[BELL RINGS]
Hey, listen, Bob, if you want your green room
to actually be green, I brought plenty of extra guacamole.
BOB: Oh, no, no.
It's fine the way it is.
Let's just get started.
OK.
It was turning brown anyway.
ANNOUNCER: Welcome to "Inside Gonzo's Brain," a lecture
on the improbable intricacies and bewildering biography
of one Gonzo the Great.
[PEPPY INTRO MUSIC PLAYING]
ANNOUNCER: And now your host, Gonzo the Great.
Thank you.
Thank you so much.
Welcome weirdos, one and all.
Today, it is my distinct thrill to be discussing the artistry
of my life and career.
I have been delivering amazing acts and death-defying feats
of lunatic daring for countless eons,
give or take a few millennia.
But it finally paid off in 1976, when I performed my first act
on "The Muppet Show," eating a rubber tire to the tune
of "Flight of the Bumblebee."
[MUSIC - "FLIGHT OF THE BUMBLEBEE"]
He's doing it!
He's eating a tire!
From then on, nothing could stop me.
I presented a unique combination of cutting-edge
and, often, painful performances.
[CHEERS]
After "The Muppet Show," it's time
for the next leap in my career.
No, not into a tank filled with electric eels,
but becoming a movie star.
In "The Muppet Movie," I got to showcase my beloved Camilla,
and I soared through the skies with only some carnival
balloons to keep me afloat.
[YELLING] Oh, I'm flying! Whoopee!
Then, I followed the path of every actor
after a successful movie.
I fulfilled my contractual obligation to make a sequel.
In "The Great Muppet Caper," Kermit, Fozzie, and I
jetted off to London to solve the mystery of the missing
Baseball Diamond.
I played an intrepid newspaper photographer named Gonzo.
I really threw myself into the role.
To keep my acting from growing stale,
I embarked upon my greatest challenge
yet-- playing a character not named Gonzo.
My name is Charles Dickens.
And my name is Rizzo the Rat.
Hey, wait a second, you're not Charles Dickens.
I am, too!
In "The Muppet Christmas Carol," my friend
Rizzo played Mr. Dickens' best friend, who in real life,
also happened to be a rat.
That gave me the opportunity to explore
dramatic acting, which lent the proper air of gravitas.
Hey.
Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey.
Light the lamp, not the rat.
Light the lamp, not the rat!
My apologies!
What are you doing?
Huh?
[CRASH]
[SQUEAKING]
Thank you for making me a part of this.
When it came time to make "Muppet Treasure Island,"
I knew I couldn't repeat myself.
So I returned to playing myself, but this time
it was a real stretch.
Oh no, I can't look.
Look at this!
I'm taller, this is so cool.
I may even have a future with the NBA.
Of course, I did all my own stunts.
In fact, one of my arms is still longer than the other.
[CREAKING]
After that, I gave even more unforgettable performances.
But you'll have to trust me on that, because my producer
couldn't get the tapes to work.
PRODUCER: They were all covered in tapioca.
What else would they be covered in? Sheesh.
In 2011, after spending many years perfecting my tapioca
recipe, I returned to the big screen
in a movie called "The Muppets."
Not to be confused with my TV series called "The Muppets,"
or my coworkers called The Muppets,
or my mold collection that looks like Muppets.
Look out below!
Anyway, I got to return to my roots as a plumbing artiste,
and then blow up those roots, which was so cool!
[ALARM]
[EXPLOSION]
And then I went on to appear in another film,
two series, and most recently, "Muppets Haunted Mansion"
on Disney+.
Run!
Oh!
I'm coming, Pepe.
Come play with us, Gonzo, forever and ever.
Or not.
Ah.
Oh.
[GRUNTING]
Well, that brings me to the apex of my artistic career.
I, Gonzo the Great, will launch myself
through the roof of this studio, into the airport glide path.
Yes, this very chair is loaded with diet cola and wintergreen
mints, ready to erupt as soon as I
click the mute button on this remote here, which I'll just--
all part of the act, folks.
Oh, there we go.
[SCREAMING]
[WHIRRING]
Whoa! Oh.
Oh.
[CRASH]
Oh, wow.
Oh, that was fantastic.
Did you get all that?
PRODUCER: Right up until the crash.
You missed the crash?
[SIGHS]
That was going to be in my reel.
All right, all right.
All right everybody, let's shoot everything again, from the top.
OK, I'll start.
Oh hey, listen, Bob, if you want your green room
to actually be green, I brought plenty of extra guacamole.
[BOB SIGHS]
I fulfilled my contractual "obrogation"--
"obrogation"?
I fulfilled my "trocandobligation"
to make a "squall."
I fulfilled my contractual "obaligation"--
why is this so many words?
And I introduced the world to my high-concept work,
"cantung faspallandina."
[LAUGHTER]
[PEPPY OUTRO MUSIC PLAYING]