Danny DeVito Answers the Web's Most Searched Questions | WIRED

hi i'm danny devito this is the wired incomplete video what this is the wired autocomplete interview [Music] part two do i remember part one no first card what was danny devito's first job i was like 14 years old little kid got my working papers in asbury park i put the little kids on the on the kiddie rides you know like the rides went around in circles like a car or a boat or a fire engine they were little they gave me the ticket and i pushed the button and then we go around slow on a boardwalk and i say ring the bell ring the bell and the fire engine steer the wheels to the wheel you know what i mean and then the ride would end and i take them off that was my first job 14 years old what was danny devito big break i was in cuckoo's nest but everybody thought i was an inmate but taxi was my big break that was the big one 1978 before many of you were born you can throw those papers away these papers okay they're gone okay what is danny devito's accent jersey very jersey south jersey i was born in it's kind of like a philly baltimore thingy but it's jersey and it's a little new york my father was from brooklyn so i got a little bit of that philly is very what i do on so he's sunny is a little bit more we we exaggerate it is it taylor ham or pork roll oh taylor ham taylor ham on a hard roll with some mustard in a and lettuce oh man i could i want one now what characters does danny devito voice well right now i'm in little demon and i voice satan a very nice guy okay well to some what is danny devito like in real life hmm you tell me i don't know you're looking at me are you looking at me are you looking at me what am i like in real life i don't know next board here we go well this is going well is danny devito a method actor well i have my method yes did i ever work at the actors studio i did a couple pla couple things there once i subscribed to like the constantine stanislavski precips but i do like stella adler i do like lee strasberg but it's different you know you take a little bit from each one is danny devito a grandfather no not yet i love kids and i can't wait because i am gonna take them okay let's see is danny devito related to arnold yes arnold schwarzenegger he's my little brother is that who you meant oh arnold couldn't fit it on the line schwarzenegger right would've gave it away arnold palmer we get along really well he is the really cool and we have a lot of fun and we can't wait to work together again is danny devito from philadelphia now i'm from new jersey asbury park new jersey which is where bruce springsteen claims to be from but he's actually from freehold but when he was doing his first album he wanted to call he couldn't call it greetings from freehold so he called the greetings from asbury park i love bruce is danny devito a good penguin well you got to tell me am i the good penguin come on there's no contest so i remember like it was yesterday i used to get up five o'clock in the morning to go uh v kneel master full she was a incredible makeup artist she would stand there with like a pot of glue the pot of glue the key thing is it had to be cold in order to work and she would come over and she would take this big fat brush freezing cold glue and put it right right there then she put the nose on and once she did that and patted it down and powdered it piece of cake i was in for the whole day didn't bother me didn't even know i had it on i acted like the penguin then as soon as the nose went on so beware how did danny devito become an actor my sister had a beauty parlor and she gave me a job in the beauty parlor can you imagine me in the beauty pal she sent me to school i went to become a hairdresser and then she wanted to get into makeup so she sent me to new york to go to makeup school aha the only thing is at that makeup school there was also a drama department i took a class and i got hooked on it i just didn't want to do anything else except become an actor how old was danny devito when a couple minutes ago no now then 20. how old was danny rito how old was dannyville why are you just sticking to the old thing okay i'm old all right wait how was danny devito stoned baby you don't want to see me stoned oh i pulled him wrong oh i didn't pull the thing the tab how how was danny devito in taxi i had been around 30 something 34 33 34 years old i would bet how old is danny devito and romancing the stone tiny bit older i did taxi for five years then i did romancing the stone and romance with stone is like in the 80s so you figure it out google me will danny devito will danny devito be in the live-action hercules i am the live-action hercules what are you talking about philip tatis if they don't put me in that they don't have a hair on their ass okay next call next card and thank god there's two cameras you can always cut you know what i'm saying when did danny devito join sunny i'm not sure of the year but i think it was 16 years ago maybe 17 years ago why did danny devito make matilda well my kids brought the book to me they as they were reading it the chapter book written by roald dahl and i i just loved it but i said if i'm gonna make another movie i gotta make matilda because it was for every kid i imagine i thought it was and it certainly has been i think everybody really dug it where is danny devito's what my hollywood star i got great real estate if you go to grounds chinese theater or the chinese theater as they call it and go across the street there's my star i don't know who i'm next to because i'm a self-centered actor you know how many actors it takes to screw in a light bulb one he holds on to the light bulb and the world revolves around him where to buy danny devito's limoncello i'm not sure where you can get it now i mean i i had a lot of fun making it doing it and i i still think i have a couple bottles around my house did danny devito own a restaurant i'd lent my name to a restaurant in miami with the hopes that it would be successful and uh it became a lot of it was a headache and so i took my name off the restaurant and that was that i had enough of that was danny devito on snl yes i was many times i hosted it five times i have a clock that they gave me to prove it i am a member of the five-timer club and uh we had a great time and i loved it was danny devito in friends yes i played uh officer good body and friends and i stripped kind of and i had a great time doing that was danny devito in who harry potter no no no i wasn't in harry potter i don't think that was uh richard griffiths was in harry potter if you ever see with nail and i he was in that too oh richard really terrific actor was danny devito in the seinfeld no i was never in seinfeld were you initially going to be in seinfeld no i wasn't i wasn't ever going to be in seinfeld i think that jason alexander and i have a sam a similar look that may be why people think you know i was in that okay here we go let's see last one danny devito danny devito and aubry plaza yes is so much fun she plays my wife the woman i love in little demon and she is the mother of my demon child and she's a great actress and she's so much fun to work with danny devito body pillow well you can you know you probably could find one i think you can find a body pillow i have made the shape of danny devito if you want to hang out with it you have my blessing any you know production company jersey jersey films made lots of movies a lot of the movies that i've directed and things that i've been in plus pulp fiction and aaron brockovich and lots of things matilda and we now uh co-producing a show on fxx called little demon this is my first animation and it was really really fun it's very very interesting learning it took us a few years to do it i've been in animated movies before as an actor and has voiced them but i've never produced one and no lucy and i and jake my son who's also a part of little demon with aubry and also this guy dan harmon who does that rick and morty show he's also a producer danny devito when he was young oh yes when i was young what was i doing i was just hanging out you know living in jersey eating pizza subs sandwiches danny devito urologist oh yeah i did the thing with mikey d i played michael douglas's um urologist in uh the kaminsky method mikey and i go back really long time and you heard about the lawsuit right i played his you know proctologist and uh we're in the middle of a lawsuit now because i'm trying to get my watch back terrible joke okay anyway the questions are great and i'm really especially when you asked me about little demon is on fxx it's a 10 o'clock show so keep the little ones away thanks for watching peace

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Length: 11min 33sec (693 seconds)

Published: Wed Aug 24 2022