our next guest is one of the best known British Comics working today his films include nuns on the
run and the pope Must Die kind of a frothy little offering wasn't it uh ladies and Gentlemen please
welcome back our transatlantic friend Robbie Coltrane Robbie get some music I appreciate
that call train the best soul train yeah yeah how you doing the other one very well how are
you good when was the last time you were here oh 1917 no just kidding um a couple years ago
no it was about six months ago really six months that's the impact I made obviously yeah have you
uh forgive me I guess we're gonna have to do it again yeah forget forgive me if this is a
little indelicate but have you have you put on a little weight since you were here I've actually
lost some weight as indeed you have yeah I have lost you I've lost 25 pounds how about yourself
I could lose 25 pounds from a buttock and nobody would notice oh what a lovely image too foreign
are you are you trying to lose more weight are you dieting are you I'm gonna I'm gonna
diet next year I've decided to lose maybe 100 pounds something like that
and then play James Bond what is the what is the most you've ever weighed
um I don't know when pounds about 20 stones I don't know what that is 20 stone 300 pounds a
minute 300 really 300. I don't know I don't know I don't know what you're getting I don't know
because I was these the ball players you know the guys who play the the football somebody says the
200 and something pounds to me that means nothing that just means you're going to pay extra if you
try and put that in an airplane you know well good luck with those stones um now Robbie tell us about
this uh this project of yours I I think this is a great idea I think others have done it but I think
you're going to be particularly invented I do hope so I've always had a passion for all Cadillacs uh
you know us large objects tend to stick together and uh take your time uh so uh I've always wanted
to drive uh from Los Angeles to New York it's a very romantic notion it is a wonderfully romantic
notion particularly an old car yeah and uh This Is Us I just arrived today in fact yeah and um what
kind of car are you talking about 51 chromeboy it looks rather like a mobile sort of Radio City
Music Hall yeah yeah you know white walls and uh it's huge isn't it the engine you can't imagine
when you when you go in for gas the guy says turn the engine off please I can't keep up you know
yeah yeah yeah and uh but unfortunately he's a good man uh unfortunately the car uh the company
in London found the car for us in Florida and it was the Michael Myers engineering company had
done the work it was absolutely full into bits now you're saying Michael Moss Michael Mouse we call
it in in Europe Mickey Mouse plumbing company when your plumbing goes bad you know I said I
get it okay so I'm gonna get sued by Disney now it's not something that happens here okay okay
um so they did a really bad job so the car was not a sound Transportation no no it happened that half
the things done to it it should so I spent most of the trip under the Bonnet now will this be part of
the documentary you're doing I don't know I don't know but when we get back I'm gonna sue them until
they bleed good for you yes where where all did you go where did your travels take you well we
went right across one the first place we went to was Vegas after after Los Angeles did you
spent time there before never been there before it's a great town what I wonder if I thought
um wrongly honestly that it was going to be very seedy and it wasn't it's very clean it's
like a very clean growing up Disneyland it's very sociologically it's a wonder it's it's fascinating
it is because you you come through the desert at night came through the desert night with it with
the roof down and it's pitch black you can see the stars it's like something out of a cowboy
picture it's so romantic then suddenly there's this great thing floating in the distance with
the lights like a mirage and you could you go to the hotel and everything's about gambling
you open the door and between opening the door and going to a reception you know to go into
the front desk there are 400 machines which you can't avoid and then they point you to uh the
elevator and between between the front desk and the elevator there's another 400 Slaughter sheets
of crap games whatever you go up you open the closet once you get into your room and
there's video poker being played uh you go to the toilet in between the toilet and the and the paper
there's another slot machine you know it's quite unbelievable and the the amazing thing was you
know how in documentaries they they try and they hope something interesting is going to happen but
the first machine I went to I know with me they should be so lucky the the camera comes in behind
me and and the director says put a quarter in the first machine you see on that big one it looks
kind of interesting 40 bucks came out in court you won first time forty dollars yeah and what did you
do turn it over take it right I put it in my sock and stuck it under my bed because I'm Scottish
uh and did you get a chance to get out of the city a little it's beautiful did you get out
to Hoover Dam we didn't get the Hoover Dam we went to Colorado you know that huge great
um The Arches National Park with a great big um Sandstone lumps as they I don't
know as far as my geology goes hey there's a lump I don't know you say archers I think
you're talking about McDonald's are you sure you weren't at a McDonald's
hey please please please don't I think you could hurt me this is this is the guy I won't
be fighting tonight later with Bob Costas Kirk Douglas I've always told my kids that they have
not had my advantages to be born in abject poverty Bob is an advantage because you have nowhere to go
but up Treat Williams Brian Dennehy Susan Rattan one chilling murder will bring them together
deadly matrimony NBC Sunday we're very very late my thanks to Kevin Costner ten thousand maniacs
and Robbie Coltrane 20 stones is 280 pounds nice to see you thanks good night everybody
foreign you know I got into comedy to help spread a message to the young people so
here it is hey kids watch Saturday Night Live this week when I host with musical guest Sade