Arsenio Hall Interview on The Oprah Winfrey Show - 1992

everybody from um doctors to homemakers to businessmen to five-year-olds imitate the moves of my guest today right right you gotta move let's kick it okay you got to move let's get busy you did that a little too who could that be his uh nightly talk show get together is a slamming at the jamming pull out all the stops party in fact he is the hottest thing that ever happened to late night please welcome the charming the ever so witty he's so talented and kind of cute too arsenio [Applause] hall [Applause] thank you very much [Applause] oh boy thank you very much chicago and and you got even like look it's like a dog pound i know it is yes it's like my dog pound these are people who make candles out of earwax that's what we have yes boy this is so exciting and i started stand up in this town so it's real good to be back somebody said what did you say about him being called doc or something yeah yeah they used to call me doc cause they couldn't say my name really yeah and when i first came to chicago i worked um the comedy womb and the comedy cottage and um we would go to discos like back then it was a 69 club in the sheba on the south side and and i would give the dj some money to let me do stand up i say if i get laughs you double it you know and and if i don't you keep it and he said well i don't own the place i just play the records man you know but i stop it and and it's good because in a black disco if you can get laughs because the worst thing you can do is turn the music off in a black club you know and say uh this young man is about to make you laugh and i'm gonna turn off uh you know the record and it was like george clinton i remember the first time i was at the 69 club and there was one nation and black people you know and they stopped the music and like oh and he gonna make you laugh and they was like this that ain't george clinton oh boy but it's good to be back in chicago and i think as high as my buddy is my battery pack still just fell off this is amazing okay i'm gonna try to keep it on okay i'm sorry i'm sorry i should be letting you ask me questions that's okay okay that's okay okay you look really good and i was just saying to the audience that i i sometimes don't meet the guests before because i wanted to meet you so that we so it'd be real you know and then they all said you don't know arsenio so i thought maybe they did know you they said oprah you never met or sit and they haven't met you either well you know what as far as you and i um the kind of schedules we work yeah we don't get to meet many people unless they come to us yeah and uh i mean working every day i know your schedule must be like mine because you have a lot more money than me and actually i should be honest you seem to be getting there oh uh i borrowed this from deion sanders let's talk about the money for a moment how how are you relating to it i mean like when you get the check do you get paid once a week twice a week monthly do you get yours in the bonus section well you know what it's like okay i'm part owner of the show so i get like a nice feeling oh yeah yeah as a matter of fact when i went to paramount me and my manager was sitting there and they said so what are you thinking about and i said i want an oprah deal that's a good deal [Applause] yeah i mean that's how i swear to you that's what we said it's like no longer will black people be puppets i'd like to be part owner i want to be like dick clark so so um um i get the uh percentage split as part owner and i get a producer check and a host check and all together oh yeah and it totals up to maybe 6.95 a week but it's three checks but but really is is it is is it an adjustment don't you think yes it's it's an adjustment because coming from cleveland like there wasn't much you know where i'm from i mean i'm from a kind of neighborhood that really builds character because you learn to make things for people at christmas and appreciate what it's really all about mom look what i made you because we don't what did you make one time i made my mother a kite out of newspaper um you know and yeah and it was tough cause like when when we left my dad and i say we because it feels like that when you're young when divorce happens you feel like you know we left dead and uh you know and she was like my big sister and we grew up and it was tough and i was from one of those neighborhoods in cleveland where you had cleaners plastic on the window sometimes when you couldn't afford to replace the glass but at the same time you learned to appreciate things and you learn to work hard to get those things and it builds character and it's it's very special you know i meet uh young guys in l.a whose dads are somebody and in the student parking lot there's a benz that belongs to them and i never saw ben's when i was in cleveland uh you know first of all people bought a lot more american cars than they do in la and uh you know it's weird in la you know it's a status symbol to have an audi is that how you say it um they already buy a chevy but i never saw a benz and i saw a rose once when muhammad ali was in town visiting don king and because don king was big in my neighborhood everybody wanted to be like don because um well you know what he did and and he had money and everything and you know we saw his car and he had ollie in the car and it was very exciting but for the most part i never saw much and then i grew up and went to la and worked very hard and filled my mind kept my nose empty and and everything worked out and i appreciate it all much more you know because i remember yeah i do too and it's very interesting because my concept of having money used to be having enough to pay the electric bill so that you didn't have to like sign part of your name and then say oh i didn't sign my last name you know yeah and so once you have enough to do many things with including helping other people it's real it really is an adjustment i was just wondering how you were adjusting uh yes uh this this guy made this for me and you know i think i think this is maybe the frustrated musician in me because i always wanted to be one of the temptations you know and i knew i didn't have that kind of talent but i said i'm gonna make people laugh and i'm gonna wear the papa was a rolling stone wardrobe and uh and yeah you get to do things for yourself and you can do things for your mom i remember me and my mom had a conversation when i was in high school and she said you know the way the economy is and the way things are changing um you may never own a home because down payments and this and that and we were like yeah you know and that was a reality and we were talking about it and now she has one and i have one and she's retired at a very early age my mom too oh yeah my mom's only 50. this is my mom my mom's walking around with an oprah winfrey jacket on jackson i don't know why people keep coming up to me yes yes asking me if i'm your mother and the back of it is oprah winfrey's mother on the back of it yeah they're so proud and my mother's like you they just knew i was your mother and i didn't know how they knew of course for a while my mother had a jacket that said oprah's mother that was before i had a show you know i'm hopeful but you know you can do other things i mean even beyond your family uh recently my pastor was talking to me and and we were in history and about the crack house and then you bought the house yeah it's very cool it's like there's a crack house a block away there a bunch of them actually but a block away from my church there were like two crack houses and he was saying yeah we're gonna try to take up a collection and buy one of those crack houses and i said for everyone the church collectively buys i'll match it and so we've been buying up crack houses in the neighborhood because like when you at church you look like yeah it's real cool and it makes you feel good you know and uh uh but but you know from salad we got to go to breakfast oh we are just okay okay um that's all of that story [Applause] i hate that about guests i i dislike that in guests too we're talking about guests to come on the show and i think audiences dislike it too when somebody comes on and they have a book and they want to mention it a thousand times don't you hate that yeah it drives you crazy and i said to people during the commercial break would you listen if you would just talk then i would be sure to get the book in yeah yeah because they'll do a commercial like i'm at yuck yucks on the 25th you know just relax and have fun chill i have nothing to promote let's just what do you love best about it though oh gosh i think the fact that you can do things for people and um and because that's a good feeling i'm one of those kind of people that enjoys giving you know the kind of my mother's like that where she'll give you a gift and you just say okay thank you and take it to your room and say hey oh open it yes open it let me open it you know those people who enjoy seeing your face and and making you happy and that's that's kind of the mentality i come from how are you getting gifts because i love to give them to but it's hard for me to get them yeah yeah i i have a hard time getting gifts and it's that same feeling i have a hard time taking compliments yeah i can have you dog me and i can deal with it but if you give me love i'm sometimes uncomfortable with that really i'm uncomfortable i really do like this hairdo this is one i really do like well okay uh how would you how do you how do you take that um now that outtake because i have been through my changes with haircuts let me tell you you know not only have you been you're the only person i think has changed hairdos more than me yeah and i've had it you know what what but your hair always looks good i tell you in the ghetto that's the word oprah got the best hair you know that right that's right at the naacp image awards every year she wins for best hair this is the one over i just love to watch the show because when she walks with the mic it bounces it's like a well-a flex commercial or something and you just like it's like yes oprah bounce baby [Laughter] so what would you change this fall you changed yeah yeah you know what i i was about to uh come back from a long hiatus we have a hair slide do we have a hair slight where where is the hair slide oh yeah mm-hmm yeah and at one time i had hello mom carved in the side of my head you know i mean i've had line you've seen the lightning bolts and everything uh did you like that uh well you know i went through my hip-hop period you know you know and i was too legit to quit i was going you know going through all kind of changes and um i took a long hiatus and i was about to come back and i was gonna do the mtv awards and then come back to my show after a little vacation so i said i wanna i wanna do something drastically different uh so i'm either gonna have a nose job or get a new hairstyle and i was watching a michael jackson's video and i said no i ain't going to do the nose job i'm going to pass on the nose job where's my crowbar anyway um so so i i had uh this guy cutting my hair and i said i'm gonna close my eyes do whatever you want to do and my man brother from atlanta because in atlanta hairs in pierre's brother hair hair is important atlanta you know it's more important than anything you know so where's your wife i i don't know man i'm trying to get my hair right i don't know where she went but uh so i mean you talked to deion sanders and all the guys with the hawks dominique wilkins hair is big and this brother came from atlanta and said i've been watching you and a couple people and i've thought about how you would look better if i did this or that he cut my hair cut eddie's hair and wanted to cut michael's hair and uh couldn't get through them big gates but uh you know and then he climbed and the monkey bit him so but this is the truth he said i've been watching you brothers and i'd like to do things based on your face and my man because i'm sitting in the chair and first i had this gumby vibe you know and i already need to bypass it and i got all this happening and then he did my hair like this and i had on a green shirt and i was like you know but but he did it and and and put this oil in it and and the hair's a king and i was like oh i am whipped now [Applause] oh yes oh yeah oh i immediately i went to the front office of paramount i want to do latest things the blues too i am billy deep yeah and i was really into it and i'm very happy with it i love it don't you love this i love this thank you thank you we come back ourselves some of his most memorable moments including that um sensuous kiss where you are watching tonight oh no yeah yeah i was watching that back in a moment did you ever think during the commercial break this this woman over here oh no sister come talking about all kinds of personal stuff did you ever think you'd be at a point in your life where people would be discussing personal body parts yeah i i can't honestly say that i thought when i was a kid growing up in cleveland one day i'd be sitting with oprah winfrey and a lady would say let me see your butt because you lost a lot of weight but is it still high baby let me ask you when you did when you you watching you watching living color absolutely so when you first saw them do you was it was was it funny was it funny to you honest to goodness when you first saw it you're watching okay you know you know what the deal is i saw the premier episode of living color and i guess there was nothing about me on that one and you know because i want to see what the show was like but i'm usually not home on sunday nights and then i heard about it uh-huh and hadn't you know because i hadn't hadn't seen it and then um there was a clip of it on a show you know and you know how you're walking through the house oh you never had this experience but you walk into the house and you pass tv and you say and then first she likes this and the smile come to your face because i'm a comedian and basically you have to have a sense of humor in your comedian and plus you you kind of thank god that you're famous enough to have somebody do parody on you because people have to know who you are for that to happen and that's what all that means um and when it comes to wow yes shallow missionary baptist church south side right on yeah oh so it's funny to you yeah you know it's funny because i can take jokes about myself now i've seen i've seen things about you and about whitney i would rather uh like especially living color specifically i'd rather them do jokes about me sometimes than maybe some of the black women because i mean i'm old school and i and it's like women are kind of sacred and leave you know you know what i mean you know what i'm saying it's like and plus there are only a few black female heroes and it's like and i would rather take the brunt of it you know tease me leave oprah and and whitney and you know you know what i mean it's so sweet white people look at me like what are you talking about well i tweeted you but i i now know it comes to terms i have to tell you the first time i heard oprah jokes and they're usually always eating they're shuffling their food or whatever i did not think it was funny at first but now it sort of comes with uh territory did you see the living color sketch i did not see it i heard about it but i didn't see it i'm not home on sunday nights i go out and hoop on sunday night i saw yours i didn't see when i was oh well thank you you're watching i tell you it's okay i sent it home oh look at his head when the producer comes to us like oh you know they're gonna do you next week oh i won't be home that's a really good point that's a really good point because the truth of the matter is when i watch because i because i've been in been in the hot seat so to speak you see that when i see people making fun of other people it's not funny to me because i always think about the other person it's not because i think when i hear liz jokes or when i hear you know people doing things it's not i think guys can take it but i kind of feel bad um you know because i know uh there was a thing done on paula abdul recently and i didn't catch that one either but i know it made her cry yeah you know and oh you saw it yeah oh y'all want to talk about [Applause] hey hey brother forget the crying and the sketch uh let's let's talk what is the deal how many times paul have been to your career that's what we're talking about forget to sketch how many times oh gosh i like this woman in blue back here wolfen because she had never whooped in her life but you're here you're here and she is she does not look like the wolf in tight but she today is woofing off [Music] see that's the that's the good thing about black people in the public eye we can spread our sensibilities to white america now white people are like oh now that's a nice butt yeah yes no more of the flat butt where you know white people getting collagen shot into their hips [Applause] [Laughter] and get my lips while we're here come on yes okay how many times um uh paul has been there a lot we're very good friends and um and and okay i tell you though right now paula is dating uh the fella from free jack what's his name yes emilio estevez was okay was there ever really something serious going on between the two of you like did you all ever sleep in the same bed together [Applause] [Music] [Applause] i'd like to do a gospel rendition of the oprah winfrey oh brother's on oh no oh bro hold on there you go don't worry i can say commercial commercial yes commercial we'll take commercial we'll be right back after this important message [Applause] okay i want to ask you this growing up in cleveland because i grew up mississippi nashville and around uh weren't you in the baltimore area in baltimore for a while were you intimidated interviewing celebrities at first were you um some some like uh de niro was very intimidating for two reasons number one doesn't talk much yeah he's a complicated interview without a script and nero's like uh yeah and i'm like come on bobby now come on man former sinkings my brother and uh and that was hard and also there were shows who had tried to get bobby you know the tonight show and letterman and nobody had ever landed him right so i felt there was a pressure on me because he gave it up to me and i was like you got to do it man yeah and so there was there was pressure you know but for the most part i i don't have you don't have time to trip because it's work right you know and for me it's like you're the producer and you're the host and you're out there trying to make it entertaining and make it happen and but what about legends like diana ross i mean oh cause see i remember i remember the night i remember the night diana ross and the supremes were on the ed sullivan show oh yeah i remember that night because we were color people then and everybody was calling everybody else it was when it was so rare to see black people on tv they say color people on yeah yeah by the time you called everybody they'd be off yeah i remember that night and really it just you know put a dream in my heart when i saw saw diana ross and i've still not interviewed her so what was it like for you to sit with diana ross the legend i i oh see i knew where this was going yeah okay okay first first let's roll the kiss oh [Music] [Music] oh okay [Applause] and i think too we have it in slow motion i watched the next night and was played back in slow motion yeah let's see yeah we do yeah we do let's roll it roll it oh i love this [Applause] you know i was just like you i would tune in to the ed sullivan show to see everything from the beatles to the temptations to flip wilson to the supremes and and i meet this lady and she's the boss yeah you know i know she's the boss and i'm gonna try to do a good interview and be professional and classy and all that kind of stuff and near the end of the interview the boss looks at me and she said kiss me so you know i'm i'm trying to keep a straight face but in my mind you know my mind is saying what the hell you talking about willis you know you know that's what's good and she said kiss me and i kissed her and then she whispered something like again yeah and you know i'm thinking reach out and talk [Applause] and you know and i liked it and i moved close to when i started kissing her and the ego jumped into it and said go on throw the tongue on it you know and i just worked it and lost my mind on that proceeding you know but but you know you only live once and and i don't know i think that night i went home and i said an extra long prayer you know it's like god i don't know what i didn't deserve it but thank you [Applause] do you go home and watch your show at night i watch it maybe three times i sit with my director and my producer and we watch it and look for things and and you try to make yourself better every day you come back and try to be better than you were the day before we watch it then like what will you watch and see and then try to be better at the next day um sometimes you can watch and say oh i should have followed that question up like recently i was interviewing oliver stone and uh he was showing a clip or i was showing a clip of the big synopsis that uh jim garrison did uh played by kevin costner and he has the stick and he's showing the mysterious bullet traveled through the wrist of conley et cetera and it dawned on me i had read that that was never done by mr garrison oliver took creative license and decided to change it it was done first of all by the d.a and in the movie also the d.a is a woman in real life it was a man and when we came out of the clip it was like i asked the question but i should have followed that clip up and asked why he did that because a lot of things believe me in jfk you watch and you really doubt your government and i mean there's some things that are a little shaky and you have to admit that but there's so many shaky things i was wondering why he had to change some real things that didn't matter and i should have followed that clip up with that question and you go home and you say oh oh it was such an obvious transition and uh and i beat myself up and things like that you know really yeah but i beat myself up a lot sometimes if i if i do a joke and there's an obvious follow-up you know like you get home and you say oh after i did the gorbachev joke i should have said and and the stain on his head and that that that and gone into that eye and and gorbachev with a sign that says we'll work for food oh i should have done that you know and and you beat yourself up because you didn't remember things or there was something better you could have gone to or this died you should have gone to that and and i go crazy for you do you have as much fun as do you have much fun when you're off the show as you appear to be having on the show um the the worst part about me as a person is i need to learn to loosen up and enjoy life and not make it such a professional journey i start 9 30 in the morning get home by 10 30 at night get back in the briefcase i watch tapes of your show i watch tapes of bob costas i watch other interviewers to see how they do it because i'm just a comic i'm not a journalist i'm not an interviewer trying to make myself better and i don't take time out to go and learn to ski or buy a mountain bike i only work and i need to loosen up yeah get a family get a child uh get a house [Applause] [Music] um with whom um uh lady in the blue looking kind of good when we come back we're going to talk about arsenio's very first talk show in the basement of his parents home back in a moment [Music] yeah of course i'm talking comedian active producer talk show host uh arsenio hall we're talking about competition how do you feel about it um well you know what i try to do is let me ask you this before you answer that hold up hold on did you ever feel in competition with carson did you no you know why as a matter of fact one of the things i think that helped me to succeed was not competing with johnny because 23 people over the years maybe more have uh treating the dust and tried to compete with johnny my philosophy was you know there are a lot of people out there who don't have a talk show who don't i mean when you look at johnny's number it's like at the most a high five and you're watching and you're saying that represents a certain amount of households which means there are a lot of people who aren't watching carson why are people going after his audience when the majority of people don't watch him in america there is a huge audience waiting to be tapped and i went after a young audience a young and hard audience that wasn't watching the man and i started booking guests i mean say for instance when i first came on the air there were very talented people the louis perry's the bobby browns the you know there are a lot of people and now it's it's it's gone on to getting stallone and and schwarzenegger and whitney and and oprah and all those kind of people you know because i've earned the big names and and the more commercial names but you take versus bobby brown bobby brown had the number one pop song not r b the number one pop song in america and i'm sitting talking to bob at a club one night my prerogative i think it was and he was like yo man i'm glad you're coming back on the air because i can't get on a talk show and i'm like that's deep you know so uh there are people that carson ain't into and i said johnny got steve and edie i'm going with luke perry and bobby brown and uh and you know and then expand to wasn't he your mentor wasn't he your mentor absolutely he was the architect of my dreams yeah i read that yeah i used to i used to watch johnny under the cover because my mother would tell me to go to bed and she could mom's are very smart she would look to see if there was a blue light coming from under my doorway and after i got beat for that once i learned to put the cover over the tv and my head and and you know and i was like this kid under the covers hell you know watching johnny and i said i'm going to do that and people used to say you're crazy man and uh and i tried to prove them wrong did you have talk shows in your own house were you practicing absolutely in my basement we used to set up cheers my mother would give rent parties you know where they uh play cards and serve chicken and somebody in the neighborhood who wasn't doing well and couldn't pay their rent you give a party and all the money that you take in at the rent party goes to that particular family and they would have car chairs that fold out i would take the chairs in the basement and set them up and do a talk show and have a guest come on this guy named junior in my neighborhood you know he would lip sync here i got sunshine and i said oh come on over and let's talk come on wonderful selection uh let me ask you you were born right here on the block you know and i would do my own talks though you know you know what um just just to get serious for a month i was i was at a jesse uh jesse owens awards dinner they were giving out um awards for jesse owens and um the night that you had magic on and i was telling everybody i got to get home magic's coming on arsenio got to get home and then in chicago it came on early they moved it up an hour so i'm rushing home getting my shoes off getting in the door and by the time i got home i think it was uh tom and roseanne were on that night so i kept thinking is it the right day is it but you moved it up and out yeah what happened is i i talked to a lot of station managers after i put it on the satellite because we tape in la and then three hours two hours whatever send it to other places in the east and the midwest and i said you know it's a real good show and a lot of people have to work it's a reality and they can't stay up and watch me but people who don't normally stay up need to see this show right because what i felt was you know when magic called me i i cried like a baby and then uh his manager called me back and told me when were you told i was told maybe maybe a little before everybody else knew and and then it started to leak and his manager called me and said i'm going to have a press conference today and uh and magic called me a little later again and said i want to come on your show tomorrow and i said absolutely whatever you want to do and it it reminded me of when kennedy was assassinated the way everybody at work everybody just was there it was like it was like no one could believe it it was depression in the country that day did you not feel it i mean you could be in a department store and everybody was watching monitors yeah and what i wanted it to be to be was a healing thing because we all needed to have that pain that we felt for this yeah he's all of our brothers and all of our our brother and and uh is that proper english yeah i mean we all love magic that's what i mean and we just needed to see him smile and see his strength and and that's what i wanted to do channel that through that interview because he is a hell of a guy he helped me get through this and i should have been helping him not uh fearing it i'm not down i'm here say hey i got it but i'm gonna live on and you don't have to run from me like oh here come magic [Music] you don't have to do all that you know you can still give me my hugs my high five my kisses and say yeah you taking your medicine you all right you've been working out because that's what i need you know just you to be you looking out after me i don't need anything else you don't have to feel sorry for me because if i die tomorrow i've had the greatest life that anybody can ever imagine if you're right it was a depression and were you you were depressed for i'm sure a while yeah as a matter of fact it's something that will never go away i know i've read journalists say well the magic johnson tragedy has a shelf life of maybe four weeks it's gonna have a shelf life for as long as i'm alive because um every day i think about my man i call him he's running four miles he's shooting jumpers at the gym uh evening and and i think about him and uh i'm working even harder on the whole age thing with pediatric aids foundation and amfar and and i already was into it i mean you saw me at the mpv awards with my little red ribbon but i never knew when i was wearing it it would hit me this close to home and there's no shelf life for me i'll love him until the day i die and i'll support him and hang in there with him um and he's going through a lot because people can be so mean yeah uh in times like this i mean i won't even i won't even give the negativity any kind of attention but oh it's amazing well yeah and especially the rags you know i live my life in the rags and what people what still amazes me is that people believe that what they see in the tabloids is true in fact they really do just sit and make up stories you don't seem to get as ragged in the rags as some other people though yeah i think they like you now yeah they either like me or they they know i'm on every night and i will wear them out yeah you know but uh you know because you know like oprah oprah has to be a lady and be nice but i can get ignorant you know and and do all the birdcage globe and star magazine jokes and and all that kind of stuff um i i hate the rags because once again it creates a lot of pain for people yeah when you deal with people like carol burnett and oprah winfrey there's a there are real people behind those pictures and and and we buy them it's sad that time magazine doesn't have the kind of sales that national inquirer has we flock to ugly negativity and the things that destroy people's lives and it amazes me i don't understand it you can love oprah but buy that stuff reach next to it and buy some gum and move on you know that's good it's it's amazing that's good questions in the audience [Applause] you're talking to arsenio hi arsenio my name is vicky brown and can i ask you a favor i would like for you to stand up and turn around oh vicky please okay well my question to you because i already know the that one qualification you have back there but my question to you what other qualifications do you have um to offer to a woman oh man [Applause] vicki said other than your background what do you have to offer you know what um gosh when when i love you and and i don't mean physically did you hear her you know and i don't mean that physically i'm the kind of person it's like i can be your worst enemy but when i love you you have never been loved like that before you know i'm real dedicated to people i love you know yeah that's that's great you you know what you seem to be so you i feel love emanating from you i you seem to really it's a genuine thing hey don't look at me like that my name is jenny and i want to tell you you've been inspiration to me and i watch you all the time i think you're wonderful and my question is what's the most craziest outrageous thing you've done since you've been successful not like a house a car but i mean like really crazy oh wow um one night um i'm not that crazy you know i'm not the animal house kind of guy you know cutting across somebody's lawn when i was little was bad you know but uh i don't know me and bobby brown and johnny gill were out one night and there was a long line in front of the men's room and we went and used the bathroom in the ladies room is that you know i mean it's kind of a funny scene to see us cause you all's bathroom is cleaner too have you yes it is and we were in there i mean in the men's bathroom there's like hay and animals and you know and you all have like a couch and a little lounge and finger sandwiches and it smells good and everything and we were just in there this is nice and my ferrari [Laughter] i just wanted to say times are hard around the united states but thanks for making me laugh every night thank you wow that's why i'm here oh okay i think it's a treat being here with both of you my name is georgette and uh i'm the oprah of the night you know that okay i love to watch your show and when you have clips and you embarrass people i i just die laughing i wanted to know because you're not one of them yeah you know you know can i say something about that i always even though i don't go to the artist because i want to get that surprise on their face a lot of times i will always all the time i will get a release from a publicist a manager or the mother or father of the artist like i'll go to christian slater's mom and ask if i can show this or do this that's where you get it from mothers and fathers a lot pictures and old stuff and information and i always try to make sure someone around them who knows them yeah we'll will say oh they can take that they would love that because you really don't want to ever bring something out that would hurt somebody and make them sad susan day was on recently and we found her first movie and uh oh you saw that where she's uh singing a song about of the south and it's like a take off on gone with the wind and you see her slowly sink out of frame towards his crotch area and i was like does she want me to show this you know and they said oh she'll laugh she'll love it she hasn't seen it in years and it never came out she and and she laughed and enjoyed it and i want them to be as happy as you all are you know cause you don't want to guess then what the hell is this i [Applause] so what you doing next um i'm trying to spread the wealth and green light some things for people that might not get the opportunity i have a deal to produce i have a deal to act in films i'm taking people like will smith i think will smith from fresh prince of bel air yeah i think he is a potential movie star and i found a script i've taken it to him i'm going to produce as a producer my first project will probably be with him i'm looking for projects for myself i'm trying to uh find good television programming that i can take my company and use it while i'm here so when i'm gone i can see what i left and how i made the industry a better place for somebody you know and then that's my responsibility i know i'd ask you to come on months ago and you couldn't and some so many things were going on because you're doing your show i'm i'm so glad you did because you're really a lovely [Applause] man

Channel: BlueCollarTestedTV

Views: 33,486

Rating: 4.891892 out of 5

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Id: e3t62iPy0Dk

Length: 42min 11sec (2531 seconds)

Published: Mon Feb 01 2021