Archie and Edith Bunker's Final Appearance

franki like Archie I am inclined to be short-tempered what would your TV wife say about you Jean Stapleton what would she call you you mean in life yeah I must tell you that Jean loves me when we find out if she really loves Jean come on out here a second [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] we got you I'm supposed to sit here they said sitting near you oh really maybe should have moved back with Carol Conner and Jean Stapleton when we return stay right there [Applause] the fam [Applause] you've got to tell everybody tell everyone what you just told us about how many times you appear together like this on a talk show talk show we can't remember what number this is the first we've been on talk shows [Music] [Applause] I was watching your faces say a word because I saw Carol briefly on Monday night after the opening of this wonderful film called return to me and and there was so many people buzzing around him but he introduced me to David Duchovny which was very nice but let me tell you that this is a beautiful picture it's it's just lovely and it's all about people and there are no special effects and suddenly you realize what the movie screen is meant for it's really great I didn't have time to tell you this the other night but you play an Irishman who runs and owns this restaurant bar and this man is so far from all the colors that you had to play in all in the family it's just I would hardly if I were not a close to you I I would look saying he he looks familiar now that that is the mark of a very fine actor [Music] [Applause] how does that make me feel there's so much history between the two of you I think back probably what 30 30 years ago in a healthy that's 30 years about 30 years exactly and there's a whole new generation of fans watching the show 20 years ago Wow but there's a whole generation of people watching it on Nick right now how are you get them up fan mail tons of lovely letters some of them from young people who are seeing it for the first time and and it's the the reaction is like it was in the beginning yeah it's just feelings oh it's a classic it really isn't I was watching a few of you website please go ahead no no but I was watching the two of you watch the screen and watching yourself I would you do their voices no why do you say well in the first place I only do it for pay [Applause] I got 20 bucks I need 20 bucks secondly secondly one does not go back at least personally I don't I don't like to go back and do something but you did different voices for those Carrie yes how you create that habit where did you follow I was in a show a musical on Broadway called Damn Yankees yes and I found I found a nasality which I thought would lend itself to that kooky character I played in in Damn Yankees and I used it and so when I came to on the family with the exclusion of the first pilot where I was an entirely different character really yes I only had the English version to see I saw one episode of it and this woman was as abrasive as the lead Archie was in the English show and so that kind of crept in to my the first script where I had these wonderful punch lines that just and we're good laughs didn't on the page so therefore but as we developed and found the characters which was in the rehearsal process and which was very stimulating very exciting like and a learning process as these elements came to us something else developed and one was I think I'll use that nasal voice because it's funny so you didn't hit the ground running with that nasal voice I mean developing things you would never recognize right first episode which was our pile is amazing you wouldn't recognize the one evil voice oh my I certainly did and I tell you - she made a wonderful choice because to do what the English woman I might they could have done anything they wanted to they were brilliant actors but they chose to go that particular route but if she had done what the butt the English actress did it would not have been this I don't think it would be successful in here in America really she had to be what she created in order to make Archie work [Applause]

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Views: 4,478,234

Keywords: All, in, the, family, Jean, Stapleton, Carroll, connor, archie, bunker, edith, donnie, and, marie, osmond

Id: 31D3BU1LbjE

Length: 7min 37sec (457 seconds)

Published: Fri Jan 14 2011