my first guest tonight oh this woman uh we we always like having her here uh she's a
terrifically talented actress she received of course an academy award nomination for her work
in the motion picture tootsie and her current project is a film entitled first born which is
still in production we're delighted to have her back with us tonight please welcome teri Garr
thank you very much for being here well it's very nice to be here we always enjoy having you on the
show you're gonna do that trick with the hose until it goes right right you make it sound like
it's a burden to the audience well i don't mean to but no it'll be great oh it's unbelievable
we went through we we sucked up two or three heads this afternoon didn't we so it'll be exciting
yeah okay here i'll take it okay unless you want it later
terry terry terry how are you doing i'm doing okay now the last time you're on the show
uh remember the audience voted who they wanted to see first you or ruth westheimer
yeah and you were you uh you had to bring this up didn't you well i thought you were
a terribly good sport about it because the audience selected uh ruth to come out first
and i thought that was very nice of you to you you played right along
well it was it was fine with me because i i really don't care whether i'm here or not
now you see i'm coming off mean again so i can't and i pretended like i was really upset
and then people really thought that i was that you were mean about being here last time
i was i said so i wasn't chosen first huh and then i
went on that tack well you know what else you did now that you brought it up you uh
there was this uh the play for television you were gonna be in the uh the uh uh the winter of our
discontent that's right john steinbeck and i said is that a play and you said of course not stupid
yeah yeah you said no it's a it's a famous novel by john steinbeck and
then you made some fun of where i went to college
i remember it's all coming back well i was in an ordinary mood apparently but you're okay tonight
aren't you yes i am i've come to prove to the late-night world that i am an okay person well
uh we're as i mentioned we're happy to have you here now i know that you have yesterday of course
was super tuesday and you have some observations on the on the on the democratic campaign so far
what was super tuesday well they had they had uh many many primaries and important caucuses around
i'm only kidding no i just happened to watch the um the debate last sunday i know you were out
of the out of the country the sun burned and um i watched this debate and i was very frightened for
for us all in in what regard well first of all you know there was the cover of
time magazine that said that had mondale and heart and it said okay the race is on
so these guys were there and they were you know ready to fight and the two of them sat next to
each other and actually did start fighting and they did those kind of smiles that politicians
do when they're really very very angry they're france france no you're wrong friends hold it
just a second i think you're quite wrong they're they're raging you know well this frightens me
because i'm thinking what happens someday if they have like this a big decision to make involving
a nuclear attack or something and they suddenly become you know they're they're human just like
the rest of you so it made me very and they got much more involved in each other than um
than in the issues you know they didn't talk about them it's a little well we'll see what happens
i mean i guess you can't really say anything about uh political candidates uh on the air
can you i want this guy and i don't want that guy and this guy's bad and that guy's good
i don't want to say that but well now what i the thing that i don't understand is is walter
mondale first of all uh nothing against walter mondale but do we want a president named walter
that's true you know that's that's your that's the dina boys at broad ripple high
school his name was walter you know how about fritz that's somebody's cat but but is is his
campaign slogan now is it has he adopted it really where's the beef is that his slogan
he said that you know it's very interesting it's like watching it over and over and over
i know they tell that's all the news that he made this joke about where's the beast yeah
i don't know it means he watches commercials and that's that makes me uh secure in my
country that my president would be watching commercials so i like him though yeah so otherwise
you're doing okay aren't you yes i am how's your how's your personal life is it all right
terry i say your personal life is it all right yes my personal life is fine but you know i i really
don't think i'm going to talk about it anymore because anymore who asks who cares um well no i
just asked i know you did and all kinds of people do but you know i saw this publicity about lillian
gish lately and she's about 70 80 something like that once you get up there it's all the same isn't
it wait until we get there of course then it'll be very important anyway she's an older woman
and an actress and she gets out there and she i even saw her on johnny carson and i've
read interviews with her she talks about making films about acting on the stage about her career
about people she's worked with and in all the things i have never heard
how many times she's been married who she who she lived with what kind i mean she's just like
a craftsman that did her work talks about her work does it and leave i mean i'm sure there's a price
you have to pay for that you don't get to be on the cover of people magazine because you don't
wash your dirty clothes in public as my mother used to say but i don't want to i just decided
it's not very nice is it i mean it would be better if i talked about i don't know i'm going here well
then i'm very sorry then let's talk about it i just don't want to make you unhappy no
do you uh name a movie lillian gish was in
intolerance and was she birth of a nation birth of a nation right um
just before the buzzer too like i say it's the price she paid we don't know what movie
she's in because we didn't know who she was married to if we had known maybe then i would
remember their movie i don't know she was married to bill cohen for a while she was
that hard to believe and then dick godier for a couple years
we have to we have to go away we have to go away but we'll be right back we'll be right back
hi we're back with kerry garr later on the program steve miserac marilyn sokol is here
and uh we'll get the uh the big salad uh sucking device hooked up and so give you
a chance to wake the kids and get some coffee down them before we turn that on so how was your
how was your uh deal in europe you went over there and you did a film for hbo how did that turn out
what was that fabulous it was called to catch a king luckily well it's over with now they show
it a couple times and then it's gone but it may come back to haunt me like a lot of things well
you're not happy with that turned out well it doesn't really make any sense i had a good time
i got to go to portugal and i shouldn't really say but it was a sort of a serious drama mystery
racing thing about uh took place for the nazis and stuff and the washington post
said it should have been tie retitled lucy ricardo meets the gestapo or oops a nazi
so it didn't turn out like you had hoped not exactly this was you and robert wagner oh is
he a nice guy a gem of a person very very nice you know in la they have these things not to
change subject you have that big hose in ellie they have these blower machines
thank you
that's not exactly what i meant
gonna get worse wait that'll be right in la they have these big uh machines that these gardeners
strap on their back and they have hoses and they they blow the leaves around because we don't have
enough rain or water to actually auto i don't hate it so this guy phil garner decided to get two guys
together in a room and have a contest with them but they they blow each other uh around the room
it's kind of a good idea maybe you can do it with the salad if this other joke doesn't work out
is it uh just so sort of sport for the wealthy is that what it does
i'm not sure yeah we the age of technology has gone so far ahead that we are now resorted to
squirting each other with air well see now ours ours doesn't blow it it inhales that device now
tell me about singing you sang in this uh picture didn't you this hbo deal sort of i did sing yes
i i told them that i could sing when i took the job and then we went into
record have you ever tried to sing in a recording session
i thought that i was doing so well and i'm singing i got a right to sing the blues and they said
would you like to come in the booth and hear one i said sure i'll come in the booth and hear one
they played it it was so shocking it was so bad that i did about 12 takes and they took like
one or two words from each tank to pace together this little song that you want to try it tonight
yeah yeah sure and after that i'll eat some broken glass
kerry now we we we're we're running late here we have to go to a commercial but i i
do want to invite you to stay if you want to hang around to see the demonstration of the
salad machine you're more than welcome i have an appointment all right today
uh terry nice to see you again thank you too was that nice oh you're nicer no you were fine
i thought it went pretty well oh thank you very much terry garr ladies and gentlemen
perks that's right first tomorrow night on this program comedian rich hall will be here
and we answer our voluminous viewer mail later on in this program tonight
steve miserak will be here a billiards champion uh and he's going to play billiards for us now terry
is still here we do we have the stuff bring bring in the the device and some salad and
what do you want to do you don't want to do it you don't you can just wash if you want what was
the problem do we know what was the matter with the big machine pieces had a blockage i think we
all know how painful that can be now all right uh terry why don't you just do it if i were you i'd
start here and work your way to the tomatoes the tomatoes are unbelievable when those suckers go
and then finish up with some croutons all right are you sure a serious actress would would lilly
engage whoa be careful okay now wait a minute it's crimp here we gotta let me turn it around
okay now start with the the head letters here
wow
get some more tomatoes that's yeah
exciting very nice
yeah that's very nice thank you terry could be it could be fun at parties this thing
thank you very much
there we go
i see that one