uh our first guest tonight a talented gentleman who has starred in such a motion
pictures as Splash uh The Money Pit nothing in common and his latest co-starring Dan
Aykroyd is Dragnet with all his success his bio claims that he is still gregarious
and approachable ladies and Gentlemen please welcome Tom Hanks [Applause]
The Crowd Goes Crazy I tell you nice to see you here very nice to be back sir gregarious and
approachable is that is that true listen that's how I've been described by oh so many people
gregarious approachable and I'm still trying to figure out just what the heck gregarious
means outgoing Zach gregarious I think outgoing is that what it is okay what you like people and
so forth yeah not many stars could be described as gregarious it's uh that's a select few I think me
you Elvis and uh he was he was a people person yeah yeah you like Elvis oh I mean as a matter
of fact I'm gonna go through a major Elvis phase it started uh I was reading some articles and you
know a 60s weekend at one of those great rock and roll radio stations and hearts trying to figure
out another format and haven't been able to uh and I went off and I rented I was in a video Jag and I
rented really the best films of of Elvis Presley the finest Motion Pictures Elvis Presley made
really Jailhouse Rock my last Rock and Clambake really the two finest of the Elvis films and I I
just I noticed this may be a rhetorical question maybe you'll have it answered did Elvis forget how
to dance the more movies he made I don't know have you seen this in Jailhouse Rock he did
the ozone choreography he's sliding all over the place he's coming down polls and dancing
balancing on chairs I'm gonna stand up for clam Bay Plan B yeah it had deteriorated [Applause]
like a recessive dance Gene was in a Presley family or something uh you're you're like one
of the busiest men making films today yeah the Dragnet of course is open has it opened no it
opens next week opens it next week be a big hit the singer run away Blockbuster I hope so and and
you've also recently done a film about uh stand up comics with Sally Field yes and you actually
performed as a comedian right I went around to various clubs in Los Angeles where'd you go here
in New York I went to The Improv I went to The Improv in the valley I went to The Improv in the
Simi Valley he's Bud Friedman's got about nine million improvs all over the place just pumping
them out there getting them in there but yeah I went off and did some and you know hecklers
there's only one way to handle it how's that oh yeah well you try harder
you takes a while yeah you can't teach that yeah really well and you can learn with it it's much
better than oh shut up stupid you know oh well look at the Cow you're with you know now you're
uh you're a very witty fellow yourself have you ever done gregarious as hell I'll give you that
and I find you approachable there you go uh but have you ever done stand-up comedy no I
never heard that and so it was a necessary part of research what were your observations it's
tough isn't it it's very hard yeah you stay up extremely late like you do a show oh well
you do a show hopefully at 10 30 but more often than not you get these really lousy slots I mean
piece of junk slides Bud 11 30 125 but I'm a 10 o'clock guy so automatically automatically just
began complaining and so all the comics said hey you're really getting this down one drink tickets
and needle stuff like that were you were you just mortified the first time you get up in front of an
audience and stank the high heaven yes I couldn't believe what was happening yeah something would
be desperately wrong if you weren't really really scared and two of you turned out to be great the
first time oh and neither of those things well one of those things happened I was really scared it
was absolutely horrifying it was at igb as a club and uh and what I also did it here in New York at
the catch a rising star and and the comic strip fine institutions of higher comedy uh did you did
you ever get to the point where you were really comfortable with it and you enjoyed it you thought
well this might be a really nice way to augment my career here it's sad it's a sad life Dave and
in no way shape or fun did I ever want to do it again it's very fun but it's just hard work I mean
as I'm guessing you know yeah I went through that yeah yeah you did you're an institution Dave I am
and you should be institutionalized but seriously Anton stay up with us see that yeah you see that
um I'll tell you what now do you want to share some of the stuff
you did if with from your actor no I just did something oh that was it
all right uh then we'll we'll do a commercial and we'll be back here with the gregarious and
approachable fall now that's the song that's uh what is that word up yeah and you said
you weren't going to do that anymore because why well because it's become a commercial for Cherry
Coke yeah it's no longer word up but I couldn't resist well it still sounds good thank you so Tom
sure uh you're recently in Israel again on a film uh yeah I was I was working in Israel
yeah system about a year ago and I felt like a a real jerk I lost my passport in Israel which
is a real stupid thing to do not suppose in any country in the world not just Israel don't leave
anywhere without your passport you really shouldn't do it funny enough I got one in
three days I got a new one right in three days it's impossible to do in the United States but
I got a new one in three days how did you lose it to begin with well when my folks were over
we went to the famous ruins at quesari anybody know Israel the ruins of cesari a very famous
place a beautiful place a great land and the car was was left open and oh somebody stole
it you think I didn't want to say that because I I would not want anybody to think that Israel is
not a very safe and nice place to go it was stolen by an American Tourist I'm guessing
um that's right well let's hope so because it was stoned by somebody else who would put it
to Ill use some I have visions of you know some guy with a towel on his head an AK-47 under his
jacket slapping my passport down at JFK hello Anton Hicks I want to see Statue of Liberty
very it's a very scary what happened so uh uh but overall you had a good time there oh it was great
yeah it's Humanity it's a very small country so you can get around you can drive around
very easily I once rented a car and I drove across something called the Wilderness of zine
z-i-n the Wilderness are driving from Jerusalem uh to the planet [ __ ] it was just you just
kind of make a left no it was like that it's a beautiful country it's very nice place and
you know on Friday they knock off about one o'clock Dave yeah one o'clock there's you know
sipping the cappuccinos at the at the decent golf and here in America of course we have to
work on Fridays we're still hard at work yeah I'm telling you shabbat shalom Dave shabbat shalom
um did you uh uh driving is the same over there you drive on the same side yes you do and you
drive usually very small cars I got I got this little daiyatsu I don't know what kind of car
it is is it made in Korea a Daihatsu I have no idea this thing it's about the size of these
two chairs wrapped in metal this is about what it is it has tires on it the size of those push lawn
mowers you know but not the motor kind yeah it's about that big and we clocked that thing up to
140 kilometers an hour which I think is about 35 in America I'm not really sure did you uh uh have
any trouble with the uh uh rules and regulations uh I got stopped at one point because I was I was
driving without a driver's license which is not a smart thing to do no passport no driver's license
what can I say you're in the country illegally I was trying to explain to this this this police
officer why I'm driving with Analyze This is how you can't do that you have to what do you think
you are you have to drive with a driver's license you can't drive without the driver's license and
uh my my good girlfriend was there lovely Rita Wilson we were having a great time and she had
her driver's license and she said well I have my driver's license it's just I'm not talking to you
you're not driving he is driving he does not have a driver's license I try to show him my American
Express card that I got every day it does this do anything no this is not a driver's license this is
America why are you driving you're not supposed to drive you don't have a license why are you
driving I said well because I'm the man I'm a man and I like to drive I'm the man I feel stupid and
then he says that the Israeli police officer says okay you can drive no you really should you should
oh that's that's a word for word verbatim exactly what happened that's
great uh now you're you're America's favorite film stars you know you are
let's talk about that let's talk about Dragnet this to me seems like a great idea yeah you and
Dan Aykroyd well that must have been a lot of fun Joe fry Dragon Dan is Joe Friday it was a blast
yeah it was it's a lot of fun big budget films huge budget and a massive amount of money went to
get the music the three main pieces of music you have to have when doing Dragnet is the the theme
dumb dumb dumb the Dragnet sting as it's called the walking down the hallway music which is um
and you also need the upbeat closing credits which curiously enough if you play Backwards
is the theme to Adam 12. we had no idea turn it around like that I'm not familiar
with the third one I don't know what that is oh it's over the closing credits some of the
of the Dragnet 67 the color dragonets that's the closing credits yeah then do we have a clip here
it's an opening it's a new policy I don't want to put that too you have no license no passport and
no clip what a goofball uh geez Tommy uh thanks for being here it's great to have you pleasure
to be on your show even on Friday Dave shabbat shalom sorry to drag out on Friday nice to see you
guys [Applause] [Music]