Johnny Carson 1974 01 17 Richard Pryor

here's [Music] [Music] [Applause] foreign [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] look like a test pattern for an obscene television channel well that's that's new isn't it you like this um link is not the word uh I feel like I'm going to a silly Lumberjacks convention yes I know well let's see let's get to the news there's nothing funnier than what's going on in the news they said there weren't going to be any more Bombshells from Washington right uh and there seems to be some more problems with it with the tape uh with minor little problems but uh I think it's time we got off the president's back I think everybody's entitled to make five to nine mistakes in a row I mean what's all the fuss about the tape was accidentally erased nine times Could Happen uh it's like Germany accidentally invaded Poland twice I want to tell you let me put it this way we got about as much chance of finding out what's on those tapes as we do a thing Howard Hughes guest starring on celebrity bowling foreign if you remember this old joke that goes back 15 or 20 years about the guy that was arrested for stabbing the man in the street and the guy says he came around the corner and ran into my knife 27 times backwards uh it's a weird thing someone is in trouble now as I as I understand it I'm just reporting the news you understand only three persons had access to that particular tape Rosemary Woods uh so she could be in trouble Stephen bull so he could be in trouble President Nixon so Rosemary wood and Stephen bull could be in trouble Senator Baker came up with an interesting statement you see that he said this potentially could be damaging to the president it's like you're falling out of an airplane at 30 000 feet and the ground could be potentially dangerous well I don't know what's going on does anybody follow that at all the whole thing is getting so incredible now you just have to sort it out hello Tom my posed for that thing they sent out on Pioneer 10 remember the itching they have with the with a man from space where they stand like this how are you Tom very well nice to see you Tommy is may have noticed but Tommy has said certain nothing uh he's uh I kid Tom but he's a little dog let me give you an idea the other night he watched The Waltons and The Waltons fell asleep oh isn't there any good news around in the world your Housewives will be excited to know guess what's going up the price in this country very quickly the price of meat meat is going up again tremendously something something's going crazy here first gas went up now meat they finally got us how do you siphon a steer um the Wilderness societies you know they were they were fighting with the government I guess to win concessions on that Alaskan Pipeline that they finally given up uh they're going to build the pipeline they did get the oil of companies to agree to one thing they're going to spend 100 million dollars so as not to go through Yule Gibbons oh that's not much of a joke but um if I'm not near the joke I love I love the joke I'm near make any difference what else is happening John Wayne is in the news you see that in the paper I admire what he did he had an invitation from the Harvard students the Harvard Lampoon which is a satirical magazine to come back and visit the campus and I didn't think you'd take him up on it because they've been blasting pretty good you know I was being very you know his political views and he went back there and took him on and came out pretty well did you see in the paper he came through the streets in an armored personnel carrier with with guys from The Fifth Army or something like that on it the only reason he did that because his tank was in a repair shop or he would and there was an Indian protesters uh along the Parade route and just from force of habit you're ahead of me right John Wayne had all the students form a circle real fast did you know well tonight this is gonna be interesting show how many of you have seen The Exorcist the motion picture all right we have we have the author of that good book and the producer of the film William Peter Blackie is here tonight uh and if you couldn't figure out what that picture was about uh Mr blatty will explain what it was about he also said he's going to stay after the show and drive the evil spirits out of the studio do you see Mr blatty in line he was the one sprinting holy water out in the air he's here tonight we have Mr Fernando Lamas we have a very funny gentleman Richard Pryor is here we have a new young lady on the show tonight this is her first appearance on the show I have not met her a lovely young actress her name is Robin Hilton and uh she's going to join us tonight the staff has met her pretty girl pretty girl oh okay okay one of my word dog go what is this jacket molting already or something thank you for coming we'll be with you in just one [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] I thank you we'll be back here is Doc now with a word about Alpo [Applause] so we have a new start a mural back of the band there new backdrop yeah how about that what happens is that turn two yes what happens when we turn it you see something different oh and it turns again oh and it turns again it says goodbye more to come we are gone but I missed the guys good job John Trump is John Truman the people from our prop and our department do that very nice but I missed the picture of the guy that they used to have up there well I was a little I thought you know egos too big a picture no that's that's not true either they didn't tell me they were going to change it I understand John is not with us anymore don't save that I would have Tommy Newsom is going to do something this coming we will not this coming weekend but the weekend following this weekend Tommy Newsom is giving a concert and a clinic 26th of January how about that I understand the concert part right you play and so forth what's the clinic what are you doing the clinic well they hope to have it cleared up in two three I know that see the people might be interested I'm asking legitimate questions no get a straight answer but you sit with the students and talk about music and technique and so forth as in a clinic I've never been to one before either students are certainly in for a wonderful what what would he do what would he do at a clinic now no he'll get up and he'll uh he'll lecture on uh whatever subject that he chooses at that moment probably he'll uh lecture on what is Johnny Carson really like no come on now clinic is no a clinic Eddie Sean as he goes man has clinics with the drummers and they sit around he would get up and talk about drums I would get up and talk about trumpet playing good Tommy would get up and talk about dullness [Laughter] we can't tell me a lot about we've seen he certainly deserves it actually I'm going to talk about how to find peace through death [Music] [Applause] Tommy has gone through all of that so he knows this is really reincarnation there anyway he didn't they talk about the his uh his instrument right and so oh yes are you going to do that man trying to conduct a series show and pass on some knowledge to our viewers and you two clowns sit here okay anyway he's gonna be back in Green Bay which is probably lovely there this time of year why couldn't you get a clinic in Florida or someplace or Palm Springs you gotta go to Green Bay I'm going to Florida in July that makes sense makes sense September clinic North and Death Valley that he's he walks across he and 30 musicians try to walk across Death Valley you know as much as we could Tommy yes he writes really some of the most colorful and passionate music that we have in our possession that's true I mean there's a lot of the charts for the orchestra yeah and that in itself is really great music he should have been put away years ago okay I've got some odds and ends here you get these things in the mail at home you somehow in this country you get on mailing lists you know there are companies who sell your name and address to all kinds of companies around the country and you get on the mailing list where they send you the contest gimmick that's going on the various companies you could be a grand sweepstakes winner you get those all the time in your mailbox Dear Mr Mrs clarn you are lucky you you are one of the sweepstakes winners mail this certificate in and so forth gentleman sent me one that he had entered a contest his name is Walter w-o-l-a-n-s-k-i well enska I believe and he entered and he got a he got a letter from the Reader's Digest and he was notified that he was a sweepstakes winner remember that it's always a sweepstakes winner and his check was in the mail he sent me the check I want to show you first of all I got his name can we get a close-up first of all they sent it to Mr woolandki instead of wolinsky misspelled his name he lives in Lindenhurst New York and here is his wonderful sweepstakes winner zero dollars and ten cents true now I'm not making this up he got a 10 cent check yes one of the sweepstakes winners isn't that a lovely contest had to buy the magazine what's the magazine sell for half a buck then eight cents postage he lost 48 cents on that deal isn't that something I guess uh but he's a winner he's got the check here I don't know what to do with the check uh here's an eye to me you know if you think you got an energy crisis here London countries um England and Holland really got countries they've got problems of course they have countries the picture of the girls that work over there in the uh what's the club well they're they're strippers and they've turned down the heat and these girls have to dress and make up by candlelight there's the only Heat they have in their and they're catching coals and Goose pimples and it's a terrible situation over there this is sad isn't it yes it is that certainly is agents are yelling don't give your cold a contact give it to me that's direct from there this is the silliest item I have seen in a long time from England Halifax England sisters Tina and Tracy O'Brien age three and four left the hospital yesterday after recovering from New Year's hangovers three year and four years old they had drunk a bottle of liqueur and some other alcoholic beverages that apparently got three and four years old and they got stoned and they went to the hospital can you imagine a three and four-year-old with a hangover and how do you sober them up they're too young to drink coffee right three and four years old and they got bombed put them in the Ed McMahon Ward Grace yes let's see drinks uh who do you think the woman's name is the president the women's Christian Temperance Union uh in this in this country is liquor dealers admit that since the energy Crisis began the consumption of alcoholic beverages has greatly increased her name is Mrs Fred twos t-o-o-z-e I don't know why that's funny Mrs two's drinks no booze I mean the whole thing is n't that wonderful Mrs two who's said D for twos and he Rhymes to that yes there are in words we didn't use uh you're in a terrible mood tonight did you know that the coast guards men and women now share the same bathrooms they had a problem they took women on the Coast Guard they took women into the Coast Guard and they said it required too much money to build a let's say as they say in the Navy it's the head right um so now they share the same bathrooms in our what are you giggling that you thought of something terrible again yeah I just saw the sign on the door his and Miz you you're on something tonight that's crazy all I can see is a camping walking and somebody's saying dad foreign do you know what filler items are in newspapers what they call fillers these are little items that they they use to fill out a column when they they don't have anything else this must have been the slowest news day ever I don't even know what paper is from this is what they call a filler item the Jan smutz airport has been ranked from Africa Johannesburg Africa has been ranked as the world's 35th busiest now would you say it's a slow news day has been ranked as the world's 35th busiest airport that Little Gym what's in there I got the third fattest dog in my block what is I don't understand this as 52 000 takeoffs and landings and serve 2 million it's only the world's 35th isn't that interested 34th is a wheat field in Topeka I think what else we got here these are just some crazy things you know but I love the sweepstakes I got one the other day where they actually had my name printed in them have you seen those where they send your houses wouldn't you like to see your name here and then they printed your name and address in where it says Grand sweepstakes winner they offered me one last week to win the Dream House of my choice have you seen that one they put your name in you can win the Dream House of my choice have you ever uh by accident uh gotten on one of those mailing lists for uh obscene items not by accident no I mean really no I didn't make no accident about that at all I said send it right here no yes I I've received some things in the mail there is not a request and you open them up and that's wrong and the first thing you should do is go right to the Postmaster General or write the company and say immediately advise them that you want your name taken off of any kind of mailing list you have a right to do that you know if you receive this stuff in the uh I mean in the mail it is unsolicited you simply write back and say I right now get my name off that mailing list that's right I mean how many sets of whips can you use what list did you get on I got on the Crazy Foam and uh no they do they do send all that stuff because they they're a business in this country who do nothing but make up lists and sell them to other businesses so you could be on a mailing list and not be not ask for any the best thing to do also you do not have to pay for anything you know that comes to your home unsolicited if you can keep it you don't even have to return it well you got to pay for those whips that's what you get off for those you're on a free chemo tonight but you know sometimes they will send you something in the mail and then ask you to to pay for it you do not have to return it nor do you have to pay for it if you get it unsolicited but the best thing to do is write the company get off the list because look there's a lot of that mail we'll get in trouble now we'll hear from all the the mail order people tomorrow are saying we make a living doing this uh that's what I was gonna say oh we have on the show Fernando Lamas William Peter blatty the writer and producer of The Exorcist uh we also have Richard Pryor and we have the young lady who will join us by the name of Robin Hilton oh yes I have not you must have seen it I have seen Robin Hilton I have not seen her they say he's pretty young lady this is a lady for sure and I want you to treat her with dignity we'll be right back afterwards from one of our sponsors yes Google [Music] my first guest this evening is the young lady we were just talking about uh she's a young actress her name is Robin Hilton and uh this is her first appearance she is going to be uh in Mel Brooks new film that he is working on uh which is crazy from what I read once it's called Blazing Saddles that'll give you an idea of Mel's mind would you welcome Robin Hilton foreign nice to meet you and everything they've said about you is true you're a lovely looking young girl thank you thank you yeah you've done television before not our show but I've never been on other shows yes not any of the talk shows but you've done a lot of the situation uh what have you done what do we might have seen you in let's say police story a police story let's um temperature's Rising I do I haven't done a lot of Television yeah where are you from originally yeah Twin Falls Idaho figures I guess yeah that's nice country back there really that is beautiful country a small town uh yeah it's the third largest city in Idaho which doesn't mean anything yeah yeah I'm from a farm actually not from the town yeah how long you been in California about two years yeah what made the girl from Idaho to decide to come to California oh uh to be a movie star really why did you enter Beauty contests and things like that no I didn't I don't believe girls do they go into a local beauty contest and somebody says why don't you go to Hollywood and right no I decided when I was three years old to become an actress right I decided I'd be a star why who did you admire when you go to movies when you were young oh yes yes I would say uh before my time I'd say Carol Lombard a super fantastic fantastic right Clark gave me able hi how about the current people don't you tell me the current young Stars Intrigue you Neil Diamond Neil Diamond right yeah that's it DOC you have fallen quiet over there no uh I seem to have lost my Congressional Medal of Honor Never laughs and stealing from Jackie Vernon I might add at the same time also well you take them or you're fine yes can I help you look for it no please please don't you know if you do celebrity bowling will be in here tomorrow and you'll get to see Howard Hughes I think I know where they went to where it went don't mind him he is very easily Disturbed yeah what did your folks do hi folks your parents yes my father is an experimental engineer he was a farmer did you ever live on a farm oh yes I was raised on a farm really oh yes when you tell people that they got to say oh come on right because you don't look like a typical farm girl no I do that's uh yes I was raised on a farm and it's true what they say about Haystacks yeah and The Farmer's Daughter yeah you probably read all those jail tracks yes I have most of them are true really yeah well somebody told me you don't drink no I don't smoke no I don't because I just personal belief that it's bad for you and no I do other things can we come back and talk a while oh I'd love to throw a couple of Frisbees or something we're gonna be right back after this word in general the Excedrin PM it's the pain reliever that helps you get a good night's sleep [Music] [Applause] turn now we just we disappear once a while for commercials and stuff if you just join us this young lady's name is Robin Hilton from Twin Falls Idaho grew up in a farm and came out here to become a movie star and is now working have you finished the movie yet with Mel Brooks oh yes it's called Blazing Saddles I read this he said that sent that script to me wants to read it was called black Bart at that time and uh they changed it to Blazing Saddles they decided that black part sounded too much like uh a black movie yeah yeah it's a crazy insane script I remember reading it on it it's just nothing It is Well Neil Brooks is totally insane I mean incredible man incredible to work with yeah very funny I play um Miss who Miss Stein Miss Stein right his secretary who doesn't tithe and doesn't take shorthand but has other redeeming attributes how did you meet him now did you meet him through something else you had done or did you have to go audition or yes I did I just walked in and he says Ah you're Mr Stein you just walk in the door and Mel just made his decision like that it was very fast before I didn't have a second wardrobe before you know what you're up in a wardrobe right that's very good but he didn't hear you read any lines or I read two lines two lines cool what word I don't know whether I want to ask you what those lines were like uh where is wardrobe and how are you Mel uh right that was just about anyway the Wardrobe I don't have very much wardrobe in you know I wear uh sort of a little nighty kind of thing I think they call them corsets that was the name yes yes they used they used to have questions and sort of a misty lilac and I were about five inch heels so that he hits me just about here and he's very short he's very very tiny with Incredible energy always running around yeah he's like uh he's everywhere all at once that's metal um excuse me these short naps help me I'm getting as I get older sometimes I tend to fall into my food and uh you're meditating yeah I do matter do you meditate that's very good no oh that's good yeah are you somebody told me you're an astrology buff or not well I'm in astrology numerology uh uh all of those things Uranus you're a Scorpio I am a Scorpio that is true very Dynamic sign Barry lethal most of our presidents have been scoring well I think that's a compliment I really I didn't know that uh yes they're uh very sexy people well I hear that but how can you tell you think it really makes a difference when you were born that whether you're going to be sexy I mean it just turned out this way I could have been very strong like to get ahead they like to have the last word uh stubborn yeah I hear that all the time a lot they're stubborn stubborn people what sign are you a moon child how sweet it is very sensitive they usually called cancer didn't it not yes they change it to Moon child again yeah what's with moonchild yeah right how about moonshine Moon children uh that's your best sign you know it's your best sign no your sign Scorpios like Moon children so oh I see I see it's good for me to uh be involved with a with a with a moon child yeah what you're raising your hand you want to leave the room or what huh no in case she doesn't interest you I'm a moon child [Applause] so that's interesting and you go for numerology and uh all of that stuff huh right I believe in reincarnation you believe in reincarnation you believe you've lived before do you know do you have any idea what you were before when you were here lots of people do they say oh I was here as a Aristotle I was here was uh you know a Queen Nefertiti oh no no no I don't know I've always been feedback I'm sure sure oh would you like to come if you had a choice you could come back to somebody else in your next life would you choose yourself or would you prefer to be somebody else I know I like being myself it's fine would you choose someone else I think it might be nice to give somebody else a shot and come and come by the aunt come back to somebody else oh like my wife's first husband I don't know it just occurred to me I made that as a compliment if you think my dad is a cobble no I I'd like to come back as a woman once a woman I really would just to see what it would be like no I think every person would like to be of the opposite sex at one time or another to feel emotionally and physically what the makeup is like to be of the opposite sex wouldn't you like to know what it's like to be a man at certain moments yeah I like being a woman yeah that's what's that's what I want to find out no I like being a woman I want to be a woman every lifetime it's very pleasant thank you a word for it somebody said you've been offered to do um I lay out in uh in Playboy magazine and you have elected not to do it right yes right now lots of young ladies would think that would be a fine opportunity no they offered me but 10. they didn't I hail that for 11.50 but 11.50 no uh I think that sex I think being partially undressed or partial is much sexier than total nudity I think uh I think sex is is an imaginary thing anyway it's totally true mind and I think it's much more fun to undress someone than have an interest exactly I think that's the fun of Christmas is opening the present [Applause] I think that's very good philosophy in your part they but they offer you a lot of money don't they do something like that or used to be yes they do they have material you're 5000 that much yes they did yes they offered they offered more than that fine well if I'm not being personal do you mind telling you how much they they go up to around 10. I'm selling out for 11.50 on Indiana wrestle Virginia Graham naked in Macy's window it might not help your career at all actually no I don't think it would I'm just fine what are you doing now you finish the movie yes I just did another movie and then I'm doing the series Doc Savage it's coming up February sometimes February yeah well it's nice to have you here tonight thank you are you all calm down you said you're a little nervous because thank you wasn't this easy it was very easy was it fun I was fine we'll um no I did that once in it headaches we'll uh return after this word from formula 44. [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] uh my next guest is a good friend and a fine actor and a director just started a movie that he wrote and will direct calls scavenger you said you've never met him right no I haven't I'm really excited really okay would you welcome we excited to meet me I mean oh of course oh wow find out would you welcome Fernando Lamas [Music] thank you [Music] foreign [Laughter] she gets up on everything I didn't know she could yes you're a very lovely lady which inclines me to believe that the glandular system is the most important system in the entire body [Applause] because everybody anybody can have a couple of legs you know foreign can't we ever get this discussion on a high plane with you that's a very high place that's a very high plan yes Alexander and do the straight line for me later there's not recognize the law of gravity he's unbeliever we are a very beautiful lady not only that you're warm and tender and intelligent I was listening to you backstage yes and of course you fluster these two gentlemen to no end don't know why you Latins are always you pour on the actions [Music] it's trembling you see it goes with accents always have an advantage it helps a little bit don't they because the average woman thinks a patella has an accent whether it's French or Spanish or whatever is somehow mysterious and uh has more emotional qualities within him and that's true it also it helps when they do not understand you you know right I always say I didn't say it I didn't mean that I mean another way it just came out that way like how about it don't you find that with women also definitely if a woman has a uh an accent that men somehow get a little bit odd because I think she is mysterious most of the time they're just dull you know have you noticed that the mysterious people are generally mysterious because they have nothing to say and I think it's a marvelous way out you stay in a corner mysterious serious people it's a very interesting man like this and stay very serious maybe a patch in the eye people so he's really something yeah yeah I was a little more seriously it's not a bad idea let's try it one of these days who would you like to meet in Hollywood you haven't met Robin I mean I'd like to meet her outside of you and um Nail Time Neil Diamond very big with Neil Diamond way back yes you got to think about him yeah I have a thing about that you know what what thing do you have about it it's purely physical that's the only way it should be to begin with you know Danny might evolve into something spiritual and then you drop it laughs I mean I always try to get a different deeper relationship at first already yes isn't that longer yes but it takes longer right well certainly well what happens if when the moment of truth comes and she says that's why you worked so hard for all these weeks now what it's better to go right to the moment of truth then first if that works then the rest is easy but that anxiety of waiting and waiting and waiting if it's going to be good that's bad you know I always feel like I'm at a boys school when you're here and I just I'm just going in and you're giving me a no no no no it's just a different technique I'm sure yours is just as good as mine but it's different yeah right well you used to have we talked about this when I drink a commercial you used to have a very violent temper yeah you said you've got it under control no password I got a more or less under control yeah yes have you ever met anybody who's got a worse temper than you have seen with many people yeah especially ladies yeah many big it's difficult to fight with ladies yeah because I give you a slap across the face and if you slap him back you're a brute if you're slapping back you're an idiot she got a slapping back because how could you go through all your life being given things without returning them it makes you selfish don't they do that in some countries the men physically uh oh yeah definitely would you wish a man to slap you no I don't like violence of course not I I don't believe in in slapping women I really don't unless they slap you first you know because I feel that when they slap you it's because they probably want a little bit back really yeah it's a tension that builds into some things sometimes yeah [Music] I don't think I could really do that no no if you got hit first have you ever have I ever been hit by a lady well it wasn't a lady he was not a lady well no because if you would have been a lady she wouldn't have slapped me right right that's a that's a marvelous way out yeah it's beautiful no I was a long time ago when uh my temper was what I didn't know about temperature but I had to learn to control it right well you have to as you mature and grow older and tired you know of a lot of things yeah age will do it every time every time what do you do when you get depressed do you ever you always seem to be in a good mood you've never seen the no I I uh you know up and down with my my ways I like it depressed sometimes yeah what do you do about it frustrated and well before I used to just sit in the chairs oh my God everything's terrible and just sulk but no I tried to just knock off that negative feeling incorporating a positive on top of the negative yourself talk to yourself that was the devil standing a little devil standing there I said get out of here leave me alone it's raining so what it's good for the plants the potatoes in Idaho are going to be big how do you do well here's my spuds yes whatever sponge your potatoes don't people know that but they are right I don't know why I thought about that yeah who would you like to come who could come back if you could come back in another one I'd like to be a kangaroo you'd like to be a kangaroo kangaroo okay a lot of jumping around yeah no but seriously yes who would you like to be you know I haven't thought about that but I was listening to you backstage and it might be a very good idea to come back as a woman I would wouldn't you like to know yes get kind of even right you know right learn all of their ways you see women are terribly strong yes and interesting much more than we are I think they're little babies women are much more so strong much stronger in a crisis then when things go wrong women are much stronger than me you know what happened if we had to give birth Humanity would end in a month no more kids forget it yeah oh it depends no no more and they go along they have 10 12 kids and they're marvelous you know we used to do a thing on the show talking about if you were in a hospital room yes in in one room and somebody had to share the room with you and it couldn't be a relative or anybody a blood relative who would you choose if you had to say six months now six months you're saying that just as a physical thing okay six months you're gonna be in the room oh I'm the only person who has incapacitated if I were incapacitated let me choose somebody with a certain spiritual qualities and intelligence how we can discuss things I'm very serious I know you are I'm sure you are all right but you find the strangest this thing is inside of buildings that appear to be something else from the outside yeah definitely it's true I could be very stimulating longer than six months well I'm sure you got it okay yeah so who would you choose what kind of person huh anybody you could have your choice but you're six months if I can be serious for a second it is an interesting efficiency serious for a second okay sure half a second I would like to be with somebody so highly evolved spiritually yeah that would probably help me go through whatever it was that was keeping me right there in the hospital and I were somebody to discuss the problems of the moment the fears the anxieties that would go obviously with a situation such as that yeah I don't know if it would be a man or a woman or dog I don't know what yeah but in that case something that would answer some of my questions anxieties and fears that we all have in situations such as that you know now if I was physically capable right of Performing then I wouldn't need that type of baloney foreign right because you see how sweet and how tender everybody is when they think they're dying and the moment they get well oh this before so just for the moment that's it that's for the moment you know I hope I figured you'd say something like that anyway we have to interrupt here for brief moment we're coming right back stay with us [Music] Richard Pryor is with us tonight he's got a very uh unusual mind very inventive he just completed the movie Uptown Saturday night and he'll soon be seen on the Martin Luther King special which airs on January 24th would you welcome the very inventive Richard Pryor Richard foreign [Applause] I used to do stuff that was interesting because I'm from Peoria Illinois and it would get kind of dull and I'd go and hang out with the Winos on Sundays because they knew everybody you know especially they would speak to anyone you know drycle or anybody hey boy where'd you get that tape you live around here who's your people why'd you get them teeth fixed blood dripping all out your mouth why don't you take care of yourself boy he's like go to the bars and watch fights people love to fight when they get drunk I used to watch them especially they always want to fight all well always a friend of mine that fought the police I knew he was bad right cause the police would do anything to you right you know they move along stop having some much fun [Laughter] oh well would stop that hey man don't push me with no stick Mr Officer I'm all way off six foot five weigh 245 pounds bring five of my chips I know you understand you understand now why don't you call downtown and ask about me all well remember last summer when the 15 police come got that and four or five of them got messed up that's me mess with me I'm gonna bite you on the neck and you always go to bars when the guys get drunk they started fighting some dudes would really get weird and want to fight women right they always want to fight the women right again [Music] no hold me man give me a drink man yeah ever get a beer for the house one beer what's wrong with you ugly woman nobody messing with you turn your face around I'll knock who are you chump I don't care if that's your mama you're gonna hit me insane man no don't hold me man don't let me go don't nobody hit me baby don't nobody hit me and get away with it or do something baby foreign [Music] [Applause] [Music] haha thank you baby you're my man I'm gonna get him I'm gonna kill him baby hey Mama hey Baby opening the door it was me what's happening babe what's wrong with you I know my breath smell bad I've been outside in the ballroom baby trying to defend your honor all right you know what's your name what busy in the glove compartment I got that from a lady at the store baby my shopping bag must I asked her alone here bro for like a carry the groceries off you know I love you baby I'm gonna get my clothes off I'm crazy about you baby I will make love to you tonight baby you better believe it [Applause] [Music] [Applause] the great things to draw on when you're growing up right because it's all true Saturday night fights yeah at the bar I grew up in the Midwest and there's a small Midwestern town on Saturday night the kids from the from the farm I live another small town but the kids from the farm would come in on Saturday night and no fat on them at all just one large bone it would come in and the sun would hit them you know the neck would be all pink here and white from that on down and up to the arms and it was like they'd hit you with a club you'd say something and it come back about this far they were tough on the farm I remember Farm dudes we used to have a lot of semi-race riots yeah you know you're just fight in your neighborhood race right in your neighborhood then Monday you go to school and wait till the weekend but we used to and it used to be a bit hillbilly dude man used to walk and it was Charlie eggie he didn't want nobody to walk through you say hey look man you walk around the other way you understand I'll dust you off it was a big farm guy said well I'm just coming along Anaconda oil okay I'm just walking down through here I said don't you come down to him and the cat didn't fall yeah when the dude went my man [Applause] we'll be right back [Applause] we're back my guester Richard Pryor Fernando Lamas and uh robin lay down at the end there Robert Hilton um what's it going to say to you oh I found out and I should have known because I remember when I first talked to Mel Brooks about the picture you were one of the writers on this yeah Blazing Saddles also yes it was Blackboard yeah I hope they still keep all the stuffing it was one of the most crazy scripts I'd ever read in my life absolute nonsense if it comes off it can be a very very funny picture Brooks has an extraordinary hit for comedy you know the man well so does this man you know he's a genius in comedy is unbelievable yeah really really absolutely Insanity thank you good to see you again good to stay back I understand you were back in Washington working there and we're out yeah I did a big smash back there yeah man it was the first time I ever did a concert and I was always scared that people you know wouldn't come yeah so I've been afraid to do a concert because it's very embarrassing right to walk out nobody there four or five people yeah tendency to give you security do you have politicians I mean people from in government I don't know hope not what is it did you go at him to be friendly with them now you grow back and then you mentioned Peoria Peoria Illinois Peoria yeah were you thank you influence influenced by movies when you were a kid last year last LaRue was oh yeah he used to always fight and jump up at the end remember they jump up and knock the Cats Out him and fuzzy cute I like Bob Steele Bob Steele Bob Steele was in the movie once we saw on television man I don't know if we was high or what but it looked like no it looked like Bob Steele said to do that was fighting look like Bob Steele said lighten up yeah then you did you play Cowboys standings uh yes we did yeah yeah it's not Indian so much you don't want to didn't know sometimes my mouth don't work I have to do that no carried through there's no need to stop in the middle and try to clean up you got up one night we were talking the last time you're on the show uh I was interviewing somebody right and you just got up went hey yeah yeah you said you just had to clear yes everything out once in a while yes I do we don't have a bathroom how young were you when you first feared in front of the public my first uh my first my uncle Dickey bought me a cow suit right with two guns and stuff and I was in the front yard you know and all the families sitting on the porch and there was some dog poo poo in the yard and I slipped and fell in it big screen and they started laughing so I got up and fell at it again [Applause] that's your first rule of Comedy the old dog poo poo fall it's in the books will take number one I think there's two or three things then you progress on from there when was your first time I was in school play and did something silly said something and everybody laughed and all of a sudden you find that by doing something usually with sounds yeah when you were a kid you'd do crazy sounds or voices and you find out you can get people to laugh you can get hooked can you do a sound for us right I hate to do the ones that got the biggest laugh we uh waited all kinds of terrible things in school you know but but you find out very early that you can get reactions so you do it that's all yes so we'll take a break here sell something have you seen The Exorcist [Music] [Laughter] [Applause] good it's nice to know you enjoyed it I thought you didn't like it for a moment here's the word McDonald's and nobody explained it to me like that right [Music] William Peter blatty is with us tonight uh who is the author also the producer of the motion picture of The Exorcist and the book as you know was on the bestseller list for over a year and um those of you who've seen the motion picture a lot of things have been said about the film uh practically every place you go now if you're a cocktail party or in the home that that picture comes up and you get violent reactions on both sides some people think it was a great picture some critics thought it was uh was not well I'll tell you one thing when you see the picture you it leaves an impact on you when you walk out of the theater you have known you've seen something uh would you welcome the author and producer William Peter blatty [Music] foreign yes bill I wish I could ask you one question that you probably have not been asked since that picture came out but we screened it one night and about 10 people watch the movie because I people told us before you see they said don't see the picture alone they said see it with people and I think it's better to see it with people because you get Divergent reactions to the picture yeah I know it's there is a one should not see the film alone which is probably part of the problem with some of the negative reviews you know you kind of viewers insist upon sitting alone in a cold screening room and there is a chemistry I mean the film is an assault upon the nervous system it is that and and the concentration of other bodies around you and other brains around you is a part of the effect or the impact of the film yeah it's like watching a picture in a drive-in sometimes where you don't have the reaction with the other people you're hearing it all by yourself did you think the pitcher was going to get this kind of reaction now as I said it the some of the critics in the East didn't care for the picture many other reviewers of um fine credentials thought it was one of the year's 10 best pictures who seems to get that kind of a violent reaction but I suppose that's true in this kind of a picture or anything that is is shocking uh and has a controversial theme about it well I I wouldn't be so benign with some of the reviewers who were negative I mean I think Pauline kill for example needs an enema and that uh no I did not read a review did she uh I mean her review is review is always it's so full of personal poison attacks upon the makers of films okay what what do you say about a woman who who thinks that psycho was a playful film that the French Connection was a fascist film I mean this is this is a serious study for the psychiatric psychiatrist I think Paul Pauline I've asked picture excuse me interrupting but I've asked people who saw the picture and said they didn't and they said well I said did you read the book and they said yes I said well there that's what the picture is really you followed the book very faithfully and the book was horrifying and it's shocking and it is uh it assaults your senses and I assume that when you want to make the picture that's what you went to do was to that's what the story is about to move the viewer this is uh based upon what we believe is an actual case and uh in addition to having a passionate impact upon you it's supposed to tell you something uh as you know there are people who've been fainting in the theater between five and ten every performance and uh you wonder is that too much well when escolis's arrestees was first presented before an ancient Greek audience it's reported that grown men fainted and uh of course you want it really only a psychiatrist is competent to to comment on on why we get this reaction but I hope that it's because that the viewer is some viewers are frightened but it's touching a nerve and I wonder how often that nerve is the realization that the horror on that screen that demon is the ultimate father to the ultimate blood relation to in the ultimate Destiny of cheating your brother and calling it business yeah I think that's what it comes down to uh but I'm happy about it I'm you know we have the smelling salts yeah handy all the time and uh I'm sorry that some people are made uncomfortable for it but I'm glad because it's done what it's supposed to do it is a shock of it but I found the interesting thing about it as you say when you see it with a group of people you find out that people are are affected by different things where some people will see a particular scene that might be physically unpleasant that doesn't bother some people but the language of the young girl which she uses upsets them tremendously well it should they see different things it is upsetting but the grown people will have different reactions what they see is horrifying or obscene I might I myself excuse me I'm sorry the the picture had any effect in the world after is that all right the girl is so psychologically sturdy to begin she's okay oh she's trimming I think that was I don't know how that's especially when I read you know I read I read that book before he went into the prince you know nor Marshall gave it to me oh yes with your type right yeah and that was a thing like this and I said where are they going to get this girl to play this you know and what is going to happen to the girl in the process of getting involved in this thing yeah Fernando she giggled after every take I mean the whole procedure was silly to her oh really and you know what it is you're surrounded by 80 technicians like Cape Canaveral yeah people forget that I almost watching the pictures sometimes had to say no wait a minute I know that there are 80 people standing around and the prompt men are doing these things to get my own mind away from what was going on almost to bring it back to reality I'm almost a very religious feeling myself a lot of people have said that that there is a the Catholic news which is the official archdiocesan newspaper from New York City called it a very deeply spiritual film as a matter of fact they're calling it actually a fight between um if you believe in the other fight between Satan and and God right that's that's what bug Pauline kale she said this is the greatest recruiting poster for organized religion since going my way and it irritates the hell out of her you know I really think Miss kale needs a has a speech impediment namely her brain which if I've uh if I've located its uh position correctly uh the enema should say I mean she belongs I want to do a number on it I mean these people you say whatever they want about us and we never have any recourse or rebuttal license okay he wrote the whole book about it she loved it no she is a part excuse me she's part of a small set of elitist reviewers in New York who who are so trapped inside the squirrel cage of their egos that their view of the objective world of reality outside is necessarily very blurred every pronouncement that they make is is a papal bull I I have very little well it certainly it certainly is not disturbing the number of people who are going to see the motion picture I read in the paper the other day that I don't know this shoot almost sounded like a publicity item that the student would put out that people were lined up at seven or eight o'clock in the morning you'll see a 10 30 screening and couldn't get in and got angry and there was almost a riot there were four to the Harry Francis the manager of the National Theater showed up early in the morning to prepare for the early the 10 30 a.m show this Saturday morning and he found between four and five thousand young people camped out they had they'd done that uh Rose Bowl when you say young people how old because I did say something on the other the other night on this show that I don't think young children and I tried to do no they should what I mean I'm talking about children under 15. or younger I think it might be a little too powerful for them and a little too it could be very have a great effect on a child that yeah you know might have a few problems an equally great problem is uh the neurotics among the adults are going to see I mean that has just this terrible effect upon it [Laughter] she could straighten you out you think it's a straight film you saw it as a musical what do you know let me let me ask you this bill let me take this break here first we'll come right back after this word of Interest [Applause] [Music] [Applause] about The Exorcist um the rights of exorcism as such obviously you research this because I read from what you said from the uh and the Catholic news said that obviously this was carefully researched and there are times when this has happened these type of cases so so-called possession by the case in 1949 in Mount Rainier Maryland suggested uh the novel as a matter of fact in the Paranormal phenomena in the film occurred in that case although I stressed that there were no murders no deaths right the characters were not at all similar that's all a work of fiction only the symptomology of possession and the Paranormal phenomena come from that case and some others although this is the only one that I know of that personally that you know I think is authentic uh there has recently now been I just heard in July of this year in San Francisco a case where a whole family was obsessed in the right of exorcism was performed I think there's a UPI story on that breaking on Sunday as a matter of fact is this still a right that is performing well yes uh it is in the the Roman ritual uh of exorcism uh in you know in Asia and in various other societies it's it's a common occurrence but I again I stress for the fear that there will be so many people who possibly are a little neurotic who are going to suddenly decide that they are possessed that it is so rare you know I know of one absolutely authentic case in this Century in there to my knowledge in the century and only three exorcisms have been performed around the United States so it's nothing to get a piece of tape which the quality is very bad because it was of course not done professionally a portion of an exorcism performed in Rome uh about five years ago by monsignia no Paris now this is not a study I mean this is not actors or anything no no no this is an actual the exorcism took several months was this for a person because they also do it for buildings I understand or they can well that exercise yeah the place uh but uh this was of a person I would I'll I'll talk about the person after you've heard it because I think you'll be a little startled as I know nothing else about the case except the four personalities are manifested and it's just for the sound of the possessed all right let's listen to the uh the audio tape you will hear the priest and yes you'll hear the priests [Music] that's uh I don't know the worst case of croup I've ever heard in my life that's what I said incidentally one of where we were reviewing your film when the little girl was having these violence and the physical gyrations just to break the tension because everybody in the room was so shocked I said bad case of croup and everybody kind of got back to normal now that guttural moaning sound that that is the possessed and I don't know what I know of one's allegedly paranormal phenomenon in that case which they're supposedly were many an imprint of a demonic Visage on the wall suddenly appears was this a man I uh this is a 15 year old boy which is uh you know I find a little bit chilly but I really don't know anything else about it except in in uh in cases of possession and I we must understand that 95 of the time or or more we're dealing with a mental disturbance nevertheless the sound is Someone Like Richard why does the devil possess like uh young people well uh a i I know although it's been widely interpreted as being Satan himself who is the possessing entity in my novel and in the film I've never conceived that one it's a demon it's a disembodied malevolent intelligence and they call it a devil if you wish you afraid him as to why who knows but fictionally in the film The Target of the possession is not the little girl yeah a priest at the end yes yeah who has rejected his own humanity and it said and it says by the devil at the end right yeah at the End by the way the ending is so widely misinterpreted uh I know it's obscure a bit obscure in the novel but in film I think it's so graphic yet people appear in such a State of Shock they're not seeing they're not hearing fifty percent of the people that I talk to think the film is a downer because the demon wins at the end they think the demon is taking the psychiatrist out the window not at all bill I thank you for being here tonight thank you an exciting picture but uh don't go if you're real young I agree thanks for being with us thank you thank you Richard thank you I'm humbled by that Applause that's right you know I love you baby help me get my clothes off I'm crazy about you baby I won't make love to you tonight baby you better believe it [Applause] [Music] [Applause] thank you [Applause] great things to draw on when you're growing up right because it's all true Saturday night fights yeah the bar I grew up in the Midwest and then the small Midwest Island Saturday night the kids from the from the farm I live another small town but the kids from the farm would come in on Saturday night and no fat on them at all just one large bone it would come in and the sun would hit them you know the neck would be all pink here and white from then on down and up to the arms and it was like they'd hit you with a club you'd say something and it come back about this far it was tough on the farm I remember Farm Dunes we used to have a lot of semi-race riots yeah you know you're just fight in your neighborhood race right in your neighborhood then Monday you go to school and wait to the weekend but we used to and it used to be a bit hillbilly dude man used to walk and it was Charlie eggie he didn't want nobody to walk through he said hey look man you walk around the other way you understand I'll dust you off it was a big farm guy said well I'm just coming along in the kind of way like I am just walking down through here I said don't you come down to him and the cat didn't fall yeah then the dude went my man [Applause] we'll be right back [Music] we're back my guests are Richard Pryor Fernando Lamas and uh Robin white down at the end there Robin Hilton um What's it gonna say to you oh I found out and I should have known because I remember when I first talked to Mel Brooks about the picture you were one of the writers on this Blazing Saddles also yes it was Blackboard yeah I hope they still keep all the stuff in them it was one of the most crazy scripts I'd ever read in my life absolute nonsense if it comes off it can be a very very funny picture Brooks has an extraordinary hateful comedy you know the man well so does this man you know he's a genius oh tremendous in common is unbelievable yeah really really absolutely Insanity thank you good to see you again good to sit back I understand you were back in Washington working there and we're out yeah I do a big smash back there yeah man it was the first time I ever did a concert and I was always scared that people you know wouldn't come yeah so I've been afraid to do a concert because it's very embarrassing right to walk out nobody there four or five people yeah tends to give you security do you have politicians I mean people from in government I don't know hope not with them you grow back and then you mentioned Peoria Peoria Illinois Peoria yeah were you thank you influence influenced by movies when you were a kid last in the room last LaRue was on oh yeah and he used to always fight and jump up at the end remember you jump up and knock the catch out him and fuzzy cute I like Bob Steele Bob Steele Bob Steele was in the movie once we saw on television man I don't know if we was high or what but it looked like no it looked like Bob Steele said to do that was fighting look like Bob Steele said like no [Laughter] yeah then you did you play Cowboys and innings uh yes we did yeah yeah it's not Indian so much and you don't want to didn't know one guy sometimes my mouth don't work I have to do that no carried through there's no need to stop in the middle and try to clean up right on me you got a one night we were talking last time you're on the show uh we was interviewing somebody right and you just got up and went hey yeah yeah yeah you said you just had to clear yes everything out once in a while yes I do we don't have a bathroom [Laughter] how young were you when you first feared in front of the public I think my first uh my first performance was like my uncle my uncle Dickie brought me up bought me a cowboy suit right with two guns and stuff and I was in the front yard you know and all the families sitting on the porch and it was some dog poo poo in the yard and I slipped and fell in it big screen and they started laughing so I got up and fell in it again [Applause] that's your first rule of Comedy the old dog poo poo fall you know it's in the book says dog poop will take number one I think there's two or three things and then you progress on from there when was your first time I was in school in school play and did something silly said something everybody laughed all of a sudden you find that by doing something usually with sounds yeah when you were a kid you do crazy sounds or voices and you find out you can get people to laugh you can get hooked can you do a sound for us right I hate to do the ones that get the biggest laugh we uh all kinds of terrible things in school you know but but you find out very early that you can get reactions so you do it that's all yes so we'll take a break here sell something have you seen The Exorcist [Music] [Laughter] [Applause] good it's nice to know you enjoyed it I thought you didn't like it for a moment here's the word McDonald's and nobody explained it to me like that right [Music] William Peter blatty is with us tonight uh who is the author also the producer of the motion picture of The Exorcist and the book as you know was on the bestseller list for over a year and um those of you have seen the motion picture a lot of things have been said about the film uh practically every place you go now if you're a cocktail party or in the home that that picture comes up and you get violent reactions on both sides some people think it was a great picture some critics thought it was uh was not well I'll tell you one thing when you see the picture you it leaves an impact on you when you walk out of the theater you have known you've seen something uh would you welcome the author and producer William Peter blatty [Music] foreign yes bill I wish I could ask you one question that you probably have not been asked since that picture came out but we screened it one night and about 10 people watch the movie because I people told us before you see they said don't see the picture alone they said see it with people and I think it's better to see it with people because you get Divergent reactions to the picture yeah I know it's there is a one should not see the film alone which is probably part of the problem with some of the negative reviews you know you kind of viewers insist upon sitting alone in a cold screening room and there is a chemistry I mean the film is an assault upon the nervous system it is that and and the concentration of other bodies around you and other brains around you is a part of the effect of the impact of the film yeah it's like watching a picture in a drive-in sometimes where you don't have the reaction with the other people you're hearing it all by yourself did you think the pitcher was going to get this kind of reaction now as I said it the some of the critics in the East didn't care for the picture many other reviewers of um fine credentials thought it was one of the year's 10 best pictures who seems to get that kind of a violent reaction but I suppose that's true in this kind of a picture or anything that is is shocking uh and has a controversial theme about it well I I wouldn't be so benign with some of the reviewers who were negative I mean I think Pauline kill for example needs an enema and that uh no I did not read a review did she uh I mean her review is review is always it's so full of personal poison attacks upon the makers of films okay what what do you say about a woman who who thinks that psycho was a playful film that the French Connection was a fascist film I mean this is this is a serious study for the psychiatric psychiatrist I think Paul Pauline I've asked picture excuse me interrupting but I've asked people who saw the picture and said they didn't and they said well I said did you read the book and they said yes I said well there that's what the picture is right you followed the book very faithfully and the book was horrifying and it's shocking and it is uh it assaults your senses and I assume that when you want to make the picture that's what you went to do was to that's what the story is about and is to move the viewer this is uh based upon what we believe is an actual case and uh in addition to having a passionate impact upon you it's supposed to tell you something uh as you know there are people who've been fainting in the theater uh between five and ten every performance and uh you wonder is that too much well when escolis's arrestees was first presented before an ancient Greek audience it's reported that grown men fainted and uh of course you want it really only a psychiatrist is competent to to comment on on why we get this reaction but I hope that it's because that the viewer is some viewers are frightened but it's touching a nerve and I wonder how often that nerve is the realization that the horror on that screen that demon is the ultimate father to the ultimate blood relation to in the ultimate Destiny of cheating your brother and calling it business I think that's what it comes down to uh but I'm happy about it I'm you know we have the smelling salts yeah handy all the time and uh I'm sorry that some people are made uncomfortable for it but I'm glad because it's done what it's supposed to do it is it is a shock of it but I found the interesting thing about it as you say when you see it with a group of people you find out that people are are affected by different things where some people will see a particular scene that might be physically unpleasant that doesn't bother some people but the language of the young girl which she uses upsets them tremendously well it should they see different things it is upsetting but the grown people will have different reactions what they see is horrifying or obscene I myself excuse me I'm sorry the the picture had any effect in the girl after all right the girl is so psychologically sturdy to begin she's okay oh she's trimming I think that was I don't know how that's especially when I read you know I read I read that book before he went into the prince you know nor Marshall gave it to me oh yes with your type right yeah and it was a thing like this and I said where are they going to get this girl to play this you know and what is going to happen to the girl in the process of getting involved in this thing yeah Fernando she giggled after every take I mean the whole procedure was silly to her oh really and you know what it is you're surrounded by 80 technicians like Cape Canaveral all right yeah people forget that I almost watching the picture sometimes had to say a letter from the Reader's Digest and he was notified that he was a sweepstakes winner remember that it's always a sweepstakes winner and his check was in the mail he sent me the check I want to show you first of all I got his name can we get a close-up first of all they sent it to Mr wulongi instead of wolinsky misspelled his name he lives in Lindenhurst New York and here is his wonderful sweepstakes winner zero dollars and ten cents Drew now I'm not making this up he got a 10 cent check yes one of the sweepstakes winners isn't that a lovely contest they had to buy the magazine what's the magazine sell for half a buck then eight cents postage he lost 48 cents on that deal isn't that something I guess uh but he's a winner he's got the check here now I don't know what to do with the check uh here's an item you know if you think he got an energy crisis here London countries um England and Holland really got countries they've got problems of course they have countries the picture of the girls that work over there in the uh what's the club well they're they're strippers and they've turned down the heat and these girls have to dress and make up by candlelight there's the only Heat they have in their and they're catching coals okay and Goose pimples and it's a terrible situation over there this is sad isn't it yes it is that certainly is Satan's are yelling don't give your cold a contact give it to me that's direct from there question is this the silliest item I have seen in a long time from England Halifax England sisters Tina and Tracy O'Brien age three and four left the hospital yesterday after recovering from New Year's hangovers three year and four years old they had drunk a bottle of liqueur and some other alcoholic beverages that apparently got three and four years old and they got stoned and they went to the hospital can you imagine a three and four-year-old with a hangover I don't know how do you sober them up they're too young to drink coffee right three and four years old and they got bombed put them in the Ed McMahon wardrobe yes let's see drinks uh who do you think the woman's name is the president the women's Christian Temperance Union uh in this in this country is liquor dealers admit that since the energy Crisis began the consumption of alcoholic beverages has greatly increased her name is Mrs Fred twos t-o-o-z-e I don't know why that's funny Mrs two's drinks no booze I mean the whole thing is [Music] you're in a terrible mood tonight did you know that the coast guards men and women now share the same bathrooms they had a problem they took women in the Coast Guard they took women into the Coast Guard and they said it required too much money to build a was as they say in the Navy it's the head right um so now they share the same bathrooms in our what are you giggling that he thought of something terrible again yeah I just saw the sign on the door his and Miz you thought you're on something tonight that's crazy all I can see is a camping walking and somebody's saying dad do you know what filler items are in newspapers what they call fillers these are little items that they they use to fill out a column when they they don't have anything else this must have been the slowest news day ever I don't even know what paper is from this is what they call a filler item the Jan smutz airport has been ranked from Africa Johannesburg Africa has been ranked as the world's 35th busiest now would you say it's a slow news day has been ranked as the world's 35th busiest airport that little gem was sitting there I got the third fattest dog in my block what is I don't understand this is 52 000 takeoffs in The Landings and serve 2 million it's only the world's 35th isn't that interested 34th is a wheat field in Topeka I think what else we got here these are just some crazy things you know but I love the sweepstakes I got one the other day where they actually had my name printed in them have you seen those where they send your houses wouldn't you like to see your name here and then they printed your name and address in where it says Grand sweepstakes winner they offered me one last week to win the Dream House of my choice have you seen that one get put your name in you can win the Dream House of my choice have you ever uh by accident uh gotten on one of those mailing lists for uh obscene items not by accident no I mean really no I didn't make no accident about that at all I said Senator right here no yes I I've received some things in the mail there is not request and you open them up and that's wrong and the first thing you should do is go right to the Postmaster General or write the company and say immediately advise them that you want your name taken off of any kind of mailing list you have a right to do that you know if you receive this stuff in the uh I mean how many of it is unsolicited you simply write back and say I right now get my name off that mailing list that's right I mean how many sets of whips can you use what list did you get on I got on the Crazy Foam and uh no they do they they do send all that stuff because they they're a business in this country who do nothing but make up lists and sell them to other businesses so you could be on a mailing list and not be not ask for any of these the best thing to do also you do not have to pay for anything you know that comes to your home unsolicited if you can keep it you don't even have to return it well you got to pay for those whips but you get off with us you're on a free game mode tonight but you know sometimes they will send you something in the mail and then ask you to to pay for it you do not have to return it nor do you have to pay for it if you get it unsolicited but the best thing to do is write the company get off the list look there's a lot of that mail we'll get in trouble now we'll hear from all the the mail order people tomorrow are saying we make a living doing this um oh we have on the show Fernando Lamas William Peter blatty the writer and producer of The Exorcist uh we also have Richard Pryor and we have the young lady will join us by the name of Robin Hilton oh yes I have not you must have seen it I have seen Robin Hilton I have not seen her they say he's pretty young lady this is a lady for sure and I want you to treat her with dignity we'll be right back afterward from one of our sponsors [Applause] [Music] [Applause] my first guest this evening is the young lady we were just talking about uh she's a young actress her name is Robin Hilton and uh it's her first appearance she is going to be uh in Mel Brooks new film that he is working on uh which is crazy from what I read once it's called Blazing Saddles that'll give you an idea of Mel's mind would you welcome Robin Hilton foreign nice to meet you and everything they've said about you is true you're a lovely looking young girl thank you yeah you've done television before not our show but I've been on other shows yes not any of the talk shows but you've done a lot of the situation uh what have you done what do we might have seen let's say police story a police story that's um temperature surprising I do I haven't done a lot of Television yeah where are you from originally yeah Twin Falls Idaho figures [Applause] that is beautiful country a small town uh yeah it's the third largest city in Idaho which doesn't mean anything yeah I found a farm actually not from the town yeah how long have you been in California about two years yeah what made the girl from Idaho to decide to come to California oh contests and things like that no I didn't I don't really right I am that's what most girls do they go into a local beauty contest and somebody says why don't you go to Hollywood and right no I decided when I was three years old to become an actress right I decided to be a star why who did you admire when you go to movies when you were young oh yes yes I would say uh before my time I'd say Carol Lombard super fantastic fantastic right Clark gave me able hi how about the current people don't you I'm telling the current young Stars Intrigue you Neil Diamond Neil Diamond right yeah that's it DOC you have fallen quiet over there no uh I seem to have lost my Congressional Medal of Honor Never foreign from Jackie Vernon I might add at the same time also well you're taking more you're fine yeah okay well if you do celebrity bowling will be in here tomorrow and you'll get to see Howard Hughes I think I know where they went to where it went don't mind him he is very easily Disturbed yeah what did your folks do hi folks your parents yes my parents my father is an experimental engineer he was a farmer did you ever live on a farm oh yes I was raised on a farm really oh yes when you tell people that they got to say oh come on right because you don't look like the typical farm girl no I do that's uh yes I was raised on a farm and it's true what they say about Haystacks yeah yeah and The Farmer's Daughter yeah you probably heard all those jail tracks yes I have most of them are true really yeah well somebody told me you don't drink no I don't smoke no I don't because I just personal beliefs that it's bad for you and no I do other things can we come back and talk a while oh I'd love to throw a couple of Frisbees or something we're gonna be right back after this word from General Excedrin PM it's the pain reliever that helps you get a good night's sleep [Applause] less return now we just we disappear once in a while for commercials and stuff if you just join us this young lady's name is Robin Hilton from Twin Falls Idaho grew up in a farm and came out here to become a movie star and is now working have you finished the movie yet with Mel Brooks oh yes well Blazing Saddles I read this he said that sent that script to me once to read it was called black Bart at that time and they changed it to Blazing Saddles they decided that black part sounded too much like uh a black movie yeah you know it's a crazy insane script I remember reading it and it was just nothing it is well now Brooks is totally insane I mean incredible man incredible to work with yeah very funny I play um Miss Don Miss who Miss Stein right his secretary who doesn't type and doesn't take shorthand but has other redeeming attributes how did you meet him now did you meet him through something else you had done or did you have to go audition or yes I did I just I just walked in and he says Ah you're missing you just walk in the door and Mel just made his decision like that very poignant before you know what you're up in wardrobe right that's very good but he didn't hear you read any lines or I read two lines two lines go what word I don't know whether I want to ask you what those lines were like uh where is wardrobe and how are you Mel uh right that was just about anyway the Wardrobe I don't have very much wardrobe in it you know I wear uh sort of a little nighty kind of thing I think they call them corsets that was the name yes yes they used they used to have questions and sort of a misty lilac and I wear about five inch heels so that he hits me just about here and he's very short he's very very tiny with Incredible energy I was running around yeah he does yeah he's like uh he's everywhere all at once [Music] um excuse me these short naps help me I'm getting as I get older sometimes I tend to fall into my food and uh you're meditating yeah I do matter do you meditate that's very good no oh it's good for you yeah are you somebody told me you're an astrology buff or not well I'm interested all of those things Uranus you're a Scorpio I am a Scorpio that is true very Dynamic sign very lethal most of our presidents have been scoring well I think that's a compliment I really I didn't know that uh yes they're uh very sexy people well I hear that but how can you tell you think it really makes any difference when you were born that whether you're going to be sexy I mean it just turned out this way I could have been no I think it definitely does they're um very strong people very much like to get ahead they like to have the last word uh stubborn yeah I hear that all the time a lot they're stubborn stubborn people what sign are you I'm a moonshine a moon child how sweet it is very sensitive I guess we call cancer didn't it not yes they change it to Moon child again yeah what's with moonshine yeah right how about moonshine Moon children uh that's your best sign you know it's your best sign no your sign Scorpios like Moon children so oh I see I see it's good for me to uh be involved with a with a with a moon child yeah but you're raising your hand you want to leave the room or what no in case she doesn't interest you I'm a moon child well that's interesting and you go for numerology and uh all of that stuff huh right I believe in reincarnation you believe in reincarnation I do you believe you've lived before do you know do you have any idea what you were before when you were here lots of people do they say oh I was here as a Aristotle I was here as uh you know a Queen Nefertiti oh no no no I don't I know I've always been female that I'm sure I have no argument here what would you like to come but if you had a choice and you could come back to somebody else in your next life would you choose yourself or would you prefer to be somebody else oh no I like being myself fine would you choose someone else I think it might be nice to give somebody else a shot and come and come buddy I'll come back to somebody else oh like my wife's first husband I don't know it just occurred to me [Applause] I made that as a compliment just saying meant that is a problem no I I'd like to come back as a woman once a woman I really would wow just to see what it would be like no I think every person would like to be of the opposite sex at one time or another to feel emotionally and physically what the makeup is like to be of the opposite sex wouldn't you like to know what it's like to be a man at certain moments no I like being a woman yeah let's see that's what I want to find out being a woman I want to be a woman a word for one somebody said you've been offered to do um a layout in uh in Playboy magazine and you uh have elected not to do it right yes now lots of young ladies would think that would be a fine opportunity no they offered me about 10. they didn't I have left for 11.50 but you know eleven dollars and fifty cents no uh I think that sex I think partially undressed or partially as much as much nudity I think uh I think sex is is an imaginary thing anyway it's totally true mine and I think it's much more fun to undress someone than have an interest hey doctor think that's the fun of Christmas is opening the present [Applause] that's pretty good philosophy in your part they but they offer you a lot of money don't they do something like that or used to be yes they do do a lot of money I'm not materialistic I would say to offer you five thousand dollars would they offer you that much yes they did yes they often they offered more than that well if I'm not being personal do you mind telling you how much they they go up to Indianapolis Virginia Graham naked in Macy's window it might not help your career at all actually no I don't think it would I'm doing just fine yeah what are you doing now you finish the movie Yes I just did [Music] everywhere yeah well it's nice to have you here tonight thank you are you all calm down you said you're a little nervous between wasn't this easy it was very easy was it fun oh it's fine we'll um you know I did that once and I think headaches we'll uh return after this word from formula 44. [Applause] [Music] [Applause] uh my next guest is a good friend and a fine actor and a director just started a movie that he wrote and will direct call scavenger you said you've never met him right no I haven't I'm really excited really okay would you welcome we were you excited to meet me I mean oh of course oh wow let's find out would you welcome Fernando Lamas thank you [Music] foreign [Laughter] you're a very lovely lady which inclines me to believe that the glandular system is the most important system in the entire body [Applause] because everybody anybody can have a couple of legs you know can't we ever get this discussion on a high plane with you that's a very high place that's a very high plan yes Alexander and do the straight lines does not recognize the law of gravity he's unbeliever we are a very beautiful lady not only natural warm and tender and intelligent I was listening to you backstage yes and of course you fluster these two gentlemen to no end why you Latins are always you pour on the edge [Music] it's trembling you see it goes with accents always have an advantage it helps a little bit don't they because the average woman thinks that the fella has an accent whether it's French or Spanish or whatever is somehow mysterious and uh has more emotional qualities within him that's true it also it helps when they do not understand you you know that's right and I always say I didn't say it I didn't mean that I mean it other way it just came out that way how about it it's so smooth to you yes yeah but you find don't you find out with women also therefore that if a woman has a an accent that men somehow get a little bit odd because they think she is mysterious most of the time they're just dull you know have you noticed that the mysterious people are generally mysterious because they have nothing to say and I think it's a marvelous way out you stay in a corner mysterious serious people is a very interesting men just dumb nothing to say mustache like this and stay very serious maybe a patch in the eye people so he's really something yeah yeah it's not a bad idea let's try it one of these days who would you like to meet in Hollywood you haven't met Robin I mean I'd like to meet her outside of you and um Nail Time Neil Diamond very big with Neil Diamond you got to think about him yeah I have a thing about it what what thing do you have about it it's true it's pure physical purely physical that's the only way it should be to begin with you know Danny might evolve into something spiritual and then you drop it [Music] here's Johnny [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] foreign [Applause] [Music] [Applause] look like a test pattern for an obscene television channel that's new isn't it you like this um like is not the word uh I feel like I'm going to a silly Lumberjacks convention yes I know well let's see let's get to the news there's nothing funnier than what's going on in the news they said there weren't going to be any more Bombshells from Washington right uh and there seems to be some more problems with it with the tape uh minor little problems but uh I think it's time we got off the president's back I think everybody's entitled to make five to nine mistakes in a row I mean what's all of us about the tape was accidentally erased nine times Could Happen uh it's like Germany accidentally invaded Poland twice I want to tell you let me put it this way we got about as much chance of finding out what's on those tapes as we do of seeing Howard Hughes guest starring on celebrity bowling all I can think of if you remember this old show if it goes back 15 or 20 years about the guy that was arrested for stabbing the man in the street and the guy says he came around the corner and ran into my knife 27 times backwards uh it's a weird thing someone is in trouble now as I as I understand it I'm just reporting the news you understand only three persons had access to that particular tape Rosemary Woods so she could be in trouble Stephen bull so he could be in trouble President Nixon so Rosemary wood and Stephen bull could be in trouble Senator Baker came up with an interesting statement you see that he said this potentially could be damaging to the president it's like you're falling out of an airplane at 30 000 feet and the ground could be potentially dangerous well I don't know what's going on is anybody follow that at all the whole thing is getting so incredible now you just have to sort it out hello Tom Tommy posed for that thing they sent out on Pioneer 10 remember the itching they have with the with a man from space where they stand like this how are you Tom very well I see you Tommy is may have noticed but Tommy has said certain nothing uh he's uh I kid Tom but he's a little dog let me give you an idea the night he watched The Waltons and The Waltons fell asleep isn't there any good news around in the world your Housewives will be excited to know guess what's going up the price in this country very quickly the price of meat meat is going up again tremendously something something's going crazy here first gas went up now meat they finally got us how do you siphon a steer [Music] the Wilderness societies you know they were they were fighting with the government I guess to win concessions on that Alaskan Pipeline are they finally given up uh they're going to build the pipeline they did get the oil companies to agree to one thing they're going to spend 100 million dollars so it's not to go through Ewell Gibbons um God that's not much of a joke but um if I'm not near the joke I love I love the joke I'm near make any difference what else is happening John Wayne is in the news you see that in the paper I admire what he did he had an invitation from the Harvard students the Harvard Lampoon which is a satirical magazine to come back and visit the campus and I didn't think you'd take them up on it because they've been blasting pretty good you know I was being very you know his political views and he went back there and took him on and came out pretty well did you see it in the paper he came through the streets and an armored personnel carrier with with guys from The Fifth Army or something like that on it the only reason he did that because his tank was in a repair shop or he would and there was an Indian protesters uh along the Parade route and just from force of habit you're ahead of me right John Wayne had all the students form a circle real fast did you know well tonight this is gonna be interesting show how many of you have seen The Exorcist the motion picture all right we have we have the author of that book and the producer of the film William Peter blaty is here tonight uh and if you couldn't figure out what that picture was about uh Mr blatty will explain what it was about he also said he's going to stay after the show and drive the evil spirits out of the studio do you see Mr blatty in line he was the one sprinkling holy water out in the air he is here tonight we have Mr Fernando Lamas we have a very funny gentleman Richard Pryor is here a new young lady tonight this is her first appearance on the show I have not met her a lovely young actress her name is Robin Hilton and she's going to join us tonight the staff has met her pretty girl pretty girl oh okay one of my word dog go what is this jacket molting already or something thank you for coming we'll be with you in just one [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] I thank you we'll be back here is Doc now with a word about Alpo [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] yeah how about that what happens is that turn two yes what happens when we turn it you see something different oh friends again [Applause] [Music] and it turns again it says goodbye more to come we are gone but I missed the guys is John Truman the people from our prop and art Department do that very nice but I missed the picture the guy that they used to have up there well that was a little I thought he goes too big a picture no that's that's not true either they didn't tell me they were going to change it [Laughter] I understand John is not with us anymore [Music] Tommy Newsom is going to do something this coming well not this coming weekend but the weekend following this weekend Tommy Newsom is giving a concert and a clinic and after his concert you'll have to go to a clinic and all at the University of Wisconsin in Green Bay on the 26th of January [Applause] I understand the concert part right you play and so forth what's the clinic what do you call the clinic well they hope to have it cleared up in two or three I know that see the people might be interested I'm asking legitimate questions no get a straight answer would you sit with the students and talk about music and technique and so forth as in a clinic I've never been to one before either foreign students are certainly in for a wonderful what what would he do what would he do at a clinic now no he'll get up and he'll uh he'll lecture on uh whatever subject that he chooses at that moment probably he'll uh lecture on what is Johnny Carson really like no come on now clinic is no a clinic Eddie Sean as he goes man has clinics with the drummers and they sit around he would get up and talk about drums I would get up and talk about trumpet playing good Tommy would get up and talk about dullness no you know that we kid that we kid taught me a lot about we said he certainly deserves it [Music] [Applause] and Tommy has gone through all of that so he knows this is really reincarnation there anyway he didn't they talk about the his uh his instrument right and so oh he is conduct a series show and pass on some knowledge to our viewers and you two clowns sit here okay anyway he's gonna be back in Green Bay which is probably lovely there this time of year why couldn't you get a clinic in Florida or someplace or Palm Springs you got to go to Green Bay I'm going to Florida in July that makes sense makes sense September clinic North and Death Valley that he's he walks across he and 30 musicians try to walk across Death Valley you know as much as we could Tommy yes he writes really some of the most colorful and passionate music that we have in our possession that's true Tommy there's a lot of the charts for the orchestra yeah and that in itself is really great music foreign years ago okay I've got some odds and ends here you get these things in the mail at home you somehow in this country you get on mailing lists you know there are companies who sell your name and address to all kinds of companies around the country and you get on the mailing list where they send you the contest gimmick that's going on the various companies you could be a grand sweepstakes winner you get those all the time in your mailbox Dear Mr Mrs clarn you are lucky you you are one of the sweepstakes winners mail this certificate in and so forth gentleman sent me one that he had entered a contest his name is Walter w-o-l-a-n-s-k-i well enska I believe and he entered and he got a he got I mean I always uh try to get a different deeper relationship at first oh really yes isn't that longer yes but it takes longer right well certainly well what happens if when the moment of truth comes and she says that's why you worked so hard for all these weeks now what it's better to go right to the moment of truth then first if that works then the rest is easy but that anxiety of waiting and waiting and waiting if it's going to be good that's bad you know I always feel like I'm at a boys school when you're here and I just I'm just going in and you're giving me a no no no no it's just a different technique I'm sure yours is just as good as mine but it's different yeah right well you used to have but we talked about this when I drink a commercial you used to have a very violent temper yeah you said you've got it under control in the past year I got a more or less under control yeah yes have you ever met anybody who's got a worse temper than you have oh many people yeah especially ladies yeah many but it's difficult to fight with ladies yeah because I give you a slap across the face and if you slap him back you're a brute if you're slapping back you're an idiot so you got to slap him back because how could you go through all your life being given things without returning them it makes you selfish don't they do that to some countries the men physically uh oh yeah definitely would you wish a man to slap you no I don't like violence of course not I I don't believe in in slapping women I really don't unless they slap you first you know because I feel that when they slap you is because they probably want a little bit back really yeah it's a tension that builds into some things sometimes yeah [Music] I don't think I could really do that no no if you got hit first have you ever have I ever been hit by a lady well it wasn't a lady he was not a lady well no because if you would have been a lady she wouldn't slap me right right that's a that's a marvelous way out yeah it's beautiful no I was a long time ago when uh my temper was what I didn't know about temperature but I had to learn to control it right well you have to as you mature and grow older and tired you know of a lot of things yeah we'll do it every time every time what do you do when you get depressed you always seem to be in a good mood you've never seen the no I I uh you know up and down with my my ways I like it depressed sometimes yeah what do you do about it frustrated and well before I used to just sit in the chairs oh my God everything's terrible and just sulk but no I try to just knock off that negative feeling incorporating a positive on top of the negative talk to yourself talk to yourself about that the hell out of here you know like what's the devil standing a little devil standing there I said get out of here leave me alone it's raining so what it's good for the plants the potatoes in either who are going to be big how do you know well here's my spuds yes whatever sponge your potatoes don't people know that but they are right I don't know why I thought about that yeah who would you like to come who come back if you could come back in another one I'd like to be a kangaroo you'd like to be a kangaroo kangaroo okay a lot of jumping around yeah no but seriously yes who would you like to be you know I haven't thought about that but I was listening to you backstage and it might be a very good idea to come back as a woman get kind of even right you know right learn all of their ways you see women are terribly strong yes and interesting much more than we are we are little babies women are much more so strong much stronger in a crisis then when things go wrong women are much stronger than me you know what happened if we had to give birth Humanity would end in a month no more kids forget it yeah oh it depends no no more and they go along they have 10 12 kids and they're marvelous you know we used to do a thing on the show talking about if you were in a hospital room yes in one room and somebody had to share the room with you and it couldn't be a relative or anybody a blood relative who would you choose if you had to say six months now six months you're saying that just as a physical thing okay six months you're gonna be in the room capacitated if I were incapacitated let me choose somebody with a certain spiritual qualities and intelligence so we can discuss things and I know you are sure you are all right well you find the strangest is this thing is inside of buildings that appear to be something else from the outside yeah definitely it's true I could be very stimulated longer than six years well I'm sure you're good okay yeah so who would you choose what kind of person huh anybody you can have your choice but you're six months with them alone if I can be serious for a second it is an interesting efficiency for a second okay sure half a second I would like to be with somebody so highly evolved spiritually yeah that would probably help me go through whatever it was that was keeping me right there in the hospital and I were somebody to discuss the problems of the moment the fears the anxieties that would go obviously with a situation such as that yeah I don't know if it would be a man or a woman or dog I don't know what yeah but in that case something that would answer some of my questions and scientists and fears that we all have in situations now if I was physically capable right of Performing then I wouldn't need that type of baloney foreign because you see how sweet and how tender everybody is when they think they're dying and the moment they get well boom this before so just for the moment that's it that's for the moment you know I hope I figured you'd say something like that anyway we have to interrupt here for brief mobile we're coming right back stay with us [Music] Richard Pryor is with us tonight he's got a very uh unusual mind very inventive he just completed the movie Uptown Saturday night and he'll soon be seen on the Martin Luther King special which airs on January 24th would you welcome the very inventive Richard Pryor Richard foreign [Applause] I used to do stuff that was interesting because I'm from Peoria Illinois and it would get kind of dull and I'd go and hang out with the Winos on Sundays because they knew everybody you know especially they would speak to anyone you know Dracula anybody hey boy where'd you get that tape you live around here who's your people how'd you get them teeth fixed blood dripping all out your mouth why don't you take care of yourself boy he's like go to the bars and watch fights people love to fight when they get drunk I used to watch them especially they always want to fight all well always a friend of mine that fought the police I knew he was bad right because the police would do anything to you right you know they move along stop having some much fun [Laughter] oh well would stop that hey man don't push me with no stick Mr Officer I'm all way off six foot five weigh 245 pounds bring five of my chips I know you understand you understand now why don't you call downtown and ask about me all well remember last summer when the 15 police come got that and four or five of them got messed up that's me mess with me I'm gonna bite you on the neck and you always go to bars when the guys get drunk they started fighting some dudes would really get weird and want to fight women right they always want to fight the women right again [Music] I don't hold me man give me a drink man yeah ever get a beer for the house one beer what's wrong with you ugly woman nobody messing with you turn your face around I'll knock who are you chump I don't care if that's your mama you're gonna hit me [Music] no don't hold me man don't let me go don't nobody hit me baby don't nobody hit me and get away with it well do something baby kick me don't nobody to get away with it from me now please oh Freddy please help me roll 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Published: Wed Jan 11 2023