John Candy Interview 1986 Brian Linehan's City Lights

[Music] that is John Candy with his friend and colleague of longstanding Eugene Levy in a scene from a new movie called armed and dangerous I just made a comment about that actor tell me his name Larry hanken he's very funny he used to be with the committee and with Second City I remember the committee now I remember where I know him from Larry's one of the members of that group or was one of the members of now did you know him in Chicago yes I did actually Larry was touring um with the committee when I was first there in 73 they came through town they were playing at a club there and they came over and uh workshopped with us and were teaching us it was great it was a wonderful week that they were there had a lot of fun we join them and then they join us and the sets it was great is it true that when you went to Chicago to do that job with second city that you thought you were going for 2 weeks and stayed a year y really absolutely it's not one of those press stories now where a guy said I had a twoe job at lasted a year uh I was hired here in Toronto um by Bernie sains uh Dell close and Joe flare I went to the audition um what was it was that church on um Bathurst and bler St um I know the one you mean yeah they had all the rehearsals down there and they had call backs the next day and then Bernie call on on the phone and said how would you like to go down to Chicago for a couple weeks I said sure I said what about the theater up here he said well we want you to go down to Chicago for a couple weeks just to get to know the stage there and work with that group there while Brian Doyle marray and Joe flarity come up here to Toronto okay so I I packed for two weeks uh not knowing you had to go across the border with a Visa and it was at the time when they were checking for draft Dodgers coming across so I was you know never really left Toronto uh for any long long period of time especially by myself even though you know I was 22 I was like well okay here I go and I didn't know what to expect from Chicago you know Elliot nest and The Untouchables uh the Chicago Black I didn't know too much about the city um big kind of scary got into the uh airport and the Customs pulled me aside and they thought I was a draft Dodger so they brought out the big book and they started going through the pages and now I'm frightened because these people are supposed to meet me Joyce Sloan uh and I'm now like 45 minutes and I have no way of getting to them and I I don't know what these people are doing and eventually the three supervisors came over and they're looking at me eyeballing me and one said uh it was just during the time of the hockey playoffs I said uh who do you like the Blackhawks or the Canadians I said Blackhawks is said going through St something and I was gone I got in the country and uh started out with him and I was there for a year and change really that was yeah was my twoe trip is it true John that it was it was Dan arroy who and Valerie bramfield who almost tricked you they the audition no they did trick me into it they invited how how did they trick you they had this audition uh they were already in Second City they wanted uh they said you should join this you should join this you should get involved they love you you're funny you'll do it I said no no no I can fool around with you guys but I can't do that stuff and besides it's a tough audition I can't go in there everybody in town is in there everybody across Canada was in there this place anybody who was funny you know part everybody from Party game everybody was uh Molson golden commercials at the time everybody was big in Canada and comedy was there and I'll never get a chance they said well we got to be down there anyway meet us down there for lunch and I was doing a children's theater show at the time and I was out U Rumple stillin in at toico and uh I went down there I was waiting around I was looking at everybody kind of in awe you see everybody from God spell gild d over there Jean Levy salsburg wow um this just a big group of people that I'd seen on television and I hear John Candy being paged and Valerie said come on come on come on go come on we put your name down I was like I'll kill you I'll kill you for doing this to me and I went into this theater and I was just in Andy arway and I went in I'll never forget that we went in and I was just like and they said going up on stage Del close uh going up on stage there uh this is department store exercise uh the object of the game is give and take uh you you sit over here you're the information clerk at an imaginary department store in which anything the store has anything so uh your objective is to give this man any information he needs that's all we want from you and you you come through a revolving door five times as fast as you can five completely different characters all right begin just went the sweat was all over did your mind go back to that night and the lake shore when you were in that lounge and your friend at the time did not have the courage to get up on stage with you what and you told a wonderful story but you looked out in this deserted Lounge on the Lake Shore and you saw a truck driver a guy with his girlfriend you went absolutely blank and did did somebody really get up intervie I wish I wish the heck I know who it was somebody came up and they said they worked with a CBC in some capacity and started do an interview scene with me I was doing the worst impressions in my life I was doing John Wayne Jimmy Stewart shake the beginning and end of your a treyo buy of drinks you know oh I have to ask you something because now we know that it's true that it was Dan akroy and Valerie bronfield who got you that audition or got you there y when the original announcement came out for armed and dangerous and Columbia Pictures was waving a banner I had the impression that John Candy would star with Dan akroy directed by John Carpenter Now movie goers have you with Eugene Levy directed by Mark Lester can you tell us John what happens along the way between press releases announcements and a movie really arriving in a theater what happened to Dan akroy and John Carpenter I became involved with the project I guess in 1984 December of 1984 uh I was asked if I'd uh read for this project this armed and dangerous goes back I think to 19 7978 it was originally written for Dan akroy and John balushi um created by James ke and Brian graser Harold rayus got involved with it Harold did a draft um it went on I think Harold and Dan were going to do it at one point and it evolved to where I was going to do it with Danny and John Carpenter was going to direct they asked me I said sure I'd love to uh I finished off Volunteers in summer rental I was about to go down to Los Angeles start shooting on it I get a couple phone calls from people saying well Dan's not doing it John's not doing it I said but I was I'm still doing it I have a contract I'm set as a matter of fact I've just about uh closed the deal on a house down there for uh for the summer I just sent a check in ah well if you want to come down that's great but we're not shooting it I said well you know what do I do I've got a a contract here I'm ready to go to work I said well we're not doing the picture so it was it was getting into a very legal mess at that point and I waited until the July 30th I think was the day they had to the last day they had to start shooting it and my contract was in breach and then I and then Colombia said no no no no no no no it's it's an act of God and this and that it's it got very messy and I was kind of upset at the at the whole process cuz I was I was ready to go to work on this but I understood Dan and John not wanting to do it for various reasons creative and artistic reasons they had for not doing the picture but still I was stuck and it would have got I think into probably about five or six years of uh legal work and Gene and I are starting to work in September SE September October we were back here in Toronto and uh we were kicking around an idea to do a movie together we'd like we enjoy working with each other so it's uh I thought geez you know that AR dangerous might not be bad you know it's it's written already it's there we'll switch the roles I'll take Dan's role I'll play the compy play the lawyer he read it he liked it so we called up and said okay here's a compromise you know let's not get into this legal um gobbly go let's would you be interested in the two of us doing it and and say find another director yeah fine go we we sent him a copy of the shangi the last paa because they didn't really know I work that well together and some SCV shows and they oh god wonderful chemistry you guys are great not played yet sure it was I mean speaking of another little bit of work I know but you know tell you what hold hold on to that and we'll take a break and come back with another scene showing what you and Eugene do when armed and dangerous continue be right back with John Candy John Candy as Frank duly on his way to a rendevu with his fellow security guard Eugene Levy who is Norman C and obviously in encountering difficulties along the way did you have some input in terms of your scenes with Eugene because when I when I read stories now whether it's Steven Spielberg or whomever you're working with saying oh that's all right you can write that moment was was there an input with the scenes between the two of you yeah definitely we've worked that's the way we always work always worked most comfortably together is whatever fits for us so uh doesn't really matter who's saying it to us uh we'll always yeah we'll we'll work on that for you you know watching watching your work with Eugene in armed and dangerous and remembering that after Splash came out I'm not minimizing any of the work that preceded it whether it was theater or second City the Canadian feature films the work you were doing in Chicago that stop in Pasadena California when you were commuting from Pasadena to Toronto did you ever think was that was that 74 yeah 74 75 how long did you do that back and forth Pasadena California Toronto uh God I must have made about 8 10 trips now because I came back to do uh clown murders I came back to do uh find the lady um and a few other things I was the the clown murders the one you did with Heath Lamberts was was Heath Lamberts in that one no no who was Sten young was in that Martin Burke directed that El Waxman was in that Larry Dayne was in that uh Gary Riki was in that John bis um shot it just north of the city here uh the Massie Ferguson Farm John what was the movie that you did before the Hollywood films where they dyed your hair black put a mustache on you and you were playing a Frenchman perhaps 50 or so 55-year-old French used car salesman uh a George seagull movie Mel Frank directed uh lost and found with Glenda Jackson with Glenda Jackson of course I suppose at that point all you can do John as an actor is say what are you doing it's a it's a sketch I will regard this as a seven minute moment in my life in which I'm creating a character God no I walked in the office uh to audition for this for Mel Frank and he looked at me he leapt across the T he grabbed my cheeks he says I love this face look at this face on this kid how do I age it how do I and he grabbed me grabbed me across the out of his office and there somebody else look at the face I've got here I got a honey face I want to make it 55 so he got the makeup in there and they said what are we doing to this how how do we age this baby fat what do we do to this like ow say I don't know I I I want you to have the job there's nothing else in the picture you got to have this you got to do it I'll make it work so they dyed my hair they called me in and they said we're going to give you a permanent I said well how long does that last oh it'll be out in a couple days and the dye o will shampoo out and I grew this real bad beer they said well grow whatever you can and we'll fill in the rest I have the worst beer in the world world it's it's gross looking kind of little gnarly and then they dyed that and my hair the permanent took for 6 months and the dye came out in different colors so it went from uh it was black it was a real bad raven black too and went it went to a purple then it started going into a pink and it was like so embarrassing God I didn't realize how dumb I was I'm just walking down the street people just looking at me oh was so embarrassing and for what what did I do I I was not convincing as a 55-year-old French she car salesman I'm sorry when you giving us I take full responsibility for lost and found not doing well at least that's what Mel Mel Brooks or not Mel Brooks Mel Frank said he blame me for that I think it's extraordinary because I remember after you did splash the success and people noticing you on that level in terms of a big commercial hit somebody asked you about the future and you said I'm not really interested in directing I don't have the zest for that I have the zest for being in front of the camera then you found yourself in the Wilds of Mexico you said in a in an apartment that had cockroaches the size of footballs and one day you got a phone call from a man named Ned Tannon which might not have been unusual if he hadn't been the head of the studio asking you if you would consider working with Carl Riner because Carl Riner would only direct Summer Rental if you agreed to act in it and I still think it's wonderful that your reaction was Alan Brady from the Dick Van Dyke Show wants to work with me I'm working with Alan Brady you know he's crazy about you he's very generous about you publicly and privately he's a wonderful man God he's so talented I just it's a great experience working with Carl just immediate just on the phone I just I called him up and he was just so nice so gracious and I I even told him I said I'm working with alen Brady and he started laughing singing as he began singing his theme thong SE nice going theme song from um The Dick Van Dyk show he was wonderful on that we'll take another commercial break okay be right back with John Candy John cand is with us we've been talking around and about armed and dangerous and I had told that story about you and Carl Riner and the finale to it was it after Splash you said no you'd save the zest you felt for in front of the camera but after working with Carl Riner and let's also point out Summer Rental unless I'm mistaken was shot in 8 weeks was packaged and in movie theaters in the short I mean it set a record nine weeks I think and also it made a lot of money for well you it made it it made its money back and and plus and that was exciting didn't you say after working with Carl Riner that yes you were interested in directing yes what happened did and I've changed my mind again um but if I go back to Carl again I may switch it back I just it was he made it look so much fun uh I he allowed me to be part of the process of making the movie and he walked me through it and was showing me what he was doing and I really hadn't paid that much attention before I mean I paid attention to directors obviously but Carl was showing me technically how to go through it and what he was looking for and that was very interesting very exciting for me and he took me into the editing room showed me what he was doing how to do it he wanted my input on it that was the first time anybody really said well what do you think what do you like do you like your take here or do you like your take over there that's the first time i' had those options aside from working at Second City my God I love this man this is what making movies say yes yes he's you know just giving me U new found energies in other directions and did you really make that remark that is now credited to you to Steven Spielberg at a Hollywood cocktail party where when you looked around the long before You' done 1941 or Stripes could you tell us what you really said to Steven Spielberg when you saw all the leeches and the hangers on hovering around him well I I thanked him for he he was we had a big party at uh at our house uh we were finishing off writing a season of SCV and this party Grew From 100 people to about a thousand people maybe a little exaggerating a little bit but it's very close to that the house was just wall to--all people outside inside and stepen Spielberg was there and I had had a couple drinks and um people were coming over to me stepen Spielberg is here he's here he wants to see you like yeah okay right you know thank you excuse me I've got a drink to get here and an hour later they said he's waiting for you and I thinking you know it was a joke I went over there and there he was uh he was just surrounded by a lot of people he say John John I I really like your work and I'm thanks very much and I had a lot more confidence cuz I was uh under under the influence of a couple ruming Cokes at the time but he uh said I'd like you to do this picture 1941 I have a role in it for you and I think you'd be perfect and I said oh gez I really appreciate that you know I think there's a lot of other people around here who uh want the job a little harder than I do they're working a little harder for it I said I really appreciate that I know it's a party and we've all been drinking so thank you very much and uh I appreciate that you watched satv he said no I really watch it for the movie yeah okay thanks I think I said a few other things too it was all a blur after that I think it's important John to end this conversation by pointing out that you established the rules right off the top with Hollywood yes and you've had Integrity all along and we'll pick up on this another time okay thank you thank you so [Music] much John K is with us it's a pleasure to see you and it's a pleasure to be sitting here with you you know I did something a few moments ago I gave you a copy of a film review written by Pauling kale in the New Yorker magazine because I said I wanted you to read what Pauling kale had said about your friend Andrea Martin and a number of thectv family including Eugene Levy and Rick Moranis and the people who did Club Paradise and of course I I knew the story about what Pauline kale had written about you at the time of Splash and the feeling is that industry people read Pauline kale and Pauline kale can have a profound effect on what producers as opposed to directors yes indeed think about you did that Rave she gave you really affect your career did you get a feedback from producers saying I read Pauline kale yes I did actually yes uh I think it was very influential for me um I received a lot of phone calls that week that that that came out and um as people started taking me a little more seriously I started uh people were actually offering me work on a regular basis and that Splash really helped me a lot and Pauline Kale's review didn't H at all I have a question for you why tell me why now in your opinion we can talk about the extraordinary and deserved success you have had and how Eugene Levy and Rick Moranis and Marty Short and some of your other friends and colleagues have joined you in that success but Andrea Martin with all the wonderful work and Katherine O'Hara with her Brilliance why John has it been tougher for the women out of thectv group and there are people who keep saying to me Valerie bronfeld could be a star but she seems reluctant she doesn't want to be a star well I does Catherine not want to be a star do you think Andrea doesn't want to be a star is it slower for women I in general it is I think it in this business it is slower for women it's harder for women um I have no idea why they are weren't just scooped up from the first season of sectv seeing what they could do why people weren't just pounding on their doors saying give me these two I think they're such incredibly talented people and it's so gifted and yet they're fighting to get get a role here and there you know Katherine picks and chooses her roles she really does I mean after hours heartburn there's she saw things in those roles the people she wanted to work with um that doesn't mean I don't think she turned down a lot of things I I I don't think Katherine wanted to play uh you know the wife here in this role you know I think she was offered uh Katherine I hope you don't mind me talking about this um vacation she didn't want to play it no I don't want to just be setting up all the time you know I she didn't see the character I mean you're talking about National Lampoons vational vation which you first first time you played a security guard yes as opposed to armed and dangerous in which you play a security guard Park was closed that day former policeman yes I just find I find that fascinating you know because I I agree with you and what I'm saying out loud is I think Andrea Martin and Katherine o'a are extraordinary brilliant performers I can appreciate Katherine saying I'll work with Martin SC sty I'll work with Mike Nichols The Prestige of working with those people but then you want to see more you want to see them you know as you did with Carl Riner carry the movie and then they can say as you did Gee it's not quite the same as a supporting role you don't pack up and just go home you work a lot harder sustaining a movie maybe that's a contributing factor too yes quite possibly I I I would hope that uh Club Paradise will uh will do a lot for I know it will do a lot for uh for Andrea uh I think she's going to be doing three Kate and alleys this year I know uh which is a very successful show and it' been good for her a good exposure for Andrea for people to start seeing her again because SCV had really limited viewership uh although we were in syndication we are in syndication now we've had uh we're on in a lot lot of markets but still a lot of you haven't seen the show now John what's going on you are you one of the principles behind the plan for the SCV family Prime Time us Network duar I sit there and knit trying looking at certain Executives guiltin guil ja one jug two um is it really in the works yeah uh I had a meeting with Kim lamaster who's uh president of uh uh CBS right now and said I I first called all the cast and said would you be interested in doing maybe a show if if if it's possible everybody said yeah and I was surprised I didn't know everybody you know felt the same way you know we had talked about it and I don't think anybody wanted to do a series again everybody's careers are going different ways but how about just doing one in kind of a reunion show so I went to CBS I had an association with kiml master and he he loved the idea so I called everybody back and I said I think they're interested and now it's in the works it's in uh business Affairs so if all works well there'll be a ninan company doing an hour special on prime time for CBS ah while we're talking about extraordinary women I have to resolve something with you you there's a woman in Los Angeles who when she gets people in her home almost puts them in a chair and ties them up while she screens the last paa which she keeps telling the world is one of the greatest funniest most wonderful things that have ever happened in the world of Show Business and that John Candy and Eugene Levy are brilliant now be Arthur keep saying I love him I'm going to give John and Rose the welcome to LA to this Canyon party how did bar Arthur enter yours and Eugene Levy's life what is the history of this friendship um our costumer on the movie Betty Lee ballon um said you know a friend of mine is just in love with you guys Who's That B Arthur you're kidding big fan of yours great fan of yours would you have lunch with her said are you kidding sure and we met she's like the sweetest lady had so funny this great lunch and she said I'm throwing a party for you oh you don't have to do that I'm throwing a party for you welcome to La do you want dancing I I don't know I'll open the tennis court we're having a party you're a neighbor now I was F no you really don't have to do that no no no it's done consider it done you just Nam the day she like mod you know okay you jump when B says no I've been kind of sidest stepping I'm embarrassed to that you know one of the things I liked about her whatever you say to Bar Arthur bar Arthur listens to you and then she says what are you saying to me yes and you go just a minute and then you repeat it what are you saying to me are you saying and I mean the woman's extraordinary but we know her talents yes as an actress and I I don't know if people are aware of that woman's history on the New York State did a lot the work she did in the theater the training it's extraordinary just extraordinary she tell me a story about Mel Brooks she went to uh when they when she first came to Los Angeles they all stayed in the same Hotel I can't remember the name of the hotel and Mel was there and uh they knew each other from New York and he said what are you up to said not much you want to come up have a drink so Mel comes up they're talking why we're talking about how Funny Mel BRS can be so she goes into her little kitchen to make a couple gin and tonics and still continuing this conversation this straight conversation about New York and who's doing what and who's where she turns around Mel Brook's completely nude sitting there she continuing to talk she for a joke that's what it was like back then you know we were talking about show shows and KN knowing all those people and how insane M Brooks was do you imagine how Mel Brooks and an bftt are an evening at home now when Jean Wilder and gild ragner come over their new best friends we'll take a break on okay be right back with John Candy and more right after [Music] this a John K is my favorite favorite of them all why is John your favorite he's just the funniest guy I've ever been around you're going to work together uh we work together the what Saturday Night Live the first show that I did right he hosted and I was so nervous I could barely speak and Candy would just sit there and make me cry with laughter just making fun of me or doing these characters you know as Johnny Laro guy and and uh he held my hand through that show and he was the host and he held my hand he was really sweet there is somebody saying something wonderful about you John certainly was I had a very good time with him you know isn't he nice guy y beyond the fact that I admired what he had done in about last night and looked forward to the conversation with him and knew of the exchange between the two of you is he about to work with Dan akroy what's going on now with Dragnet Tom Hanks I thought was Tom is doing draget I thought so I just thought Jim bounc something else too that I thought Dan was involved in don't know while I'm on this let me ask you another question when I was asking about the history of armed and dangerous am I right in believing that somewhere along the line Orion picture said that John Candy and Steve Martin would star in Three Amigos yes is that true that was true yes may I ask you what happened to that one along the way U since we know Marty Short is in it with Chevy Chase and Steve Martin right um I just didn't feel comfortable with the project at that time uh I wanted to work with Steve and they showed me the script it was uh there were a few other projects pending around that time and this looked like it was going to go on for a little longer and I just really wasn't ready to do that one at the time I wanted to go into something that was a little closer to production and it was it looked like it was going to be a long writing schedule and back and forth and I was I hadn't moved to Los Angeles so it looked like they were going to write there I was going to be up in Toronto and I oh I can't do this this is going to be 6 months writing and I'm going to be away from home I don't want to do do that so I decided I'd stay stay here and take another project a little closer so I ended up in Mexico I no now we talking about that's what that's really that was the volunteers time yeah you came back from Mexico was all around that time they wanted to do it Three Amigos has been around for about three years I just saw Lauren on a plane uh Lauren Michaels on a plane yesterday I feel a little nervous around him you know it's odd when you turn down the script I feel real guilty um did Marty Short call you and ask your advice or did you you find out by reading a newspaper that Marty was doing the movie with how I found out really well they were originally the movie was going to go shoot in Europe it was going to shoot in Spain they were going to shoot in Italy then they were talking about shooting in Mexico I thought I'm not going to go over there I don't you know I'm it's I don't want to do that right now I I don't want to haul everybody over there and we're going to be flying then they said yeah we'll live in London and you'll fly back and forth and weekends to Spain I said no I don't want to do that that's not what I want to then that's and I told Marty said let's write down a list the pros and cons what's going on here and uh this list kind of weighed heavy on why not to do it and I said all right well I'll come in to call Lauren I got to to call him and tell him I can't do it I was like real nervous about it because I you know I I wanted to work on this picture but the way it was going I just didn't see it was going to work in my life and I thought Marty was in agreement with me and I find out Marty's doing the picture but it worked out great cuz they shot it I think in Arizona and Los Angeles so there I'm out of a job now I know you're friendly with Norman Json has Norman Json come up with a property for you recently no not yet no no nothing well maybe he knows how busy you are with Touchstone and Disney where are you on three pictures a year as a writer performer creative producer yeah I don't know what happened to that you know I started off with Tom will height uh uh who was an executive at Disney one right after Splash he was the he was actually the one who initiated that uh proposal to me he said would you like to come come and work here of course and he was the only one in town really who had expressed interest in me producing and writing uh they saw something in me immediately we had signed the papers Tom will height was out Kim lamaster was in and Dick Berger we're running the studio new guys hi I'm John Candy I just signed a deal how do you do I was wondering if you can look at some of the things I had and Kim was very nice and dick was very nice I just started working on a screenplay called con job with Doug Steckler Mike short and John mandra who were working while we were putting the shies together I was working on the screenplay with those guys who was kind of supervising this little funny story about a a college town that was taken over by a prison and uh how the lives of the people in that town now have a prison in their we in this beautiful old stately College soon as that draft was finished Kim lamaster was out D Berger was out Jeffrey katsen is in hello my name is John Candy I was here a little while ago I didn't never had an office anyway here's the script we don't like it okay um I'll be down here uh if you need me I'm over here give us some time to get settled in here we'll see what happens and that's really where it is I don't know um they're off making other things and me I went off and did I I think three or four other pictures in the interim so I really don't know where that is um there was another project uh there's a couple projects that I had worked on for them but I think that deal is kind of over it I just got caught in a in a shuffle when you express the kind of admiration you've expressed in the past and you talk about British comic actors whether Alec Guinness or Alistair Sim Peter sers then talk about Americans that have given you pleasure Abbott and Costello the three students Walter mat Walter mat are you are you and Eugene is there any of the Abbot and Costello that you admired or The Three Stooges that you tried to incorporate into armed and dangerous just in terms of the physical comedy and use of each other in spirit I think it's there yeah have you ever seen Gan do butt Abbot the classic butt Abbot I mean he's has him down to a te um there are touches of that in our work I think with all of us in satv with Joe as well and with Marty and Dave and Rick everybody's got touches of those things and when we work together little sparks happen like that uh working with Jean there's a wonderful Rapport the two characters usually the characters we always play are kind of vulnerable characters uh the schies or Dr tongue and Woody toas Jr on the 3D horror films with count Floyd and uh um there's always a there's always a little sensitivity in the character it's always fun it's very easy to work with Eugene there's a uh writing the scenes um that we have for the show or scenes in the picture seem to flow the dialogue comes out there's uh it's it's easy writing with Eugene and he finds it the same I think and there there just a real that's overused but there is a nice chemistry between the two of us all right on that we will take a break be right back with John Candy [Music] John Candy is with us I I was talking to you during the commercial break and saying I've been announcing these things about movies you did you didn't do deals you have with all of these companies you're a star they say John Candy's worth a million plus a movie what are you doing next I mean armed and dangerous is available to movie goers what's next in your career well there's uh a possibility of a picture with Mel Brooks called Space Balls uh this fall and you can tell him the bar Arthur story that you know all about him yes and I'll use that negotiating with Mel Mel is very difficult in negotiating I hear so that'll be the next month and a half negotiating with Mr Brooks and uh I think that's going to work out I'd love to work on that and then there's a picture this January February that would be 87 um John Hughes wrote a script uh for Paramount and Howard deuts I believe is set to direct it as yet is it is Untitled and uh very funny story story hysterically funny story I laughed a lot when I read this and I'm looking forward to working on that I have something else I want to ask you because I remember once having a conversation with you and you had gone into a pricin plan and after after Splash had been finished before you'd gone back to work you had brers one point lost something like 70 70 75 lbs M put 50 back on thank you did you yep got to go back again Brian but let me keep running that play what was the advice that your buddy is it Alex Caris the man who who happens to be very fortunate Mar to Susan Clark yeah stop eating after uh he said you can eat anything you want all day stop after 6:00 I think it was don't eat after 6:00 and you can't start like at 1 minute after midnight either you know you get up in the morning and eat anything you want all day and it worked for him that's the DI he was on and you remember he was a big guy he went right down but he was a he was a football player who killed people so I mean he had a reason he had that going for it didn't he but then I remember too when you were going to be an athlete if not a journalist or a court reporter of careers you've had yes candle salesman and I lost my kneecap to that not one day in the Pro ranks that I make it you can do it on Artis but I've got the arthritis to prove it now though have you really yeah boy so when you talk about candles I don't I don't forget that summer when you were out selling Christmas table napkins and candles a traveling salesman who had Christmas table napkins in his bag yep uh the trunk was filled with Halloween uh Valentine 's day Easter happy birthday greetings from the Disney characters uh oh yes oh that was fun and then I ended up in a rehearsing for a show with Gail Garnett Valerie bronfield Ron olich Don lro um God I'm probably leaving some people out and Stephen Katz directed it and we toured uh the parks in this town worked at the poor Alec and while I was rehearsing for that I was supposed to be on the road and they finally caught up to me and fired me you vowed I'd never work in that business again are you talking about is this was this at the same time as the children's theater when you doing things like Treasure Island and going from playground to school to those days no that was after that that was just after that I I finally realized no I'm not going I'm not going to do anything else I'm going to stick with acting so I went right into Rumple still skin Treasure Island three fourman company we did 20 characters God oh you're throwing the Jolly gestur in two now are Jolly gur with James iask absolutely I will I know what you're up to and we know what's in your future am I correct in believing that your wife Rose and your daughter and your son are very happy in their new home in California I hope so what bit of a shock now to find out that your daughter Jennifer was said I don't like the winter she was four at the time I tell you she's got me wrapped around but things are good for you in California oh yeah it's real nice we still keep the home up in Toronto we never get rid of that it was hard because we were commuting so much in traveling I felt it was uh it was easier to keep everybody in one place and give a little continuity to our life and to especially to the kids uh that's why we decided uh maybe it'll be best down there since most of my work is generated out of Los Angeles now make make a lot of sense to stick close there so it's nice we're living right near Joe flarity and Andrea Martin's up the street and Marty Short is about five minutes away and Jim Belushi is um three doors up from uh Joe flarity so it's kind of that Community is all together again and I'm just trying to get Eugene and Deb to mve down and Catherine and we'll have everybody down there that's going to be some party when bar Arthur throws it she'll be in seventh heaven with she'll sorry she said that I've enjoyed being with you thank you so much you're very welcome see you at the airport John okay all right all right thanks so much pleasure enjoyed a [Music]

Channel: Brian Linehan's City Lights

Views: 84,913

Keywords: SCTV, Armed And Dangerous, Comedy, Second City

Id: BUPbm7IFjRU

Length: 40min 30sec (2430 seconds)

Published: Mon Jan 25 2016