095 For her brains and her sense of worth and-- 98 00:05:03,179 --> 00:05:06,766 Have you set a day aside when you're gonna finally look at her face? 99 00:05:06,849 --> 00:05:08,601 (CACKLING) 100 00:05:08,684 --> 00:05:10,019 That's very... 101 00:05:10,102 --> 00:05:14,398 I remember first seeing him and watching and thinking, 102 00:05:14,482 --> 00:05:16,734 "Oh, he's going to do this great stunt." 103 00:05:16,817 --> 00:05:18,778 What they're gonna try to do is crush me 104 00:05:18,861 --> 00:05:21,322 -with an 11-ton metal-- -(WOOD SPLINTERING) 105 00:05:22,448 --> 00:05:24,742 Being a guy who loves physical comedy, 106 00:05:24,825 --> 00:05:28,954 watching Super Dave was like, oh, man, must-watch TV 107 00:05:29,038 --> 00:05:31,082 for me growing up and all my friends, man. 108 00:05:31,165 --> 00:05:33,250 -That's about it. Oh, no brakes. -(ALARM BEEPING) 109 00:05:33,334 --> 00:05:35,753 -(AUDIENCE LAUGHING) -Brakes are important, kids. 110 00:05:39,882 --> 00:05:41,634 He had this dryness to him. 111 00:05:41,717 --> 00:05:43,761 He would not try to spin the characters. 112 00:05:43,844 --> 00:05:47,473 He would just be them, and the situations made it funny. 113 00:05:47,556 --> 00:05:50,142 I'm sorry about the ballgame, it was emotional. 114 00:05:50,226 --> 00:05:53,729 Just give me a ride. Let's not go through this, please. 115 00:05:53,813 --> 00:05:58,109 There's one little problem. I'm with a prostitute. 116 00:05:59,193 --> 00:06:00,444 My eyes are closed. 117 00:06:00,528 --> 00:06:03,864 He just loved playing characters who were so full of shit. 118 00:06:03,948 --> 00:06:06,367 You left my party before dessert. 119 00:06:06,992 --> 00:06:08,160 How can you do that? 120 00:06:08,244 --> 00:06:11,539 We were trying to recreate what happened 25 years ago, 121 00:06:11,622 --> 00:06:14,458 and I said, "Larry, would you like to make a toast?" 122 00:06:14,542 --> 00:06:17,586 And someone said, "Larry went home to take a shit." 123 00:06:17,670 --> 00:06:20,714 LARRY DAVID: (CHUCKLING) He was hilarious. 124 00:06:20,798 --> 00:06:22,967 (LAUGHS) 125 00:06:23,050 --> 00:06:25,886 Really made me laugh. I'm laughing just thinking about it. 126 00:06:25,970 --> 00:06:28,931 ♪ (WHIMSICAL ORCHESTRAL MUSIC PLAYING) ♪ 127 00:06:33,435 --> 00:06:36,856 Will you please finish shoveling that shit into your face? 128 00:06:36,939 --> 00:06:38,649 The way his bits would unfold. 129 00:06:38,732 --> 00:06:40,651 I don't know, it was just like perfect comedy. 130 00:06:40,734 --> 00:06:44,738 And I want you to wish for something as hard as you can, 131 00:06:44,822 --> 00:06:48,325 and I'm sure it'll come true for Mr. Osborne. (CHUCKLES) 132 00:06:48,409 --> 00:06:49,493 Are you wishing? 133 00:06:49,577 --> 00:06:51,120 (AUDIENCE LAUGHING, APPLAUDING) 134 00:06:51,203 --> 00:06:53,747 The thing about a Super Dave Osborne appearance 135 00:06:53,831 --> 00:06:56,917 was the absolute cringe, 136 00:06:57,001 --> 00:06:58,836 and he would never back away from it, 137 00:06:58,919 --> 00:07:01,547 of just sitting there and not being amused. 138 00:07:01,630 --> 00:07:03,132 And he said, "Look, Farmer Jones. 139 00:07:03,215 --> 00:07:04,884 I don't like physical violence. 140 00:07:04,967 --> 00:07:06,385 But if you don't give me that duck back, 141 00:07:06,468 --> 00:07:08,220 -we're gonna have to do something." -Mm-hmm. 142 00:07:08,304 --> 00:07:10,639 Farmer Jones said, "Pick your sport." 143 00:07:11,348 --> 00:07:13,726 So, Farmer Brown said-- 144 00:07:13,809 --> 00:07:17,354 Was... Was this when The Tonight Show was 90 minutes? 145 00:07:17,438 --> 00:07:18,939 (AUDIENCE LAUGHING) 146 00:07:19,023 --> 00:07:21,692 PATTON OSWALT: He would always look so disappointed in Dave and Johnny. 147 00:07:21,775 --> 00:07:25,070 That's what I love. He was always, like, so disappointed that you're really gonna 148 00:07:25,154 --> 00:07:28,657 make a quip while I'm trying to talk about this serious subject. (LAUGHS) 149 00:07:28,741 --> 00:07:31,911 I'm sorry, please, Super Dave, finish the joke. 150 00:07:31,994 --> 00:07:36,415 DAVID LETTERMAN: He was just rooted in the sincerity of, 151 00:07:36,498 --> 00:07:40,502 "I don't think this is amusing." And you could not derail that. 152 00:07:40,586 --> 00:07:43,422 But, God, it was, it was like... 153 00:07:43,505 --> 00:07:45,174 "I want some more of that." 154 00:07:45,257 --> 00:07:48,928 You know, just give me all of that you absolutely have. 155 00:07:49,011 --> 00:07:51,597 If I imagine trying to train a bird in a cell, the first problem, 156 00:07:51,680 --> 00:07:54,183 it would seem to me, would be how do you keep the bird from flying... 157 00:07:54,266 --> 00:07:56,060 through the bars of the cell and going away? 158 00:07:56,143 --> 00:07:57,478 Well, what I would do is, 159 00:07:57,561 --> 00:08:00,773 um, you'd go to the farthest point of your cell, 160 00:08:00,856 --> 00:08:02,316 and under the wall facing the bars. 161 00:08:02,399 --> 00:08:04,276 -STEVE ALLEN: Mm-hmm. -BOB: And you would set the cage there 162 00:08:04,360 --> 00:08:06,695 and then open the cage door, and the bird would come out at you 163 00:08:06,779 --> 00:08:09,323 and try to get through the bars, and you just... slap it back 164 00:08:09,406 --> 00:08:10,574 and say, "No." 165 00:08:10,658 --> 00:08:12,993 SARAH SILVERMAN: He's like a one-man straight man. 166 00:08:13,077 --> 00:08:15,204 You usually don't have that, you know? 167 00:08:15,287 --> 00:08:17,957 Like, there has to be the... the straight man's usually 168 00:08:18,040 --> 00:08:21,585 what the funny man bounces off of, but he's both. 169 00:08:21,669 --> 00:08:23,796 (AUDIENCE LAUGHING) 170 00:08:23,879 --> 00:08:26,298 Put the ball on my mouth. All right. 171 00:08:27,216 --> 00:08:28,676 -Just hit it! -Just wait... 172 00:08:28,759 --> 00:08:30,219 (YELPS) 173 00:08:30,302 --> 00:08:34,974 If I tell a joke or a story and I get a big laugh, 174 00:08:35,057 --> 00:08:37,226 I can't help but laugh too, 175 00:08:37,309 --> 00:08:39,436 because I'm so relieved that it worked. 176 00:08:39,520 --> 00:08:43,274 Bob goes dead serious when you're laughing, 177 00:08:43,357 --> 00:08:45,442 which causes you to laugh again. 178 00:08:45,526 --> 00:08:49,571 So he gets two laughs. He built a career on this. 179 00:08:50,990 --> 00:08:53,826 A ten-year-old is walking down the hallway of his house. 180 00:08:53,909 --> 00:08:56,578 He hears screaming in his parents' bedroom. 181 00:08:56,662 --> 00:08:58,622 He opens the door, there's his father 182 00:08:58,706 --> 00:09:02,626 dressed in a cowboy hat and swim fins and that's it. 183 00:09:02,710 --> 00:09:06,588 His mother is wearing bunny shoes and a shower cap. 184 00:09:06,672 --> 00:09:08,382 And he said, "Daddy, what's going on?" 185 00:09:08,465 --> 00:09:10,968 He said, "Don't worry, sweetheart, we're just having some fun. 186 00:09:11,051 --> 00:09:12,970 Go to bed and I'll tuck you in in 20 minutes." 187 00:09:13,053 --> 00:09:16,473 Twenty minutes later, the father is trudging down the hall. 188 00:09:16,557 --> 00:09:18,809 He hears screaming in the kid's bedroom. 189 00:09:18,892 --> 00:09:20,019 He opens the door, 190 00:09:20,102 --> 00:09:23,355 there's little Billy having sex with his grandmother. 191 00:09:23,439 --> 00:09:26,275 He said, "Billy, what the hell are you doing?" 192 00:09:26,358 --> 00:09:29,611 He said, "It's not so funny when it's your mother, is it?" 193 00:09:29,695 --> 00:09:30,863 (CREWMEMBER LAUGHING) 194 00:09:30,946 --> 00:09:34,616 ♪ (WHIMSICAL MUSIC PLAYING) ♪ 195 00:09:37,161 --> 00:09:38,829 CLIFF EINSTEIN: We grew up in Beverly Hills. 196 00:09:40,706 --> 00:09:44,209 My dad and mom bought that home in 1937. 197 00:09:44,293 --> 00:09:46,503 And when I was three, 198 00:09:46,587 --> 00:09:49,256 they brought home this cute little blonde baby. (CHUCKLES) 199 00:09:50,132 --> 00:09:51,467 And that was Bob. 200 00:09:55,137 --> 00:09:58,557 So, there was my brother Cliff, Bob, and myself. 201 00:09:59,892 --> 00:10:04,146 And my mother Thelma, and my father. 202 00:10:04,229 --> 00:10:06,357 My father was Parkyakarkus. 203 00:10:06,440 --> 00:10:09,735 Very few people knew him as Harry Einstein. 204 00:10:09,818 --> 00:10:13,697 CLIFF: My dad created a character he called Nick Parkyakarkus. 205 00:10:13,781 --> 00:10:17,868 Parkyakarkus was funny as hell. With Eddie Cantor, I think. 206 00:10:17,951 --> 00:10:20,871 -Who are you? -Parkyakarkus. 207 00:10:20,954 --> 00:10:22,831 Why should I? I'm not tired. 208 00:10:22,915 --> 00:10:25,209 No, no, Parkyakarkus, that's my name. 209 00:10:25,292 --> 00:10:27,836 CLIFF: Those were the days of dialect comedy. 210 00:10:27,920 --> 00:10:30,923 Dialects are not a-- not a cool thing today, 211 00:10:31,006 --> 00:10:33,926 but it was really good in the '40s. 212 00:10:34,009 --> 00:10:35,969 ♪ (GLAMOROUS MUSIC PLAYING) ♪ 213 00:10:36,053 --> 00:10:38,263 CLIFF: So, my dad was a comedian, 214 00:10:38,347 --> 00:10:40,933 and my mom was a soprano, a singer. 215 00:10:41,016 --> 00:10:43,268 They met at RKO in the '30s. 216 00:10:43,352 --> 00:10:45,896 You know, we were a show business family. 217 00:10:45,979 --> 00:10:50,275 Dad made some movies, and in time, he had his own radio show. 218 00:10:50,359 --> 00:10:55,864 -ANNOUNCER: Meet me at Parky's. -♪ (FANFARE PLAYS) ♪ 219 00:10:55,948 --> 00:10:58,200 PARKYAKARKUS: Oh, me, what a day this was. 220 00:10:58,283 --> 00:11:00,327 I'm got to do everything around this restaurant. 221 00:11:00,411 --> 00:11:03,330 The dishwashers don't show up, the chef is sick, 222 00:11:03,414 --> 00:11:05,874 -I told him not to eat here. -(LAUGHTER) 223 00:11:09,169 --> 00:11:12,464 CLIFF: Growing up, there's a lot of funny guys around. 224 00:11:12,548 --> 00:11:14,091 Everybody is funny. 225 00:11:14,174 --> 00:11:17,052 Everybody does voices, everybody tells jokes. 226 00:11:17,136 --> 00:11:21,849 My dad liked being more of a kid and joking and-- 227 00:11:21,932 --> 00:11:23,767 'Cause it would make my mother upset. 228 00:11:23,851 --> 00:11:29,982 So he would do dialects and make fun of stuff, and my mother was always, 229 00:11:30,065 --> 00:11:31,984 you know, "It's dinner, stop it." 230 00:11:32,067 --> 00:11:33,777 And that encouraged him. 231 00:11:37,990 --> 00:11:39,616 REPORTER: For the second time in two years, 232 00:11:39,700 --> 00:11:42,578 polio has struck the nation with unusual violence. 233 00:11:42,661 --> 00:11:47,374 CLIFF: When Bob was about six, he came home with polio. 234 00:11:47,458 --> 00:11:49,418 So Bob had to stay home for a year. 235 00:11:49,501 --> 00:11:50,627 He couldn't go to school. 236 00:11:50,711 --> 00:11:52,880 ♪ (EASYGOING MUSIC PLAYING) ♪ 237 00:11:52,963 --> 00:11:57,509 It formed Bob, because he had all this time with my dad 238 00:11:57,593 --> 00:12:00,262 and he watched him writing his shows and stuff. 239 00:12:00,345 --> 00:12:04,850 I always thought that my brother Bob was closer to my dad 240 00:12:04,933 --> 00:12:08,854 because they both lived with another character. 241 00:12:08,937 --> 00:12:11,732 CLIFF: My dad had crafted an alter ego, 242 00:12:11,815 --> 00:12:14,443 a character much different from himself, 243 00:12:14,526 --> 00:12:19,281 and Bob spent his life with several characters, 244 00:12:19,364 --> 00:12:21,658 but predominantly the great Super Dave, 245 00:12:21,742 --> 00:12:24,870 who was not Bob, but was Bob. 246 00:12:24,953 --> 00:12:27,915 And I think he learned that by being with my dad. 247 00:12:27,998 --> 00:12:29,791 He came by it naturally, 248 00:12:29,875 --> 00:12:32,503 but he, uh, he resisted it for a long time, 249 00:12:32,586 --> 00:12:34,296 you know, to go into show business, 250 00:12:34,379 --> 00:12:36,924 but then eventually, obviously, he did what he did. 251 00:12:37,007 --> 00:12:39,801 Tell me how you got into show business. 252 00:12:39,885 --> 00:12:42,095 My father died when I was very young. 253 00:12:42,179 --> 00:12:44,306 -How old? -Fourteen and a half. 254 00:12:44,389 --> 00:12:48,310 -And he was a comedian? -Brilliant. Brilliant comedian. 255 00:12:48,393 --> 00:12:52,731 He gets up at the Lucille Ball-Desi Arnaz roast at Beverly Hilton, 256 00:12:52,814 --> 00:12:54,608 -kills the audience. -Wow. 257 00:12:54,691 --> 00:12:56,777 Sat down and died of a heart attack. 258 00:12:56,860 --> 00:12:59,071 I hear about it on the radio in the morning. 259 00:12:59,154 --> 00:13:01,198 -Right. -So, I-- 260 00:13:01,281 --> 00:13:03,325 Are we good? There's a lot of... 261 00:13:04,535 --> 00:13:06,328 Okay. I'm just concerned about the sound-- 262 00:13:06,411 --> 00:13:10,374 I just got through telling this story that almost makes me cry, 263 00:13:10,457 --> 00:13:13,418 and you turn to ass-wipe and say, "Are we good?" 264 00:13:15,003 --> 00:13:17,965 We getting this okay? You got any (BLEEP) to say? 265 00:13:18,048 --> 00:13:22,344 Let's make sure it's on tape because-- All right, go on with your story. 266 00:13:22,427 --> 00:13:24,555 First thing I ever shot with Super Dave 267 00:13:24,638 --> 00:13:26,598 was for The Man Show. 268 00:13:26,682 --> 00:13:29,685 It was something called "A Hundred Shots." 269 00:13:29,768 --> 00:13:33,438 You know, this is the first time I've had any drinks since my new liver. 270 00:13:33,522 --> 00:13:34,898 (CHUCKLES) Congratulations. 271 00:13:34,982 --> 00:13:37,401 KIMMEL: And it was me, Adam Carolla, and Super Dave Osborne. 272 00:13:37,484 --> 00:13:40,153 And we start talking about his dad, 273 00:13:40,237 --> 00:13:44,199 and Adam said something to the effect of, 274 00:13:44,283 --> 00:13:50,163 "Well, your dad, at least he died doing what he loves." 275 00:13:50,247 --> 00:13:53,375 And Super Dave takes him and he goes, "That is so stupid. 276 00:13:53,458 --> 00:13:57,170 That is the stupidest thing I've ever heard." (LAUGHING) 277 00:13:57,254 --> 00:13:58,922 And Adam's like, "Oh." 278 00:13:59,006 --> 00:14:01,133 He goes, "What does your father love to do?" 279 00:14:01,216 --> 00:14:03,468 And Adam's like, "Uh..." He tries to joke his way out, 280 00:14:03,552 --> 00:14:05,637 and he's like, "No, what does your father love to do?" 281 00:14:05,721 --> 00:14:08,432 And Adam goes, "Uh, he likes to play the trumpet." 282 00:14:08,515 --> 00:14:11,643 He goes, "I hope your father chokes to death on a trumpet." 283 00:14:11,727 --> 00:14:16,523 (LAUGHING) "I hope your father swallows a trumpet while he's playing and dies. 284 00:14:16,607 --> 00:14:20,152 And then you can say, 'Oh, he died doing what he loves.'" 285 00:14:21,194 --> 00:14:23,989 ♪ (SUBDUED JAZZ MUSIC PLAYING) ♪ 286 00:14:26,366 --> 00:14:28,702 ALBERT BROOKS: At my father's funeral, 287 00:14:28,785 --> 00:14:34,249 Bob was so turned off by the behavior of comedians. 288 00:14:34,333 --> 00:14:37,669 At the funeral, Milton Berle and George Jessel-- 289 00:14:37,753 --> 00:14:40,297 'Cause your father was a comedian, so all his friends are comedians. 290 00:14:40,380 --> 00:14:43,842 They did their act. Berle did his jokes, 291 00:14:43,925 --> 00:14:47,721 George Jessel did his jokes at my dad's funeral, 292 00:14:47,804 --> 00:14:49,931 and I hated it so much. 293 00:14:50,015 --> 00:14:51,516 -You hated show business. -I hated it. 294 00:14:51,600 --> 00:14:54,519 He said, "I never want to be any part of this. 295 00:14:54,603 --> 00:14:57,981 I don't want anything to do with this business." 296 00:15:03,153 --> 00:15:06,990 Once my father died, the dynamics changed 297 00:15:07,074 --> 00:15:10,118 and Cliff, because he was the oldest, 298 00:15:10,202 --> 00:15:13,246 I would say, became more of the father. 299 00:15:14,748 --> 00:15:18,126 And I didn't look to Bob as that. 300 00:15:19,294 --> 00:15:20,962 I mean, I was the youngest, 301 00:15:21,046 --> 00:15:23,715 and the youngest, even in a perfect family, 302 00:15:23,799 --> 00:15:25,759 has a different dynamic. 303 00:15:25,842 --> 00:15:30,222 And normally that dynamic is, you punch him in the head 304 00:15:30,305 --> 00:15:33,100 and you don't listen to what they say. (CHUCKLES) 305 00:15:33,183 --> 00:15:34,184 That's just what happens 306 00:15:34,267 --> 00:15:36,561 when you're the youngest in many families. 307 00:15:39,523 --> 00:15:42,359 I met Bob when I was 15 years old 308 00:15:42,442 --> 00:15:46,780 and, uh, he was just taller than all of us. 309 00:15:46,863 --> 00:15:50,701 We did look up to him, but not because we respected him. 310 00:15:50,784 --> 00:15:52,744 We looked up to him because he was taller. 311 00:15:52,828 --> 00:15:54,871 And Albert Brooks, at the time was my-- 312 00:15:54,955 --> 00:15:57,499 It was Albert Einstein, he was my best friend. 313 00:15:57,582 --> 00:16:00,585 ♪ (DOO-WOP MUSIC PLAYING) ♪ 314 00:16:03,463 --> 00:16:08,093 ALBERT: I was very close with Rob and close with his father. 315 00:16:08,176 --> 00:16:11,555 Carl was my surrogate father. 316 00:16:11,638 --> 00:16:16,143 I used to go there every day and I would talk about it, 317 00:16:16,226 --> 00:16:18,145 just like you talk about your friends. 318 00:16:18,228 --> 00:16:20,188 "Hey, Rob and I went down to the..." 319 00:16:20,272 --> 00:16:22,649 And my brother didn't like that. 320 00:16:22,733 --> 00:16:26,111 He would say, "Don't fucking name-drop." 321 00:16:26,194 --> 00:16:27,612 And I said, "I'm not name-dropping, 322 00:16:27,696 --> 00:16:28,947 he's my best friend." 323 00:16:29,030 --> 00:16:30,907 Bob would always make fun of Albert. 324 00:16:30,991 --> 00:16:32,951 He said, "You don't want to go into show business. 325 00:16:33,034 --> 00:16:35,746 You don't want to do that. That's a stupid idea. 326 00:16:35,829 --> 00:16:38,373 Don't go into-- you can't make a living, you're not gonna--" 327 00:16:38,457 --> 00:16:41,251 And, of course, Bob became what he did. 328 00:16:41,334 --> 00:16:44,921 And Albert has never let him live that down, and he didn't. 329 00:16:45,005 --> 00:16:46,256 They went-- So, there you go. 330 00:16:46,339 --> 00:16:49,551 I don't think we ever remotely imagined 331 00:16:49,634 --> 00:16:55,807 that Bob would be any kind of an entertainer. Bob was 6'5". 332 00:16:55,891 --> 00:16:58,477 Now, for a Jew, that's like being 7'2". 333 00:16:58,560 --> 00:17:00,270 Bob was a basketball player, 334 00:17:00,353 --> 00:17:02,564 he played starting center at our high school. 335 00:17:02,647 --> 00:17:05,442 ♪ (SWING MUSIC PLAYING) ♪ 336 00:17:05,525 --> 00:17:07,736 ROB REINER: He was a really good basketball player, 337 00:17:07,819 --> 00:17:10,030 and I think he went to, uh, Chapman College, 338 00:17:10,113 --> 00:17:12,908 that was a big deal, and he played basketball for them, too. 339 00:17:16,036 --> 00:17:17,454 So, he was a good athlete, 340 00:17:17,537 --> 00:17:20,415 and, uh, he talked like a cartoon character. 341 00:17:20,499 --> 00:17:23,335 So, nobody thought Bob was gonna be a comedian, 342 00:17:23,418 --> 00:17:26,505 but Bob probably had a different idea. 343 00:17:32,677 --> 00:17:34,054 BOB: When I graduated from college, 344 00:17:34,137 --> 00:17:36,807 I worked for three years for an advertising agency. 345 00:17:36,890 --> 00:17:39,684 And one of the people that we used to hire to do voiceovers 346 00:17:39,768 --> 00:17:41,812 was a man named Bob Arbogast, 347 00:17:41,895 --> 00:17:44,189 who had a once-a-week television show. 348 00:17:44,272 --> 00:17:48,026 So, I said to him, "I want to go on your show tonight 349 00:17:48,110 --> 00:17:51,488 as the guy who puts the stars' names on the sidewalks of Hollywood." 350 00:17:51,571 --> 00:17:52,781 For a long time, 351 00:17:52,864 --> 00:17:55,283 I've wondered about something that happens in Hollywood, 352 00:17:55,367 --> 00:17:56,868 and I may very well clear it up tonight. 353 00:17:56,952 --> 00:17:58,995 I was watching this late-night talk show 354 00:17:59,079 --> 00:18:00,247 and this guy was introduced. 355 00:18:00,330 --> 00:18:02,332 You know the little stars in the sidewalk 356 00:18:02,415 --> 00:18:04,334 in Hollywood with the names of people in them? 357 00:18:04,417 --> 00:18:06,545 And this conversation went on, 358 00:18:06,628 --> 00:18:08,588 I just thought this guy really did it. 359 00:18:08,672 --> 00:18:11,550 The other day I saw a star in the sidewalk 360 00:18:11,633 --> 00:18:13,426 with the name "Arnold Fillmore" in it... 361 00:18:13,510 --> 00:18:15,053 -(LAUGHS) -...and a camera underneath it, 362 00:18:15,136 --> 00:18:17,264 and I didn't know who Arnold Fillmore was. 363 00:18:17,347 --> 00:18:21,852 He looks like a guy who's really at the end of a horrible day 364 00:18:21,935 --> 00:18:25,188 and just kind of shuffling through life. That's his persona. 365 00:18:25,272 --> 00:18:28,149 -What is your name, please, sir? -I'm Arnold Fillmore. 366 00:18:28,233 --> 00:18:29,317 (LAUGHS) 367 00:18:29,401 --> 00:18:31,862 It's not funny, but that's my name. 368 00:18:31,945 --> 00:18:34,364 Okay, why did your name get-- 369 00:18:34,447 --> 00:18:37,200 -Are you a celebrity? -No. No, I'm not. 370 00:18:37,284 --> 00:18:39,744 STEVE ALLEN: Why is your name in one of the stars on the sidewalk? 371 00:18:39,828 --> 00:18:43,331 My first job, I had two wet, uh, patches of cement stars, 372 00:18:43,415 --> 00:18:46,293 and I was only given one name by my superior 373 00:18:46,376 --> 00:18:48,837 and I couldn't let the other go to waste, 374 00:18:48,920 --> 00:18:50,797 -and I thought it was a great chance. -(AUDIENCE LAUGHING) 375 00:18:50,881 --> 00:18:53,258 Well, that's, uh, free enterprise... 376 00:18:53,341 --> 00:18:56,303 What he's doing here that is so special, 377 00:18:56,386 --> 00:18:58,638 being a comedian 378 00:18:58,722 --> 00:19:03,393 and not trying to be funny, is a very special gift. 379 00:19:03,476 --> 00:19:05,395 ...and at the corner of Hollywood and Gower 380 00:19:05,478 --> 00:19:09,316 the name "Whitney Carstairs." Now, who is Whitney Carstairs? 381 00:19:09,399 --> 00:19:12,402 Whitney Carstairs is a very good friend of mine and, uh... 382 00:19:12,485 --> 00:19:14,029 -(LAUGHS) -(AUDIENCE LAUGHING) 383 00:19:15,030 --> 00:19:16,239 He sold me right there. 384 00:19:16,323 --> 00:19:19,409 ...we went to school together in Parker Dam, California. 385 00:19:19,492 --> 00:19:21,870 -Parker Dam, California? -Yes, and Whitney, uh, 386 00:19:22,787 --> 00:19:24,164 was very ill for a while, 387 00:19:24,247 --> 00:19:25,874 and this is a way I could cheer him up, 388 00:19:25,957 --> 00:19:28,418 was putting his name in the cement, taking a picture of it, 389 00:19:28,501 --> 00:19:29,920 and sending it back to him. 390 00:19:30,003 --> 00:19:33,131 He's just playing the reality of this guy. 391 00:19:33,215 --> 00:19:35,091 He's not smiling or laughing, 392 00:19:35,175 --> 00:19:39,471 and you got to have a lot of confidence in how funny you are 393 00:19:39,554 --> 00:19:40,805 to even attempt that. 394 00:19:40,889 --> 00:19:42,849 Now, I've been in this business for a long time. 395 00:19:42,933 --> 00:19:44,476 I've been in radio, I've made records, 396 00:19:44,559 --> 00:19:46,019 I've written songs, I've been in movies, 397 00:19:46,102 --> 00:19:49,397 I've done television, and my name is not in a star 398 00:19:49,481 --> 00:19:52,651 in any sidewalk in Hollywood, and I want to know, why not? 399 00:19:52,734 --> 00:19:55,362 Well, I think you're trying to, uh, embarrass me here 400 00:19:55,445 --> 00:19:56,655 and say there's bribery involved, 401 00:19:56,738 --> 00:19:58,907 which, uh, obviously there isn't. 402 00:19:58,990 --> 00:20:00,617 And I take my orders from someone. 403 00:20:00,700 --> 00:20:04,204 I don't put the names in the sidewalk by myself. 404 00:20:04,287 --> 00:20:05,830 Someone tells me what to do. 405 00:20:05,914 --> 00:20:08,625 How would I go about getting my name in a sidewalk? 406 00:20:08,708 --> 00:20:09,960 Do you have ten dollars? 407 00:20:10,043 --> 00:20:13,421 -(LAUGHS) -(AUDIENCE LAUGHING) 408 00:20:13,505 --> 00:20:16,341 That is kind of how it works. (LAUGHS) 409 00:20:16,424 --> 00:20:18,927 (CHUCKLING) Okay, what amazes me about this, 410 00:20:19,010 --> 00:20:20,637 first, I've never seen it before, 411 00:20:21,388 --> 00:20:23,348 this is Bob's mature style. 412 00:20:23,431 --> 00:20:25,767 That's all you need to know about Bob, right there. 413 00:20:25,850 --> 00:20:28,895 The framework for that got bigger, 414 00:20:28,979 --> 00:20:33,692 but the consistency of his attitude is what's delightful. 415 00:20:33,775 --> 00:20:37,445 If you're lucky enough to have a thing that works, 416 00:20:37,529 --> 00:20:40,782 um, that's your thing. You don't need more than one thing. 417 00:20:40,865 --> 00:20:42,283 When I found out it was a joke, 418 00:20:42,367 --> 00:20:44,160 I said, "I got to find out who this is." 419 00:20:44,244 --> 00:20:48,039 I got on the phone the next day and I called around. 420 00:20:48,123 --> 00:20:51,293 BOB: The next day, I'm at work and my secretary said, 421 00:20:51,376 --> 00:20:53,837 "Tom Smothers is on the phone for you." 422 00:20:53,920 --> 00:20:56,214 So I'm going, "Oh. Sure." 423 00:20:56,297 --> 00:20:58,550 I pick up the phone, I said, "Hi, Tommy. 424 00:20:58,633 --> 00:21:00,760 I'd love to talk to you, but my uncle's a hunchback 425 00:21:00,844 --> 00:21:03,013 and he's straightening up today. I'll see you later." 426 00:21:03,096 --> 00:21:04,347 And I hang up the phone. 427 00:21:06,016 --> 00:21:08,852 And ten minutes later, the phone rings, 428 00:21:08,935 --> 00:21:11,563 she said, "It's Tom Smothers again." 429 00:21:11,646 --> 00:21:14,816 I go, "Hello." He said, "Bob? Yeah. Tom Smothers." 430 00:21:15,692 --> 00:21:18,194 And I go, "Oh, my God." 431 00:21:18,278 --> 00:21:20,321 I said, "I'm so sorry." He said, "That's okay." 432 00:21:20,405 --> 00:21:24,367 He said, "I saw what you did last night, and I loved it. 433 00:21:24,451 --> 00:21:26,202 We're doing a summer show with Glen Campbell. 434 00:21:26,286 --> 00:21:28,163 Would you like to write on it and perform?" 435 00:21:29,247 --> 00:21:30,540 I said, "Well, I... 436 00:21:30,623 --> 00:21:34,335 Possibly, yes. I would have to say yes. Yes, I would." 437 00:21:34,419 --> 00:21:36,713 And he said, "Okay, we'll offer you this much a week," 438 00:21:36,796 --> 00:21:39,382 which was what I was making a year at the advertising agency. 439 00:21:43,344 --> 00:21:45,889 STEVE MARTIN: Bob and I were just assigned to be together. 440 00:21:45,972 --> 00:21:49,017 And he was very confident, I was not. 441 00:21:51,019 --> 00:21:52,896 But after three, four months, 442 00:21:52,979 --> 00:21:55,940 we really started clicking as a comedy writing team. 443 00:21:57,859 --> 00:22:02,238 And from about 1967 to about 1969, 444 00:22:02,322 --> 00:22:04,866 we're as close as two people could be. 445 00:22:07,035 --> 00:22:08,495 REINER: It was a crazy writers' room. 446 00:22:08,578 --> 00:22:11,664 There was Mason Williams, there was Bob Einstein. 447 00:22:11,748 --> 00:22:13,249 Oh, there they-- there's everybody. 448 00:22:14,876 --> 00:22:16,878 MARTIN: There's Bob in the center, Marsha Jacobs, 449 00:22:16,961 --> 00:22:21,132 Paul Wayne, Rob Reiner, myself. Carl Gottlieb's in there. 450 00:22:21,216 --> 00:22:25,470 -Jerry Music. -REINER: Allan Blye, there's Cy Howard I see. 451 00:22:25,553 --> 00:22:27,722 It was a pretty diverse-- 452 00:22:27,806 --> 00:22:32,769 It was diverse in terms of age, but mostly all Jews. 453 00:22:32,852 --> 00:22:34,979 So there was not a lot of diversity there, 454 00:22:35,063 --> 00:22:39,609 but there was old-school Jews and new-hippie-type Jews. 455 00:22:39,692 --> 00:22:41,778 ♪ (UPBEAT FUNK MUSIC PLAYING) ♪ 456 00:22:41,861 --> 00:22:43,488 MARTIN: Bob was an advertising writer, 457 00:22:43,571 --> 00:22:46,074 and he presented himself like an advertising writer, 458 00:22:46,157 --> 00:22:47,951 he dressed like an advertising writer. 459 00:22:48,034 --> 00:22:53,123 And I didn't know what advertising had to do with comedy writing, 460 00:22:53,206 --> 00:22:56,126 except that it was terse. 461 00:22:56,209 --> 00:22:59,754 So, Bob could write a joke, could write a scene 462 00:22:59,838 --> 00:23:01,798 that was short, and funny, and sharp. 463 00:23:01,881 --> 00:23:05,301 GLEN CAMPBELL: Hi, folks. Standing here with me is Barry Bronkhalter. 464 00:23:05,385 --> 00:23:07,011 -Hi Barry. -Hello, Mr. Campbell. 465 00:23:07,095 --> 00:23:08,304 Barry is a gas station mechanic 466 00:23:08,388 --> 00:23:10,390 who holds a rather remarkable world's record. 467 00:23:10,473 --> 00:23:11,933 Barry, you want to tell the folks at home 468 00:23:12,016 --> 00:23:13,101 exactly what your record is? 469 00:23:13,184 --> 00:23:15,562 Well, Mr. Campbell, on Monday, May 13th this year, 470 00:23:15,645 --> 00:23:18,773 I was able to turn an ordinary six-dollar lube job 471 00:23:18,857 --> 00:23:21,317 into an 800-dollar major overhaul. 472 00:23:21,401 --> 00:23:23,653 ♪ (WHIMSICAL MUSIC PLAYING) ♪ 473 00:23:23,736 --> 00:23:27,240 MARTIN: The '60s were the days of the variety show. 474 00:23:27,323 --> 00:23:31,327 Anybody who became hot got a variety show. 475 00:23:31,411 --> 00:23:34,247 ANNOUNCER: It's The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour... 476 00:23:34,330 --> 00:23:37,375 MARTIN: And so you'd have a host, like Smothers Brothers, 477 00:23:37,458 --> 00:23:39,377 or Glen Campbell, or Sonny and Cher, 478 00:23:39,460 --> 00:23:40,795 and it had guests. 479 00:23:40,879 --> 00:23:42,881 All right, move them out. (GRUNTS) 480 00:23:42,964 --> 00:23:45,466 -Ooh, I'm sorry there, Bob. -(AUDIENCE LAUGHING) 481 00:23:45,550 --> 00:23:48,052 Then you'd have a sketch with a premise... 482 00:23:48,136 --> 00:23:49,846 What have you done with our Newson family? 483 00:23:49,929 --> 00:23:51,973 -Where are they? -Right out there. 484 00:23:52,974 --> 00:23:56,561 -What? -(AUDIENCE LAUGHING) 485 00:23:56,644 --> 00:23:57,937 MARTIN: So you'd have a variety. 486 00:23:59,147 --> 00:24:04,319 You'd come in Monday, and you sit down in a meeting, 487 00:24:04,402 --> 00:24:06,654 and Tommy tells you what you did bad. 488 00:24:06,738 --> 00:24:10,366 (CHUCKLES) Uh, tells us all the warnings we're getting from the censors 489 00:24:10,450 --> 00:24:12,785 and how we're not going to work anymore and all that stuff. 490 00:24:12,869 --> 00:24:16,497 So, we wound up like children, but it worked, 491 00:24:16,581 --> 00:24:20,084 writing things into the show that we knew we didn't need, 492 00:24:20,168 --> 00:24:22,962 and the censors say, "You can't say that! 493 00:24:23,046 --> 00:24:25,590 How can you say 'fuck' on Sunday night at eight o'clock?" 494 00:24:25,673 --> 00:24:26,799 (CREWMEMBER LAUGHING) 495 00:24:26,883 --> 00:24:29,427 "All right. Take it out, okay. But can we say 'tits'?" 496 00:24:29,510 --> 00:24:32,180 "Yes, that you can do, but don't say 'fuck tits.'" 497 00:24:32,263 --> 00:24:33,306 "Okay, we won't." 498 00:24:34,182 --> 00:24:35,225 ♪ (ENERGETIC MUSIC PLAYING) ♪ 499 00:24:35,308 --> 00:24:37,518 But, um, you'd see who the guest star is. 500 00:24:40,521 --> 00:24:43,733 And then you go away and you come up with ideas. 501 00:24:43,816 --> 00:24:46,903 We were laughing a lot. We weren't pained writers, 502 00:24:46,986 --> 00:24:51,282 we'd just sit in a room and talk and talk and talk 503 00:24:51,366 --> 00:24:54,327 until one of us went, "Hey, maybe that's something." 504 00:24:57,247 --> 00:25:00,416 Well, okay. This is my recollection. 505 00:25:00,500 --> 00:25:02,418 So, I went to Carnegie Tech. 506 00:25:02,502 --> 00:25:06,506 ♪ (STATELY MUSIC PLAYING) ♪ 507 00:25:06,589 --> 00:25:08,758 ALBERT: And I had an acting scholarship, 508 00:25:08,841 --> 00:25:10,635 and it was going very well, 509 00:25:10,718 --> 00:25:16,557 and I had done a one-act play of Catcher in the Rye. 510 00:25:16,641 --> 00:25:22,021 And I played Holden Caulfield, and it was a massive success. 511 00:25:22,105 --> 00:25:28,611 And I came back at Christmas, and I came into our house 512 00:25:28,695 --> 00:25:31,698 and there was a note by the phone, 513 00:25:31,781 --> 00:25:35,285 and it said, "Call Tommy Smothers." 514 00:25:35,368 --> 00:25:40,915 And I thought, "Wow, he heard about Catcher in the Rye." 515 00:25:40,999 --> 00:25:45,003 And in walks my brother, who said, you know, 516 00:25:45,086 --> 00:25:47,255 "I don't want to hear about show business, 517 00:25:47,338 --> 00:25:49,424 not once, don't ever mention it." 518 00:25:49,507 --> 00:25:51,676 He had on love beads. 519 00:25:51,759 --> 00:25:55,471 And I said, "Who are you? What are you doing?" (CHUCKLING) 520 00:25:55,555 --> 00:25:57,432 "I'm working at The Smothers Brothers." 521 00:25:57,515 --> 00:26:01,436 "What? Wait, you beat me up for saying I wanted to do this." 522 00:26:01,519 --> 00:26:03,688 "Sorry. Was there a message for me?" 523 00:26:05,273 --> 00:26:06,316 Ladies and gentlemen, 524 00:26:06,399 --> 00:26:07,900 we've got a lot of great guests on our show tonight. 525 00:26:07,984 --> 00:26:10,486 Jonathan Winters, Leigh French, and Miss Judy Collins. 526 00:26:10,570 --> 00:26:12,864 MARTIN: Judy Collins was going to be on. 527 00:26:12,947 --> 00:26:14,824 And so we're messing around with an intro. 528 00:26:14,907 --> 00:26:17,785 -Right now, we thought we'd, uh, it'd be a nice idea for a-- -Dick, do you mind? 529 00:26:17,869 --> 00:26:19,996 I care about this next guest, I'd like to introduce this. 530 00:26:20,079 --> 00:26:24,334 -Okay, go ahead. -Ladies and gentlemen, here's Judy. 531 00:26:24,417 --> 00:26:25,668 (AUDIENCE APPLAUDING) 532 00:26:25,752 --> 00:26:30,423 JUDY COLLINS: ♪ Broken windows and empty hallways ♪ 533 00:26:30,506 --> 00:26:34,594 ♪ A pale dead moon in the sky Streaked with grey ♪ 534 00:26:34,677 --> 00:26:35,803 (AUDIENCE LAUGHING) 535 00:26:35,887 --> 00:26:37,638 -♪ Human kindness... ♪ -(STEVE LAUGHING) 536 00:26:37,722 --> 00:26:40,516 Yeah, now this is something, I believe, 537 00:26:40,600 --> 00:26:43,019 that we created together, 538 00:26:43,102 --> 00:26:45,688 and then Bob took off with this Officer Judy character. 539 00:26:45,772 --> 00:26:50,568 COLLINS: ♪ Scarecrows Dressed in the latest styles ♪ 540 00:26:50,651 --> 00:26:54,030 -With frozen smiles... -(LAUGHS) 541 00:26:54,113 --> 00:26:57,283 COLLINS: And I Think it's going to rain... 542 00:26:57,367 --> 00:27:00,036 God, that was so good. He lip synced perfect. 543 00:27:00,119 --> 00:27:01,662 -COLLINS: ♪ Lonely... ♪ -(AUDIENCE LAUGHING) 544 00:27:01,746 --> 00:27:03,373 REINER: He created a character for himself. 545 00:27:03,456 --> 00:27:07,710 You know, Officer Judy, and that was-- That's the best way to get on, 546 00:27:07,794 --> 00:27:10,213 you know, you create a character for yourself. 547 00:27:10,296 --> 00:27:14,634 ♪ (FRENETIC PIANO PLAYING) ♪ 548 00:27:14,717 --> 00:27:17,428 This was totally Bob's bit, I had nothing to do with it. 549 00:27:17,512 --> 00:27:19,013 He just came in with it one morning. 550 00:27:19,097 --> 00:27:22,100 -(SIREN WAILING) -(TIRES SCREECHING) 551 00:27:25,061 --> 00:27:29,732 Just the pull-up on the bike and that long walk to the car, 552 00:27:29,816 --> 00:27:31,526 which is an intimidation tactic, 553 00:27:31,609 --> 00:27:33,861 which when you're doing it against Liberace... 554 00:27:35,113 --> 00:27:37,156 You know how fast you were playing? 555 00:27:37,240 --> 00:27:39,283 (AUDIENCE LAUGHING) 556 00:27:39,367 --> 00:27:44,163 Probably at that time, everyone wanted to play the funny, countercultural, hippie type, 557 00:27:44,247 --> 00:27:48,543 and for him to want to be the most humorless policeman 558 00:27:48,626 --> 00:27:50,294 and be hilarious with it. 559 00:27:50,378 --> 00:27:51,838 What's this, Liber-ace? 560 00:27:53,297 --> 00:27:56,008 Oh, uh... (CHUCKLES) I was at a party, 561 00:27:56,092 --> 00:27:59,804 and I guess some joker just threw it in the piano. 562 00:27:59,887 --> 00:28:01,305 Want to get off your bench? 563 00:28:02,890 --> 00:28:05,017 Officer Judy would arrest people in the show, 564 00:28:05,101 --> 00:28:09,147 and it was a great foil, because if we didn't have an ending 565 00:28:09,230 --> 00:28:11,732 for a sketch, I would come in. 566 00:28:11,816 --> 00:28:15,111 ♪ A lady that I know Just came from Colombia ♪ 567 00:28:15,194 --> 00:28:19,365 ♪ She smiled because I did not understand ♪ 568 00:28:19,449 --> 00:28:23,119 ♪ Then she held out Some marijuana, uh-huh ♪ 569 00:28:23,202 --> 00:28:24,745 ♪ She said it was the best... ♪ 570 00:28:24,829 --> 00:28:26,998 (AUDIENCE APPLAUDING) 571 00:28:29,292 --> 00:28:30,334 Yes. 572 00:28:30,418 --> 00:28:32,795 Which one of you freaks sang the dope song? 573 00:28:32,879 --> 00:28:34,005 (AUDIENCE LAUGHING) 574 00:28:34,088 --> 00:28:36,340 It's so brilliant. It was like Officer Judy was like 575 00:28:36,424 --> 00:28:38,342 a human button to sketches. 576 00:28:38,426 --> 00:28:40,094 ♪ (INTREPID MUSIC PLAYING) ♪ 577 00:28:42,638 --> 00:28:43,806 ♪ (MUSIC CONCLUDES ) ♪ 578 00:28:45,141 --> 00:28:48,060 ANNOUNCER: From Television City in Hollywood... 579 00:28:48,144 --> 00:28:51,397 MARTIN: Now, we were moving from Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour 580 00:28:51,481 --> 00:28:53,065 to Sonny & Cher Show. 581 00:28:53,149 --> 00:28:56,110 INTERVIEWER: State your name and position. 582 00:28:56,194 --> 00:28:59,822 Arthur B. Jackson, White House ice cream man. 583 00:28:59,906 --> 00:29:02,492 We used to do a sketch called Sonny's Pizza. 584 00:29:02,575 --> 00:29:06,704 Hey, gorgeous. How about a little service at this table? 585 00:29:06,787 --> 00:29:08,206 Who's that guy? 586 00:29:08,289 --> 00:29:11,334 I don't know, but if he calls me gorgeous one more time, 587 00:29:11,417 --> 00:29:13,419 -I'm gonna throw him outta here. -(AUDIENCE LAUGHING) 588 00:29:13,503 --> 00:29:15,338 BOB: Sonny wound up being a great friend, 589 00:29:15,421 --> 00:29:18,841 but Sonny would screw up the lines, all the time. 590 00:29:18,925 --> 00:29:22,428 And I got so pissed that I wrote an episode of Sonny's Pizza 591 00:29:22,512 --> 00:29:27,058 where Sonny had been tied up and gagged. The whole sketch. 592 00:29:27,141 --> 00:29:30,895 ♪ (ITALIAN FANFARE PLAYS) ♪ 593 00:29:30,978 --> 00:29:35,191 The first time I met Bob was probably 35 years ago. 594 00:29:35,274 --> 00:29:37,360 ♪ (ENERGETIC MUSIC PLAYING) ♪ 595 00:29:37,443 --> 00:29:41,697 I was the head writer, and he impressed me. 596 00:29:41,781 --> 00:29:44,575 He was very funny. Absolutely, very funny person. 597 00:29:45,826 --> 00:29:47,912 I said, "I would do very good work with you, 598 00:29:47,995 --> 00:29:51,249 you'd do very good work with me. I'd like to work as a team." 599 00:29:51,332 --> 00:29:55,920 And he agreed with me, and we started working immediately. 600 00:29:58,172 --> 00:30:00,716 My partner and I, Allan Blye, produced The Redd Foxx Show. 601 00:30:00,800 --> 00:30:03,886 If you're gonna drink, take a cab. That's what I did. 602 00:30:03,970 --> 00:30:07,223 In fact, I got eight cabs parked in my driveway now. 603 00:30:07,306 --> 00:30:11,602 Redd Foxx, of course, great old comic, Sanford And Son, 604 00:30:11,686 --> 00:30:13,479 he was doing this variety show. 605 00:30:13,563 --> 00:30:15,815 (AUDIENCE APPLAUDING) 606 00:30:15,898 --> 00:30:20,486 BOB: The first show. "Ladies and gentlemen, Redd Foxx!" 607 00:30:20,570 --> 00:30:22,405 His audience claps 608 00:30:22,488 --> 00:30:25,324 at a big R-E-D-D that turned, went into a tenement. 609 00:30:25,408 --> 00:30:27,994 Redd's supposed to come out the door and come down the steps. 610 00:30:28,077 --> 00:30:29,036 No Redd. 611 00:30:29,120 --> 00:30:31,622 I go and knock on his dressing room door. 612 00:30:32,248 --> 00:30:34,208 "What?" I open the door, 613 00:30:34,292 --> 00:30:37,712 the girl who was doing his makeup is sitting on him. 614 00:30:37,795 --> 00:30:41,173 So I see her like this, her dress, and he's under it. 615 00:30:41,257 --> 00:30:46,262 I said, "Redd, we're on camera." He said, "Can't a man relax?" 616 00:30:46,345 --> 00:30:48,806 (AUDIENCE APPLAUDING) 617 00:30:49,682 --> 00:30:53,019 ♪ (RELAXED MUSIC PLAYING) ♪ 618 00:30:53,102 --> 00:30:58,190 Bob loved, love, love, love, his wife Berta and comedy, 619 00:30:58,274 --> 00:30:59,775 to me, were his great loves. 620 00:30:59,859 --> 00:31:01,527 By the way, of all my friends, 621 00:31:01,611 --> 00:31:07,408 no one really was as crazy about their wife as Bob was. 622 00:31:07,491 --> 00:31:11,120 He and Berta, their relationship was just so beautiful. 623 00:31:11,203 --> 00:31:14,957 He had a big personality, but a big love. 624 00:31:15,041 --> 00:31:17,543 ♪ (TENDER MUSIC PLAYING) ♪ 625 00:31:19,503 --> 00:31:23,758 A very good friend of ours, um, John Jones, introduced us. 626 00:31:25,551 --> 00:31:27,928 Bob made me laugh so hard. 627 00:31:29,096 --> 00:31:31,724 I'd never met anybody like him. 628 00:31:33,017 --> 00:31:34,393 That's how it started. 629 00:31:36,145 --> 00:31:39,523 Bob had a daughter named Erin, and I really loved her. 630 00:31:40,191 --> 00:31:41,692 We became very close. 631 00:31:43,069 --> 00:31:45,488 It was clear Bob adored us both, 632 00:31:45,571 --> 00:31:51,827 but he showed us in his own unconventional but best way. 633 00:31:51,911 --> 00:31:55,456 He made fun of me, he made fun of other people, 634 00:31:55,539 --> 00:31:56,874 he made fun of himself. 635 00:31:58,876 --> 00:32:01,712 He made me laugh every day. 636 00:32:01,796 --> 00:32:03,214 And I don't mean that in a way 637 00:32:03,297 --> 00:32:05,466 that's like, "Oh, my whole life was laughter," 638 00:32:05,549 --> 00:32:07,468 but he did make me laugh every day. 639 00:32:09,512 --> 00:32:13,432 We really had a great love affair. 640 00:32:16,060 --> 00:32:17,728 ♪ (MUSIC FADES) ♪ 641 00:32:17,812 --> 00:32:19,689 Guy walks into a bar with a dog, 642 00:32:20,481 --> 00:32:21,816 and he puts the dog on the bar, 643 00:32:21,899 --> 00:32:24,151 and the bartender says, "Get that dog." 644 00:32:24,235 --> 00:32:26,529 He says, "No. My dog can talk." 645 00:32:26,612 --> 00:32:28,072 He said, "Listen, buddy. 646 00:32:28,155 --> 00:32:30,199 I've had a lot of drunks come in here--" 647 00:32:30,282 --> 00:32:32,284 "I'm not drunk. My dog can talk." 648 00:32:32,368 --> 00:32:33,869 He said, "Here's what we do. 649 00:32:33,953 --> 00:32:36,205 Your dog talks, I give you 500 bucks. 650 00:32:36,288 --> 00:32:40,209 Your dog doesn't talk, I throw the two of you through a window." 651 00:32:41,419 --> 00:32:43,087 Guy said, "You're on. 652 00:32:43,170 --> 00:32:46,382 Fido, what's this on my mouth up here?" 653 00:32:46,465 --> 00:32:48,050 Dog goes, "Roof!" 654 00:32:48,134 --> 00:32:51,595 He says, "What's on top of the building?" He says, "Roof!" 655 00:32:51,679 --> 00:32:53,764 He said, "Who's the greatest baseball player of all time?" 656 00:32:53,848 --> 00:32:55,433 He says, "Ruth!" 657 00:32:55,516 --> 00:32:58,269 Bartender picks the two of them up and throws them through the glass window. 658 00:32:58,352 --> 00:33:00,521 Dog shakes it off, looks at his owner, 659 00:33:00,604 --> 00:33:03,107 and said, "You think I should have said DiMaggio?" 660 00:33:03,190 --> 00:33:04,358 (CREWMEMBER LAUGHING) 661 00:33:04,442 --> 00:33:06,235 ♪ ("BIZARRE" THEME MUSIC PLAYING) ♪ 662 00:33:06,318 --> 00:33:07,945 (AUDIENCE APPLAUDING) 663 00:33:09,488 --> 00:33:11,741 BOB: Allan and I wound up doing the first series 664 00:33:11,824 --> 00:33:14,660 in the history of cable, which was Bizarre with John Byner. 665 00:33:16,287 --> 00:33:18,330 I was finishing up on the series Soap 666 00:33:18,414 --> 00:33:21,250 and Bob and Allan invited me to come to their office 667 00:33:21,333 --> 00:33:23,210 to talk to me about a show that 668 00:33:23,294 --> 00:33:25,254 they had in mind called Bizarre. 669 00:33:25,337 --> 00:33:27,339 So I go up there, and they told me 670 00:33:27,423 --> 00:33:32,261 it was going to be like The Benny Hill Show, but more. 671 00:33:38,184 --> 00:33:39,894 Sometimes, I'd say to Bob, 672 00:33:39,977 --> 00:33:42,354 "Hey, this thing we're doing, it doesn't have an ending." 673 00:33:42,438 --> 00:33:45,608 He'd just say, "It's Bizarre. What can I tell you?" 674 00:33:45,691 --> 00:33:46,776 I need to tell you, 675 00:33:46,859 --> 00:33:49,111 we're talking human dignity here, all right? 676 00:33:49,195 --> 00:33:51,405 I'm a professional, okay? 677 00:33:51,489 --> 00:33:52,865 -Yeah. -I try my best. 678 00:33:52,948 --> 00:33:54,867 -I'm not a big-time Hollywood magnate. -All right. All right. 679 00:33:54,950 --> 00:33:56,869 I come to the studio and do the best I can, 680 00:33:56,952 --> 00:33:58,913 -and you make fun of me. -You're a nice guy, Bob. 681 00:33:58,996 --> 00:34:00,915 I just took advantage, I guess. 682 00:34:00,998 --> 00:34:04,043 Human dignity. I guess that's the key. 683 00:34:04,126 --> 00:34:06,796 (AUDIENCE LAUGHING) 684 00:34:08,172 --> 00:34:10,633 You don't know what it's like to be embarrassed like John. 685 00:34:10,716 --> 00:34:13,052 Treat a human being with dignity, okay? 686 00:34:13,135 --> 00:34:14,512 Ladies and gentlemen, we've been waiting 687 00:34:14,595 --> 00:34:16,972 for the right weather in order to bring you live coverage, 688 00:34:17,056 --> 00:34:20,351 Daredevil Super Dave Osborne for his first stunt of this year 689 00:34:20,434 --> 00:34:21,852 and his most dangerous stunt to date. 690 00:34:21,936 --> 00:34:23,562 Now, this wild jump of yours, 691 00:34:23,646 --> 00:34:26,023 or this amazing ride, frankly, what does it entail? 692 00:34:26,106 --> 00:34:27,942 Well, Tom, it's the ultimate test 693 00:34:28,025 --> 00:34:29,819 to the human body, I believe. 694 00:34:29,902 --> 00:34:32,488 I'll be traveling up and down a track especially designed 695 00:34:32,571 --> 00:34:34,114 in a small-ish metal container. 696 00:34:34,198 --> 00:34:37,576 (AUDIENCE LAUGHING, APPLAUDING) 697 00:34:40,246 --> 00:34:42,331 Ticket, please. 698 00:34:42,414 --> 00:34:46,168 One of us had an idea to make Bob an Evel Knievel character. 699 00:34:46,252 --> 00:34:48,045 ♪ (THRILLING MUSIC PLAYING) ♪ 700 00:34:48,128 --> 00:34:50,214 Evel Knievel was a stuntman. 701 00:34:50,297 --> 00:34:55,928 He was famous for doing stunts that would risk his life. 702 00:34:56,011 --> 00:34:58,597 JERRY SEINFELD: 'Cause everybody was obsessed with Evel Knievel. 703 00:34:58,681 --> 00:35:01,642 The suits with the stars, and the crazy stunts. 704 00:35:03,394 --> 00:35:06,021 And we wanted to do something about that. 705 00:35:06,105 --> 00:35:08,858 As you can see, his head is being placed 706 00:35:08,941 --> 00:35:11,193 on a Parisian oak woodblock. 707 00:35:11,277 --> 00:35:13,112 And believe you me, it's going to be a miracle 708 00:35:13,195 --> 00:35:15,030 if Super Dave is able to pull his head back 709 00:35:15,114 --> 00:35:16,907 in that fraction of a second. 710 00:35:16,991 --> 00:35:21,704 SUPER DAVE: The way this is going to work is I will signal the French guillotine team 711 00:35:21,787 --> 00:35:23,163 with the word "go," 712 00:35:23,247 --> 00:35:25,124 and I will do it in French. 713 00:35:25,207 --> 00:35:28,252 -MIKE WALDEN: All right. -SUPER DAVE: And then I will escape from the blade. 714 00:35:29,336 --> 00:35:32,256 Super Dave is deep in concentration now 715 00:35:32,882 --> 00:35:34,383 as he prepares for this, 716 00:35:34,466 --> 00:35:36,218 -his most dangerous-- -SUPER DAVE: Does anyone know 717 00:35:36,302 --> 00:35:38,178 what "go" is in French, the word? 718 00:35:38,262 --> 00:35:39,597 Well, I believe it's aller. 719 00:35:39,680 --> 00:35:40,848 FRENCH ASSISTANT: Aller! 720 00:35:40,931 --> 00:35:43,392 -(AUDIENCE LAUGHING) -SUPER DAVE: Holy shit! 721 00:35:44,727 --> 00:35:47,021 BOB: And then we did six years of Super Dave, 722 00:35:47,104 --> 00:35:48,731 which was a lot of writing 723 00:35:48,814 --> 00:35:51,400 and a lot of work, but it was just so much fun. 724 00:35:51,483 --> 00:35:52,902 You know what? The Super One 725 00:35:52,985 --> 00:35:55,905 is surprising us with the stunt of his life. 726 00:35:55,988 --> 00:35:58,532 What an incredible human being! 727 00:35:58,616 --> 00:35:59,700 -(ENGINE REVS) -(APPLAUSE) 728 00:36:00,951 --> 00:36:06,332 ANNOUNCER: Oh, my! Wow! He's just something! 729 00:36:06,415 --> 00:36:07,708 (AUDIENCE LAUGHING) 730 00:36:07,791 --> 00:36:09,710 SONYA FRIEDMAN: How did you get into the whole stunts field? 731 00:36:09,793 --> 00:36:13,213 Well, about 8 years ago, my partner Al and myself 732 00:36:13,297 --> 00:36:16,008 were watching every interview on television. 733 00:36:16,091 --> 00:36:20,137 After-the-game interviews, after a political candidate had lost, 734 00:36:20,220 --> 00:36:22,014 and they all spoke about the same way, 735 00:36:22,097 --> 00:36:23,557 they were all very happy, 736 00:36:23,641 --> 00:36:25,809 -everything was great, and things were terrific. -(FRIEDMAN LAUGHING) 737 00:36:25,893 --> 00:36:28,103 In reality, they weren't saying what they felt at all. 738 00:36:28,187 --> 00:36:31,148 So we wanted to create a character like that, 739 00:36:31,231 --> 00:36:34,151 but also a character that could get his comeuppance, physically. 740 00:36:34,235 --> 00:36:35,569 We love physical comedy. 741 00:36:37,029 --> 00:36:38,113 Are we off? 742 00:36:38,197 --> 00:36:40,616 Uh, yeah. Guys, are we off? Yeah. We're off, yeah. 743 00:36:40,699 --> 00:36:43,702 Oh, I think I heard my collarbone snap. 744 00:36:43,786 --> 00:36:48,999 On my first show, Super Dave, I wanted a guest to just trump the world. 745 00:36:49,083 --> 00:36:54,755 -What an incredible stunt. -Fat-face, that wasn't the stunt. 746 00:37:00,094 --> 00:37:02,429 (AUDIENCE LAUGHING) 747 00:37:02,513 --> 00:37:04,139 He drove me to the studio. 748 00:37:04,223 --> 00:37:06,266 (AUDIENCE APPLAUDING) 749 00:37:06,350 --> 00:37:09,687 JEFF GARLIN: "Can you believe that we got Ray Charles? 750 00:37:09,770 --> 00:37:12,815 Unbelievable. So funny." 751 00:37:12,898 --> 00:37:13,899 That was his thing. 752 00:37:13,983 --> 00:37:16,694 He didn't analyze why. Just it was so funny. 753 00:37:16,777 --> 00:37:19,113 His early sense of humor, and if you look, 754 00:37:19,196 --> 00:37:23,867 I think, runs through his work, was from Looney Tunes cartoons. 755 00:37:27,621 --> 00:37:31,291 (SLIDE WHISTLE FALLING SOUND EFFECT) 756 00:37:31,375 --> 00:37:32,501 (LOUD CRASH) 757 00:37:32,584 --> 00:37:34,837 All right, throw my weight off, give me my mantra. 758 00:37:34,920 --> 00:37:39,049 Blue skies, clean air, the weight is tied to your waist! 759 00:37:39,133 --> 00:37:40,384 SUPER DAVE: You're shitting me. 760 00:37:40,467 --> 00:37:42,803 -(YELPS) -(STEVE LAUGHING) 761 00:37:45,097 --> 00:37:47,725 Mr. Super, that was sensational. 762 00:37:47,808 --> 00:37:50,311 SUPER DAVE: Oh, help me, putz, I'm in pain. 763 00:37:50,394 --> 00:37:52,938 See, he loved those lines. 764 00:37:53,022 --> 00:37:55,566 Just the simple thing, "I'm in pain." 765 00:37:55,649 --> 00:37:58,277 He-- he didn't need an elaborate line. 766 00:37:59,278 --> 00:38:01,697 The Super One needs an ambulance. 767 00:38:01,780 --> 00:38:03,699 We'll bungee one down. 768 00:38:03,782 --> 00:38:08,037 -SUPER DAVE: What did he say? -He said he'll bungee one right down. 769 00:38:08,120 --> 00:38:09,663 SUPER DAVE: Tell him to forget it, 770 00:38:09,747 --> 00:38:11,623 I'm starting to feel better. 771 00:38:11,707 --> 00:38:15,461 -(HEAVY THUD) -(AUDIENCE LAUGHING) 772 00:38:15,544 --> 00:38:18,797 Slipping and falling on your ass, you're gonna laugh. 773 00:38:18,881 --> 00:38:22,259 And, uh, someone getting hit in the head with something, 774 00:38:22,342 --> 00:38:25,095 they don't get hurt, you're laughing. 775 00:38:25,179 --> 00:38:27,765 Super Dave is at the top of the tower right now, 776 00:38:27,848 --> 00:38:29,183 preparing to jump. 777 00:38:29,266 --> 00:38:31,435 So let's go to the top of the tower 778 00:38:31,518 --> 00:38:33,937 to our man on the scene, Mike Walden. 779 00:38:34,021 --> 00:38:35,939 MIKE: Well, thank you, Johnny, but I'm afraid 780 00:38:36,023 --> 00:38:38,067 we have some bad news up here. 781 00:38:38,150 --> 00:38:39,777 Super Dave, what's the story? 782 00:38:39,860 --> 00:38:41,278 Well, Mike, as you can see 783 00:38:41,361 --> 00:38:43,530 and I'm sure you can feel up here, 784 00:38:43,614 --> 00:38:45,324 the wind is about a hundred miles an hour. 785 00:38:45,407 --> 00:38:48,786 -(LAUGHS) -SUPER DAVE: So there is no way that I can do this stunt today. 786 00:38:48,869 --> 00:38:50,579 Well, listen. I'm gonna go down. I'm gonna take 787 00:38:50,662 --> 00:38:52,289 the elevator down. I'll see you down there, okay? 788 00:38:52,372 --> 00:38:53,707 -I won't need it. -J.B. SMOOVE: Oh, man. 789 00:38:53,791 --> 00:38:56,668 You know it, know it comes. Here it comes. There he goes. 790 00:38:57,252 --> 00:38:59,546 Holy shit! 791 00:38:59,630 --> 00:39:04,051 (LAUGHING) 792 00:39:04,134 --> 00:39:07,137 (SIGHING, LAUGHING) 793 00:39:07,221 --> 00:39:08,514 Ooh, that hurt! 794 00:39:08,597 --> 00:39:13,310 -Super Dave, are you all right? -Oh yeah, John, I'm just fine. 795 00:39:13,393 --> 00:39:14,686 OSWALT: Under all that bluster, 796 00:39:14,770 --> 00:39:18,899 Super Dave Osborne is the most fragile, thin-skinned person, 797 00:39:18,982 --> 00:39:21,276 who just wants to make the world better, 798 00:39:21,360 --> 00:39:23,320 he just doesn't have the tools to do it. 799 00:39:23,403 --> 00:39:25,364 And that character is sitting on a lot of rage. 800 00:39:25,447 --> 00:39:27,324 All right, Mike, what I'm gonna do for you now 801 00:39:27,407 --> 00:39:30,452 is a very special jump. Normally you'll see stunt people 802 00:39:30,536 --> 00:39:32,663 go right directly into the middle of the bag. 803 00:39:32,746 --> 00:39:34,998 What I'm gonna do for you today is, I'm gonna kind of 804 00:39:35,082 --> 00:39:37,918 hit the left side of the bag on your camera there, 805 00:39:38,001 --> 00:39:40,879 and, uh, then I'll hop right down and we'll talk about it. 806 00:39:40,963 --> 00:39:43,006 Maybe we could replay it or something. 807 00:39:43,090 --> 00:39:45,175 All right, here I go. Ready? 808 00:39:45,259 --> 00:39:48,011 Get set. Watch the bag. I missed it. 809 00:39:48,095 --> 00:39:49,179 (LOUD CRASH) 810 00:39:49,263 --> 00:39:52,099 (CHUCKLING) Super Dave Osborne just knocked me out. 811 00:39:52,182 --> 00:39:53,433 I'm gonna be all right. 812 00:39:53,517 --> 00:39:55,477 Well, there you have it, ladies and gentlemen. 813 00:39:55,561 --> 00:39:57,020 The great Super Dave. Not only showing 814 00:39:57,104 --> 00:39:59,398 -his great athletic... -SUPER DAVE: Oh, you're standing on my hand! 815 00:39:59,481 --> 00:40:01,900 NORMAN LEAR: It's not just the personality 816 00:40:01,984 --> 00:40:05,571 and the way he can perform his character and so forth, 817 00:40:05,654 --> 00:40:07,030 it is in him, 818 00:40:07,114 --> 00:40:10,200 a deep understanding of the human condition. 819 00:40:10,284 --> 00:40:12,953 The foolishness of the human condition. 820 00:40:13,036 --> 00:40:15,539 -SUPER DAVE: Mike! -Jack, before the ambulance arrives, how about one favor? 821 00:40:15,622 --> 00:40:18,250 -SUPER DAVE: Mike, I'm talking to you. Putz! -I'd like to get a picture of me 822 00:40:18,333 --> 00:40:19,668 and Simba the elephant and Super Dave. 823 00:40:19,751 --> 00:40:21,545 -SUPER DAVE: Get off my hand. -Just one. Won't take long. 824 00:40:21,628 --> 00:40:23,172 Bring in Simba right away, will you? 825 00:40:23,255 --> 00:40:25,048 SUPER DAVE: I've got bullets in my side. My foot is smashed. Thanks. 826 00:40:25,132 --> 00:40:27,176 -What is that smell? No! -(AUDIENCE LAUGHING) 827 00:40:27,259 --> 00:40:30,554 -(ELEPHANT GRUNTING) -SUPER DAVE: Stop! 828 00:40:31,638 --> 00:40:35,976 ♪ (BREEZY MUSIC PLAYING) ♪ 829 00:40:36,059 --> 00:40:38,937 I started working for The Super Dave Osborne Show 830 00:40:39,021 --> 00:40:41,398 in the summer of 1988. 831 00:40:41,481 --> 00:40:45,194 I was a young broadcasting student here in Toronto. 832 00:40:45,277 --> 00:40:47,863 And I knew Super Dave from Bizarre. 833 00:40:47,946 --> 00:40:49,865 Which is a show we loved as teenagers 834 00:40:49,948 --> 00:40:52,868 because there was swearing and there were boobs. 835 00:40:54,328 --> 00:40:56,705 The two things teenagers love the most. 836 00:40:56,788 --> 00:40:58,916 ANNOUNCER: Super Dave Osborne. 837 00:40:58,999 --> 00:41:01,126 (AUDIENCE CHEERING) 838 00:41:01,210 --> 00:41:04,755 So, I got hired as a production assistant. 839 00:41:04,838 --> 00:41:05,923 I'm a little bit nervous. 840 00:41:06,006 --> 00:41:07,841 He's not the most warm and fuzzy guy. 841 00:41:09,593 --> 00:41:11,428 On the set of The Super Dave Osborne Show, 842 00:41:11,512 --> 00:41:12,554 Bob was the king. 843 00:41:14,014 --> 00:41:15,265 He wrote the show, 844 00:41:15,349 --> 00:41:17,893 he produced the show, he starred in the show. 845 00:41:17,976 --> 00:41:20,646 Really, you know, his baby. 846 00:41:20,729 --> 00:41:22,940 He was demanding, so everybody was 847 00:41:23,023 --> 00:41:25,108 kind of dancing around him, you know? 848 00:41:26,485 --> 00:41:29,112 But he was very sweet with his daughter, Erin. 849 00:41:29,196 --> 00:41:30,739 ♪ (FUNKY MUSIC PLAYS) ♪ 850 00:41:30,822 --> 00:41:34,576 I worked with my dad from the time I was five. 851 00:41:36,203 --> 00:41:38,080 He only shot his shows in the summer, 852 00:41:39,164 --> 00:41:40,666 so that I wasn't in school. 853 00:41:40,749 --> 00:41:43,293 So we would spend summers in Toronto 854 00:41:43,377 --> 00:41:46,380 for six years of Bizarre, five years of Super Dave, 855 00:41:46,463 --> 00:41:48,257 literally, like June to September. 856 00:41:50,968 --> 00:41:52,844 He took me everywhere. He used to say 857 00:41:52,928 --> 00:41:54,513 I was like luggage. I went everywhere. 858 00:41:56,056 --> 00:41:59,601 I was often whatever kid needed to be in the shot. 859 00:41:59,685 --> 00:42:01,436 -CHILD: Super Dave Osborne? -Yes? 860 00:42:01,520 --> 00:42:04,982 -Can I have your autograph? -Sure. Holy shit! 861 00:42:05,065 --> 00:42:07,442 -(CRASHING) -(AUDIENCE LAUGH) 862 00:42:09,319 --> 00:42:11,780 SMOOVE: Here's a true mark of funny to me. 863 00:42:11,863 --> 00:42:15,409 The premise gives just as many laughs 864 00:42:15,492 --> 00:42:17,869 as the execution of the punchline. 865 00:42:17,953 --> 00:42:21,331 How can we create something where we can show the people 866 00:42:21,415 --> 00:42:24,626 what it's like to be emotionally and physically up and down. 867 00:42:24,710 --> 00:42:27,296 And he and Robby came up with this yo-yo idea, 868 00:42:27,379 --> 00:42:28,672 and I think it's brilliant. 869 00:42:28,755 --> 00:42:30,757 SMOOVE: If the premise gets a smile out of you, 870 00:42:30,841 --> 00:42:33,510 I can do that premise as long as I want to. 871 00:42:33,593 --> 00:42:38,265 'Cause guess what? I know I got bullets in this holster 872 00:42:38,348 --> 00:42:39,850 that gonna kill you. 873 00:42:39,933 --> 00:42:41,727 SUPER DAVE: All right. This is gonna be fun. 874 00:42:41,810 --> 00:42:43,145 (ENGINE GRINDING) 875 00:42:43,228 --> 00:42:44,938 -SUPER DAVE: What's the problem? -I don't know. 876 00:42:45,022 --> 00:42:46,898 -MIKE: Let's check it, Fuji. -FUJI HAKAYITO: All right. 877 00:42:46,982 --> 00:42:48,817 SUPER DAVE: Wait a minute. Gentlemen. 878 00:42:48,900 --> 00:42:51,028 I'm in the yo-yo here. Uh-oh. 879 00:42:52,237 --> 00:42:55,240 -Uh-oh. Guys? -(AUDIENCE LAUGH) 880 00:42:56,533 --> 00:42:58,076 I could use some assistance. 881 00:42:58,869 --> 00:43:00,162 (GRUNTS) 882 00:43:00,245 --> 00:43:01,788 Thank goodness for the fence. 883 00:43:03,248 --> 00:43:06,084 -(AUDIENCE SHRIEK) -(GRUNTS) 884 00:43:16,553 --> 00:43:20,891 Super Dave was very popular in the hip-hop community 885 00:43:20,974 --> 00:43:23,560 of-- of people from my generation of music. 886 00:43:23,643 --> 00:43:24,978 Which is, like, the... 887 00:43:25,062 --> 00:43:26,980 what we call the golden era of the '90s. 888 00:43:31,401 --> 00:43:34,613 Like, your Tribe Called Quest, your Tupac. 889 00:43:40,077 --> 00:43:44,247 We probably all had a Super Dave rhyme in our arsenal. 890 00:43:50,587 --> 00:43:55,175 When you make references about things, it's usually... 891 00:43:55,258 --> 00:43:57,344 about things that are important to you 892 00:43:57,427 --> 00:43:59,638 and you feel like everybody knows about. 893 00:44:04,476 --> 00:44:08,105 Well also, when I look back at it, Super Dave was appealing, 894 00:44:08,188 --> 00:44:09,773 especially from us coming from 895 00:44:09,856 --> 00:44:11,441 the communities that we come from. 896 00:44:11,525 --> 00:44:14,277 It seems like, no matter what he tried 897 00:44:14,361 --> 00:44:16,363 or what he tried to do... 898 00:44:16,446 --> 00:44:18,740 he would always end up on the wrong side of it, right? 899 00:44:18,824 --> 00:44:20,951 And that's kind of like, how we all kind of grew up. 900 00:44:21,034 --> 00:44:23,078 Like, feeling like we can never really get ahead 901 00:44:23,161 --> 00:44:25,914 or get from under the conditions that we lived in. 902 00:44:25,997 --> 00:44:27,874 ♪ (HIP-HOP MUSIC PLAYS) ♪ 903 00:44:27,958 --> 00:44:29,126 But he was funny. 904 00:44:29,209 --> 00:44:31,378 You know, as a kid, you're just laughing at it. 905 00:44:33,171 --> 00:44:39,261 FUJI: Five, four, three, two, one. Touchdown! 906 00:44:39,970 --> 00:44:41,513 (AUDIENCE LAUGH) 907 00:44:44,850 --> 00:44:48,311 Well, Super. You didn't go quite as far as we thought you would. 908 00:44:50,021 --> 00:44:51,481 That's a brilliant observation. 909 00:44:51,565 --> 00:44:54,317 You put two right gloves. Look at this. 910 00:44:54,401 --> 00:44:55,944 Don't worry. It will work. 911 00:44:56,027 --> 00:44:57,737 -It's not gonna work. -It will work. 912 00:44:58,530 --> 00:45:00,365 (AUDIENCE LAUGH) 913 00:45:03,034 --> 00:45:05,787 MIKE: Super Dave, aided by his two assistants, 914 00:45:05,871 --> 00:45:07,456 being placed into the hole. 915 00:45:07,539 --> 00:45:11,668 This is a doubly reinforced steel target. 916 00:45:12,711 --> 00:45:14,421 ♪ (DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING) ♪ 917 00:45:21,595 --> 00:45:23,180 Super Dave, are you all right? 918 00:45:23,263 --> 00:45:25,515 Sure, putz. I've never felt better in my life. 919 00:45:25,599 --> 00:45:26,850 -(AUDIENCE LAUGH) -Ladies and gentlemen, 920 00:45:26,933 --> 00:45:31,438 another successful stunt from Super Dave Osborne. 921 00:45:31,521 --> 00:45:33,773 BOB: Okay, I'll tell you my favorite thing. 922 00:45:33,857 --> 00:45:37,903 It was a Super Dave piece I did called "King of the Road." 923 00:45:37,986 --> 00:45:39,905 Where I'm top on a bus... 924 00:45:39,988 --> 00:45:42,199 -(AUDIENCE LAUGH) -As you can see up here, 925 00:45:42,282 --> 00:45:44,701 I've got a terrific little dining area... 926 00:45:44,784 --> 00:45:45,994 KIMMEL: I think "King of the Road" 927 00:45:46,077 --> 00:45:47,913 is the quintessential Super Dave. 928 00:45:47,996 --> 00:45:49,998 'Cause he's just so foolish in it, 929 00:45:50,081 --> 00:45:53,627 it's jaunty, it's fun to watch, 930 00:45:53,710 --> 00:45:59,382 and it's a long, long set-up with a great punch line. 931 00:45:59,466 --> 00:46:01,343 And I just wanna say I'm very sorry 932 00:46:01,426 --> 00:46:04,387 that I couldn't do a stunt this evening, uh, 933 00:46:04,471 --> 00:46:07,682 but duty calls, so I have to go. Have a great week. 934 00:46:07,766 --> 00:46:10,227 Sing along and let's end highway profanity. 935 00:46:10,310 --> 00:46:12,187 -Goodnight, everybody. -(LAUGHS) 936 00:46:12,270 --> 00:46:17,400 Okay, Fuji, start the bus and put on my favorite song. 937 00:46:17,484 --> 00:46:20,153 You know what, he even has the lyrics here for me. 938 00:46:20,237 --> 00:46:21,947 -He doesn't forget anything. -(LAUGHS) 939 00:46:23,907 --> 00:46:26,952 Have a great week. See you next week. 940 00:46:27,035 --> 00:46:30,539 -♪ Trailer for sale or rent ♪ -(LAUGHS) 941 00:46:30,622 --> 00:46:33,166 ♪ Rooms to let, 50 cent... ♪ 942 00:46:33,250 --> 00:46:36,419 Do you know what occurs to me? There's no piano in that song. 943 00:46:36,503 --> 00:46:37,921 (LAUGHS) 944 00:46:38,004 --> 00:46:40,590 So, the fact that he's playing piano... 945 00:46:40,674 --> 00:46:43,426 ♪ I ain't got no cigarettes ♪ 946 00:46:43,510 --> 00:46:46,513 ♪ Third boxcar Midnight train... ♪ 947 00:46:46,596 --> 00:46:49,099 Remember, if you're going on a vacation, 948 00:46:49,182 --> 00:46:51,601 -put a couch on your car. -(AUDIENCE LAUGH) 949 00:46:51,685 --> 00:46:57,941 ♪ Man of means, by no means King of the road ♪ 950 00:46:58,024 --> 00:46:59,109 (GROANS) 951 00:47:00,318 --> 00:47:01,778 (LAUGHS) 952 00:47:02,112 --> 00:47:03,530 (LAUGHS) 953 00:47:07,033 --> 00:47:08,785 Always the best blow. 954 00:47:08,869 --> 00:47:12,414 I-- I love the types of-- "He even has the lyrics for me." 955 00:47:12,497 --> 00:47:16,876 I mean, so what? But-- But Dave wants to know, 956 00:47:16,960 --> 00:47:19,629 uh, what has been done by way of preparation. 957 00:47:19,713 --> 00:47:23,925 And then also, "Let's end highway profanity." 958 00:47:24,009 --> 00:47:27,304 That's his big crusade. And then he builds this massive disaster 959 00:47:27,387 --> 00:47:30,348 around the dumbest PSA you could possibly think of. 960 00:47:30,432 --> 00:47:32,684 He has no problem with the outfit, either. 961 00:47:32,767 --> 00:47:34,102 That's what I love. 962 00:47:34,185 --> 00:47:35,895 That's his Super Dave suit. 963 00:47:35,979 --> 00:47:38,732 And it's got the initials S.D. on the hat. 964 00:47:38,815 --> 00:47:40,775 That's right, and he's fine with that. 965 00:47:40,859 --> 00:47:44,863 And somehow, even though it takes forever to get there, 966 00:47:44,946 --> 00:47:47,657 and you know what's gonna happen... 967 00:47:48,241 --> 00:47:49,451 it's funny. 968 00:47:49,534 --> 00:47:53,246 It's just... It's made funnier because it's him. 969 00:47:53,330 --> 00:47:55,582 ♪ (FANFARE PLAYS) ♪ 970 00:47:55,665 --> 00:47:59,753 I love when comics have a plan. And he always had a plan. 971 00:47:59,836 --> 00:48:04,507 Tonight is the 369th straight talk show 972 00:48:04,591 --> 00:48:06,009 where I have never been bleeped. 973 00:48:06,092 --> 00:48:08,887 -I broke George Gobel's record. -KIMMEL: Wow. 974 00:48:08,970 --> 00:48:10,597 You and I had a thousand-dollar bet 975 00:48:10,680 --> 00:48:12,223 that I would never break the record. 976 00:48:12,307 --> 00:48:13,725 -Yeah, we did. Yeah. -George Gobel's record. 977 00:48:13,808 --> 00:48:16,853 So, I came on tonight and your producer, Jason Schrift 978 00:48:16,936 --> 00:48:18,563 -handed me this joke... -Uh-huh. 979 00:48:18,647 --> 00:48:20,649 ...and he said, "Jimmy really wants you to read this." 980 00:48:20,732 --> 00:48:23,568 SILVERMAN: He would find ways to tell street jokes 981 00:48:23,652 --> 00:48:25,487 and really have his cake and eat it, too. 982 00:48:25,570 --> 00:48:28,531 You know, he'd go, "I heard a joke, it's awful. 983 00:48:28,615 --> 00:48:29,866 It's so offensive, 984 00:48:29,949 --> 00:48:32,911 I-- I'm not gonna tell it." "Oh, please, tell it." You know, 985 00:48:32,994 --> 00:48:36,665 "No! It's-- It's offensive, it really made me upset," 986 00:48:36,748 --> 00:48:39,334 you know. So he gets-- he really, you know, 987 00:48:39,417 --> 00:48:41,503 then they draw it out of him and it's hilarious, 988 00:48:41,586 --> 00:48:45,215 but it's hilarious in this frame where he is released from any-- 989 00:48:45,298 --> 00:48:47,175 anything problematic about the joke. 990 00:48:47,258 --> 00:48:49,761 "A guy goes into a bank and says-- 991 00:48:49,844 --> 00:48:51,429 sits down and says..." 992 00:48:51,513 --> 00:48:53,682 -KIMMEL: What? -(AUDIENCE LAUGH) 993 00:48:53,765 --> 00:48:57,394 "...and says to a woman, 'I wanna open a damn account.' 994 00:48:57,477 --> 00:48:59,270 She said, 'Sir, we don't use language 995 00:48:59,354 --> 00:49:00,730 like that in this bank.' 996 00:49:00,814 --> 00:49:03,316 He said, 'I wanna open a damn account.' 997 00:49:03,400 --> 00:49:04,859 She said, 'If you say that again, 998 00:49:04,943 --> 00:49:06,319 I'm gonna get the manager.' 999 00:49:07,237 --> 00:49:10,115 He says, 'I wanna open a damn account.' 1000 00:49:10,198 --> 00:49:13,034 She runs away and brings back the manager. 1001 00:49:13,118 --> 00:49:14,744 The manager looks down and says, 1002 00:49:14,828 --> 00:49:16,454 'You have a problem, sir?' 1003 00:49:16,538 --> 00:49:18,915 He says, 'Yeah! I've got five million dollars 1004 00:49:18,998 --> 00:49:22,001 and I wanna open a damn savings account.' 1005 00:49:22,085 --> 00:49:23,294 And the manager says, 1006 00:49:23,378 --> 00:49:25,588 'And this f(BLEEP) c(BLEEP) wouldn't let you?'" 1007 00:49:25,672 --> 00:49:26,631 (AUDIENCE LAUGH) 1008 00:49:26,715 --> 00:49:28,925 The whole basis of Super Dave is, 1009 00:49:29,008 --> 00:49:30,593 when he's coming on to these talk shows, 1010 00:49:30,677 --> 00:49:33,346 he's coming on after something has gone wrong 1011 00:49:33,430 --> 00:49:35,265 and I'm gonna try to bluff my way through it 1012 00:49:35,348 --> 00:49:37,434 by talking about this wonderful gift store 1013 00:49:37,517 --> 00:49:39,102 or this new food or something, 1014 00:49:39,185 --> 00:49:40,979 and maybe we don't have to watch the videotape, 1015 00:49:41,062 --> 00:49:42,439 and it never goes his way. 1016 00:49:42,522 --> 00:49:45,567 (LAUGHS) Do you have, uh, some videotape we can look at? 1017 00:49:45,650 --> 00:49:46,985 No, no. Let me say something... 1018 00:49:47,068 --> 00:49:50,155 It's a big inside joke. Look, we know what's gonna happen, 1019 00:49:50,238 --> 00:49:53,032 we know he's gonna come out, we know he's gonna say, 1020 00:49:53,116 --> 00:49:54,576 "They don't wanna see that clip." 1021 00:49:54,659 --> 00:49:57,746 And then I'll go, uh, "No, I think everybody does wanna see it. 1022 00:49:57,829 --> 00:49:59,581 Don't you wanna see it?" And the audience will go, 1023 00:49:59,664 --> 00:50:01,082 "Yeah! We wanna see it!" 1024 00:50:01,166 --> 00:50:02,250 And then, um, 1025 00:50:02,333 --> 00:50:04,002 then he'll go, "No, no, they don't wanna see it." 1026 00:50:04,085 --> 00:50:05,795 And then sometimes I'd screw with him and go, 1027 00:50:05,879 --> 00:50:07,589 "Okay." And throw to commercial. 1028 00:50:07,672 --> 00:50:09,299 (LAUGHS) And that would make him crazy. 1029 00:50:09,382 --> 00:50:11,050 But I think it made him like me more. 1030 00:50:11,134 --> 00:50:15,305 Um-- Ultimately, though, it was all about the inside jokes. 1031 00:50:15,388 --> 00:50:18,641 Go get it, Green team. I'll time the whole thing. 1032 00:50:20,393 --> 00:50:23,313 Right, we are at 50 seconds. 1033 00:50:23,396 --> 00:50:27,859 That's the burger. Those are the son-ion rings. 1034 00:50:27,942 --> 00:50:31,321 That is the, uh, shake, and there you go. 1035 00:50:31,404 --> 00:50:32,697 With 30 seconds to spare. 1036 00:50:32,781 --> 00:50:35,283 All right, you can drive-thru and pick up your order 1037 00:50:35,366 --> 00:50:38,787 -with 30 seconds to spare. -FUJI: Okay. Thank you. 1038 00:50:38,870 --> 00:50:41,122 -(GROANS) -(AUDIENCE LAUGH) 1039 00:50:41,206 --> 00:50:44,292 KIMMEL: So we spent a lot of money on that particular bit. 1040 00:50:44,375 --> 00:50:45,960 He didn't care, you know, he didn't care 1041 00:50:46,044 --> 00:50:47,796 how much it cost, he wanted to do this. 1042 00:50:47,879 --> 00:50:50,507 And when he wanted to do something, you're doing it. 1043 00:50:50,590 --> 00:50:52,008 So, I go, we spend the whole day 1044 00:50:52,091 --> 00:50:53,510 and the weekend shooting this thing. 1045 00:50:53,593 --> 00:50:56,054 In the bit, I give him a tour of that restaurant 1046 00:50:56,137 --> 00:50:58,973 that goes on... (CHUCKLES) ...for like six minutes. 1047 00:50:59,057 --> 00:51:02,435 All for that scene we've shown on the show, 1048 00:51:02,519 --> 00:51:04,312 and everybody likes it pretty much. 1049 00:51:04,395 --> 00:51:09,150 And, uh-- And I just happen to be poking around on the internet, 1050 00:51:09,234 --> 00:51:13,238 and I see that he's done that exact bit before on his show. (LAUGHS) 1051 00:51:13,321 --> 00:51:16,032 SUPER DAVE: And now you can drive-thru and get your order 1052 00:51:16,115 --> 00:51:17,909 with ten seconds to spare. 1053 00:51:17,992 --> 00:51:21,246 (AUDIENCE LAUGH) 1054 00:51:21,329 --> 00:51:25,458 He would do bits on our show that he had done, word for word, 1055 00:51:25,542 --> 00:51:28,127 on Johnny Carson 30 years earlier. (LAUGHS) 1056 00:51:28,211 --> 00:51:30,213 We're doing a Super Dave fast-food, 1057 00:51:30,296 --> 00:51:31,714 health-food restaurant... 1058 00:51:31,798 --> 00:51:33,883 KIMMEL: And he was always like, "Nobody remembers. Nobody cares." 1059 00:51:33,967 --> 00:51:35,844 And he was right. I mean, he was right. 1060 00:51:35,927 --> 00:51:37,136 Mr. McCawley had the tape 1061 00:51:37,220 --> 00:51:38,555 and he gave me the tape this afternoon. 1062 00:51:38,638 --> 00:51:40,932 -I think we ought to show-- -I don't wanna show the tape. 1063 00:51:42,016 --> 00:51:43,685 And he's a really good actor, you know. 1064 00:51:43,768 --> 00:51:46,271 SUPER DAVE: And I'm here to try out for American Idol. 1065 00:51:46,354 --> 00:51:47,814 KIMMEL: We cut him into something once, 1066 00:51:47,897 --> 00:51:49,440 and then we realize that it worked. 1067 00:51:49,524 --> 00:51:51,860 My first joke comes from my very good friend 1068 00:51:51,943 --> 00:51:53,862 and golfing buddy, Donald Rumsfeld. 1069 00:51:53,945 --> 00:51:56,072 KIMMEL: When someone was addressing Congress, 1070 00:51:56,155 --> 00:51:58,324 he would be in the president's spot. 1071 00:51:58,408 --> 00:52:00,243 We just started cutting him into everything. 1072 00:52:00,326 --> 00:52:03,037 Are you saying the essential truth of this book, 1073 00:52:03,121 --> 00:52:05,206 you stand by a hundred percent? 1074 00:52:05,290 --> 00:52:09,878 -I would say 95 percent or 80, 87 and a half percent. -(AUDIENCE LAUGH) 1075 00:52:09,961 --> 00:52:14,007 If you read it, I gotta be-- I gotta be 72 percent sure 1076 00:52:14,090 --> 00:52:17,010 of almost 60 percent of what I wrote. 1077 00:52:17,093 --> 00:52:19,053 -I would say it's 50-50. -(AUDIENCE LAUGH) 1078 00:52:19,137 --> 00:52:22,390 Are you surprised at the furor? 1079 00:52:22,473 --> 00:52:26,102 -Hitler? I wouldn't say I'm surprised. -(AUDIENCE LAUGH) 1080 00:52:26,185 --> 00:52:28,980 I'm disappointed. I don't like him. 1081 00:52:29,063 --> 00:52:30,815 But what does that gotta do with my book? 1082 00:52:31,649 --> 00:52:34,110 ♪ (ROCK MUSIC PLAYS) ♪ 1083 00:52:37,405 --> 00:52:41,910 Bob had no "on" and "off" stage. He was the same. 1084 00:52:41,993 --> 00:52:43,953 His conversation was the same. 1085 00:52:44,037 --> 00:52:45,747 You would be having a conversation, 1086 00:52:45,830 --> 00:52:47,206 and his voice would get up there. 1087 00:52:47,290 --> 00:52:48,917 Same guy. I mean, that was him. 1088 00:52:49,000 --> 00:52:52,503 He was always very dry. Uh-- There was always, 1089 00:52:52,587 --> 00:52:56,132 as every great comic has, little twinge of anger in there. 1090 00:52:56,215 --> 00:53:01,304 Well, the biggest contrast would be the absolute, uh, gutter filth 1091 00:53:01,387 --> 00:53:05,767 that would come out of his mouth when you talk to him in person. 1092 00:53:05,850 --> 00:53:07,560 It's called Entertainer's Secret. 1093 00:53:07,644 --> 00:53:09,479 -INTERVIEWER: What's it called? -Entertainer's Secret. 1094 00:53:09,562 --> 00:53:12,315 It's filled with cum. (GROANS) 1095 00:53:12,398 --> 00:53:19,364 He could sell a bit by insisting that it was funny. 1096 00:53:19,447 --> 00:53:21,449 (CHUCKLES) 1097 00:53:21,532 --> 00:53:22,784 Pitch isn't the word I'd use. 1098 00:53:22,867 --> 00:53:25,787 He'd tell me what we were going to do. (CHUCKLES) 1099 00:53:25,870 --> 00:53:29,123 What he is and what Larry's character is, 1100 00:53:29,207 --> 00:53:30,583 and what I do in real life, 1101 00:53:30,667 --> 00:53:32,627 which throws people off sometimes, 1102 00:53:32,710 --> 00:53:36,172 truth teller. I was at a dinner party once with Bob 1103 00:53:36,255 --> 00:53:37,757 and somebody interrupted him. 1104 00:53:37,840 --> 00:53:41,135 They interrupted him, and their story went nowhere 1105 00:53:41,219 --> 00:53:43,346 after they interrupted him. 1106 00:53:43,429 --> 00:53:46,182 "Really? You're gonna interrupt me 1107 00:53:46,265 --> 00:53:48,685 with that crap? That was crap! 1108 00:53:48,768 --> 00:53:51,145 What are you doing? What is that? 1109 00:53:51,229 --> 00:53:53,481 Why--" And I thought the same thing. 1110 00:53:53,564 --> 00:53:54,941 He loves to bust balls. 1111 00:53:55,024 --> 00:53:56,734 Like, when I'd have a guest that was bad, 1112 00:53:56,818 --> 00:53:58,861 I'd get a call from him the next day, 1113 00:53:58,945 --> 00:54:02,323 just like re-living every terrible moment. (CHUCKLES) 1114 00:54:02,407 --> 00:54:05,910 He loved it so much. He-- He loved to watch bad things. 1115 00:54:05,994 --> 00:54:10,665 He was never funnier than the day after a bad award show. 1116 00:54:10,748 --> 00:54:14,293 Comedians hone in on pretentiousness. 1117 00:54:14,377 --> 00:54:18,506 And, uh, people trying to elevate themselves in any way, which, 1118 00:54:18,589 --> 00:54:20,341 of course, that's all award shows are, 1119 00:54:20,425 --> 00:54:22,427 are people trying to elevate themselves. 1120 00:54:22,510 --> 00:54:25,346 And comedians love to puncture that. 1121 00:54:25,430 --> 00:54:28,224 And nobody was better at it than him. 1122 00:54:28,307 --> 00:54:31,436 This man, Lenny Pepperidge, a.k.a. Lenny the Pep, 1123 00:54:31,519 --> 00:54:33,813 a.k.a. Sheldon Wills, 1124 00:54:33,896 --> 00:54:36,899 a.k.a. Little Timmy Hartwell, is a confidence man. 1125 00:54:36,983 --> 00:54:39,777 He was just so skilled. He was an excellent actor 1126 00:54:39,861 --> 00:54:41,696 in the Soderbergh movies. 1127 00:54:41,779 --> 00:54:43,781 -Oh, no! (GROANS) -(WOMAN YELLS) 1128 00:54:43,865 --> 00:54:45,867 OSWALT: The other great thing that I remember him from 1129 00:54:45,950 --> 00:54:47,660 is Albert Brooks' Modern Romance. 1130 00:54:48,786 --> 00:54:50,538 -How are you doing? -Fine. How are you? 1131 00:54:50,621 --> 00:54:53,124 -How do I look? -You look fine. 1132 00:54:53,207 --> 00:54:54,375 Hit this. 1133 00:54:54,459 --> 00:54:57,712 -(SOFT THUD) -I'm in great shape. How about yourself? 1134 00:54:57,795 --> 00:55:00,298 -I'm-- I'm all right. -Okay. You're a new runner, huh? 1135 00:55:01,049 --> 00:55:03,092 The idea that Bob 1136 00:55:03,176 --> 00:55:06,763 completely takes advantage of Albert's character is... 1137 00:55:06,846 --> 00:55:08,139 SALESMAN: They put everything in one box, 1138 00:55:08,222 --> 00:55:09,432 and then they knock the price down. 1139 00:55:09,515 --> 00:55:10,767 All right, well, I am serious. 1140 00:55:10,850 --> 00:55:12,602 Here's the thing. I just broke up with somebody 1141 00:55:12,685 --> 00:55:13,895 and I'm trying to start a new life, 1142 00:55:13,978 --> 00:55:16,189 and I feel that running should be a major part of it. 1143 00:55:16,272 --> 00:55:18,608 You want happiness? Get away from the box. 1144 00:55:18,691 --> 00:55:20,860 -(LAUGHS) -SALESMAN: Come over here. 1145 00:55:22,487 --> 00:55:26,282 He's in this vulnerable situation and he's meeting 1146 00:55:26,365 --> 00:55:29,744 the worst possible salesperson. The worst! 1147 00:55:29,827 --> 00:55:33,039 It-- It's all very real and flat and natural. 1148 00:55:33,122 --> 00:55:34,123 And that's what's great. 1149 00:55:34,207 --> 00:55:35,666 If you didn't know it was his brother, 1150 00:55:35,750 --> 00:55:37,293 you'd say that was a guy in the store. 1151 00:55:37,376 --> 00:55:40,755 Fifty dollars? This whole box says 70. 1152 00:55:40,838 --> 00:55:43,049 I mean, isn't this a lot for just shoes? 1153 00:55:43,132 --> 00:55:44,801 Those shoes are made out of old tires. 1154 00:55:44,884 --> 00:55:46,928 Is that the way you want to start your new life? 1155 00:55:47,011 --> 00:55:48,471 No. All right, I'll take these. 1156 00:55:48,554 --> 00:55:50,306 OSWALT: Albert is also so good at playing characters 1157 00:55:50,389 --> 00:55:51,974 who take themselves way too seriously, 1158 00:55:52,058 --> 00:55:54,393 so they don't think anything's funny either. 1159 00:55:54,477 --> 00:55:56,729 These two knocking into each other 1160 00:55:56,813 --> 00:55:59,941 in this scene, as a comedian, it's so fascinating to watch. 1161 00:56:00,024 --> 00:56:01,442 I'll take one, I don't want two. 1162 00:56:01,526 --> 00:56:03,319 What are you gonna do if one's in the wash? 1163 00:56:03,402 --> 00:56:05,154 (SCOFFS) Maybe I won't run that day. 1164 00:56:06,239 --> 00:56:08,241 I misjudged you. I'm not perfect. 1165 00:56:08,324 --> 00:56:09,492 Buy the box, you'll like it. 1166 00:56:09,575 --> 00:56:11,327 And it's funny because it really is 1167 00:56:11,410 --> 00:56:14,122 what he does, deadpan. 1168 00:56:14,205 --> 00:56:17,375 But it's also what Albert does and it's in his world of... 1169 00:56:18,751 --> 00:56:20,253 nuance and subtlety. 1170 00:56:20,336 --> 00:56:22,171 Having seen this scene so many times, 1171 00:56:22,255 --> 00:56:24,173 I can't imagine Albert casting anyone else. 1172 00:56:24,257 --> 00:56:26,843 And it does kill me that they never worked together again. 1173 00:56:26,926 --> 00:56:28,719 It's a great scene on its own, 1174 00:56:28,803 --> 00:56:31,347 and then it's fascinating with... 1175 00:56:33,599 --> 00:56:36,978 everything, you know, between them. 1176 00:56:37,061 --> 00:56:38,521 I mean, they're brothers. 1177 00:56:38,604 --> 00:56:41,732 ♪ (WHIMSICAL MUSIC PLAYS) ♪ 1178 00:56:41,816 --> 00:56:46,946 Well, you know. This was the part of a sporting good salesman 1179 00:56:47,029 --> 00:56:53,244 who had distaste for me, the customer, 1180 00:56:53,327 --> 00:56:57,039 and was put off by any questions I asked. 1181 00:56:57,123 --> 00:56:59,667 Sort of what our relationship was. (CHUCKLES) 1182 00:56:59,750 --> 00:57:06,924 And, uh, and I knew that he had that automatically. 1183 00:57:09,594 --> 00:57:12,180 The funny thing is, at lunchtime, 1184 00:57:12,263 --> 00:57:14,432 I'm in the trailer, eating, 1185 00:57:14,515 --> 00:57:19,562 and there's a knock on the door and it's Bobby, and he says, 1186 00:57:19,645 --> 00:57:21,981 "I don't know what's funny about this scene." 1187 00:57:23,024 --> 00:57:25,443 And I said, "W-- What?" 1188 00:57:25,526 --> 00:57:29,572 He said, "I don't get it. I just don't-- I don't get it." 1189 00:57:29,655 --> 00:57:32,450 And I said, "Well, you don't have to get it, this is my gig, 1190 00:57:32,533 --> 00:57:35,328 and I think you're doing great as an actor in this, 1191 00:57:35,411 --> 00:57:37,038 and I'm really happy." 1192 00:57:37,121 --> 00:57:39,957 "But what is it? Why is it funny?" 1193 00:57:40,041 --> 00:57:43,044 I said, "Bobby, you gotta trust me." 1194 00:57:43,127 --> 00:57:46,589 So, at the premiere, I remember... 1195 00:57:46,672 --> 00:57:50,509 it was one of many scenes that got gigantic laughs, 1196 00:57:50,593 --> 00:57:52,595 and I tried to find him in the theater 1197 00:57:52,678 --> 00:57:55,640 just to make eye contact. "Where is he?" I-- 1198 00:57:55,723 --> 00:57:59,435 "See? I told you." But I couldn't find him. (LAUGHS) 1199 00:57:59,518 --> 00:58:01,354 ♪ (PIANO MUSIC PLAYS) ♪ 1200 00:58:03,981 --> 00:58:09,111 That scene, it's like a proto, um, Curb Your Enthusiasm. 1201 00:58:09,195 --> 00:58:12,073 ♪ (SILLY MUSIC PLAYS) ♪ 1202 00:58:12,156 --> 00:58:14,867 LARRY DAVID: Hey! Funkhouser! 1203 00:58:14,951 --> 00:58:16,577 REINER: I gotta say, to be honest, 1204 00:58:16,661 --> 00:58:19,247 the stuff he did on Curb Your Enthusiasm, 1205 00:58:19,330 --> 00:58:22,792 to me, was as good as anything I've seen him do. 1206 00:58:22,875 --> 00:58:24,001 I'm gonna give you the 50 dollars 1207 00:58:24,085 --> 00:58:25,253 I owe you for the golf bet. 1208 00:58:25,336 --> 00:58:26,629 -Oh, my God. -Hold this. 1209 00:58:26,712 --> 00:58:28,547 Fifty-- I forgot all about it-- The 50 dollars? 1210 00:58:28,631 --> 00:58:30,341 -Yeah. -Great. 1211 00:58:30,424 --> 00:58:31,467 What are you doing? 1212 00:58:31,550 --> 00:58:33,469 MARTY: Taking off my shoe. I got money in the shoe. 1213 00:58:33,552 --> 00:58:34,845 LARRY: What? 1214 00:58:34,929 --> 00:58:37,598 LARRY DAVID: There was a part, this Marty Funkhouser character, 1215 00:58:37,682 --> 00:58:42,353 and Bob jumped out at me for that part, and that was it. 1216 00:58:42,436 --> 00:58:46,607 It's perfectly fine. See? Fifty dollars. 1217 00:58:46,691 --> 00:58:51,654 I didn't write for Bob. I would write shows, and then... 1218 00:58:51,737 --> 00:58:54,865 "Oh. Let's put Funkhouser in this part." 1219 00:58:54,949 --> 00:58:57,285 You're serving nothing but lies here! I'm not hungry! 1220 00:58:57,994 --> 00:58:59,620 (SCOFFS) 1221 00:58:59,704 --> 00:59:01,789 -Come on! -SUSIE GREENE: What did you do to her, Jeffrey? 1222 00:59:01,872 --> 00:59:04,125 -How could you do that? -She's fucking nuts! 1223 00:59:04,208 --> 00:59:05,293 She's a nutbag! 1224 00:59:05,376 --> 00:59:07,169 All right, all right, all right! 1225 00:59:07,253 --> 00:59:08,879 First time I met Bob was on set 1226 00:59:08,963 --> 00:59:11,340 of Curb, and I had no idea who he was. 1227 00:59:11,424 --> 00:59:14,510 Okay. Everybody! Everybody! 1228 00:59:14,593 --> 00:59:17,138 I want to apologize for the Funkhouser family. 1229 00:59:17,221 --> 00:59:18,472 Oh, stop. It's not necessary... 1230 00:59:18,556 --> 00:59:21,017 SUSIE ESSMAN: Larry threw everything at this character. 1231 00:59:21,100 --> 00:59:23,477 He had the crazy sister, Bam Bam. 1232 00:59:23,561 --> 00:59:26,230 He killed off his uncle, 1233 00:59:26,314 --> 00:59:27,982 he killed off so many Funkhousers, 1234 00:59:28,065 --> 00:59:29,608 I can't even remember how many. 1235 00:59:29,692 --> 00:59:33,279 I'll give you the quintessential Larry David. 1236 00:59:33,362 --> 00:59:35,239 He called me up two years ago. 1237 00:59:35,323 --> 00:59:36,991 He said, "You wanna know what happens 1238 00:59:37,074 --> 00:59:39,243 in the first episode this year?" 1239 00:59:39,327 --> 00:59:41,662 I said, "Yeah." He said, "Your mother dies." 1240 00:59:41,746 --> 00:59:42,705 (AUDIENCE LAUGH) 1241 00:59:42,788 --> 00:59:45,082 I said, "Well." I said, "Unfortunately, 1242 00:59:45,166 --> 00:59:47,418 it's the truth, she just did die." 1243 00:59:47,501 --> 00:59:49,003 He said, "I'm not changing the script." 1244 00:59:49,086 --> 00:59:50,379 And hung up. 1245 00:59:50,463 --> 00:59:52,840 (LAUGHS) 1246 00:59:52,923 --> 00:59:56,052 -I swear to God. -Oh, man. 1247 00:59:56,135 --> 00:59:58,637 Yeah. That's probably true. (LAUGHS) 1248 00:59:58,721 --> 01:00:03,309 I think the reason this show is great 1249 01:00:03,392 --> 01:00:09,815 is because we really, honestly, like each other, all of us. 1250 01:00:09,899 --> 01:00:11,901 You can't do improvisation 1251 01:00:11,984 --> 01:00:14,195 if you're doing it with an asshole. 1252 01:00:15,154 --> 01:00:17,865 Curb Your Enthusiasm is Friends. 1253 01:00:17,948 --> 01:00:21,202 They got history, they got hang-ups, 1254 01:00:21,285 --> 01:00:22,745 they got fucking beef, 1255 01:00:22,828 --> 01:00:25,915 they got goddamned laughter, they got stories... 1256 01:00:25,998 --> 01:00:28,376 -Guess who's getting a divorce? -What? 1257 01:00:28,459 --> 01:00:30,628 Martin Norton Funkhouser. And it's because of you. 1258 01:00:30,711 --> 01:00:32,505 -Really? -And it's because of you. 1259 01:00:32,588 --> 01:00:34,423 SMOOVE: I'm the last piece that came in. 1260 01:00:34,507 --> 01:00:37,510 So when I finally got a chance to do a scene with Bob, 1261 01:00:37,593 --> 01:00:39,845 let me tell you something, I just sat there and watched him for a little while. 1262 01:00:39,929 --> 01:00:41,263 Congratulations. 1263 01:00:41,347 --> 01:00:42,598 You know what you should do? You get a fucking divorce? 1264 01:00:42,681 --> 01:00:43,724 You should ride around and bump the horn and shit, 1265 01:00:43,808 --> 01:00:45,101 like motherfucker's getting married. 1266 01:00:45,184 --> 01:00:46,143 You know what I mean? 1267 01:00:46,227 --> 01:00:47,937 -What a great idea! -Goddamn right. 1268 01:00:48,020 --> 01:00:49,980 -Put cans on your car. Beep your horn. -"Just Divorced." 1269 01:00:50,064 --> 01:00:52,358 -LARRY: "Just Divorced." -I'm excited. I'm single. 1270 01:00:52,441 --> 01:00:53,901 Get out there and get some new ass. 1271 01:00:53,984 --> 01:00:55,069 You know what I'm saying? 1272 01:00:55,152 --> 01:00:56,737 You done run the other ass in the ground, right? 1273 01:00:56,821 --> 01:00:58,489 I don't wanna talk about my wife like that. 1274 01:00:58,572 --> 01:01:00,741 You ran that ass in the ground. You're moving on, right? 1275 01:01:00,825 --> 01:01:02,618 Well, I didn't run-- We had a nice marriage for-- 1276 01:01:02,701 --> 01:01:04,912 -No, you ran that ass in the ground-- -I don't run people... 1277 01:01:04,995 --> 01:01:08,124 That dude don't break, man. He is committed. 1278 01:01:08,207 --> 01:01:11,252 Commitment to the scene. 1279 01:01:11,335 --> 01:01:12,336 I'm gonna flip this coin 1280 01:01:12,420 --> 01:01:13,963 and this will be the kidney decider, 1281 01:01:14,046 --> 01:01:15,381 -all right? -Um... 1282 01:01:16,340 --> 01:01:18,384 Why don't we do... uh, eeny meeny? 1283 01:01:18,467 --> 01:01:20,845 -I thought we were gonna do a coin flip. -Let's do eeny meeny. 1284 01:01:20,928 --> 01:01:23,931 ESSMAN: That is a perfect Bob Einstein scene. 1285 01:01:24,014 --> 01:01:26,475 How serious he is in that moment 1286 01:01:26,559 --> 01:01:28,519 for a completely ridiculous premise 1287 01:01:28,602 --> 01:01:30,187 of who's gonna give the kidney to Louis. 1288 01:01:30,271 --> 01:01:33,524 What you're doing is an unbelievable act of friendship. 1289 01:01:33,607 --> 01:01:36,777 I just wish I had a kidney match so I could be involved. 1290 01:01:36,861 --> 01:01:40,739 -Well, you haven't taken the test. -Are you ready to do eeny meeny? 1291 01:01:42,324 --> 01:01:43,784 -Yeah. -Do you want to take the test? 1292 01:01:43,868 --> 01:01:45,786 No, I don't think I'm a match anyway. Let's just do eeny meeny. 1293 01:01:45,870 --> 01:01:49,206 SMOOVE: That's the unique thing about Curb Your Enthusiasm is, 1294 01:01:49,290 --> 01:01:51,667 and Bob's performance on the show is, 1295 01:01:51,750 --> 01:01:54,670 you can go as hard as you wanna go, 1296 01:01:54,753 --> 01:01:56,797 because you are playing a version of yourself. 1297 01:01:56,881 --> 01:02:00,134 And the key to the show is, turn that shit up. 1298 01:02:00,217 --> 01:02:02,720 Did you take the flowers at my mother's site? 1299 01:02:02,803 --> 01:02:04,180 -What? -What? 1300 01:02:04,263 --> 01:02:06,765 They wouldn't take the 50 at the flower store! 1301 01:02:06,849 --> 01:02:08,350 -How could you do that? -Oh, man. 1302 01:02:08,434 --> 01:02:10,519 Why? There's so many of them. I didn't know it was such a bad-- 1303 01:02:10,603 --> 01:02:12,271 -So many of them? -Is that such a bad thing? 1304 01:02:12,354 --> 01:02:13,439 They're not there to pick! 1305 01:02:13,522 --> 01:02:15,024 ESSMAN: And the other was "Palestinian Chicken," 1306 01:02:15,107 --> 01:02:18,068 where he rededicates himself to Judaism. 1307 01:02:18,152 --> 01:02:21,155 I think that was his best episode ever. 1308 01:02:21,238 --> 01:02:24,283 He's gonna love it. He's gonna love it. 1309 01:02:24,366 --> 01:02:27,453 Shalom. You know, I thought all last night, 1310 01:02:27,536 --> 01:02:30,331 if Rabin can break bread with Arafat, 1311 01:02:30,414 --> 01:02:34,418 I can have chicken at this anti-Semitic shithole. 1312 01:02:34,502 --> 01:02:37,171 -Okay, that's just not gonna work. -Yeah, that's no good. 1313 01:02:37,254 --> 01:02:38,339 What's not gonna work? 1314 01:02:38,422 --> 01:02:39,465 -The yarmulke. -Yeah. 1315 01:02:39,548 --> 01:02:41,383 I can't go in with wearing this yarmulke? 1316 01:02:41,467 --> 01:02:43,093 -JEFF: No. -LARRY: You're shoving it in their faces. 1317 01:02:43,177 --> 01:02:44,970 -MARTY: Let's go in. -JEFF: No, no, no, no, no. 1318 01:02:45,054 --> 01:02:46,764 -It's far too cocky a move. -Yeah. Yeah. 1319 01:02:46,847 --> 01:02:48,474 What is this, the Raid on Entebbe? 1320 01:02:48,557 --> 01:02:50,392 Let's just kind of walk in casually-- 1321 01:02:50,476 --> 01:02:52,561 -MARTY: What? Proud Jews wear yarmulkes. -I love this! 1322 01:02:52,645 --> 01:02:55,064 -JEFF: Just go in and sit down. -LARRY: Take it off. Take it off. 1323 01:02:55,147 --> 01:02:56,315 I'm not doing anything-- 1324 01:02:56,398 --> 01:02:58,150 -Don't you dare go after my-- -LARRY: Come on. Take it-- 1325 01:02:58,234 --> 01:03:02,279 Don't you reach for that. Don't you ever touch that. No... 1326 01:03:02,363 --> 01:03:06,825 What was beautiful about this, was Bob played it to the hilt. 1327 01:03:06,909 --> 01:03:11,747 Every take. He was aggressive, and he was pissed off, 1328 01:03:11,830 --> 01:03:13,040 which was what we needed. 1329 01:03:13,123 --> 01:03:14,667 And then they applaud him going in. 1330 01:03:14,750 --> 01:03:18,629 He was a master joke-teller. He was always trying to get his jokes in 1331 01:03:18,712 --> 01:03:20,923 and he would follow Larry around on set, 1332 01:03:21,006 --> 01:03:22,883 telling him jokes, trying to get 'em into a scene. 1333 01:03:22,967 --> 01:03:26,095 Sometimes, he would tell a joke in the middle of the scene... 1334 01:03:26,178 --> 01:03:29,473 that had nothing to do with the scene whatsoever. 1335 01:03:29,557 --> 01:03:33,060 And I would listen and laugh and in my head, I'm going, 1336 01:03:33,143 --> 01:03:35,020 "This is hilarious, but it's not gonna be in the show." 1337 01:03:35,104 --> 01:03:37,523 He'd have his own agenda for telling a story. 1338 01:03:37,606 --> 01:03:41,694 "Wasn't that funny?" And Larry would have to go, "No-- I mean, yes, Bob, 1339 01:03:41,777 --> 01:03:43,821 but we need you to do this." 1340 01:03:43,904 --> 01:03:45,948 "All right, but you're missing out!" 1341 01:03:46,031 --> 01:03:48,367 Like, that was one of his big things. 1342 01:03:48,450 --> 01:03:49,910 He would let you know 1343 01:03:49,994 --> 01:03:52,663 that you lost by not going his way. 1344 01:03:52,746 --> 01:03:55,249 -Jerry, Marty Funkhouser. -Hey, Marty. How you doing? 1345 01:03:55,332 --> 01:03:56,333 -How you doing? -Good. 1346 01:03:56,417 --> 01:03:58,168 -Want to hear a joke? -Oh, no... 1347 01:03:58,252 --> 01:04:02,298 That was definitely one of the more memorable moments 1348 01:04:02,381 --> 01:04:05,259 in the history of the show, when Bob told that joke. 1349 01:04:05,342 --> 01:04:07,303 -Let me just get right through it. -Okay. 1350 01:04:07,386 --> 01:04:09,680 A woman is very afraid of the size of her opening. 1351 01:04:09,763 --> 01:04:12,391 -What is she afraid of? -The size of her opening. 1352 01:04:12,474 --> 01:04:14,935 So she goes to her mother, she says, "What am I gonna do? 1353 01:04:15,019 --> 01:04:16,061 I'm so big down there. 1354 01:04:16,145 --> 01:04:17,980 When I marry Harry, he's gonna divorce me." 1355 01:04:18,063 --> 01:04:20,733 Her mother says, "Don't worry, sweetheart, it runs in the family. 1356 01:04:20,816 --> 01:04:22,276 Do what I did when I married your father. 1357 01:04:22,359 --> 01:04:23,861 Go to the market, get some raw liver, 1358 01:04:23,944 --> 01:04:25,738 put it in there, he'll never know the difference." 1359 01:04:25,821 --> 01:04:27,489 -Oh, my God. -So she does. 1360 01:04:27,573 --> 01:04:30,409 They have eight hours of sex after their marriage. 1361 01:04:30,492 --> 01:04:31,952 She wakes up at ten o'clock. 1362 01:04:32,036 --> 01:04:33,579 He's gone, but there's a note on her pillow. 1363 01:04:33,662 --> 01:04:36,457 It says, "My darling Harriet, to think that I waited a year 1364 01:04:36,540 --> 01:04:37,958 to consummate our love relationship 1365 01:04:38,042 --> 01:04:39,084 makes my heart beat so loudly, 1366 01:04:39,168 --> 01:04:40,628 I'm surprised it didn't wake you up. 1367 01:04:40,711 --> 01:04:42,588 The only reason I'm not here now, darling, 1368 01:04:42,671 --> 01:04:44,048 is I'm at work to make enough money 1369 01:04:44,131 --> 01:04:45,716 to buy you a house, a picket fence. 1370 01:04:45,799 --> 01:04:48,302 -We'll have dogs and children." -Oh, this is not so bad. 1371 01:04:48,385 --> 01:04:50,804 Yeah, this is great. Will you finish the fucking joke already? 1372 01:04:50,888 --> 01:04:52,348 "When the five o'clock dinner bell rings, 1373 01:04:52,431 --> 01:04:54,850 I will be home like the wingèd gossamer of love in your arms. 1374 01:04:54,933 --> 01:04:57,394 -Your loving husband, Harry." -Aw, that's nice. 1375 01:04:57,478 --> 01:04:59,897 "P.S. Your cunt is in the sink." 1376 01:04:59,980 --> 01:05:01,398 (LAUGHS) 1377 01:05:01,482 --> 01:05:05,361 We must have done a lot of takes because I was laughing. 1378 01:05:05,444 --> 01:05:08,739 I remember laughing really hard during that joke. 1379 01:05:08,822 --> 01:05:10,407 And the way the scene was constructed, 1380 01:05:10,491 --> 01:05:12,660 I'm not supposed to be laughing, I'm supposed to be annoyed. 1381 01:05:12,743 --> 01:05:14,912 -BOB: How good is that? -It surprised me. 1382 01:05:14,995 --> 01:05:17,498 It surprised me. I had no idea it would be that revolting. 1383 01:05:17,581 --> 01:05:19,917 I think that he liked people's responses to it. Right? 1384 01:05:20,000 --> 01:05:23,128 A little shock value, but honestly, 1385 01:05:23,212 --> 01:05:25,631 I do think he thought that was hilarious. 1386 01:05:25,714 --> 01:05:28,258 To me, it was just Bob, it was just more Bob. 1387 01:05:28,342 --> 01:05:31,095 And that scene that we did together 1388 01:05:31,178 --> 01:05:33,138 was no different from any other conversation 1389 01:05:33,222 --> 01:05:36,225 we've ever had with him. I don't think 1390 01:05:36,308 --> 01:05:38,394 that was any kind of character. 1391 01:05:38,477 --> 01:05:41,563 ♪ (ENERGETIC MUSIC PLAYING) ♪ 1392 01:05:41,647 --> 01:05:42,815 So, this is what would happen 1393 01:05:42,898 --> 01:05:45,526 every single day we would work together. 1394 01:05:45,609 --> 01:05:47,236 Like clockwork, we'd leave, 1395 01:05:47,319 --> 01:05:49,196 I'd be in my car, my phone would ring. 1396 01:05:49,279 --> 01:05:50,864 It would be Bobby. 1397 01:05:50,948 --> 01:05:55,244 He wanted to relive every moment of every scene. 1398 01:05:55,327 --> 01:05:59,915 "Was that the funniest thing when I said this and when I said that?" 1399 01:05:59,998 --> 01:06:02,710 And like, afterward, I'd be like, "Yeah, Bobby. Yeah. Funny. Funny." 1400 01:06:02,793 --> 01:06:04,920 And then I'd say, "You know I was in the scene, too." 1401 01:06:05,003 --> 01:06:06,130 "Yeah, yeah, you were funny, 1402 01:06:06,213 --> 01:06:08,090 but when I said this and I said that..." 1403 01:06:08,173 --> 01:06:11,051 And I'll just tell you, this almost never happens. Like, 1404 01:06:11,135 --> 01:06:13,929 it almost never happens that I will speak 1405 01:06:14,012 --> 01:06:15,931 to a guest about their appearance 1406 01:06:16,014 --> 01:06:17,641 after they've appeared on the show. 1407 01:06:17,725 --> 01:06:22,020 But Super Dave would call me the next morning, without fail, 1408 01:06:22,104 --> 01:06:27,568 every day after, and he'd go, "Can you believe? Have you ever heard 1409 01:06:27,651 --> 01:06:31,488 the audience laugh that hard? How funny was that? 1410 01:06:31,572 --> 01:06:33,490 How funny was I?" 1411 01:06:33,574 --> 01:06:35,325 (LAUGHS) 1412 01:06:35,409 --> 01:06:39,371 "How funny was that? How funny was I?" 1413 01:06:40,289 --> 01:06:41,707 And I'd sit there going, 1414 01:06:41,790 --> 01:06:43,917 "Yeah, that was funny. I've never heard 1415 01:06:44,001 --> 01:06:46,587 the audience laugh that hard." 1416 01:06:46,670 --> 01:06:50,299 It was at once self-congratulatory and insulting. 1417 01:06:50,382 --> 01:06:53,635 (CHUCKLING) Which was, I think, his specialty. 1418 01:06:53,719 --> 01:06:56,430 ♪ (GENTLE PIANO MUSIC PLAYING) ♪ 1419 01:06:56,513 --> 01:07:00,601 He's rigid and stoic onscreen, 1420 01:07:00,684 --> 01:07:04,021 and he was very emotional offscreen. 1421 01:07:06,064 --> 01:07:08,984 He was very sweet and caring. You know? 1422 01:07:09,067 --> 01:07:11,278 And he could really connect with somebody, 1423 01:07:11,361 --> 01:07:14,907 and find out how you're doing, what's going on in your life, 1424 01:07:14,990 --> 01:07:16,575 and really cared. 1425 01:07:16,658 --> 01:07:20,913 Every time I would walk on set and I knew he was gonna be on set, 1426 01:07:20,996 --> 01:07:24,833 I would walk on the set and he would just immediately smile. 1427 01:07:24,917 --> 01:07:28,086 'Cause he was just that kind of guy. 1428 01:07:30,130 --> 01:07:32,508 ESSMAN: One day, he was driving me home, I was staying at a hotel 1429 01:07:32,591 --> 01:07:36,094 and he said he would drive me home, but instead, he kidnapped me. 1430 01:07:36,178 --> 01:07:41,308 (CHUCKLES) He kidnapped me, and he would not take me home. 1431 01:07:41,391 --> 01:07:42,726 It was like-- This was Bobby. 1432 01:07:42,810 --> 01:07:45,020 It was Bob's world, we're only living in it. 1433 01:07:45,103 --> 01:07:47,564 ♪ (FUNKY MUSIC PLAYING) ♪ 1434 01:07:47,648 --> 01:07:50,400 ESSMAN: So, first, we go to Gladstone's for lunch. 1435 01:07:50,484 --> 01:07:54,154 And we walk in and everybody, "Super Dave! Super Dave!" 1436 01:07:54,238 --> 01:07:58,659 He buys me lunch. Then he takes me to his daughter's house. 1437 01:07:58,742 --> 01:08:00,369 'Cause he wanted to see his grandson. 1438 01:08:01,745 --> 01:08:04,331 Ethan, I think, was less than a year old 1439 01:08:04,414 --> 01:08:07,209 and him and Susie showed up at my house. (LAUGHS) 1440 01:08:07,292 --> 01:08:09,920 In my horrible Santa Monica apartment that he hated. 1441 01:08:10,003 --> 01:08:12,464 Um, but just brought her over to see Ethan 1442 01:08:12,548 --> 01:08:15,133 'cause he was so, like, mesmerized with him. 1443 01:08:15,217 --> 01:08:19,888 And he's just sitting there, watching him with this look on his face 1444 01:08:19,972 --> 01:08:23,058 of such love for this child. 1445 01:08:23,142 --> 01:08:26,895 I mean, just sitting there, just staring at this kid for hours. 1446 01:08:26,979 --> 01:08:29,022 And I was ready to go home. This wasn't my grandkid. 1447 01:08:29,106 --> 01:08:32,150 And then when I had Zoe, he was like, so excited to get a girl. 1448 01:08:32,234 --> 01:08:35,195 Because I was his daughter and he wanted me to have a girl. 1449 01:08:37,948 --> 01:08:40,325 Bob Einstein to me was just my grandfather. 1450 01:08:40,409 --> 01:08:42,244 ♪ (TENDER MUSIC PLAYING) ♪ 1451 01:08:42,327 --> 01:08:44,371 ZOE DALE: We called him Papa Super, 1452 01:08:44,454 --> 01:08:46,540 because he was Super Dave Osborne, 1453 01:08:46,623 --> 01:08:50,127 and we thought he was always, like, a superhero. 1454 01:08:50,210 --> 01:08:52,087 I remember distinctly there was a time 1455 01:08:52,170 --> 01:08:53,714 he comes into my room, and he's like, 1456 01:08:53,797 --> 01:08:56,592 "Let's go to In-N-Out." And I'm like, okay, I'm not complaining. 1457 01:08:56,675 --> 01:08:57,926 And we're driving to In-N-Out 1458 01:08:58,010 --> 01:08:59,428 and he's on the phone with a friend, 1459 01:08:59,511 --> 01:09:02,180 um, and I'm sitting in the backseat. And he's like, 1460 01:09:02,264 --> 01:09:05,475 "Ethan, plug your ears for this joke. Your mother will kill me 1461 01:09:05,559 --> 01:09:07,644 if she knows that you heard this." 1462 01:09:07,728 --> 01:09:09,938 I, still, am not allowed to watch 1463 01:09:10,022 --> 01:09:13,066 Curb Your Enthusiasm or anything. (CHUCKLES) 1464 01:09:13,150 --> 01:09:19,573 There was always a funny aspect to life when you're with him. 1465 01:09:20,073 --> 01:09:21,742 Um... 1466 01:09:21,825 --> 01:09:24,453 I'm the most emotional person ever. 1467 01:09:24,536 --> 01:09:25,996 (LAUGHS) 1468 01:09:30,083 --> 01:09:32,127 (VOICE BREAKING) I don't know, there was just always a way 1469 01:09:32,210 --> 01:09:33,670 to, like, make the day better, 1470 01:09:33,754 --> 01:09:37,007 there was always a joke that could, like, brighten our days. 1471 01:09:41,470 --> 01:09:46,183 Just a loving dad, grandpa, husband. 1472 01:09:53,732 --> 01:09:57,444 Well, you know. He was sort of intimidating. 1473 01:09:57,527 --> 01:10:03,033 I heard from people who worked with him that he, sometimes, 1474 01:10:03,116 --> 01:10:05,410 got upset and had a temper, 1475 01:10:05,494 --> 01:10:09,498 but... that's not how I remember him. 1476 01:10:09,581 --> 01:10:11,458 I mean, we had our fights, 1477 01:10:11,541 --> 01:10:13,794 but mostly, they were over the phone. 1478 01:10:13,877 --> 01:10:19,091 Because I didn't wanna be there. You know? Because he was bigger. 1479 01:10:19,174 --> 01:10:24,972 But, deep down, when you didn't involve show business, 1480 01:10:25,055 --> 01:10:28,976 the brotherly love, I believe, was there. 1481 01:10:30,936 --> 01:10:34,398 CLIFF: If you lose somebody, in an ordinary context, 1482 01:10:34,481 --> 01:10:38,568 you have phone messages, answering-machine messages, 1483 01:10:38,652 --> 01:10:42,531 maybe some videos. That's what you get. 1484 01:10:43,365 --> 01:10:46,076 But Bob is present everywhere. 1485 01:10:46,159 --> 01:10:48,870 Sometimes, just sitting around at my desk, 1486 01:10:48,954 --> 01:10:51,790 I go to YouTube, and I look up 1487 01:10:51,873 --> 01:10:54,459 "Marty Funkhouser's Ten Favorite Moments." 1488 01:10:54,543 --> 01:10:56,837 And I got Bob for 40 minutes. 1489 01:10:56,920 --> 01:11:00,549 So, he didn't leave, you know? A big hunk of him is here. 1490 01:11:01,925 --> 01:11:05,512 I'm on set, always taking pictures of the other actors. 1491 01:11:07,973 --> 01:11:10,892 People will show me their souls. 1492 01:11:10,976 --> 01:11:13,729 I swear, they'll be so comfortable and relaxed, 1493 01:11:13,812 --> 01:11:15,605 'cause they're not, they're not feeling it 1494 01:11:15,689 --> 01:11:18,066 with me, it's a close friendship. 1495 01:11:18,150 --> 01:11:20,360 Of all my close friends that I photographed, 1496 01:11:20,444 --> 01:11:23,196 only one never let down their guard, 1497 01:11:23,280 --> 01:11:24,990 but he did it to fuck me. 1498 01:11:25,073 --> 01:11:28,035 He didn't do it because he wouldn't show me who he was, 1499 01:11:28,118 --> 01:11:30,537 'cause I knew him intimately, but he was like, 1500 01:11:30,620 --> 01:11:32,497 "I'm not gonna give you a straight face, 1501 01:11:32,581 --> 01:11:35,667 or just a casual resting face. No chance." 1502 01:11:35,751 --> 01:11:41,089 So, this is the most normal picture I ever got of Bob. 1503 01:11:41,173 --> 01:11:43,216 (INTERVIEWER CHUCKLING) 1504 01:11:43,300 --> 01:11:45,510 ♪ ("LANDED ON MY HEAD" BY BARENAKED LADIES PLAYING) ♪ 1505 01:11:48,013 --> 01:11:50,891 ♪ You know my face Not my name ♪ 1506 01:11:51,600 --> 01:11:53,685 ♪ Funny all the same ♪ 1507 01:11:53,769 --> 01:11:56,104 ♪ They won't know What hit these fools ♪ 1508 01:11:56,188 --> 01:11:58,356 ♪ I'm gonna rewrite the rules ♪ 1509 01:12:00,609 --> 01:12:04,780 ♪ Hell no I'm not asking for attention ♪ 1510 01:12:06,073 --> 01:12:11,244 ♪ Seems though you may Have misread my intentions ♪ 1511 01:12:11,328 --> 01:12:15,582 ♪ Let go, maybe we Won't need to mention ♪ 1512 01:12:15,665 --> 01:12:19,378 ♪ How I landed on my head ♪ 1513 01:12:19,461 --> 01:12:24,841 ♪ Set the trap, lay in wait The payoff will be great ♪ 1514 01:12:24,925 --> 01:12:29,846 ♪ It's subtle and dry and slow I won't telegraph the blow ♪ 1515 01:12:31,848 --> 01:12:36,019 ♪ Hell no I'm not asking for attention ♪ 1516 01:12:37,312 --> 01:12:41,566 ♪ Seems though you may Have misread my intentions ♪ 1517 01:12:42,692 --> 01:12:46,905 ♪ Let go, maybe we Won't need to mention ♪ 1518 01:12:46,988 --> 01:12:49,407 ♪ How I landed on my head ♪ 1519 01:12:49,491 --> 01:12:54,871 ♪ Don the suit, hit the ramp Take it like a champ ♪ 1520 01:12:54,955 --> 01:13:00,127 ♪ Then a tremendous fall or maybe a wrecking ball ♪ 1521 01:13:00,210 --> 01:13:03,672 ♪ I brought the Funk just in time ♪ 1522 01:13:03,755 --> 01:13:05,966 ♪ Enthusiasm's fine ♪ 1523 01:13:06,049 --> 01:13:10,887 ♪ Consider yourself told After they made me they broke the mold ♪ 1524 01:13:16,893 --> 01:13:20,522 ♪ How I landed on my head ♪ 1525 01:13:20,605 --> 01:13:26,111 ♪ Wake me up when we land I'll never understand ♪ 1526 01:13:26,194 --> 01:13:31,283 ♪ Man, it can get so dull Let's make it uncomfortable ♪ 1527 01:13:33,076 --> 01:13:38,373 ♪ Hell no I'm not asking for attention ♪ 1528 01:13:38,456 --> 01:13:42,752 ♪ Seems though I may have Increased all the tension ♪ 1529 01:13:43,962 --> 01:13:48,175 ♪ Let go, maybe we Won't need to mention ♪ 1530 01:13:48,258 --> 01:13:51,386 ♪ How I landed on my head ♪ 1531 01:13:51,469 --> 01:13:52,554 ♪ (SONG CONCLUDES) ♪ 1532 01:13:52,637 --> 01:13:53,889 SUPER DAVE: I'm in pain, Mike. 1533 01:13:53,972 --> 01:13:56,016 ♪ (WHIMSICAL MUSIC PLAYING) ♪ 1534 01:15:03,959 --> 01:15:05,752 ♪ (MUSIC CONCLUDES) ♪