Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher - Jeffy's Corner: Barry Corbin stops by

Episode Date: May 26, 2016

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You're listening to the Jeff Fisher Show. All right, Barry Corbyn. Barry Corbyn, welcome to the Jeff Fisher Show in the Blaze Radio Network. How are you, sir? I'm doing well. Now, those of you that say to yourself, who the heck is Barry Corbyn, just listen to the voice. You'll know the man? Yeah, you know me.

Absolutely. You know him. You know his voice. Now, you're in town because you live in this neck of the woods in the Metroplex, but you're also in town promoting your latest adventure, last man. club. What are we doing in this adventure? Well, we're three World War II veterans who are on a mission. We decide we're going to go drink a glass, drink a bottle of cognac that we've had since 1946. That's usually, when it starts with the bottle of booze, it's usually not the best of

ideas. That's right. And to make matters even more interesting, we run into a young girl, who's kind of a party girl and she's on the run from the gangsters. So we've got the gangsters after us, the feds after us, and the local police after us. So you're almost like reliving World War II, then that's the whole point of it.

That's right. And do you, I mean, I hope you, I don't want to give away the ending, but we're going to. I mean, you do make it through this, right? Oh, yeah, we make it through, but it's touch and go.

All right, so that comes out on the 27th of May, and I see that it's been limited release around the country, a few days, different places around the country. So people just need to look for that. Last Man Club, limited release around the country. Last Manclub.com. That's easy to remember. Very simple to remember.

Lastmanclub.com. All right, so, Barry, you've been working in Hollywood for 50 years? Well, in Hollywood, it's been... 150 years. How long is it bad now? Well, let's see. I did my first feature in 79. So whatever...

Okay. How many of the years that is. Before that, from early 1960s until 1977, I did stage work out of Chicago, New York, and all. Right. So, I mean, you've been performing. I've been performing over 50 years. And my gosh, the paperwork they gave me. You know, I see that it talks about, I mean, you've been Northern Explosure,

which is groundbreaking series at the time. So, and which was, I mean, Mr. You played an astronaut, the greatest astronaut ever. And then they've got another list here of, you know, Walker, Texas Ranger for an episode and one tree hill. But they have, they don't even have you in the closer. You were, you were her dad, another great performance. I was the dad. I was, yeah, I was Curis Edwidge's dad.

Yeah. And her name was Brenda. Brenda Lee. That's right. I have a TNT. And we were from Georgia. That's absolutely right. A fantastic role. All right. So you've been performing and being from, you know, Hollywood and television. You've seen some groundbreaking television being made and been a part of some groundbreaking television. The business has got to be looking a little different these days to you.

Where do you see it headed? I mean, we... Well, it's very different. It's fragmented now. you've got you've got so many new venues and you've got so many new ways of approaching it you've got these reality shows which i don't watch because i don't watch something's putting me out of work but uh you've got those and they're very popular and cheap to make yeah very and uh so we're we're competing with that so when i go when i go in i don't never know how much they're going to drop my salary. They keep getting lower and lower, so now I have to work all the time when I used to have to work six months out of the year to make that amount.

That's fascinating that it has done that, even being as fragmented because there's so many different outlets to get it. And there's a finite amount of money, you know. And now they've gotten to the point that they're spending the bulk of their money, their talent budget on one, person or two people banking on that yeah and everybody else is uh is kind of either scale or just just a little above scale now is that do you find that true with uh network television and also like say netflix and amazon and all of it all of it yeah yeah and uh even even films the films the movies that i want to do uh they don't they don't have any budget the movies i don't want to do you know these comic book movies they've got a big budget yeah no kidding but that's

That all goes for special effects. Right. So, you know, there's not much of a budget left for middle-of-the-road actors like me. Well, with some of the movies that you say don't have budget, I mean, that's the whole ground plan now, right? Here's $2 million or $3 million and go make a movie. Yeah. And see how much you can make right off the bat.

Or they get on the Internet and do one of these things where they say, be a partner, help us finance us. And so they got they got hundreds of young, of small, don't investors. Investors, yeah. So it's that kind of thing. So they're running on a shoestring. A lot of times I'll make a movie because I like the script or I like the people. Right.

And I'll say, okay, you pay me when you make a profit, which means I'll never get any money, but that's okay, too. Well, now, most movies do, I mean, it's pretty. tough not to make a profit. Well, yeah. Not the movies I do. But there's also bookkeeping creativity too. Yeah.

I mean, you've got to get your own bookkeepers is what you have. You've been around long enough to have your own bookkeepers. Oh, yeah, but mine's not nearly smart as theirs are. So what's coming up now that you've got Last Man Club? What's on the table now? Well, let's see. I've got one called Windsor that's supposed to be out this summer. I don't know what their release plan is, but it's,

It's quite a good little movie about the coming of age of some young kids. It's sort of reminiscent in a way of the last picture show. Okay. And then there's one. I'm doing one right now called Brimming with Love. It's Larry Levinson production. It's one of these love stories. and I played the wise old grandfather that knows they're in love before they do.

Almost a Hallmark Christmas movie. Oh, yeah, something like that. So any TV work? Any TV work at all? Are you not doing that anymore? Well, that's a TV movie. Oh, okay. So it is a Hallmark.

And the Christmas and the Smokies, that's it. They premiered that last Christmas, but we're going to be showing it again this Christmas on the INS-Bron. I love those. And then some of my favorites. I've got The Ranch, there's a

TV show called The Ranch Right. Yes, that's a Netflix. That's a Netflix originally. Yeah, Netflix. There's screen it right now. Yeah, I mean, I've watched some of that. I didn't realize that you were in that.

Well, I don't come into episode six. I should have kept going, is what you're telling me. I shouldn't have stopped that episode three. I'm in about, oh, I don't know, we just shot 10 more. they're streaming. Oh, that's great. Yeah, yeah. So I'm in three of the first ten.

And I think I'm in four or five of the last ten. Well, see, now you've pretty much forced me to watch it now. And now they're going to, they picked up more. We're going to start shooting, or they will. I guess I'll be in there among them, but in September. Oh, you never know a meteor might hit you, and that character's gone. Well, I'm trying to, I'm trying to lobby being the regular on the thing. I don't blame you.

I don't blame you. That's good. I'm fascinated now. I shouldn't have stopped. I actually did stop at three. And I thought, ah, I get back to it. I get back to it.

Now I'm going to have to keep going. Yeah. And then I've got anger management, which is in syndication now. Right, right. And how much voice work? I hear your voice on radio commercials all the time. You're a busy man.

Oh, I do. I'm the voice of this of 995, the wolf here in the Metroplex. In the Metroplex, yes, that's right. And then I do, I haven't done a whole lot of national commercials. I do some locals sometimes, you know. I'm not really pushing that part of it. I like to do it because you don't have to put on makeup,

but it's, yeah, no kidding. It's, you know, it's easy. You can do it in your pajamas if you want. Which is, I love it.

I spent years working in radio where I could come in with shorts and a t-shirt. Yeah, and then I got thrown into this where they got cameras everywhere, and it's not pretty. It's not pretty for the people looking either. Yeah. I know what you mean. All right, Barry Corbyn, thank you very much for joining us today.

I really appreciate it. Lastmanclub.com. Lastmanclub.com. Look us up. Anything else you want to add? I mean, are you good with everything? Well, I'm good. I think we covered pretty much everything.

Okay, cool.