Phil In The Blanks #23 - Jay Leno

it's amazing how much people are getting their information now on this kind of thing a podcast right I wanted to do with you because I wanted to do person that I had the most in common with I admire what you do so much why Thanks I was thinking the other day when I started doing dr. Phil 17 years ago the first text had never been sent there was no Instagram think of everything has changed so he started FBI were our friends Russia was our enemy so much has changed I mean really when we started with three channels yeah ABC NBC CBS that was in you know it's funny because I grew up in an hour of channel 2 channel 4 channel set yeah and when I hear kids go yes channel 781 what I mean when you say channel 4 to them they yeah it's a different they don't what does that mean you know yeah and now even CBS I do promo sometimes you know like we do for our affiliate right they tune into me at 3 o'clock on CBS 65 right he'll is CBS 5 did you lose you're very funny when did you first get a building here uh my first building was a 91 oh really 1991 yeah because I just kept stuff at my house and then the neighbors I better get out of here so I I'm one of those people I like to come back here and work on cars you know there's a tall saying the heart is happiest when the head and the hands work together mm-hmm and when you write jokes all day he just thinking with your head and then you come and you work with your hands and it's just relaxing then you're accomplishing something you feel like you you've done something you know you still do comedy all the time oh yeah I do about 280 years 210 dates a year I'm on the road yeah so now you travel where all over the country everywhere do you try to do swings where you do like two or three at a time on this way you try to get stuff go you don't want to do Alaska and then Miami and then you know you know yeah yeah that's kind of a bad yeah yeah but yeah that's pretty much what I do but I I come home every night if it's west of the Mississippi because that's kind of how you stay married you know so if it's a two or three hour flight yes that's not problem didn't you come home things happen on the road which don't happen in Hollywood I was I was working in Canada a little town and I was staying in a hotel like a Comfort Inn or something it was across the street from kind of a a mall so walk over the mall and there's like a little restaurant the meeting there this guy comes there he goes that you're that you that TV fella I said yeah I'm Jay how you know you like being on the TV I said yeah yeah like be on TV he says that can I ask you a question about show business I always wondered I said yeah it was questions he says to me you know those commercials you see the gals were washing the hair in the shower and everything I said yeah he says uh so they really close on when they'd be worse so I said I'm Ono no I said in fact my friends job is to audition those girls they have to take a shower and he watches some people it's not really that that really him I'm oh yeah yeah he really designed which ones you know perfect and he must see 15 20 girls a day and he get a job like daddy I said well I guess you'd have to go to Hollywood and you know auditions oh but you can see he had this fantasy going it just it just maybe I just love that kind of stuff you have to get away from Hollywood to kind of see what real people laugh at or what they like yeah cuz we are in a bubble here oh yeah no this is yeah this is such a this is the stupidest bubble yeah I mean the best example of that is I'm not gonna say who it was all right I had somebody on the show a big star and during the commercial break he says to me hey you like cars what's a want to get a sports console but good sports car to get I said well this at the time I said this new Ferrari came out it's just unbelievable and he said to me yeah but you know everybody's got a Ferrari I got ok first of all everybody if you ever say that publicly you'll be taken out in the streets you'll be beaten and killed okay you understand that you you need to get out of Beverly Hills the most people have never even I know guys never even seen the Ferrari you know the idea that you think everybody you know because everybody has me I mean it was the most hilarious thing I've ever heard in my life yeah we do live in a bubble yeah it's a bubble when you pull up to valet parking and every car there is two hundred thousand bucks I mean you live in those are the cars that belong to the valet yeah that's two hundred thousand dollars yeah yeah did you ever have any idea when you're growing up I know you want to be a comedian I know even though your fifth grade teacher wrote on your report card if you had spend as much time studying as you did trying to be funny you'd be a great comedian today did you ever have any idea you would spend twenty thirty years on television no I never thought I was dyslexic as a kid I was my brother was a smart one I cannot remember my parents have one of those but what are you gonna do with Jay conversations not really I was in your shot you know and I was I was lucky I was a huge believer in low self-esteem my mother would always say look because of dyslexia think you're gonna have to work twice as hard as the other kids to get the same thing and when I would go to like you go to the improv in New York to audition and you'd line up at 6 o'clock like on a Sunday night for at 11:30 or 12:30 spot you just get there for that spot and there might be 50 people ahead of you and I remember sitting there at 6 7 8 9 inevitably guys in front of you go I sucks I'm getting I'm getting out of here oh great I move yeah and that's kind of the way I looked at it you know I I'd like to work I took every job I didn't ask how much the job paid I just took the job and I always figured if you're any good at what you do then maybe the money will come later you've literally stood in line to audition for a spot that's how you did it as well was how many minutes oh just three or four minutes five minutes three or four minutes yeah since you'd stand in line for five hours to get up and do three or four minutes well where you gonna get an audience really once I got reasonably proficient I would go into bars in Boston and I put $50 on the bar and I'd say the let me go up and tell jokes if people leave you keep the 50 if they laugh give me the 50 back I lost 50 bucks a few times yeah but for the most part people said that's okay kid keep you money but don't come back or that wasn't bad come back tomorrow you don't have to put 250 on oh okay and you sort of got in that way you know the idea was just to try to get on stage just to try to get in front of an audience I have to say a lot of people no kidding believe that it's just luck everybody thinks they can do a talk show because they can talk they think you're a comedian and they think hey I'm funny everybody laughs at cocktail parties so I could do that I could be a Tanika mean but I don't think they get how much you work to get to that you want them to get no of course not it's like saying okay here is the funniest joke I have ever written are you ready for it now yeah yeah I wouldn't that good yeah if you just if it appears to roll off the top of your head yeah then suddenly it's hilarious the trick is to make it look easy if it looks hard it's not gonna be funny yeah I mean Oprah told me when I started she said you know biggest problem you're gonna have is you make it look easy yeah it's said everybody's gonna think you know you're just shooting at your hip do you remember the first joke you told for money there were two jokes when I was a kid in school I remember one time I was maybe five and my mother took me to my aunt's house and there a bunch of ladies having tea and wine or other things and I was sitting on the floor there about six women they're all yakking and I looked at the women and I asked what I thought was an astute question I said why do women have humps like camels and they hear the women are like first even drinks they were like falling on my foot sorry I always remembered that and I remembered you tend to remember everything you say they're gonna laugh cuz it like it it puts a little notch in your brain you just you just sort of remember that I mean I can remember when I had mrs. Allen who I still talk to my fourth-grade teacher weird she's telling us about Robin Hood and she said how cruel the Sheriff of Nottingham was and and she would boil you take Robins men and boil them in oil and I said well you know why she did that to tuck and she said why because he was a friar and she said all right I that's tough and I guess I can see yeah I can see you're like laughing but chastising me and then when I was in the hall like the next day a couple of what is you said to miss I said oh no friar tuck off and these things sort of work yeah you set me up one night I don't know if you remember it on The Tonight Show you remember this oh go ahead you remember Tracy used to get on us because you and I would get back in the dressing room she said you guys are having the whole show back here right you're staying back here too long and talking and this is great stuff and you should not do this and you said you think you can do this you should go out and do the monologue all right oh yeah they went out without me Norton and told everybody in the audience okay dr. Phil is gonna come out and do the monologue nobody laughs I don't care what he says everybody you sit there on your hands don't do a thing that's it just sit on your hands and then you send me out there to do the monologue and it looked like they instead of a bunch of dead people in the chairs and I'm like dying up there that was what gave it away as I look over there you're dying over there on the side laughing well yeah yeah it was really funny to you hilarious to me yeah yeah cause I got a little sense of just how tough it is and you'd never forgotten that he still holds a grudge yeah that was like fifteen years ago yeah easy yeah you seem to have forgotten it was I don't is there a zone you get into is there a feeling you have when you're on stage and you you hit the sweet spot and oh yeah you know it's work I know exactly exactly how do you describe that you know it's the fancy knife and just fast that's 90 minutes in my life because you can get on you can turn on the act and it's silly to say but the last holds you up there are a lot of comedians that are mean and mean can be very funny but when you have one does not mean oh then they don't then why you know I never got this school of comedy that's just angry all the time because I was not a never an angry person there's a great joy in doing this it's fun to tell jokes it's fun to make people yeah yeah but there I know what you're talking about because if they're with you and they like you they'll laugh to make you happy they left to be happy with you and it's just a good feeling in the room right versus somebody being like really hostile bombastic ain't no crowds think as one yeah by that I mean there's a mob in tell if somebody heckles you and you're too mean back at them who and any audience will side with the heckler hey so you need to have to kind of let them down gently ago yes sir go what are you saying sir you I'm sorry you know and now they get nervous and you know do you have a first move strategy with a heckler no no no it's always different I always try to figure out what the heckling about you know you know I'm sorry we're not microphones for everyone what was it sir I'm sorry you know yeah what you want to say then they go you suck oh did you write that that's very clever you know whatever it might yeah do you typically win him over yeah for the most part if you don't win them over you win the audience over because they they sense look you gave this guy a chance to acquit himself and he screwed it up even worse yeah so it's it's I told the story once that Johnny Carson I just love this story but it's true I worked in Atlanta there was a strip club or in Georgia without sideline called the mineshaft and back then there were no comedy clubs you I used to just you the emcee strip toys and the the gimmick behind this club was the club had no lights no lights on the stage when you walked in you paid ten bucks for a ticket and for another ten bucks you got a miner's hat with a light on okay so he had like a hundred guys with these light right and I'd be standing in the dark and they'd be like a naked woman you know dancing and all the light would be on the woman and I just be in the dark and when the guys would look at me it'd be Alan hey you know it's like starring a a Harley headlight right in your eye you know it it just it just be this all the time just lights going on a little bit just just hilariously awful that's terrible what's terrible oh yeah telling jokes fathers women stripping over here all the Lots you're on there yeah so whenever I hear a comedian complained that all the lighting was bad at this it makes me laugh makes me laugh I remember opening ones for rare earth do you remember that okay so I'm on stage I got the mic like this you know and I see the mic cord go down the stage and appears to go into the audience off to it that doesn't look good and I'm talking somebody pulls it and the mic goes out of my hand so now I'm going through the crowd and I got charged 75 bucks for the loss mic and I didn't get paid stole your mug yeah they stole my career become light of it yeah whatever might be yeah I mean I learned very early on the first club I ever worked a place called Lenny's on the Turnpike and in Saugus Massachusetts and I was opening for Buddy Rich this is my first time ever the guy goes please welcome young comedian Jay Leno I hear a guy go we hate him he sucks I'm thinking wow I know my parents you know I've never been anywhere this is my first time did they see me come in there they based it all on that you know you're trying to use logic and you know there is no logic how'd it go we saw I mean look it was so exhilarating to be onstage yeah I mean I'm sure I sucked but I thought all I must have done pretty well yeah his comedy changed the things that are doing on stage now I wasn't hearing 20 30 years ago in terms of the off-color and that sort of thing the really good comics can use it to an advantage really bad comics use it because they have no alternative I mean I think if you watch Richie Pryor or any of these guys any of the great guys Carlin and they use bad words whatever you want to call it it's actually very funny because that's not the focal point that's not the punchline that a joke that's somewhere on the way their joke what do you think it is about some people like Bob Newhart's a good example he's a friend of mine and I can walk in the room where he's just sitting at a table he can just look up and look at you and you just start laughing you know something I love him because he's a great wordsmith he knows most good comedy is economy of words you try to get to the funniest place in the shortest time possible and Bob always picked the right word for the situation I remember he had a very obscure little joke it's one of my favorites I'm paraphrasing him it's about an astronaut who has the first encounter with extraterrestrial life in outer space and he comes back to earth in the newspapers are asking question he's got two space helmet and one of the reporters asks how much how farther ahead of us are these aliens and bob says about six weeks and he goes six weeks is perfectly because two weeks you could catch up to a six months is six months but six weeks it's just further further of a way that we could never catch them but you don't see what it's just it's just the phrase six weeks I mean that funny I mean it's just such a funny it's such a funny turn to find exactly the right phrase why do you still do it what keeps you going just obviously no I know the money's not bad but let's look fans not the players you don't have to work well I think everybody has to work New England sort of background you sort of need that you should be working as I said I was a kid who was never a good student and and I didn't I my when I was in school the guidance counselor called my mother in and said ever thought of taking che out of school and my mother said well I went into that and he said you know education is not for everyone like hey I'm in the room right here you work at McDonald's right they have a program where they teach how to make change you go to hamburger University no I don't know where every dollars the rest of my life because I was such a bad student they just want to get me out of there so the idea that who you'll pay me to go tell jokes I think most people when they hear a joke they tell it to their friend and the more they tell it the better they get it the better they get it telling the joke and eventually they're like this waiting for people to come by their desk so that Larry commits and you want to make people laugh most people like to want to do that and that's what I like to do it's fun to to go on the road and have a story and work on it and work on it and get it down to where it's just perfect and then you share with what do you do to get up for it on those days that you just don't feel like going out there maybe you're physically sick or you're just in a bad mood or you just don't want to go out there oh my god just shut up stop one never explain never complain that's my thing stop whining you it's it's a thrill it's an honor to be able to do this it is such a treat that I can do it and I'm still eight at age 68 you can still go out and work and do it I love doing it so the idea that oh you have a headache oh that's that no what are you doing you're so tired oh shut up really it beats working yeah you know I've had jobs they suck yeah I think sometimes I'm like really tired and don't want to do something and I think about some of the people I interview by Michelle Knight who was held for 11 years by Ariel Castro up in Cleveland Ryan a member yeah chained to a pole and I'm thinking my knee hurts I'm ashamed to even say anything after I interview her you know it's like I'll never complain about anything again yeah it's like we don't have a bad deal you know my dad never bought his problems from the office home when he came home we had dinner and that was it there was never how'd it go today what was the it just wasn't discussed good or bad you know and my wife sometimes get mad at me go what's that thing of the paper you and let them in are fighting on us because when I get home I'm home and you put it away and it's that's it that's how you stay married how do you get along with Letterman now do you ever talk to him no not really the interesting thing about this job is there's only a few dozen people in the world who have done it so you can have shared experiences with but no I don't really hang out with him I mean if I see him like how you doing me Dave lives in New York I live here not similar I'm not a big sports guy he likes to go to sports and so it's it's not it's not something I do you watch The Late shows now did I show I watched the monologue that like jokes yeah you know I watch them all Samantha be Conan and everybody I like jokes I mean most of the guests I've interviewed so I know all that guys know crap you know we live in an era now where if you don't like the performance politics you don't like them regardless of the material you know the fun thing I did it when you know Bush was dumb and Clinton was horny and it was an easier time how did you keep from crossing the line of going to mean-spirited sometimes because let's face it you had guests on that we're dumber than a box of rocks yes sometimes and it was we had this talk show host once yeah try to trick him into doing the model no no how do you know where to stop because it's real easy to cross that line you know you know where to stop is by going out on the road and you look your audience in the eye and they're five feet away from you you're not quite as brave as when you're in a studio when you have to face the people you're talking to that's one reason and when I got the Tonight Show I used to keep that in mind what I say this to this person if they were actually here and that's sort of how I did it it's tough sometimes because I've watched you do it and you tend to get them involved and get them laughing with you even if it's the laugh at themselves like when we do there yeah we do the jaywalking thing we never surprise them we'd say Pig can we talk to you when I asked you about American history okay and you ever watch a show and people yeah those people are so stupid they don't know anything though who was the first president Abraham Lincoln okay good good talking to you my favorite ones were how was Mount Rushmore formed you know the most common answer erosion like not only did the wind and rain pick for president it picked four of our greatest but it's not like polka Harrison got in there you know pick four of our greatest pronoun just wind and rain just years of belting oh my god look at that it's unbelievable yeah just amazing oh that was good and that was and most people think women got the vote in 1966 that was that's another one yeah you gotta tell me this one night you were working and Steve Martin brought Johnny Carson in yeah yeah to watch you do your act did you know he was there yeah of course you know so they didn't sneak in and watch you from the shadows you knew he was there yeah I mean you know that's the great thing about people always thinks it's this horrible cutthroat business it's really not I mean I brought not Johnny representives from the show and to see Ellen DeGeneres because I thought she was just great I was got more work from other comedians that I ever got really from yeah Steve Martin was very helpful Johnny all because they would come how Harvey Korman would come in he brought he brought Johnny and one time too because I had about a half a dozen auditions for the time not sure and we can't tell you know some finally when Johnny came in himself and said yeah like this guy give it a shot Johnny gave me a great piece of advice the first time he came in to see me he said you're a great performer you really you can you can take a week joke and make it funny but here's what you should do he said write your jokes out on a card go out and say it to the audience is flatly and as dull as you can say it and if it gets a laugh you got a funny joke now take that same joke and add the performance aspect to it you got a joke the works on two levels it works on the joke itself was funny and you made it funny by adding a funny voice I never had the opportunity to meet him I wish I had never met Johnny no and one of the I guess compliments that I'll always cherish she was talking to David Foster one time and he asked him are you sorry you retired any regrets and he said well I would like to have had a crack at dr. Phil oh I'd like to have liked to have interviewed and oh that's good he never did but I so I've always wondered how that would have gone so they tell me these archways in here are from The Tonight Show oh they are yeah Tonight Show stuff yeah it's called recycling yeah but it's cool I'm not a big memorabilia guy but they were throwing all those pieces out and I thought that'd be fun there was a lot that went on at the end hmm do you have any bitterness about it no done any better at all did you at the time no we've known each other a long time you seem to me to take the high road at every turn he did never seem to be pissed off or critical no because people don't watch you for that reason they like you for a specific reason right and that's what you do I'm not saying you don't get upset or you get mad but nobody you know something whiny rich people of the most annoying thing in the world when you've got a lot of cars and you live in Beverly Hills oh winey winey rich Pete I mean is there anything more annoying than whiny rich people you know that's hilarious there were some controversy about that but what you're saying is you still got in a private jet and flew off and did comedy for big bucks when you wanted to and came back and get what you love I mean it wasn't like you had to move no I got the same friends I had in high school and married for 39 years I you know Tim Allen thinks this is the funniest phrase about show business as I always say here is show business don't fall in love with a hooker okay because that's what it is if you think show business is your friend it's not how did you get along with Johnny there was some friction in the beginning a little bit but ultimately we got to be good friends and he was very helpful there was a special called Johnny comes home I think it was 1982 where Johnny went back to Nebraska and they found Johnny's father's car it belonged to a guy local still had a 39 Chrysler in Johnny Johnny went to the prom in that car Johnny had his first relationship in that GUI and Johnny drove it there so NBC a surprise bought the car and gave it to Johnny okay then when Johnny died it went to a museum and last year the museum called me up and said we got a letter here from Johnny it said when you guys just threw this car give it to lemon so it's I got it right around the corner yeah yeah it's like you say yes here it is here see the green one right there oh wow now you could get busy in there there's a big car this is Johnny Carson's dad's new car I bought it new and 39 bought it new huh it never been out of Nebraska I don't think they pulled out the registration with Johnny's dad's name on it so they use didn't they used it for the show and and then Johnny brought it back here and then he gave it to me which I was really touched you know really I would be too in fact there's still some of some of this stuff from The Tonight Show when Johnny hid it in the backseat dezer no no you know a portable desk that they had next to it and stuff you know yeah that's great that was the first sort of four seater they used to call that the Italian rolls-royce it was a four-seater Lamborghini they're pretty cool actually it's one of the few cars I actually have to move the seat forward for really yeah you're a big guy you fit right in that yeah what does it take to get a man like you in this kind of car yeah I rap right in there plenty of legroom look at that oh man this is big man in your position should be driving this kind of automobile yeah of course I'm safe because you've never sold anything no you never sell anything look at that this is a 1934 Rolls Royce p2 chassis we built the whole body here at the shop it has an engine from a merlin Spitfire oh wow that is a 27 litre Merlin aircraft you know out of there yeah the Battle of Britain the plane that you know this far won the war so how much horsepower to turn in probably with carburetors and no supercharger 1111 1200 so you can get up an exit ramp yeah I live in a hilly area saying there's that little extra push gas mileage is not something you want to ride home no I wouldn't think what's it weigh it's not light it's mostly six seven thousand probably closer to 5,500 oh that is beautiful though Jay yeah she turned out nice yeah and you know that one that's the tank car I've seen you driving this this is Schwarzenegger favourite car when he called Jay love the tanker is fantastic it looks like the time energy here with the with the big battle in the front the giant face yeah they're perfect for me I would drive this every day in LA if I could well I love the motor in this person m47 Patton tank engine air cooled put Bosch fuel injection and we got banks turbo charges on there so she goes good can you ride it at 60 miles an hour and be comfortable it's been comfortable to 140 oil changes 17 gallons 17 gallons of oil yeah if you got a jiffy lube it'll cost you fifteen hundred bucks I'll show you something you might remember this dr. Phil or you may never have seen it before tape decks before audio system before serious radio you had this the highway high five Oh I've never seen them you never seen that no oh that was an option at Chrysler in 56 you got a record player in the cars you could just kind of drive around and play records well the idea was supposed to pull off to the side Oh get your woman exactly but no better I never saw what yours is this is 56 but it moves at 16 and 2/3 not 45 see this going slow the slower they could get it to go the more stable it would be yeah but you only get your records from Chrysler so they only terrific oh they're all I have is Davy Crockett at pajama game okay that's it so if y'all might listen to Davy Davy that's pretty much all you have well these are all brough superior motorcycles these are very rare English brand of motorcycle got made famous by Lawrence of Arabia he sort of helped promote the brand they were the first hundred mile our super bikes in the 1920s god these are gorgeous well thanks a what's the oldest one in here that one they are 1919 look right here look at this dr. Phil look it's literally a bicycle break see just grab some which grabs it with ya you don't really stop as much as progress yeah I don't remember what year it was but you and I bought Corvette zo6 s oh yeah yeah I think you got an old one I got Oh - yeah there's a one right there that's the this is er 100 one now these things are like a NASCAR with a radio in it yeah that thing was crazy fast I loved it there's another room in there that's got an airplane powered cars and a lot of military vehicles got a tank which is perfect for LA is it tank in there yeah yeah what do you do is it tank it's the best thing for getting around traffic you move that gun turret and people just get out of the way yeah there's no road rage that is a what they call a ferret technically it's a scout car but it has tires instead of tread yeah that goes 60 miles an hour on the freeway really it's bulletproof its amphibious and with that lays potholes this is what you need this is em phoebius well you can go up to water up to here well that's interviews yeah that's amphibious yeah it just looks like a boat it is about it's an Amphicar you drive this in the water it's a boat in the car those are pretty good-sized props it's about 10 knots an hour yeah if you're taken in the water were you did it on the show yeah in the water you just drive it right in you know Lyndon Johnson had one of these in his ranch and what Lyndon Johnson was he take TV because your ride you head towards like oh the brake so then he would drive into the water yeah so how many square feet you got here in all these cars 140,000 140,000 square feet come on what buildings thanks so much but I didn't know you know they're in 40,000 square feet people it's a garage oh it's hangar right no no no it's a garage and they go I was in it it's a hangar no no hangars don't have 12-foot ceilings you got to love this do you just spend all your time here oh this is my Malibu beach house yeah I don't think there's anything you don't have huh is there a limit to what you can hold it here can you hold 200 cars 300 well have to find out yeah you're gonna test it right how do you buy all these cars cash from your comedian money yeah is evidence if you're a funny son of a car that are standing you know a lot of comedians like to do what they want to do it this is what I do talk about your financial strategy because you've made a lot of money in comedy you made a lot of money with tonight's show but you had a strategy about that what was it well my strategy was the same strategy as I said being dyslexic I'm not particularly good with numbers so even when I was in high school I always had two jobs I would bank one job and I would live on the other job and I worked at McDonald's and they worked at a Ford dealership when I was in high school then I started doing comedy and I would always Bank my money from the regular job and spend the money made as a comedian and then when I got the Tonight Show I always stayed on the road because then because TV is one day you're on TV next day you're not it's over and that's it that's it when I was doing the Tonight Show I'd always work at least minimum three nights a week somewhere Vegas Arizona or whatever Plus would give me a chance to see what real people laughed at they thought was funny said I'm gonna live on the money make as a comedian and just bank all the TV money so I never at one never touched a dime of the TV money and I still live on the money makers a community I each job every time I buy something I go get a job this week to pay for this not a mortgage guy when I bought my house okay here's a bag of 20s give me the house you know yeah I'm not a mortgage guy I don't lease I don't really use credit cards so you biked all the tonight show money yeah pretty much that's a good thing yeah do you ever take a vacation or is this your vacation I'm not a vacation viewer because you know Seinfeld when I talk about this all the time you go what if you took a vacation and you liked it well now you're screwed because you're not working you know so one or two days is fine with me I mean I went to China for six hours that was good there's a wall as a piece of orange chicken okay that was that was fine I can't go to a city as a tourist and enjoy it but if I go there to do business and I do the business and I really enjoy this yeah it's the same as me because I feel like a sucker yeah if I'm going there just to tourists around but if I go there and do business and then I do that while I'm there then I really enjoy it I feel like I'm killing two birds with one stone you know I traveled by myself like a while back I was in Milwaukee I'm doing a show at a casino Milwaukee did not have a hotel so I come offstage about 12:30 at night and they say well we'll drive it down to the hotel all great oK we've called the hotel they're expecting us great drive downtown or go through and go through an alleyway down down an alley you know back with the trash cans our door opens guys wait miss Lana come out to your room oh thank you take scrap to room give me a key fine if I go to bed I wake up this morning go I got a couple of hours before my plane we gonna walk around the walk so I'm walking around and slice of pizza I meet people on street you know and I realize I don't know the name of my hotel so I take the key out it's not on there well it's a card it's got a picture of a woman in a spa doing this and I don't want to tell it so some guy hey Jalen oh hey where's the hotel which one when people stay in you know what's it know I don't know so I asked a couple people and like oh there's a couple hotels down there Hyatt no I don't I don't know and then two cops pull up hey jail are we doing it Sam I'm just looking for my hotel what hotel is it well I don't really know and I hear I'm like at a five what is a 501 hold or whatever it is like for a crazy person I says I don't know they go try and get the police camera so take me one hotel they were in the line list doesn't look okay then the second when they came in oh this hi I'm Chandler my registered here they go yes you are oh good oh don't believe other told that because you come in at night they bring you in an alley you don't see anything and I've woken up many a time and not know what city I was in yeah yeah cuz you'd wake up for that first ten minutes and you go where am I so how long are you gonna keep doing comedy probably till I have the stroke I guess you'll stroke out on stage yeah probably someway I mean that's the way to go you know it's fun as long as you can tell jokes and be relevant I think that's the key you know the trick is not to you know I watched some comedian the other day an old friend and he was doing a bit about do you see the thing about Nick seventh baby other day I'm not a crook I go okay first of all Nixon was not on the paper today the audience knows he wasn't this is an old bit you've been doing you can't keep talking about Reagan's trip to Pittsburgh okay because that's it's 30 years and nobody knows what you're talking about him so the idea is I always tell young comedians watch Mack tell me it sounds old and one of them said to me all the time yeah what's a fotomat booth you said somewhere society what does that mean I see you never heard of fun enough no and I okay you just learned to take things out yeah cuz I got a son that's just turned 30 and he does not know who Paul Newman and Robert Redford are oh yeah we watched Lawrence of Arabia here the other night and one of the kids kids 32 said a Peter O'Toole guys pretty good has he ever been in anything else yeah couple things yeah they think Peter O'Toole is like a porn name yeah really we don't realize it's a lot has check - change you proud of your career can't complain if you look back across it be proud of what you've achieved I look back across it and I watch all these people who have dropped like flies with this me too but you know we did The Tonight Show my door was always open at The Tonight Show it didn't shut you know nobody came into my office can I speak to you privately no speak to me in front of Lisa and yeah what's up you know you know the fun part is you get to take care of your family you get to be like I'm a real big shot on my family you know yeah when I go home uncle Louie's house needs a new roof there you go then when I go oh no the big meatball like that big meatballs for Jay no no you save the big meatballs a Jay oh okay so I get Big Shot yeah you gave me a piece of advice when I was starting out this is right when I was starting the show you said don't ever forget the vision part this is not radio just because it's talked right it's not radio remember the vision part of television because you said you know we used to do the monologue and it was just all talk people would be folding clothes and they'd be doing this and that and the other but then we started putting sight-gags in writing and stuff where they had to watch to get it and it made a huge difference in people tracking and doing what you were doing and I've never forgotten you telling me don't ever forget the vision part of television and it changed what we did with graphics and the things that we do when we're telling our stories right you remember telling me I remember that Madison yeah and I had a big impact on that's interesting I wanted to talk to you because like I said I got a lot of information from you well thanks for doing this hey thanks I appreciate

Channel: Dr. Phil

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Id: 2L_DSjoU34M

Length: 42min 13sec (2533 seconds)

Published: Tue Jun 18 2019