The Late Show starring Joan Rivers interview with Telly Savalas 1987

[Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] my next guess is play everybody from Pontius Pilate to Al Capone okay he belted yes get incredible activities best known of course as Kojak it's hot that's Time magazine called of Polish Sherlock Holmes this Saturday night he's back on CBS starred in Kojak the price of justice and on March 1st you can see in an end on NBC News nine just goes around in the Dirty Dozen the deadly the deadly mission you please help me welcome mr. Telly Savalas [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] now it's ten years since Kojak went off yet and yet he's so popular what was the chord he hit let me make a comment first on your breeze so today tonight well you playing peek-a-boo with that wrestler there it was absolutely shocked and surprised what what what are you supposed to do when a man says please lift my skirt I haven't heard that since I left Greenwich Village years ago yeah put on the magnifying glasses okay to enlarge things sure if you're going to take a look take a look at my age you know what was the question gentlemen question was why a guy say such a cordon people what was it about Kojak do you think looking back now everyone went identify well you know like you Joan you know I'm from the neighborhood you know the razzle-dazzle of the streets I know very well and I think was a reality or sure that made it it and being in New York you know and what you're going to do so I think that's what made it elastic showed an impression everybody was real but everywhere I mean like Japan you he said you go people would say you Japanese yeah they do all your little marker and gestures oh yeah I never knew how to translate who loves your baby though in Japanese now your hair is shaved I'm looking to see but it really is hair there when did you start shaving your head for what role for a picture called the greatest story of a toe the story of Jesus this great director George Stevens who was since passed away he says Kelly it give me a feeling of power if you allow me to shave your head Chris Pontius Pilate was a Roman governor and it generally real he rules with an iron fist what do you think Isis look Price is Right do what you have to do so I suspect you know I'm afraid of going home and scaring my kids if they see pop a little bit different how do you feel about that he says well we'll cancel production today bring him in tomorrow and sure enough you cancel production today I brought in my kids and the neighbors kids they never even noticed ha ha well you you play parties plaques why'd you mother so many columns did you play in Pontius Pilate Oh Oh mom I says ma that this is mother's love and if you listing mother's story goes like this I call that his MA I'm gonna be in the greatest story ever told the story of Jesus she's just telling that's great you'll make a marvelous Jesus righteous Pilate oh there was a long dramatic pause man she's all right Ellie but please be sympathetic that's above his level it's too far now usually I dropped an act of your stature they want you to act there were a child and they were attracted to you didn't start out to be an actor you didn't want to be an actual very late in life you worked the other side of camp that's true you know I'm doing it for a lot of years for free you know you're from New York you know in order to survive yeah especially the neighborhoods we come from you gotta act every minute of the day so when it came time to do it for money and accidentally it kind of came easy how was it accidental you direct you would a director in the morning I was a director news department I was with the voice of America the State Department and they needed someone to play an old European Church I know everybody but I couldn't get in touch with a guy I had mine so as a joke I went to this audition only to say that I exposed myself to a periodic or addition to my shock and surprise they said well mr. Zavala zoodles young for this papa would you do it do it I didn't know what to tell him you know I had my phony accent and I says well I've caught you tomorrow and then I went that night to my mother was a very famous artist into that way I say same are they want me to do this scene i sizzling a premie $300 what do you think tell her you do it to be a glorious act I did it haven't looked back since never look back to the merry-go-round ever since Eddie Nero I talk a lot more you should gentlemen I want to find out what gets you really upset and angry at first you have to do this commercial so don't go away we'll be back with more talents of Alice after this message of interest okay okay [Music] [Applause] [Music] talking Excel is the house before commercial I asked you these gentlemen every time I met you is easy and you're kind of slow with it what aggravates you what gets you angry uh-huh I can't remember the last I was saying I get worried a lot baby worried about what what are you worried about you're not honest answer honest answer all right a couple years ago I had a baby this year I had a baby so then you begin to think now I got a little long enough to raise a couple more kids yeah so the first time in my life I got frightened but it's a challenge how are you me ain't gonna tell you that back over you Joe 52 bang-bang yes a little bit over yeah and that could even live along mid-eighties without worrying these days how it is at all mid-90s I mean my grandfather's making babies at the age of 53 he started so we shouldn't worry then you have a good long line at a baby okay you like women you love women I know that's right but but we're catching you back with some women but what if such as women anything absolutely nothing at all yeah something gets me angry about women what the insanity of it all I mean this woman's lid Here I am I've lived 52 years I will 9:32 same thing yeah 52 years and I've devoted myself to giving a hundred percent to the idea of women because I adored himself and here we are in the 1980s and they want 5050 and equality which means they're gonna give me 50% back here I am a total slave and I don't understand very it's a different generation you know letters will get but letters will get from this one if you don't go what about your wife now who holds a rooster she rules the roost you know I am a ten dollar allowance at the end of the week how long you married now well it is you say this way well this one they gotta be the only young sir now we've been in love for 10 years yeah we've been married for all the 10 years legally after that oh that's great there's a wonderful and two kids two kids and we get married every year so we're gonna win iv8 you mean area beers gross you've gotta see a very romantic people don't see that in you you have chest you had this tough image now see it's have images going back to Kojak for a second they showed me clips of a movie and you're not there's no lollipop it down why should get rid of lollipop I think John because of the heaviness in the-- you know it deals with infanticide it deals with a woman who was accused of slaying her children couldn't very well go to a show like that suckin lollipops and saying who loves you baby yeah so we'll save for another time should we show the clip you brought a clip yeah every girl can watch right up here together my pleasure okay look what about three once in shock it's worth five million six years old look now one in and out location been in the water well if you say that will be on CBS and a full project the private sector and what a pleasure to come back again bring the wine okay all right we'll be right back with [Applause] [Music]

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Published: Wed Jun 28 2017