Hey, Lily!
Hi.
How are you?
I'm very well, thank you.
Good to see you.
Now, do you have a collection of t-shirts?
Last time you were here, you had a great t-shirt shirt on.
And now, you have a Andy Warhol t-shirt on.
Yeah, I have quite a few t-shirts.
Yeah.
Is that a thing that you collect--
I painted it myself.
I designed most of his art.
A lot of people don't know that.
I didn't know-- yeah, a lot of people don't know that.
So you were in his factory?
No, he was in my factory.
I see.
Have you ever met Andy Warhol?
Did you ever meet him?
Well, there was--
Ron Galella, the paparazzi guy, he has a big old book put out.
Yeah, I have that book.
And I have a picture of myself dancing--
I have no recollection--
With Andy?
With Andy.
You have no recollection?
No, I have no remembrance whatever.
And do you know, I don't even remember Ron Galella.
Well, he was kind of in the background taking pictures.
You might not--
That's true.
But was it Studio 54, or something?
I don't even remember going to a studio 54.
I wasn't such a hip person that I was out cohabiting and doing
things with--
Well, apparently, you were.
Yeah.
That's how hip you were, you don't remember it.
Do you remember-- they just had a documentary on Studio 54
recently.
It was really--
I was not in it.
No, you were not in it.
No.
Then you wouldn't have remembered that, anyway.
So last time you were here, you were with Jane Fonda.
Yes.
And we got rid of her.
We thought, we'll just have you by yourself.
'Cause she's just pulling you down.
So you're doing Grace and Frankie right now.
And you're shooting it right now, right?
Yes.
Yeah.
And do you work out with-- does she--
because she seems like she would make people work out with her.
Well, she does kind of lord it over you.
I mean, she's incredibly well fit--
She is.
--for her age, and even not for her age.
For someone who's 20 years old, she'd be well fit.
Yeah, she is.
So she's-- yeah, I have worked out with her.
And I faked it very well.
When she's not looking, you just kind of--
Yeah, well, I usually--
in the old days, when we were on 9 to 5,
I would drag my mat out of vision
of the mirror, the big mirror.
And I would kind of like--
and you'd-- you have your fingers drag the floor so it
keeps rhythm.
And, yeah, she thought I was-- and she never stopped.
Yeah.
So she worked out even then, in 9 to 5?
Absolutely, she's been working out for--
Do you work out, though?
Occasionally.
What do you do?
I do planks.
Mm-hm, yeah, well, that's good for your core.
How long can you hold a plank?
Couple hours.
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OK.
I don't think you're doing it right.
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So, well, good for you for doing it for several hours.
So is this happening, the 9 to 5?
Are they still working on redoing that movie?
They are.
They're writing it at the moment.
That's fantastic!
That's going to be--
Jane and I were just chatting about it recently.
And we hope that we live to see it.
Yeah.
Because it would be really great,
especially this day and age, to do that.
And we're very advanced in years.
So--
Yes.
--I said to her the other day, I wondered which one of us
would go first.
Uh-huh.
Did you take bets or anything?
No.
No, but that's a good idea.
Well, no one's going to be able to pay.
It's the point.
Don't worry about it.
Yeah, no.
You're both in great shape.
Yeah.
So she already turned 80.
And you are about to turn 80 this year.
In September.
Yeah, in September.
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How old are you?
I'm 61.
Oh.
Yeah.
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But I like it.
I like getting older.
I don't mind it.
Yeah, well, I don't either, as long as I'm walking.
Yeah, walking and healthy.
That's why it's good to do the plank for a couple hours.
So Jane said she was going to throw you a big birthday party.
Do you think she will?
Uh, yeah, I think she will.
Yeah, I think she will.
And we're thinking about making it, I could celebrate my--
'cause she always does big fundraisers when
she has a big age.
Yeah.
Of course, she has funds for which to raise for raisers.
I usually have to get people to give stuff
to whatever I'm raising it for.
But I think I'll do it for the LGBT Center here in LA.
Good.
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The one they're building.
They just built one.
I saw you at it.
Huh?
The one they just built.
Yeah, oh, yeah.
That's fantastic.
Well, they built that big housing, 225 units,
kind of incredible.
Yeah, it is incredible.
That's great.
They never had anything like that before.
No, no, it was remarkable.
Yeah, it is.
All right, so let's talk about Laugh-In.
So it was 50 years ago that you did Laugh-In.
And that was a huge show at the time.
And that was your big break, right?
Yeah, it was.
Did you audition for that?
Or did they see you somewhere?
Well, they saw me on Merv Griffin.
I did an old rubber freak monologue
about eating rubber objects.
People do do that.
And I pre-date-- there's a woman on YouTube who eats rubber.
She eats the foam out of foam couches and chairs.
And she prefers the yellow foam.
But I pre-date her by a good 40, 50 years.
Do you think she got the idea from watching you?
I don't think she was born then.
OK.
Because there is a television show about people
who eat weird things.
So I know.
I've heard about that.
I was fascinated.
Because it's a condition called pica.
And back then, there wasn't that much literature about it.
Right.
And so I was very drawn to microbiology,
a oil-solvent solution called xyloderm.
No, that's not it.
I forget what it's called.
It affects your brain.
Wait, what do you mean, you were drawn to it in--
I mean, when I had a microbiology class,
we would get a little tiny lab bottle like that,
with real thick glass.
And you'd just have a dropper.
And you'd drop a drop on the slide.
And then you look at a slide, an oil immersion.
And I used to just go and fill my bottle up.
I'd fill up my nearby mate's bottle.
And I'd sprinkled it all over my books.
And I would just sit there inhaling it during the lecture.
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Because it was just--
it was euphoric.
It was so wonderful.
Well, now we know why you don't understand or remember
Andy Warhol.
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And I graduated from there to rubber tubing.
There used to be a place near my house
where I'd have to stand in the doorway and wait for the bus.
And they must have made rubber tubing.
The windows were opaque.
I couldn't see.
But I could smell the rubber tubing.
And I wanted desperately to eat it.
And that's what pica is.
Yeah.
OK, we're going to take a break.
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We're going to call the nurse on the lot and see what she's--
I am so tickled.
I can't stop--
All right, we'll be back.