our first guest a talented actor this man's recent films include clean and sober and also the Dream
Team and now yes ladies and gentlemen he is the new Batman the motion picture opens I believe
Friday which is tomorrow right all across the country here he is ladies and gentlemen
how you doing great good to see you that sick boy thing is Siri no you know what I love about
you really committed to the whole piece oh yeah back off oh yeah you gotta go what are you gonna
do I'm kidding about the tick boy a bit the thing about tick that people don't realize the
reverse that is if you eat too many lines you actually get ticks so oh I didn't realize that
there was that problem so we should maybe launch a whole other campaign uh congratulations on all
of the success before the film and of course now accompanying the film it's unbelievable
yeah and how do you respond to that has it just changed you at all changed your life do you feel
differently no I wouldn't guess I was throwing George Bush into the city they kept going Batman
I kept going and uh the how about the well the merchandising is like
now do you get a piece of the merchandising oh well there you go
so you're looking at this time you know it's they've gone a little well you know it's not
my judgment but in my opinion they've got a little far do they ever ask you Michael what
about the uh the Batman socks or what about the you mean my approval yeah oh that's hysterical
when you have to approve your own stuff and you get your likeness you know and it's it's just
hysterical and I keep you know putting Jay Leno's picture in there because of the job
no but they've gone nuts now because it's extended into other areas causing depressors
Everything Medical Supplies exactly medical supplies they got the new uh Batman oxygen
tank right reflex hammers they got the whole thing you're fine just let me take off my bad
hat you know it was interesting we were talking just briefly in the makeup room
before the show and you had an interesting thought I asked you yeah great I asked
you if you thought that Batman could beat uh Mike Tyson from here to Gotham City and back
um I have a feeling although you and I have never discussed this before that for you being
in a movie any movie with Jack Nicholson was probably like the achievement of of a small
dream you had someplace absolutely I mean this is a guy you know I can name a bunch of actors that
I would always wanted to work with but I gotta say Jack was probably the number one and if in
fact I almost didn't do the movie because I thought you know he when he did a movie
called Missouri breaks with Brando he'd always loved Marlon Brando and wanted to work with him
but he almost didn't take the movie because he thought I'm not sure I want to blow it on this
one if this isn't the right one and I almost didn't do this movie because I thought I want
to do just the right thing with Jack and because my chance may not come around exactly so I didn't
want to blow it and I thought you know what it might not come around again I'm going to do it
and take my chance he's as good he's as great a guy and as good an actor as uh as it gets and
he's truly one of a kind man and when he one day he you know he looked over at me we're both being
made up in our our suits and he just looks at me and says well we just gotta let the Wardrobe do
the acting kid and that's true after a while man you just work the suit you know did you uh uh were
you uh frightened or intimidated at all a little bit like the first day you meet him when you're
when you're yeah no the idea of it a little bit because I thought you know I'm not sure what he's
like and and this could be into because he's huge he's he's just he's he's huge and and and he uh
but the first day I went over to talk to with him about the script and get some dinner and
the first day that was gone it was he's he's you know not unlike me or people I grew up with he's
I just like a regular guy yeah people say that no he's like no no I mean he if a regular guy is
I I don't know who would be a regular well I'm a regular guy all right no he's not regular at all
wait a minute no I mean on one hand he is very I mean one day night we're coming
home from dinner and we're discussing real the best ways to make vanilla milkshakes
and what we like about and he can turn around literally and discuss
uh you know the Picasso and uh then how did Picasso like his milkshakes
[Laughter] was there a friendship molded here do you think yeah we're kind of pausing everybody
keeps asking me that it's not like we hang together all the time but we go out and see each
other and uh and you know sit out and have some dinner everyone's talking you know what was the
surprising thing is how you know you see people be funny in movies and then you meet them and
they're not necessarily very funny right they just have somehow figured out how to do this thing he's
genuinely funny I mean he genuinely we'll make you laugh he says funny things and does funny
things yeah entertaining to be around extremely entertaining yeah yeah but I think it was miscast
me I mean it's obvious yeah of course I don't see the problem no he's I mean man yeah so now
what is the deal he's obviously the Joker yeah and you're you're Batman yeah and and
what happens you you uh what has he done to to irritate you yeah just generally no he
uh he is uh he's enough he I witnessed Batman Bruce Wayne Witnesses the uh the murder of his
parents when he's a kid and the Joker had done that yeah but he doesn't know it till later I
actually kind of blowing the plot here yeah but yeah like nobody's gonna go see it now
let's prove that it's Raiders of the Ark again or whatever that's right but now Gotham City is
where Ohio Gotham City is right outside on the lake here's what I thought where did the cameras
go all right we'll uh do uh we a commercial and then we'll be back here with uh Michael
Keaton now the thing about the merchandise you know it never really took off the Rain
Man lunch boxes it never really worked did they I don't know I'm staying out of this one
last summer I saw you in clean and silver yeah and uh jeez I thought
you were terrific in that I thought that was
I mean you laughingly mentioned that in in Batman it was in some measure okay to let
the suit kind of do the acting which I know you were adjusting about a little bit but not
in clean and sober that was just you out there uh 90 minutes of tough uh stuff yeah which is
great you feel great when you come home from a thing like that you know it's just a you just
work and you come home and you're you're tired you know you feel like you used it up yeah which
you know actually you're gonna love this segue now really you are watch this yeah you go and you just
work you feel like your work which is something that my dog doesn't really experience because
no I'm not I just saw you mention I saw you do a thing about the Border Collies being nuts and all
those yeah they're crazy no I have one you have a borderline they're fabulous dogs yeah but they're
they're yeah they sort of is there anything I can do anything else yeah is there anything I
can do in the house I just do anything have you have you seen sheep have you heard about sheep
and then what I want you to do is be a Maverick of the group I want you to
correct because they always I can remember and I've told this story several times when
we had him on the show some were we were using on the show some had to wait in the
in the dressing room like many of our guests and the ones who had to wait in the dressing
room the whole time were like that looking out the door like well I may be called any
second time that's right that's the idea where a lot of them going over this stuff
do you now do you have them indoors you let them run I mean he does he does it all he does
it what's his name Dusty Sean name my little boy named him Dusty and yeah this is I think
this is interesting your six-year-old son this is probably the low end of the target audience
for Batman right yeah now does he have any connection now that Dad is this big super
yeah but what's great about it is he he gets what I do he mostly gets what I do he once told people
at school and they ask them what their dad did for they said it he sleeps in a trailer
so he's very proud of dad's work no because he seen me doing the things he knows what I
do so so he puts to get he now knows I mean had this been my first movie I think it'd say
is he Batman or is he like that I'm not sure but you know what he did he brought his Bat Suit to
the premiere the other night it was his idea stuck it under the thing I sit down next to him
generally there's a bat he put it in his I had one made for him by the costume or
you know and he actually wrote it like if there's trouble I'm ready you know
well a long difficult life well maybe great that's cute that must make you feel terrific
yeah he's having a great time yeah and uh take some time when did you finish this thing
because I think people have started I started reading about the film like six months ago
um I finished it about three or four months ago I guess but you know there were stuff to do it
after after it and uh and now I'm done this is the final thing and I'm real happy about it yeah what
are you gonna do my brothers and I do an annual uh how many brothers do you have three brothers
yeah three sisters but me and the boys do a do an annual fishing trip where do you go well out west
um um generally I am I hesitate to uh say where because things you know oh yeah they'll
hunt you down in Wyoming well no I mean odd things have happened so I don't I don't ever
say where yeah so what do you go for Marlin blue yeah blue marlin out there in Wyoming
tuna too there's a lot of tuna there in this right on the Tetons oh boy sailfish Rocky Mountain tuna
no you can't Rocky Mountain uh blues uh anyway you got into the Wilderness you're out there fishing
yeah yeah we take off and we go my brothers are wild my brothers are funny man they they
are uh well wait that's it no no no no no no this is nice just a nice thing we do over here
and I'm really looking forward well maybe some of you'll invite me I doubt it but you know maybe
no of course you can well that's a familial thing it's a family kind of I don't know I don't have a
family but maybe vicariously I could experience me and Dorothy be out there with you in Waiters
out there in Wyoming yeah uh are we done does he have to leave no you don't have to leave does he
does he have to hey Morty can you do this thing Isaiah huh Michael Keaton we'll be right back
yes sir were you in the original company of cats or were you just in the road the road the the
truck and bus yeah we went all over the Midwest yeah I was on for 18 weeks really oh yeah without
a breakup thing the little whiskers oh sure well like you you get up early and they put it on and
you run it all day very good yeah but I enjoyed it thank you very much midnight and the kitties
are sleeping do you think about cats uh tomorrow on the program Sandra Bernhard will be here also
also on the program uh 10 000 Maniacs will be here and uh
Batman no and uh New York City Parks commissioner Henry Stern will be here and boy the problem is
getting grumpy and also insect Wrangler a Steve Kutcher is that right that'll be tomorrow so now
uh we have just a couple of more minutes explain to me about you and your brothers enjoying the
fishing you go no we don't we're just going fishing trying to behave ourselves but you have
to understand my brothers now are all older than me and they were in a sense they were we were all
kind of went through a wild phase of these guys were nuts you know they actually when I was a kid
built me a uh they built a boxing ring in the yard and with like stage bouts and it was me it was me
I was like a tiny kid we would literally have boxing matches and a lot of these guys I liked
you know I didn't have any Grudge and I'd have to go out and fight these guys you know so one
thing my brother and I it's my brother Paul who used to get in some wild fights what does Paul
do now Paul is in the uh building construction uh business selling building construction materials
and one day we're down we used to take big sweat socks and stuff them we had a bag of socks in the
basement where we used to use for sled riding stuff and we used to stuff them full of rolled
up socks and then stick your hand in there make your gloves he was a lot bigger than the end time
because I was a little guy and he he uh would get on his knees and fight and he used to Pummel me
just used to and your hand would slip through the gloves you know the socks and you know you'd catch
and knuckle everyone so this one that he's just beating me up and there were these windows in the
basement and I'm fighting and I finally had had it and I said oh wait a time up I said who's that
up in the window he turns the look up in the window I take the glove off and I get one of
these guys going like one of those bolo things I heard this thing what happened I smack him across
I think he chased me for like a week out of the yard boom and then I rated up the steps and I
was and he hit me and then I chased him with the solar steps and he got this is how I got
ready for Batman he ran me up I chased all the steps he got the top seller step to turn around
it kicked me all the way back so one night we go out and we we stay out all night and then
we end up going skydiving which is the thing going skydiving like taught by a guy who had
literally no teeth taught us how to do it but we don't have time but hey for the next show
huh yeah but I don't want to go fishing now thank you any part of this Paul guy
me with socks in the middle of the night I don't think so uh anyway this uh this monster what it
opens Friday Friday yeah well geez congratulations and good luck yeah man I'm sure it'll be like
The Runaway hit of the decade that's they're saying we'll come back again sometime all right
Batman what