- It's so great to have you back.
It's good. Oh--
I have to say, when you were here the first time,
it was one of the throws of my life.
And for you to actually come back is exceptionally nice.
It's a thrill for you, too, here now.
Yes, it is a thrill.
It's a double thrill.
And by the way, happy birthday. - Thank you.
I know it was your birthday last week.
I had a birthday last Thursday.
85!
85.
I wanted to make sure it was OK to--
Of course.
You don't care about that stuff.
When you look like this and you have this brain,
you're happy to be 85.
Yeah.
Really.
What did you do to celebrate?
I just went out to dinner with my husband
and a couple of friends.
And then the next day, on the 27th,
I visited my grandson at his school on grandparents' day.
Oh, that's fun.
That was nice.
And I was the head speaker.
I was the only speaker.
So they were all grownups-- grandparents, and everything.
So I'm not good at that.
How old is your grandson?
He's 11.
Oh, OK.
I threw it open to questions and answers.
For the kids?
No, for the grandparents.
Oh, for the grandparents?
Yeah.
And they were great.
I would think so.
Do the kids know you?
Do they know what you've done?
Well-- yeah.
Some of them do, because of having been in "Annie."
You know, Miss Hannigan, and that.
- Right. - And then YouTube.
And then our DVDs.
So I go around the country, which
is really exciting for me.
I go around the country a lot, and I do Q&As.
An evening of 90 minutes of just Q&As.
You're on tour right now?
Yeah.
I'm going to be doing some stuff in--
I wind up in June, and--
but a couple of years ago, because of being on YouTube
and the DVDs, I'm thrilled.
I'm getting audiences ranging from nine
years old to maybe 90.
Isn't that great?
It's absolutely--
When we watched your show, that's how it was.
You know, my sister, and my parents, and my grandparents,
we would all watch the show.
It was the same age range.
That's great.
And so a couple of years ago--
and it's all random.
- The questions that you get? - Yeah.
I never know.
I don't want any plants in the audience.
Gotcha.
And a little boy raised his hand, in the second row,
and I called him.
I said, first of all, what's your name?
And he said, Andrew.
And I said, how old are you, Andrew?
He he said, nine.
And I said-- you know who I am?
And there was a pause, and he said--
surprisingly, yes.
[LAUGHTER]
How cute.
That's a kid you want to take on the road with you.
Yeah.
When you did Q&A, had anyone ever
done a Q&A segment on television when you did
it on the Carol Burnett Show?
I don't think so.
I don't think so, either.
I was hesitant to do it at first, because I was afraid I
wouldn't come up with any snappy answers,
or that nobody would ask a question, you know?
But eventually it caught on, and I really enjoyed doing it.
And I never knew what anybody--
I didn't want to know what anybody was going to ask.
And that was all off the cuff?
There was just random people in the audience, and you would--
Yes.
Talk to them, and then it would go on the show?
Well, this one time--
whenever I go out and do Q&A, and I'd
get a question or something, sometimes the crew--
the cameraman and some of the people in the crew--
would be laughing before I would even give an answer.
It's because they have earphones in.
And the guys in the booths would be making funny jokes.
I see. And the crew was laughing?
And then the crew would laugh, and I'd get ticked off.
You know?
What's going on here?
And so this one week, I asked Bob
Mackie, our costume designer, to make me a dress--
Q&A, with a turtleneck.
Then I got one of those wires, and I wore it.
Only my dresser knew, and Bob Mackie,
and I put the thing in the ear, and wired it back here.
And my hair covered it, and you couldn't
see it through the turtleneck.
Right?
So now I'm in the wings, and I hear
cue Carol, dah dah dah dah dah.
And I came out, and--
you know, fine.
And so somebody in the audience said, when
are you going to make a movie.
And our director, being funny in the booth,
said, who the hell cares?
You know, like that?
And the crew's laughing.
So they said, when are you going to make a movie?
And I heard that, and I said--
oh, you know, I would, but who the heck would care?
Then-- and so they're laughing in the booth.
Oh, that's funny.
Wow, you know?
And somebody said, would you do the Tarzan yell?
And one of the guys in the booth said, yeah, we've heard
that for a thousand times.
And I said, oh, I would, but you know,
I bet I've done this a thousand times.
Now there's-- she's got a wire!
She's got a wire!
And he says to the camera forward, get around.
So the camera pans around this way.
They can't see anything because of my turtleneck.
And I kept doing it all the way through-- now
they're hurling obscenities to me in the booth.
Oh?
And I'm trying--
yes, on every question while I'm hearing all this coming in.
Anyway, I got through it, and on the way home my husband,
who was a producer, said-- did you have a wire in--
I said, what are you talking about?
I like that. That's--
Now they know.
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