Doug Loves Movies - Harry Dean Stanton, Paul F. Tompkins and Jen Kirkman guest
Episode Date: September 16, 2017Doug welcomes legendary actor Harry Dean Stanton, along with comedians Paul F. Tompkins and Jen Kirkman to the show. (This is a rebroadcast of an episode originally released on August 28, 201...3.)See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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Hey guys, producer Matt here.
Doug wanted to re-release this episode to pay tribute to the late, great Harry Dean Stanton.
This is from August 2013.
Doug was joined on the show by Jen Kirkman, Paul F. Tompkins, and Harry Dean Stanton.
Rest in peace, Harry Dean. With 50 eyes and popcorn kernels in his teeth, there's still not one that he won't see.
Because Doug loves movies.
Hey, everybody.
I was told that the attendance might be a little light on this show
because it's so hot outside and you have to
stand in line in the heat.
All these years I still don't know how to adjust to a mic stand.
But yeah,
so thank you for coming and doing that.
That's awesome that
the place is...
They shouldn't have said anything to me. I would have been like,
business as usual. They're like, might be a little light, might be light tonight. My name is Doug and
I love movies. Coming to you from the UCB Theater in Los Angeles on Tuesday, August
27th, I think it is, 2 Oceans 13.
Since last I spoke and you listened,
I flew to Charlotte, North Carolina
to perform at UNC.
Super fun show there, thanks to everybody
that came out.
I interrupted Evil Dead at
CineFamily, and that was also
a good time. The next
interruption at CineFamily is Fast 6
tomorrow night,
and it's sold out, so why'd I bring it up?
And then, because you can come see on September 5th,
I'm doing an interruption of Mommy Dearest at the CineFamily.org for tickets.
And then September 10th in Yonkers, New York,
I'm going to do an interruption of the movie Cabin Fever
at the Alamo
Drafthouse. Go to
alamodrafthouse.com.
Prize bet? Oh, wait. No shit. God damn it.
I write things out of order
sometimes, and then I skip stuff.
I did stand up at the
Fuck Yeah Fest in Los Angeles, here in
Los Angeles, and
thanks to Chili Beans for the Fuck Yeah Fest in Los Angeles, here in Los Angeles. And thanks to Chili Beans for the Fuck Yeah sunglasses
and Magic Taxi for the free Fuck Yeah cab ride.
You gotta say Fuck Yeah in everything, right?
Because it was the Fuck Yeah Fest,
which I love that they call it FYF Fest,
because then they're calling it Fuck Yeah Fest Fest.
Just to clean it up for the kids.
Looking ahead, I'll be at the Turner Ballroom
in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on September 15th
and there are over 800 seats left.
Yeah.
Why am I playing a 1,000 seat venue?
I mean, it'll be a nice intimate show
in a gigantic place
for those who did buy tickets.
So I don't think I'm going to be mad at you.
I'm not going to yell at you for being a small crowd.
I never understand when people do that, but I do it too.
So I don't understand myself.
What's in the prize bag?
Lots of fun stuff.
A T-shirt I got at Fuck Yeah Fest that I got to pull out of the bag
because I don't remember what it says on it.
It's from a company called KeepItKush.com
and this one is,
what does that say?
Halfo?
I don't think that's right.
It has something to do with weed. I don't think that's right. It has something to do with weed.
Half-ounce.
Half-ounce.
Bam.
So yeah, so wear that proudly.
And I'll have more of those coming up in the ensuing weeks.
And then I've also got, of course not of course we'll wait we'll hold off
on that one for a second but we've got
my CD Gateway Doug
and then you know he
the author of this book isn't here
and neither is the
subject of this book but
I thought it'd be fun to give away
where the fuck is it oh there it is
Chuck Norris cannot be stopped.
400 all new
facts about the man who knows neither
fear nor mercy.
So somebody's going to get that. I
flipped through it. They're funny.
I didn't need 400 of them,
but
it's pretty good.
Ladies and gentlemen, very excited about tonight's lineup.
Please welcome
Paul F. Tompkins,
Jen Kirkman,
and Harry Dean Stanton.
Please welcome them.
Summon them with your applause and love.
It is like a haunted maze back there.
It's very complicated.
I'm a legend.
That's exactly how I was hoping this would go.
If you were shy at all about it, I would be saddened.
Legend in my own mind.
No, people loved you,
and they're excited to see you,
and I was excited. I have to thank you for letting your publicist
talk you into this,
because I'm sure that's what happened.
Probably not a regular listener
to the podcast.
Probably usually don't have to open your own
water.
You have people that do that.
Thank you for being here.
Thank you.
Alright, Paul F. Tompkins is
here also, everybody.
Hello.
How you doing? Doug, I'm well, thank you. How you doing?
Doug, I'm well, thank you.
How are you?
I'm all right.
Mr. Stanton here has a documentary that is all about him called,
and I forgot to bring the poster out here, that one of the prizes today is the poster.
Would you do that, Jen Kirkman?
Oh, what a dear you are.
Where is it?
It's in the green room.
You can't miss it.
It's a big poster with...
It's got Harry Dean Stanton on it.
And I think he just saw the poster for the first time backstage.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It's nice.
It's about time.
That was very fast.
That was crazy.
Like, she stepped out and then stepped back in.
Extremely well done.
We have to have him sign this, too.
I'd be happy to.
And it's a documentary called Partly Fiction.
And they followed you around with cameras
was that
how was that experience?
it doesn't seem like that's something you would necessarily want to do
I've been doing it all my life
you're used to the cameras
yeah that's right
and why is it
we're really going to go deep here
why is it that in you, Me, and Dupree,
you play
the role of Curly, but you're uncredited
in the film. Why
don't you get credit for being Curly?
I don't know what film you're talking about.
It's called You, Me, and Dupree.
Who was
in it?
That would be the one with Owen Wilson
and Matt Dillon
Kate Hudson
I can't remember what I did
you played someone named Curly
don't remember
hey you guys know we're not playing
the Leonard Maltin game tonight right
aww
people are saddened by it
so what's the question
I think you answered it
I think you're uncredited
because you're not even aware of being in it.
So that
makes perfect sense.
It's not important.
No, I just noticed
for a lot of your films you're uncredited and I think
it's probably just because you're such a rebel that you're just
like you don't even care. Nobody needs to
see your name. I get credit in most of the films
I do. Most of them, yeah.
Yeah, yeah.
We're gonna fight.
Did I mention that Jen Kirkman is here?
Not only did she bring out the poster, but she also
brought
she brought for the prize bag copies of her book,
I Can Barely Take Care of Myself, and her DVD.
Audio book.
Audio book.
It looks like a DVD, but it's just an audio book.
I don't want people to get excited and try to put it into their...
All right, let's just take that out of the bag then.
We won't include that.
Have you considered making a DVD of you reading the book?
I actually think that would be pretty funny
if they let me do it in my house and not in a studio.
And you would read it to yourself, not out loud?
Oh, even better.
Very in the oral.
Do some people...
Do you think anybody reads the book while listening to the...
There's like one person
who's probably going to murder me someday, and I think
he probably does. He lives in the
Midwest.
That's not to do with why he would murder me. I think
the reasons are clear.
I think that's
how I would do it. Can I also
point out that Jen Kirkman not
only instantly came back with that poster,
but then, because it's on phone
core, she held it up and expertly walked it like a ring girl, like a boxing ring round
girl across the stage.
It was wonderfully done.
Thank you.
I've had some modeling training when I was 11.
And I just thought, when am I going to use it?
Never.
Never.
You know, because of the fashion industry and their size limits and age limits. So I just, that when am I going to use it? Never. You know? Because of the fashion industry and their
size limits and age limits.
So that's when I can do it.
I just like to do stuff like that. You're too old to be
a ring girl at those 11-year-old boxing matches anymore.
Yeah.
And also, Doug, I love
self-promoting, but I'd
love to also just let everyone know it's my birthday tomorrow.
A gasp.
She was born on a day.
I'll be 39 tomorrow.
Well, congratulations.
One more year.
One more year.
That wasn't like a veiled suicide thing.
That was just like one more year.
One more year.
One more year.
It's one more year being in my 30s.
Thank you.
All right.
Paul brought a copy of a book for the winner tonight
that is called How to Sharpen Pencils.
That's correct.
Oh, and here's a glass of wine for Mr. Stanton.
There you go.
Now we're going to get nuts.
I like how you live, HDS.
Yeah, he's doing it right.
And why did you bring this book?
It's a very funny and informative book by my friend David Reese
that is both hilarious and also very informational.
You will actually learn how to sharpen pencils.
You can do them by hand.
You can do them with a machine.
He would prefer that you do not use an electric pencil
sharpener.
But
I had already been gifted with a hard copy
of the book, and then the other day I received
in the mail a paperback which had
no new information, and so
I thought, let's get this out of my house.
Nice.
But you have probably something to promote?
Something people could purchase?
I love that about you.
Mr. Stanton.
Back to you.
Sorry to neglect you for so long.
Cheech and Chong's Up in Smoke?
I wish the listeners could have heard that yawn before.
I probably didn't even hear the what.
Why did you ask me?
You know the motion picture Cheech and Chong's Up in Smoke?
I've heard of it, but it's been so long I don't remember.
Yeah, yeah, that was the movie where they say that you filmed scenes for it
that they didn't use in the movie.
The what?
Yeah, they say that your scenes were deleted from that film,
that you had worked on it for I don't know how long, but that it got cut out.
What was cut out? Your scenes.
All of them? What was the scene?
They didn't elaborate.
They just said...
I don't recall that.
I'm not on trial here, sir.
They're lost.
And neither are you.
Because when can people...
Do you know how and when people can see this
documentary about
you? I think it's coming out in September.
And it'll be
in limited theaters
and then also on video on demand.
Is Sophie here? Yeah, is Sophie
the director? It's coming out September
13th at the New Art Theater.
September 13th at the New Art here
in Los Angeles,
but then lots of other dates in cities around the country?
Yeah, in New York on the 11th.
New York on the 11th.
And you can maybe go to parleyfictionmovie.com or something like that?
Well, I'd rather go through Facebook.
Go through Facebook?
Sure.
All right.
That's the most foreign pronunciation of Facebook that I've heard.
It was delightful.
Can you buy it on demand anywhere?
Not yet.
Oh, okay.
Why are you asking him?
He's asking her.
Because I can't see her, so I got nervous.
You were afraid she was maybe a ghost?
Yeah, no, you're not supposed to engage ghosts.
Who dares ask me about video on demand?
Thank you for that information, Sophie.
And yeah, everybody can figure out how to see it.
You know what I'm saying?
Look, you're on Facebook already, right?
You're on there checking your stuff.
You're seeing what people are up to.
Their baby pictures. Here's what I ate.
This, that, the other thing.
It's snowing in winter. I can't believe it again.
I caught myself to feel something.
So then why not just do
a little investigation and see
when Harry's movie is coming out
in a city near you?
This is very simple, you guys.
There's no need to complicate it.
I don't think either of us followed that.
And for those who are listening,
it's called Partly Fiction.
I don't know if we've mentioned that even yet.
Is there a chance of meatballs?
Partly Fiction with a chance of meatballs?
Yeah.
Part two?
That was from a Chris Chalverson song. Partly Truth, Partly fiction with a chance of meatballs? Yeah. Part two? That's from a Chris Tafferson song.
Partly truth, partly fiction.
From whose song, I'm sorry?
Chris Tafferson.
Oh, Chris Christofferson.
Yeah.
Is it off of the album Jesus Was a Capricorn?
What?
Is it from the Chris Christofferson album Jesus Was a Capricorn?
I don't know.
Look, if you're on Facebook,
maybe look that up as well.
On Chris Christopherson's
Facebook page.
Do you have any questions
for the great Harry Dean Stanton, Paul?
Yes.
Jen, get ready.
I got mine.
Was Big Love a rewarding show to work on
on HBO
yeah it was just another Sopranos
they're all gangsters
did you enjoy working on that show
sure
did you do much research about
the Mormon faith or no
a little bit I can't remember how much.
It's all...
Religions are all gangs.
I have no beliefs.
Jen?
On, um...
That's a great answer.
My favorite John Hughes movie, Pretty in Pink.
You played Molly Ringwald's dad.
Oh, yeah.
Do you have an opinion of who she should have ended up with?
She did end up with Blaine, the rich guy.
But a lot of people think she should have ended up with her best friend, Ducky.
Are you happy with how they ended the movie with her ending up with Blaine
as her dad? I don't give
a fuck.
Okay.
That would have
been a great scene.
Dad, guess what?
Guess which one I picked at the prom.
I don't give a fuck.
But in real life,
do you have a daughter in real life?
Do you have a daughter in real life?
A what?
A daughter.
No.
If you did,
would you want her to be with a rich guy
or the nerdy, slightly poor guy that loves her?
You don't give a fuck.
Again, I don't give a fuck.
Referring to my previous answer.
Paul, are you finding us some information?
I am.
Well, because you have such a
storied career,
would it be okay
to continue in this vein and ask you about
different films that you've
worked on?
Sure.
All right.
Well, Paul, even better,
let's play a game that involves that exact thing.
Doug, that's a capital idea.
You're going to love it.
But to do that,
everyone on stage needs to pick a name tag.
Did you guys bring name tags this week?
We've got always some fun signs in the audience.
And everyone's going to pick somebody to play for.
And while they do that, we'll do this.
We'll be right back.
And this is, you're representing this girl in this game we're about to play.
And this is what she's calling a name tag.
It's not really, so that probably makes it extra confusing.
That's a lot weird, Lorraine.
What's happening right now.
But Paul, who are you playing for?
I'm playing for Jen, and her name tag
is a little top, and it says
Incept Jen.
Inception, I get that one.
It's like a reference to the movie Inception,
a movie that I've heard of but not seen.
Dictated, but not read.
Jen is holding that crazy
eraser head baby
in such a loving way right now.
I'm actually a pretty sweet girl.
But she can barely take care
of herself.
I didn't want to name it that.
I didn't want to name it that.
I'm playing for Sam.
You can't name a book yourself.
Why would they let you?
You think you can Until Simon and Schuster brings the horn down
Jerks
Well you try writing a book
Or reading one
Yeah dumb dumb
I've done both
Sir
Oh
The book I wrote was with two other fellas
So it doesn't really count
What's that?
You're playing for Sam
Okay
And the game we're going to play... Is it scary?
It might be. It might be scary.
That thing is so creepy.
Comic author, puppeteer,
what else can't she do?
In honor of our esteemed guest, Mr. Harry Dean Stanton,
we're going to change things up today,
and we're going to play one game for all the marbles.
It's the new game, a.k.a. the Seth Rogen game.
In this game, I name an actor or a director,
and then everyone on the panel takes turns
naming movies that that actor or director was involved in
until we run out
and there's one person.
I think I can do this one.
Finally.
And today...
And you're saying marbles are at stake.
Yes.
All of them.
All of the marbles in existence
are on the line.
This is heady.
Yeah.
And, of course, we're going to play today with actor Harry Dean Sten and his films.
So we'll start with you, sir.
Just name any movie that you're in.
Can you bring up on your phone again?
Anyone at all.
Jen, what are you doing?
I'm asking Paul to bring up that list
on his phone again. No.
You gotta play for reals.
It's okay. It's just for
the marbles. All the marbles.
All of them.
Name a movie that
you've been in. That you worked on.
Paris, Texas. Bam!
My favorite. Right out of the gate.
Paris, Texas. People I know favorite. Right out of the gate. Paris, Texas.
People I know here tonight
watched parts of it to prepare for this evening.
They watched parts of the movie today
because they knew they were going to see you tonight.
Some friends of mine.
You're right.
There's no reason for me to bring that up.
But I do love that movie.
Paula Tompkins?
Yes.
What do I do now?
Name any Harry Dean Stanton motion picture
from his many films,
some of which we've mentioned already this evening.
Has anyone said Paris, Texas?
Let me check.
Judges? I just saw it
in the theater
hopefully it'll come to you
Repo Man
Repo Man
that's a great one
who by the way
is always intense
that's my second
best choice
that would have been what you chose next?
Yeah.
Okay, well, it's been taken, so...
But those are both great movies.
Repo Man was playing downtown at midnight last Saturday.
Did you see it, Doug?
I did not. I wanted to.
Thanks for the retroactive update.
It's just I went out to my car and it wasn't there.
And I spent all night.
I know, it's the most ironic story.
Jen.
Name any Harry Dean Stanton film.
Well, I'll say Pretty in Pink because I just said it.
Oh, you snake.
Pretty in Pink.
All right.
Alien.
Alien, bam.
They say that when the thing burst out of John Hurt's chest,
that you guys didn't know that that was going to happen.
That's why you were so scared.
We didn't know what was going to happen.
You didn't know what that thing was going to do?
That thing looks like that thing a little bit, actually.
Do you think they're related?
I mean, only in the vaguest sense that we're all brothers and sisters.
What is that thing?
We're all aliens and racer head babies.
That thing's from David Lynch's Eraserhead is what that's supposed to be from.
Eraserhead? Yeah, it's the little guy from Eraserhead, right? The little guy. Or Lynch's Eraserhead is what that's supposed to be from. Eraserhead?
Yeah.
It's the little guy from Eraserhead, right?
The little guy.
Or is he Eraserhead?
The little fella.
Is this guy known as Eraserhead?
Does his head look like an eraser?
I didn't know if Sam was a bad puppet maker.
No, Eraserhead had, you know, kind of like hair that stood up and hence the name.
Like Yahoo Serious?
Yeah. No, more Eraser name. Like Yahoo! Serious? Yeah.
No.
More eraser like.
Like kid and play.
And either kid or play.
Yes.
Pretty sure it was kid.
Paul, your turn.
Any Harry Dean Stanton movie.
The Last Stand.
Yes.
With Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Which we saw together, Doug.
Yeah.
As a fan.
The Last Stand.
The Last Stand.
With Arnold Schwarzenegger. What's his name, Doug. Yeah. The Last Stand? The Last Stand with the... Arnold Schwarzenegger.
What's his name?
Johnny Knoxville?
I don't remember.
Yeah, it's a...
It's a pretty recent one.
I think you spent your entire screen time on a tractor in that film.
Spent what?
On a tractor.
You were on a tractor.
Telling someone to get off your land.
Oh, yeah.
I think I got shot, right?
That's correct.
He's good at this. Jen?
The new movie, Partly
Fiction. That counts.
That counts.
Partly Smartly.
And yeah, nice to get another
plug in for it. Exactly.
That's what I was thinking.
Thanks for having exactly, that's what I was thinking thanks for having me Doug you know how much I know about movies
this is really great
Mr. Stanton
we need another one from you
another movie
another movie I've been?
yeah, yeah
I've done over 200 movies
yeah no I didn't think
it would be easy
Missouri Breaks
Missouri Breaks
that's a nice one
I don't think either
these two would have
Jack Nicholson
Marlon
Marlon Brando
yeah
very nice
you've worked with everybody
huh
you've worked with everybody
yeah
especially now Paul Tompkins and Jen Kirkman.
Cross them off your to-do list.
To-get list.
But thanks again for being here.
Paul, do you have another one that you've thought of?
Made 200.
I know.
Trying to think of them in order somewhere in the upper 80s
Walker
don't remember that one
what's Walker?
Alex Cox
Walker's not into What's Walker? Alex Cox. Oh.
Walker.
No, I didn't do it.
Warner Walker?
No.
You should have been.
He wasn't in an Alex Cox movie, though.
Yes.
I think.
Yes.
Well, Repo Man.
This would have been,
yes, this would have been
the third after,
second or third
after Repo Man. All right. Well, you know, I have been the third after, second or third after Repo Man.
All right, well,
you know,
I'm devastated to say this,
but Paul F. Tompkins
is out, everybody.
Yeah.
It's very sad.
And I can name a director
he's worked with, right?
You said a director
or a name of a movie.
I thought you said
name a director.
Yeah, I thought that at first, too.
Or a name of a movie.
No, we're either playing
with a director initially
or an actor,
and this time it's an actor.
Yeah, superfluous information that just served to muddy the waters.
The Cheech and Chong movie.
The next episode we're doing Spielberg.
What?
Two-stoned.
The movie that you just mentioned.
The British film about weight loss?
That's how...
No, no's not what it's called,
so you'd be out also.
And that means that
Harry Dean Stanton has won.
He's the last man Stanton.
Won, won, won.
What did I win?
You know, it's just a dumb game, and you don't really win anything.
I have no clue what's going on.
Yeah, but somebody in the audience is going to win all this stuff that we all brought as a prize,
and that person is Weird Lorraine.
Yeah, so congratulations, Weird Lorraine.
Sorry, Sam.
Put that back on your counter.
Here you go.
That's going to be weird for you to hold
for the rest of the show.
I don't know where you're going to put that.
But yeah, you win all the prizes.
And do we have...
I don't think they wrote a shithead on the back of either of those, did they?
Sam wrote shithead.
Okay, can you pass the...
I don't need the whole baby, but I'll just take the piece of paper.
Thank you.
Paul tried to take a peek.
And yours has it on it, too?
Nope.
Just thought I'd pass it over.
It had something written on it that's crossed out.
What happened, Jen?
So who is this person?
Where are you?
Come up and whisper something to Doug.
Or whisper something to me.
Come on, honey.
Come up and whisper something.
No, just come over.
Just come over and write it down right here.
Just, you know, anyone that you want me to call a shithead at the end of the show,
don't look at Paul like that's what you're going to write.
Jen, would you like to meet Harry Dean Stanton?
It's Jen.
Jen. Jen. Jen, would you like to meet Harry Dean Stanton? It's Jen. Jen.
Yeah, Jen.
I feel like I'm at Starbucks.
Jen, you guys are really hitting it off.
So, Paul, we have a few moments here left over.
Okay.
Because I thought that would last longer
than it did but
can I say it's honestly
you thought I'd name movies
it is honestly it's so
it's very difficult because
there have been so many
films that you've been in
that it's like your mind
goes blank and I'm sure
I think I've probably seen,
you know, if you've made 200 films,
I've probably seen more than 100 of them, I'm sure.
But it's like, I wasn't prepared to play this game.
Yeah, the whole idea is to catch everybody off guard.
Well, you did, Doug.
Congratulations to you.
You and your weird little mind games.
It's fun.
I was waiting for,
but let's play the game that you started to play before we played the game.
Go ahead and pull up on your phone.
Let's ask him about specific movies.
Well, since we have a little time left over.
You mean the game I call Question Game?
Mm-hmm.
Like, for instance, Escape from New York.
See?
There you go.
John Carpenter.
Yeah, that's a terrific movie.
You have a good part in that.
Yeah.
Fun to shoot.
Oh, yeah.
Oh, I was going to say that Green Mile.
Jesus Christ.
We're really getting there.
See, it's hard when you see it,
and then you're like, oh, yeah.
You were going to say Green Mile?
I swear.
And then you didn't?
Mm-mm.
Because I was like, no, I don't think.
Oh, Green Mile. I may well sit on my face.
Yes.
Baseball Jordan really loves that movie.
All right, it's exciting.
What do you got, Paul?
One of your early ones, Porkchop Hill.
You played U.S. soldier with Browning automatic rifle.
Uncredited.
You were uncredited in 1959.
Don Rickles, right?
Was he in that?
Don Rickles was in that?
Didn't you see it?
It's on my list.
Porkchop Hill is on my list.
That was Don Rickles and I were a machine gun crew.
Was he?
What's that?
It was Kelly's Heroes.
Kelly's Heroes.
Oh, that was Kelly.
I'm sorry.
Kelly's Heroes.
I think you owe someone else an apology, too.
What's the one you were talking about?
Don't apologize for being in a lot of movies.
Porkchop Hill.
Porkchop Hill.
Was that Gregory Peck?
Probably. And of course there was the. Porkchop Hill. Was that Gregory Peck? Probably.
Of course there was the sequel, Hamburger Hill.
Oh, Cool Hand Luke.
Oh, he played Tramp.
Paul Newman.
Were you there when he ate all those eggs? Were you there when he ate all those eggs?
Were you there when he ate all the eggs?
The egg scene?
Yeah, you're there cheering him on?
That must have been disgusting.
No, it was fun.
Strother Martin, I remember.
He's my favorite character in that movie.
Yeah. the warden
says to Paul Newman
when he comes in
and what are you in for
says cutting heads
off parking meters
said well what was that
we ain't never had one
at the end before
said well
how'd you do that
just killing time
just killing well you got some you got yourself some time to kill now that? Just killing time.
Just killing... Well, you got yourself
some time to kill now.
If you keep your mind right, you'll get
along just fine with me.
That was one of my favorite scenes.
Yeah, he's also
got that
top 100 quote of all
time, what we have here is a failure to
communicate. Was that dude
also? What we have here is a failure
to communicate.
Mm-hmm.
You
said it.
1971
two-lane blacktop.
You played Oklahoma
hitchhiker as H.D.
Stanton. Yeah. I played Oklahoma Hitchhiker as H.D. Stanton.
Yeah.
I played my own self.
It seems that way.
Are you from Oklahoma?
No, I'm from Kentucky.
Have you ever hitchhiked?
Yeah, I hitchhiked to Louisville, Kentucky to get in the Navy, I think.
I was in World War II.
My father was in World War II. He was also in the Navy, I think. I was in World War II. My father was in World War II.
He was also in the Navy.
What?
He was on the Lexington.
Where?
In the Pacific.
Oklahoma?
I think so.
He didn't talk about it much.
I don't know.
I don't know.
Tell him your dad's name.
See if he knows it.
Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid.
Yeah, that's where I met Bob Dylan.
Oh.
Long time friends with that dude, Bob Dylan?
Yeah, we're good friends.
That's awesome.
Are you still friends with him now?
Oh, yeah.
I heard he keeps his Christmas lights up all year in Malibu.
Just one string of lights.
I didn't know that.
You didn't know.
I just heard it.
I can't confirm or deny.
Sounds like him.
It does sound like him.
What kind of crazy party were you at where that was a topic of discussion?
I actually saw it on Twitter.
Meryl Markle lives near him and she takes pictures throughout the year
and says, still up.
Just one string of lights on his
fence in Malibu.
On every night.
Well, why not, right?
Hey, it's always Christmas time in your heart
if you want it to be.
That's one of his best songs.
That was his first
when he went electric.
One of his holiday classics. Has he ever recorded
a holiday song?
He made a Christmas album.
A whole album of them? Yes. Everybody has to, I guess.
Everyone must. You've made a Christmas album,
haven't you? No.
You've done some recordings?
I recorded
a Mexican song from Paris, Texas.
A Ry Cooder
soundtrack album.
Nice.
I've seen you sing before
here in Los Angeles.
I've recorded songs in this
documentary.
Yeah, yeah.
It covers all of your
career, right?
What?
The documentary is about your whole life.
Yeah.
I can't wait to see it.
Does that include 1974's The Godfather Part 2?
I whispered Godfather to Paul and he shook his head.
I could have won.
Part 2, though.
Also the TV series, though, The Godfather.
The TV series, The Godfather?
It says The Godfather.
A novel for television.
series, The Godfather? It says The Godfather, a novel
for television.
I think that's when they smushed the two together
and made it like one long special, they called it that
maybe? I bet it would have
counted. I bet it would have been a big debate during the game.
It would have been fun. We wouldn't have had all this
extra time at the end, though, to
just chat with our amazing guests.
Paul's still looking for titles.
The Rose.
The Rose.
Bette Midler's Tour de Force.
Playing at one, two, four.
Oh, I thought you were doing a movie film.
What were you in that?
Were you like a tour manager, roadie?
I say, what did I do in that?
In The Rose?
I saw a picture I sang in that.
Does anybody remember?
Oh, you played like a country singer in the movie?
Yeah, I was a singer.
Yeah.
We have confirmation from one gentleman in the crowd.
Thank you so much for that.
You played Billy Ray.
You also did an episode of Laverne and Shirley.
You played the character Johnny Velvet.
Was he a singer too?
I was a rock star, yeah.
So you must have a really good voice, which I didn't...
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
Do you like to do rock singing more than...
Like all genres of music, I can sing in Italian, Spanish, Croatian
French
That must have impressed the ladies
I'm not going to
But that must have helped out with the ladies
Got me laid a lot
Is that what you meant?
That's what I meant but I didn't want to say it
I thought I'd let you say it
Did you have sex with Laverne or Shirley?
Both of them, yeah.
You really did?
Scenes deleted.
It's on the box set.
Not at once, man.
One from the Heart, famous...
Kind of like at the time was a troubled production, One from the Heart famous kind of like at the time
was a troubled production
One from the Heart
it was all shot
in the studio right
Francis Ford Coppola
One from the Heart
who was in that
that was
Raul Julia
Francis Coppola
yeah
Terry Garr
was in that
yeah
Frederick Forrest
yeah
and it was
Tom
who was the singer
in that
Tom Waits
Tom Waits.
Tom Waits. Music by Tom Waits and Crystal Gale.
He called it one through the heart.
Because it didn't do well.
Yeah, it was a very troubled, expensive production.
Christine, you played Detective Rudolph Junkins.
Yeah.
Were you familiar with Stephen King before you did the movie?
Stephen King?
The writer?
Oh, yeah, of course.
John Carpenter directed it, right?
That's right.
Yes, you worked with him a bunch of times.
Yeah, he wanted me to do a series.
I played a
private investigator. He said, I'll a private investigator.
He said, I'll do the first,
I'll write the first three.
You can be,
you'll be,
and this is the way
they presented it to me,
you'll be richer and more famous
and have more pussy on screen
and off than you've ever had.
So you can sing in it, and you direct.
I have to do with the cat.
He offered me a whole career.
I could have been a leading man.
But you didn't do the series?
No.
What would he have had to have said?
Yeah, he was like, no thanks, I'm good on pussy.
I am also love. I can sing on pussy. I am all for love.
I get plenty of it.
I don't need the aggravation.
But you were in Red Dawn,
which was the first PG-13 movie.
Red Dawn, the first PG-13 movie
about World War III in America.
Oh, the Russians were in...
Yeah, the Russians.
That was during the Cold War.
Every movie was about...
It wasn't the Russians in the new one.
It was somebody else.
But, yeah, it's just amazing,
the movies that he has been in.
And I cannot thank you enough for being here, sir,
and participating in this goofiness.
Yeah, this is it.
It's finally over.
Thank you.
And thank you also to Paula Tompkins and Jen Kirkman.
And...
And...
As always,
Meep is murder?
Is a shithead?
What?
Yeah.
What?
You're a Twitter guy.
Okay.
It's a weird guy on Twitter.
I don't know.
I don't know either.
What did he say?
Don't worry about it.
I want to know.
What the fuck did he say?
He says it's a name from Twitter.
Do you know what Twitter is?
Twitter?
Twitter? Twitter, yeah. It's a thing on the internet.
T-W-I-T-T-W-I
T-T-E-R, like a bird.
Twitter.
That's why I wanted to drop it.
What is Twitter?
You've asked just the right person.
It's a place where you can be
insulted all day long
and just have to take it.
No, you know, it's internet nonsense.
We'll talk about it after the show.
Don't tell me what it means.
It's a little website where you write
jokes all day and Twitter your time away.
It's like you Twitter your time away on
this website. No, that's not an expression. Well, it is now. You Twitter your time away. It's like you Twitter your time away on this website. No, that's not an expression.
Well, it is now.
You Fritter your time away.
None of these people know what the fuck it means.
But I mean, it's a takeoff on Fritter
your time away, isn't it? No, it's not.
It's because
we're twilliterate
on the topic. You don't know either, right?
No, I know what it is
but it is
it is hard to explain
it's the opposite
Paul you try
you try
it is
it's a website
where people can
send each other
and the world
very brief messages
they only have
140 characters
letters
to play with
and so you try to
condense your
little thoughts in there
and then people respond
to you or don't
but if you're if you're a comedian like we all are we use it to promote our shows And so you try to condense your little thoughts in there, and then people respond to you, or don't.
But if you're a comedian like we all are,
we use it to promote our shows and make jokes and things like that,
and then people just complain that you're promoting things too much or that your jokes aren't funny enough.
It never should have been invented.
It's boring.
That's exactly right.
Exactly.
You're absolutely right.
Exactly right.
It's boring.
And also, Miley Cyrus is a shithead.
Now it's time for Doug to watch another talkie.
Eyes of gold, his viewing prowess makes him cocky.
There's no room in his heart for you.
Cause Doug loves movies.