FOLKS YOU'RE IN FOR A TREAT.
MY FIRST GUEST IS RESPONSIBLE FOR FILM CLASSICS LIKE "WHEN
HARRY MET SALLY," "A FEW GOOD MEN," "PRINCESS BRIDE," AND
"THIS IS SPINAL TAP."
HIS LATEST IS "SHOCK AND AWE."
PLEASE WELCOME, ROB REINER.
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>> Stephen: HELLO!
HELLO!
>> HOW ARE YOU?
>> Stephen: I'M PERFECTLY FINE.
HOW ARE YOU?
>> I'M VERY GOOD, VERY GOOD.
( CHEERS ) >> Stephen: IT'S ALWAYS-- IT'S
ALWAYS A PLEASURE TO TALK TO YOU.
>> A VERY NICE AUDIENCE YOU HAVE HERE.
>> Stephen: I'VE HAD THE PLEASURE AND HONOR OF TALKING TO
YOU SEVERAL TIMES NOW.
>> YES.
>> Stephen: BUT I-- AND I THINK I'VE GUSHED AT YOU BEFORE.
>> YOU CAN KEEP GUSHING.
>> Stephen: GUSH AT YOU.
BETWEEN YOU AND YOUR BRILLIANT FATHER, CARL.
IT'S, LIKE, THE LAST 70 YEARS OF AMERICAN COMEDY AND
ENTERTAINMENT.
YOU GUYS HAVE DONE IT ALL.
>> SO KEEP GUSHING.
THAT'S GUSHING.
>> Stephen: THAT'S GUSHING.
>> YOU'RE DOING IT.
>> Stephen: YOU'RE BOTH INCREDIBLE.
>> THANK YOU
>> Stephen: YOUR HEADS COULD BE CARVED IN COMEDY ON MOUNT
RUSHMORE.
I NEVER ASKED YOU ABOUT ONE OF MY FAVORITE SHOWS THEY WATCHED
AS A KID IS YOU WERE ONE OF THE WRITERS FOR THE SMOTHERS
BROTHERS.
>> THAT'S RIGHT, THAT'S RIGHT.
>> Stephen: WHICH-- THAT'S RIGHT.
>> Stephen: NOT ONLY CLASSIC BUT GROUNDBREAKING AT THE TIME.
>> STEVE MART AND I KNOW I WERE WRITING PARTNERS.
>> Stephen: HOLY COW.
>> YEAH, BECAUSE WE WERE THE YOUNGEST TWO.
I DON'T KNOW IF WE SHOULD SAY THIS, BUT WE DID WRITE THE FIRST
FART JOKE EVER DONE ON NATIONAL TELEVISION.
( APPLAUSE ) SEE.
THANK YOU.
( APPLAUSE ) THANK YOU, THANK YOU.
THANK YOU.
>> Stephen: THANK YOU.
>> YEAH.
>> Stephen: OBVIOUSLY, THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE.
>> YES.
( LAUGHTER ).
>> Stephen: WHAT WAS IT?
>> OKAY, SO PAT PAULSON, WHO WAS ON THE SHOW --
>> Stephen: PAT PAULSON.
>> HE WAS THE HEAD OF THE ACME NOVELTY COMPANY.
>> Stephen: OF COURSE HE IS.
>> AND HE CAME OUT TO DEMONSTRATE ALL THE DIFFERENT--
THERE WAS THE PUCKER GUM, THE GUM THAT SNAPPED ON YOUR FINGER,
THE DRIBBLE GLASS-- AND AT ONE POINT HE SITS DOWN DURING THE
DEMONSTRATION AND YOU HEAR A BIG PRESENT FART)
LIKE THIS.
AND HE SAID, "SOMEBODY SLIPPED A WHOOPIE WUGZ WHEN I WASN'T
LOOKING AND HE GOT UP AND THERE IS NOTHING THERE.
SO THAT WAS THE JOKE.
>> Stephen: DID YOU SHARE AN OFFICE?
>> OH, YEAH.
>> Stephen: WHAT WAS THAT OFFICE LIKE?
YOU KNOW I'M A HUGE ADMIRER OF STEVE AS WELL.
>> YEAH.
>> Stephen: WHAT WAS IT LIKE WORKING TOGETHER?
HOW OLD WERE YOU?
>> I WAS 21.
STEVE WAS 23.
>> Stephen: WOW!
>> YEAH, YEAR, WE WERE YOUNG KIDS.
WE WROTE A BIT ONCE THAT WAS A SATIRE OF DIFFERENT THINGS.
IT WAS LIKE ARMY ARCHER, THEY USED TO DO HOLLYWOOD PREMIERES
AND HE INTERVIEWED ALL THE STARS.
>> Stephen: "HERE COMES THE LOVELY BOATY DAVIS."
>> AND THE FILM WAS "RENEGADE ON WHEELS."
>> Stephen: QUALITY FILM.
>> AND WE USED TO TRY THEM OUT IN FRONT OF ALAN AND MASON.
THEY LIKED IT BUT SAID, "WE DON'T THINK IT WILL WORK FOR THE
SHOW.
WE DON'T WANT IT."
SMOTHERS BROTHERS USED TO HAVE SCIENCE URPROBLEM S.
>> Stephen: ALL THE TIME.
>> ALL THE TIME.
AND A SKETCH WOULD DROP OUT THE DAY BEFORE WE WERE ABOUT TO
SHOOT.
AND THEY'D SAY, "DOES ANYBODY HAVE ANYTHING?"
AND ALAN WOULD SAY, "WAIT A MINUTE, ROB AND STEVE HAD THAT
HOLLYWOOD PREPREMIERE THING, LET'S HEAR THAT."
WE ACTED IT OUT.
ALL THE CHARACTERS.
BIG LAUGHS, AND HE'D GO, "I DON'T THINK SO, NO."
NEXT THING, A SKETCH DROPS OUT, "WAIT A MINUTE, THAT HOLLYWOOD
PREMIERE THING, DO THAT."
HE JUST WANTED USS TO PERFORM FOR THEM.
WE NEVER GOT IT ON THE SHOW.
NEVER MADE A SHOW.
>> Stephen: YOU GUYS HAD THE CANCELLATION AT THE LAST MINUTE
AND MASON WILLIAMS HAD TO GO OUT THERE AND PLAY GIGAR.
RIGHT, BECAUSE HE DID CLASSICAL GAS.
>> CLASSICAL GAS, HE USED TO REHEARSE IT IN THE THE WRITERS'
ROOM.
AND I THOUGHT GEE THIS IS ASTOUND AGO.
>> Stephen: DO YOU GUYS-- DOES ANYBODY OUT THERE KNOW CLASSICAL
GAS?
>> IT'S VERY HARD TO DO.
>> Stephen: MATTY?
>> I DON'T.
>> Stephen: I'VE NEVER BEEN MORE DISAPPOINTED.
>> YEAH.
THAT'S A REAL TOUGH PLACE PIECE TO PLAY.
>> Stephen: HE STOPPED BEING A COMEDIAN, RIGHT?
HE WENT ON AND BECAME A POP STAR AFTER THAT.
>> HE DID THAT.
HE HAD A GREAT ALBUM WITH IT, A BIG HIT AND ALL THAT.
IT'S A GREAT-- IF YOU HAVEN'T HEARD TYOU SHOULD LISTEN TO IT.
IT'S A GREAT, GREAT PIECE OF MUSIC.
>> Stephen: AS A MATTER OF FACT, TURN OFF THE TELEVISION
RIGHT NOW AND GO LISTEN.
>> DON'T LISTEN TO HIM, DON'T LISTEN!
>> Stephen: WHEN YOU WERE YOUNGER AND WHEN YOU WERE FIRST
STARTING OUT AS ANABTOR, YOU USED TO IMPROVISE YOUR LINES.
LIKE, THEY WOULD HAVE THE SCRIPT, BUT YOU WOULD IMPOVISE.
>> OH, YEAH.
>> Stephen: A LOT OF PEOPLE DO NOW.
IT HAS BECOME AN ACCEPTED FORM BUT NOT IN YOUR DAY.
HOW WAS THAT RECEIVED.
>> THERE WAS A SHOW CALLED "THE MOTHERS-IN-LAW."
DESI ARNEZ PRODUCED IT.
AND IT WAS EVE ARDEN AND KAY BALLARD WERE THE TWO STARS OF
IT.
I HAD DONE ONE SHOW.
THEY LIKED IT.
AND I WAS ALWAYS THE HIPPIE.
I WAS THE HOLLYWOOD HIPPIE, I DID GOMER PYLE, I SANG "BLOWING
IN THE WIND" WITH GOARM WHICH WAS A CLASSIC.
YOU KNOW "BEVERLY HILLBILLIES."
BUT I DID THIS ONE SHOW AND THEY BROUGHT ME BACK BECAUSE I WAS
GOOD.
THEY SAID "TRY"-- ON WEDNESDAY WE DO REHEARSAL.
THEY SHOOT IT ON FRIDAY.
SO I START, YOU KNOW, IMPROVISING DURING THE
REHEARSAL.
WE'RE NOT SHOOTING.
AND DESI GOES CRAZY.
"WHAT ARE YOU DOING?" AND I CAN'T DO IT BECAUSE IT'S
FILTHY WHAT HE GOT.
"WE PAID $10,000 A SCRIPT AND I DON'T KNOW YOU EFF'ING AROUND
WITH THE EFF'ING LINES."
AND HE SAID, "MAYBE THEY DO THAT ON THE 'DICK VAN DYKE SHOW' BUT
WE DON'T DO IT HERE."
SCREAMING AT ME.
HE SAID, "COME OUTSIDE."
I WALKED OUTSIDE THE SOUND STAGE AND HE PINNED ME UP AGAINST THE
WALL AND SAYS."
YOU, YOU DON'T DO THIS.
AMIGO."
AND HE KEPT CALLING ME "AMIGO."
I SAID, "DESY, I DON'T KNOW, THIS IS THE WAY I WORK.
MAYBE I SHOULD GO.
BECAUSE YOU DON'T LIKE WHAT I'M DOING."
AND I WALKED.
AND RONA BARRETT THAT NIGHT, "WE HEARD THAT ROB REINER, THE
HIPPIE PSYCHEDELIC SON OF ACTOR CARL REINER GOT INTO A BIG FIGHT
WITH DESI ARNEZ.
AND, WHOOPS, THE BEARDED BAD BOY WALKED OFF THE SET."
THAT WAS IT.
THAT WAS MY-- THAT'S WHY I SHOULDN'T HAVE IMPROVISED THERE.
THEN I MADE "SPINAL TAP."
THE WHOLE THING WAS IMPROVISED.
DESI SHOULD HAVE SEEN THAT.
HE WOULD HAVE LIKED IT BETTER.
HE SHOULD HAVE SEEN.
>> Stephen: TIME MACHINE, TIME MACHINE.
YOU, OBVIOUSLY, EVERYBODY KNOWS YOU DIRECTED "WHEN HARRY MET
SALE."
IT'S A MODERN CLASSIC.
>> YUP.
>> Stephen: COULD THAT MOVIE BE MADE NOW BECAUSE DATING IS SO
DIFFERENT?
>> DATING IS DIFFERENT.
I DON'T KNOW.
WE'D HAVE TO UPDATE IT.
WE'D HAVE TO MAKE IT, YOU KNOW, "WHEN HARRY SWIPED SALLY."
SOMETHING, SOMETHING LIKE THAT MAYBE.
>> Stephen: SOUNDS DIRTY.
>> I DON'T GO ON THOSE APPS.
I KNOW SWIPING, THEY SWIPE.
I DON'T KNOW.
>> Stephen: YOU'RE ALSO KNOWN AS-- YOU'RE A POLITICAL PERSON.
THE FIRST TIME I EVER SAW YOU WAS ACTUALLY AT A HOWARD DEAN
RALLY IN IOWA.
"YOU SAY HOWARD, I SAY DEAN."
HOW DID THAT WORK OUT?
>> PRETTY GOOD.
>> Stephen: YOU'VE CRITICIZED OUR PRESIDENT.
>> WHAT DO YOU MEAN.
>> Stephen: YOU ARE A VOCAL-- >> AND YOU HAVEN'T DONE IT AT
ALL.
>> Stephen: JUST JOKES, JUST JOKES.
>> I UNDERSTAND.
>> Stephen: BUT HAVE YOU MET THE GUY?
>> I MET DONALD TRUMP ONE TIME.
IT WAS-- IT WAS A FIGHT.
IT WAS A HEAVYWEIGHT FIGHT IN ATLANTIC CITY AT ONE OF HIS
HOTELS.
BILLY CRYSTAL AND I WENT.
MIKE TYSON, I THINK, I CAN'T REMEMBER.
AND WE MET DONALD.
WE SAID, "HI, HOW ARE YOU?" I'M NOT EXAJ RATHE.
I'VE BEEN AROUND A LOT OF-- I'M AN ACTOR, YOU'RE AN ACTOR.
I'VE BEEN AROUND A LOT OF ACTORS.
THEY HAVE EGOS -- >> Stephen: LOOK AT ME.
>> EXACTLY.
I HAVE NEVER SEEN ANYTHING LIKE THIS IN MY LIFE.
THERE'S NO ACTOR I HAVE EVER WORKED WITH THAT COMES EVEN
CLOSE TO THIS MAN.
IT WAS ALL-CONSUMING.
HERE'S BILLY CRISTAL AND ME, NEVER INTERESTED IN ANYTHING
WE TO DO, IT WAS ALL ABOUT HIM.
AND I THOUGHT, WOW, WHAT A-- WHAT BUSINESSMAN HAS THIS BIG AN
EGO?
AND I GUESS THAT'S WHAT IT TOOK TO BE WHAT HE DOES.
HE'S DOING-- AS MY WIFE SAID IT'S LIKE W.W.E.
BUT HE'S LIKE A BAD ACTOR.
HAVE YOU NOTICED THAT?
HE'S NOT REALLY A GOOD ACTOR.
>> Stephen: NO, HIGHS TERRIBLE ACTOR.
>> TERRIBLE, TERRIBLE
>> Stephen: PEASE PLAYING-- EVERYTHING HE SAYS--
>> YEAH.
>> Stephen: EVERYTHING HE SAYS IS JUST CHEWING UP THE SCENE.
HE'S PLAYING TOTE CHEAPEST SEAT IN THE BACK BALCONY.
>> AND YOU NOTICE THAT HE ALWAYS, WHEN HE QUOTES SOMETHING
THAT ISN'T HIM-- AND THEY'RE TALKING ABOUT DONALD TRUMP," HE
GOES, "WELL, DONALD TRUMP, BO-BO-BO."
EVERY CHARACTER IS EXACTLY THE SAME.
"WELL DONALD TRUMP..." AND HE ALWAYS DOES THAT WALK WHERE HE
DOES LIKE THIS.
ALWAYS.
RIGHT?
( CHEERS AND APPLAUSE ) >> Stephen: WE HAVE TO TAKE A
COMMERCIAL BREAK BUT STICK AROUND.
I WANT TO TALK MORE TO ROB REINER.
>> THANK YOU.
>> Stephen: WE'LL BE RIGHT BACK.
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