And I was a freak for Sons of Anarchy
but I had such, (applause)
I had such a mad crush on the beast, too,
when the Beauty and the Beast was on,
I was like, oh, my God, that guy
with that long, with that mane.
(laughing)
It is true that you are some of the most recognizable
and unrecognizable characters.
Do you have a favorite, a favorite character
that you played over the years?
Let's see, I was Santa Claus in the Thanksgiving parade.
(laughing)
Where you really?
I used to work at Macy's. no, no, I wasn't.
I had to work that parade. I didn't know
where to go with that one.
You know, I love all my children equally.
This-- I bet you think
of them as family members, right.
I do think of them as family members.
You know, they're, when you say yes to a role,
it's like, because you wanna go hang out
with this dude for a while. You wanna be that, yeah.
You wanna walk in his shoes, you wanna, you know.
Or his biker boots.
Yeah or his biker boots.
By the way, here's a question for you.
Were you a Jack's girl or a Clay girl?
Oh, see now, oh. You can't be both, man.
Oh. You can't be both.
Lets, lets, lets put it-- Let's finish the interview.
No (laughs), all right. Let's have a survey.
No, that's good, let's give it an audience vote.
Jack's girls? (applause)
Oh, there you go.
(laughing)
Get out of here.
I love him. Clay girls?
(applause) Yes.
You won, you won.
I don't think so. Stay.
So Sons of Anarchy was such a huge show,
but I think the weirdest connection I ever saw
made to the show was when we had on a lady
we gifted her a grant from our foundation,
all our dog and cat food raises money for non kill shelters.
The woman had a shelter for goats,
and it's called The Goats of Anarchy.
And all of the goats are named after characters in the show.
Were you aware of this?
No. Did you know anything
about Goats of Anarchy.
No, I'm still amazed that on Sesame Street
they had Sons of Poetry.
Remember that one? (laughing)
That's so cool, though. And they were all bikers
you know with like... (laughing)
Making poetry cool for children.
There once was a guy from Nantucket.
No, no, that's a whole different.
That's a different thing.
That kinda segues into something that shocked me.
My producer told me today that you used to be
a stand up comedian.
Really?
For about five minutes. Five minutes.
We got booked two times.
One was at the high school dance,
and then we got actually booked
into a disco tech in the south Bronx.
Oh my God. (laughing)
And-- How'd that go?
Well, you're here. That was my final night
doing stand up. (laughing)
And I had a partner.
His name was Spencer Schwarts, I was Ron Pearlman,
and we were Stuart and Perry,
because (grumbles) you know it wasn't hip
to be Jewish back then. (laughing)
So anyway, we're doing our thing,
we're doing our best George Carlin you've ever seen.
Unless you're actually seeing George Carlin.
And the, we get a, this is the south Bronx,
so there's a whole group of girls in the front,
and they're just having a great time.
They think we're so funny,
and there's a whole bunch, they have dates back here.
(laughing) The last three rows, like.
And so somebody heckles us, and we heckle back.
Oh man. And this three rows of dudes
like stand up as if they're one,
and start toward the stage.
Awe man.
And luckily there was a back door.
(laughing) Which you used.
And a taxi going by. (laughing)
We actually got in the taxi
while he was doing 30 miles an hour.
(laughing) And that was my last night.
You're like, please just take us.
(applause)