our first guest is a talented actor stirring in a new incarnation of the television series
The Odd Couple That's right The Odd Couple it premieres Thursday at 8:30 here on CBS
ladies and gentlemen it's Matthew Perry welcome back thank you very
much Matthew you
bar you got quite a house tonight they love you they're happy to see you okay okay good how are
you I'm good all right hey do you uh forgive me this is such a Dopey uh question and and
it's not like I'm flirting with you oh oh but you you seem to be in really good shape do you
work out uh I do work out from time to time I had a trainer once that uh was very ripped you
know very strong guy not the most intellectual fellow in the world though uh his nickname for
himself was the party he he called himself the party called himself the party yeah talked a lot
about uh Viagra uhuh a lot about womanizing and he liked to think that he was at the kind of the
Forefront of uh the entertainment industry and he informed me before anyone knew that Michael
Jackson had passed away and this is the way he told me that he texted me Mike Jackson and
I'm sure that he used the word Mike instead of Michael because he couldn't spell Michael
ah ah was very confused by that a before the E thing said Mike Jackson passed away sorry
bro oh my the party oh my yes how long were you with the party I was uh not with him long
I couldn't take it but in the brief time did he make a difference in you physically did you you
feel better my arms got a lot bigger and my brain got a lot smaller a lot smaller that's
the way that works that's too bad um when you uh thank you thank you very much you're you're
are you done with the first year are you still in the middle of your first season of the ad
couple no we're actually finished we finished finished the first finished the first year and
they're all coming out now starting on Thursday night right here on CBS yeah now um when did I'm
trying to figure out Cron logically when you took a a trip to China when was that oh uh then last
year I went to China and I went to Hong Kong had never been there before never been there before
and it was a fascinating trip because uh no one no one recognized me and that's unusual because
friends is everywhere else because friends is all over the place and usually I get recognized
and I I kind of looked at it as it was like nice break it was like kind of interesting no one was
staring at me or asking for my picture or anything and it was really great until I wanted something
uhhuh yeah and as soon as I wanted something I realized that Fame is kind of great yeah where
is the party now yeah well would would you uh now could I go to China I don't I would
assume you can't go to China maybe actually with your hair looking like that you could
but is it um uh I mean are you you once you land at the airport you're escorted all over
or you're on your own when you're there I was escorted all over the place and is that fun or
annoying no it was kind of fun I get to tour around and see the see lovely places they're
listening and to everything you say though right the tourists no the the the government
oh the government you know I don't know I don't have that much fascinating clearly I don't have
that much fascinating stuff to say no you're fine oh I'm doing okay yeah believe me the bar
is not that high here all right but you know what I you know what I did want to tell you
which I've been on the show 12 times and I did want to mention you know as you're wrapping up
soon you know and we don't talk a lot in between appearances you and I right well
speak for yourself but I don't have to tell you that so I did want to tell you that when
I knew that I had made it in Show Business was the first time I heard you say my name oh well
that's yeah very sweet well you have made it thank you very much Matthew that's very kind of
you uh and where all did you go this is back to China now where all did you go in China I
went to I went to I was in Hong Kong so uh where did I go I don't Beijing did you go to Beijing I
went to I went to Beijing that was lovely and was not recognized at all all how was
the food it's good and there they just they don't call it Chinese food they just call it
food that's right they just say would you like some food and then some Chinese food comes I
I think we've now swerved into Jerry Seinfeld territory oh really I think we might have just
a little just a little road roadside Stu now let's let's talk about this uh um The Odd Couple boy oh
boy you know when I read that the one with Tony Randall and Jack kugman went off the air 40 years
ago 40 years ago I was stunned yeah we don't like to think about that but it was 40 years ago that
the show went off the air so I figured it's time to do it again not not a bad idea to to bring back
the the material in a newer version and let folks enjoy it all over yeah I think so and maybe some
older people will enjoy it because they've seen it before and there's a whole new generation that
have never seen it before and the tough part was because this part has been played by Walter mathau
you know who's a God and Jack kugman who's a God and the tough part for me was to not do a Walter
mathau impression almost impossible I would think yeah and I shouldn't say this because I
co-wrote the script but the funniest joke that we have in our first episode is directly from
the play an 45-year-old joke so so this is a a joke from Neil Simon actually Neil Simon wrote
this joke tell us what the joke is do you want me to tell it to you as me or do you want me to tell
it to you as Walter matham it's uh Monday's is celebrity Choice night so okay it's up to
you I'm glad that I'm here on Celebrity Choice
night um I'll do it as Walter matth okay good all right here's Walter mattha saying the funniest
joke from our show now remember the characters are Oscar Madison and Felix hunger of course
okay so here's Walter matham saying the funniest line you leave little notes on my pillow we're
out of cornflakes Fu pick up your socks Fu it took me two days to figure out that fu is Felix
hunger it's The Odd Couple ladies and gentlemen they're very good and you you
do other uh Impressions right I do a few let let me hear who else you have here uh well you
know I know that you enjoy me saying doing Dustin Hoff and saying the word why you've
always enjoyed that so this is a one-word impression Dustin Hoff saying the word why
why very very good very good yeah The Odd Couple you can see it uh Thursday first one
right here 8:30 on CBS nice to see you again see great job good luck with the
series