>> Good to see you again it is so good to see you this hour,
yeah, great got to come to a House again we made a visual
and out of the backyard, varied as youre working on the
backyard. Its hard to believe it was like 5 years ago.
Yeah, that was 16 and people dont know how old how time
flies when you get old. Im 9500 the last thing I remember
was 80.
Yeah, so so we were here in Washington D C.
And it is its the Kennedy Center honors.
>> The 80 year career.
5 Emmys a Tony Grammy, a bafta the sag lifetime achievement
award television Hall of Fame star in the in the Hollywood
Walk of Fame. So what what is the Kennedy Center honors not
having no, I did you met left out what I didnt get I didnt
get an Oscar. Well that is there still time.
But they gave stand wall an honoree one. He had it on his
own, but thats what I want most and lobster and you your
you do a pretty good stand world look for you, I was his
favorite he wanted me to play him.
So so it what the Kennedy Center honors that mean that
the for for people in their profession that thats one of
the highest honors. I know that is a very small something over
200.
I have ever received
you know what they dont remember the first one.
4 years ago.
We do have a hotel or home, I was the emcee where you really
and the candidate. Oh yeah.
I must have made a real impression.
So youve gone through a full circle from hosting the horse
yeah, getting the best right. Yeah, what is it especially in
this time of covid
is this kind of one of those things where you youre
stepping out and I would assume is the first like big award so
I feel like a little kid getting out of the House and
getting a president on. Yeah, we have been anywhere near here
you have you traveled, Ive traveled a little but it would
attract a lot earlier was going to get a nice. But that its an
amazing honor that that it and look
even though something was it. Well, this was a great capture,
your career youre not ready to stop working together. After
retired by just doing it for nothing.
You do charity work after they want.
No I.
>> I dont think Ill ever retire unless they make me it
was too much for yeah thats a good life. The major.
You know I the other awards are.
Well, you know like icing on the cake, but this one really
its this is where you get your credentials,
you really I mean its such a small group of people, Im sure
will be
in that group.
>> I mean its an amazing group youve got Debbie Allen Garth
Brooks, dory yourself at home I forgetting theres one other.
I knew you would Joan Baez have you got for you guys going to
get to get him and everybody are you.
>> What was supposed to go to dinner tonight. Everybodys
going to be Ive known gabby for years, I just love her,
especially one dancer to another. Im not really you
know she called me one day she was I had this little kids
would you come and help me with him, I said then we cant
really bad Santa Fe. Im not talking about the fee. Im
talking about up here theyre all looking at their feet.
I knew I had to teach him a look at the, you have been
such a part of our lives, I mean from the Van Dyck show
movies television youve done Mary Poppins twice twice.
Twice
when you look at your your body of work. Do you realize how
much you are a part of our lives. Yes, the funniest thing
because of covid
theres no school Ive got a whole fan Club of 6 year old
now.
The write me letters, theyre just discovering.
The you know Mary Poppins and the band actually its just a
pleasure and theyre like it is held up over the years.
>> You know theres this show 1, 1, of the streaming channels
go wandavision and it look it its a eyes too. Difference it
comes through through the when theyre yeah and you know the
Van Dyck said there was one that was a perfect oh my to to
the Van Dyck show thats right. It was the same.
>> Living room set but the guy had a metal head years, yeah.
I was that was some kind of a reference.
>> But the idea when you look at this show. I mean it was
done what 60 years ago.
You watch the Van Dyck it still holds up.
>> It does is still long and I still got a lot of mail on Carl
Reiner was so smart he said I dont want to ever mention
anything news of the day.
He didnt.
What writers talk about showed us the data showing that way
and I think the clothes are back in style with
you mention Carolina, we just lost him. Yeah, idol but what
did that mean we wouldnt come right to me he was everything
to me was the Godfather.
Everything he was one of the brightest. Isis
human beings, they are due at the most talented he knew more
about comedy that you know, Sheldon Leonard he was like you
to produce drawn out, but Karl and and he had different ideas
about the comedy way as so I learned a lot just listening to
the to the net argue about comedy.
The college that I dont care how crazy it gets if its
possible that could happen. If we want to do something and
say we do a dream sequence.
>> Yeah, I I watch it was watching some. Its the other
night of the Van Dyck show.
And what I forgot was
how physical some of the company was on that show I mean
yeah we all know about you falling over those out of it
and through that and they want.
>> No please dont do that.
>> It was that way because Colin, I love to do visual
comedy. So whenever he got right, did you give me a place
to do it.
>> I want 100 so the drunk uncle lors drunk uncle were
here. Yeah, I mean your your ID and the other warrior, its the
definition of comedy. Endure, you cut yourself, youre
banging your head on the on the desk. Im hoping that only took
one to be. Pretty danger.
>> You know what my favorite is.
What is it that eyes. At what the voter injured rock.
Everybody goes off youre sober and you go back and forth that
you get all tangled up as well I had more fun on that show.
>> What if there are so many people
who say you influence their comedy and whether its Jim
Carrey or Tina Fey folks like that. I feel you know you you
just you have a really influenced several generations.
>> Of of we have that kind of comedy but Jim were good
friends of course he said had been they wouldnt be made.
Stand while the Russian tea.
I would do both I did the eulogy at both of their
funerals wow.
Stan roll and butter
and I still remember liberal. Im just carrying on the
tradition, so you talk about the, you know when youre
hypnotized what.
>> When you look back at some of your performance is what are
some of the ones that stand out for you.
>> I think the the 5 years other than the actual with Kyle
America was the most fun I ever had it was just we all look
forward to coming to it because how did the right things and
stone everybody got to throw in their ideas. So from the first
reading to what we did on the show it was a different show
altogether that was the most fun and I think Im most proud
of Mary Poppins yeah, yeah.
>> What was that like doing that because that the movie
there was a lot of question marks about it is some people
said all the conduct Lee English guy, but but it has
stood the test of time what is it about Barry I.
>> We knew every morning coming to work that something
wonderful is that everybody just felt
their song everything about it just that dances we all came to
work in the morning at what was on the set every day he was
going at it.
I I got a bafta award and it was some question about my
So it wasnt cockney a little shy on the very north of
England that had been shattered by people from Ohio.
>> Again that they bought it. Given you were born in Ohio.
Movie you know it a lot of people didnt know that you
youre played the 2 roles roles of course well guide you
revert to the old guy banker at the end and last time I saw you
with the rumors about Mary Poppins and that it always are
but that you were going to be in it and in fact I was you are
what you said. Well the good news is that I have to wear
makeup to play the
>> will you invest your top words weighed in that you can
do it now without it becoming well.
The funny thing about that part I want a wall and said could I
please at Old man and hes made me do a screen test.
And I was there out for the banks House, I think what got
my been protective over in the Bush.
>> Threw him away.
>> I didnt get paid I had to give $2000 to his art school I
had to pay wow it was a traitor there. But he was shot.
You know, weve all been cooped up in our homes during the
during the pandemic what what what what have you done to pass
the time beside grow to spent girl here.
>> I dont I have we stayed home a lot. I am A
and major television animator I have all the equipment I spent
hours at. So thats fun trying to keep up with the technology
from one.
The time fries.
>> Youre doing animation. No one home and I have a court
that yeah about tell me about the van thanks.
My wife. Eileen now sings
in front of us we backed her up, but she seems great.
In fact you are get ready, you guys youre all set to be you
had a series of performances and then the pademic pandemic
shut everything down thats right. And we also say that the
Florida Theater for obama but for the first time I better
sure theres you know almost 70 years that day I was a wreck.
That was the president out there.
And my tie was cricket and I have a picture obama came up on
the stage afterward and straighten got to pick.
fantastic.
Oh yeah, yeah, I cant wait weve been missing saying we
have been able to get together
the only and I say all day but weve got what weve got our
shot him and it was a lot of elderly people waiting in line.
So we came out and checked justice to Bulls. Everybody
I think saw that its probably the one song that everybody
knows there but what how old you are or how young you are
everybody knows just. We were in the market the other day and
a little girl that makes that debt than die.
But back now that might depend. So look at snack food have some
What what keeps you going deck. I mean you know this is it here
we are you know, weve been were just coming out of this
pandemic and yet you know, I mean I saw the article in The
Washington Post. So my guys, Van Dyck is hes 95 and getting
the a getting a the Kennedy Center honors and he still
wants to work.
>> Oh, yeah, I dont know what I do
thats the thing with being an entertainer you do it because
you love to do it. Not for the money is it.
A lords but we were saying all the time and weve got a full
backyard to work out, I work out every day.
Showed up so the whole thing wow.
>> Getting hard and they are now.
Whats the whats the secret.
>> To to get into 95. Good genes. I guess Ive always
tried to eat right and everything
my mother made almost a 96
that she was sitting on the patio an afternoon with my
brother and some and should not go to the members of the German
said
who are these people.
She or I have trouble with
short term memory yes, getting battered at the same time I
longer members coming back and the color wow I remember you
every day whats your favorite memory.
My favorite memory.
Well, Ive got a lot of a lot of them.
I was telling some of the day.
My father coffers bill Indiana across the street from Wabash
college.
Russo also wrote a great book.
I was on the freshman track team.
And I would go across a Saturday launch the the Wabash
team run against other colleges well-coached was a a official
it came to me you said the guy on the 4 by 4 just a Kurdish
but you want to run it was 15 years old.
I write in my stocking feet
past the guy on the outside and beat up, I beat Purdue.
At 15 years like they give me a little red my father never
believe me I thought I had ever the Olympic.
And it actually went in to get my permit the doctor should.
Youve got a little heart over the I dont watch it.
So I joined a dramatic club.
Everything worked out for him.
>> I would say what I mean its still a ways away but what
would you like your legacy to be what your what what what
what do you want your legacy to be.
>> I dont know if I could be in the same class as well Id
be very happy, you know somebody who contributed to
that kind of entertainment.
>> I love that well, but I think you you are in that
class. I mean youre
whenever I said to a number of people going to go talk to Van
Dyck and I mean everybody from you know teenagers to folks
that are my age theyre all the light up its going to feel
great better outlook old does it ever.
Does it have.
A woman stopped me and said
youre the one whos got to bring this country together.
I said OK.
I got something to do now.
She said you got to bring this country together and youre the
guy that can do it.
What I think youre gonna get elected first to you want to
River. So youve done.
>> Broadway youve done television youve done movies.
Whats left what would you still like to do
Shakespeare,
Im not good really like to do going on here, Im the right
age.
Tomorrow to about Oprah Laura creeps in this Petty Brady from
David, I know it.
I can do it.
I that that blows me away as you would really like to try
it.
How how would you I mean how do average finish or sure.
This is 7 years ago by manage of up.
Senators had a call from Sofia Rams
Asian she wants to do a ship com with you and I share but do
we start of books that I turned it down because of the money
Ill pay them. And
should get top billing. And I said I dont care but never
mentioned by name just let me work which it all fell through,
Im still mad at him.
What would you do another sitcom today.
Now without power.
I dont think theres anybody in the business
who can write like he said
and he.
Well he got our speech patterns right away.
We had to do was save lives. He wrote the way I spoke in the
way marriage bill, you called hurricane says it would just
duck sure could.
>> You know it its not to be a little maudlin but with Karl
gonna mean youre youre the last person left in. You think
about I mean do you think about that little or no.
>> No one really dont know because you had Im not afraid
of death afraid of the dying.
>> When you are getting your Kennedy Center award the actual
at the actual ceremony.
>> What do you think thats going to feel like
it really is its its the topics like getting knighted
as far as Im concerned its the very top of everything
usually they have friends and compatriots come up. I have no
one lived there all bad, so Im going to ship. Not hoping as
somebody from Mahdi Python and Steve Martin, maybe funny
people.
What more can I say