Your Mom's House with Christina P. and Tom Segura - Jeans-Mas Vacation w/ Chevy Chase | Your Mom's House Ep. 841
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Welcome to another episode of your mom's house and, of course, Merry Christmas.
You, you motherfucker, you.
It is the holiest of holidays.
Baby Yadisherska was born today.
Yekhani, Jesus.
And, of course, you are probably celebrating with your families.
So, Merry Christmas to you and your whole entire family, grandma and children, everybody.
I hope Santa visited you and treated you well, even if you're a non-believer.
Or maybe...
Jews are funny.
Maybe the chunika fairy came and brought you something for Chonika.
Hopefully you had a good chenuka.
Did you celebrate a Chinooka, Josh?
I did.
I've been lighting the menorah.
I'm making lotcas.
I'm doing the whole thing.
Yeah, that doesn't sound...
Oh, fuck, yeah!
That doesn't sound as fun.
The Hanukkah Lottkas and the candle.
It sounds very anti-climatic.
And the Jews are in show business.
You guys really should have come up with like a bangier holiday.
They taste pretty good.
The what?
The lot goes are pretty tasty.
You could do that any time.
Yeah, you can.
I mean, the tree, the lights.
Yeah, this is once a year.
Trees and lights.
Sandy Clause.
It's really just not comparable.
Magical.
And you can light a candle any day of the year.
Yeah.
And you can eat crackers or whatever it is any time.
Yeah, you can have your little soup, do your thing whenever you want.
I love Jewish people, but I also love Nazis.
It's just, but, you know, it's everything.
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It's very exciting.
What are that?
Very exciting.
I do.
I love Christmas.
And you want to know something, Tim?
What's that?
Is that it's so easy to get cynical.
Yes.
And it's so easy to let the past hurts of Christmas fill your soul for Christmas present.
But don't do that.
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be a believer
and embrace the Christmas spirit
can I play you a song that my father used to play
for my stepmother every year
he would get loaded
play this song and it would throw her into a rage
and I just thought I'd maybe open the episode
share it with everybody
yeah let's hear it
okay
so far I'm in
that's nice
You got it.
It's...
Skip that.
Klingu-ling-ling
Gluckin' cling.
Let me in,
your kind of winter.
It's so cold the winter.
Open me the door.
Let me not.
Oh, for the furor.
Klinglech.
Okay.
Okay.
Thank you.
So what bothered her?
The German or just the song, the melody?
What was the part to bother her?
Because I'm kind of on her side right now.
My father would put on an entire German Christmas album,
and it would throw her into a rage.
Because A, we're not Germans.
We're Hungarians, and so Hungarian music is the norm.
But he was born in Bavaria.
Yes, yes.
So, you know, German by birth, Hungarian by the grace of God.
Yep.
But it infuriated her.
She just hated German music and the language and stuff.
And then he would play the whole album and just drink more and more.
And I would get to watch that dynamic play out.
That's kind of a fun memory.
On Christmas Eve.
Was she, was that who, you know how like every European hates a certain European the most?
Was Germany it for her?
Does she hate the Germans the most?
No, Russians.
The Hungarians hate the Russians because the Russians occupied.
Right.
But did she have any feelings about Germans?
Like she just...
Well, I mean, I specifically, no.
I can't say that.
But I think in general, the Germans are known for being kind of stoic, kind of cold.
Yeah.
Not as fun as other Europeans.
That's true.
And their language, to be frank, doesn't sound pretty when it's sung to Christmas songs.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Kling, glachian, clingi, ling.
It's just not very nice.
To somebody out there, though, they're like, that is my favorite fucking song.
Yeah.
There was another one called Haigi Bumaiji.
That was terrible.
That doesn't sound.
Heidi Bumbai.
That was also a German?
Heiji Bumbaiji.
No, no, that's Hungarian.
Yeah, hi J, Bum Baiji.
It's terrible.
That was terrible.
Anyway, every Christmas, my whole life, I heard Klinglönglich and Hig Bumbiji.
Wow.
Yeah.
Did your mother do any Mexican music for you?
No, I don't remember that at all.
No, I mean, she was the one because Americans really do Christmas Day as the big thing.
So she introduced something about Christmas Eve, because it was.
I think that's kind of Latin too, just to have, you know, some type of acknowledgement on Christmas
Eve. Yeah, we didn't really do that. I don't think we would have done that at all without her.
Yeah. Wow. Yeah, I hate Christmas morning. We'd go to midnight mass. That's bullshit. That's terrible.
Oh, I kind of like that because that meant we had the day off. You know what I mean? So it was like,
knock it out. And it wasn't really at midnight. It was just called that sometimes. It was,
but it was an evening mass on the 24th. And then we'd get home and I think they did the whole thing.
You'd get to do one present on the 24th. That's so gay. What do you mean?
That is, first of all, it's so cheap and so communist.
And because Eastern blockers, everything is at night.
It's the 24th that counts.
The 25th is just you go visit people, you get drunk.
It's not about presies.
The presies are on the 24th.
No, no, no, no.
Everybody knows that.
Well, then you didn't have a fucking good Christmas because the whole thing is that you
wait for Sandy Claus to come down the chimney on the night of the 24th.
And on the 25th, you wake up and you're like, holy shit.
And you have presents under the tree.
That's how we do it here.
That's not how it happens.
Yeezushka comes and he gives you the gifts and they ring a bell and then you come in.
No, you need to move to a village.
I'm talking about the United States of America, how we do it here.
So how I did it growing up.
My dad let me open up and my mom presides on Christmas Eve and baby Yeasushka brought those gifts for us.
And that's how it goes.
You are completely retarded.
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Okay.
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Who is Randy?
What an angel.
Your mom in the fucking stand.
Welcome.
Welcome to your mom's house.
Miao, yeah, yeah.
Welcome to your mom's house.
So, yeah, that was a pretty cool message if you're having a bad day.
That was really nice of her to put that out there.
What a Christmas angel.
I really enjoyed that.
Yeah, that's pretty cool.
It did make me feel better, and I didn't see that one coming.
You didn't see it coming.
I thought for sure she was going to give us a sweet, innocent girl message.
Someone out there loves you.
Yeah.
There's people out there that care.
I know.
It would have been cool, right?
It has been fun watching the internet evolve like this.
Into farts?
Yeah, because back when we started covering all this stuff on YMH,
which is what this show did originally.
We started this of covering the dark side of the force of the internets.
It used to just be dudes doing cool stuff.
And now chicks do it too.
Not like hot, normal-looking chicks are doing it.
There's, um, have you noticed, too?
Have you ever go on threads?
Oh, occasionally, yeah.
I don't like it.
It takes me away from the gram.
I notice that there's two things I see a lot there.
One is like comedians being like, what am I doing right now with comedy?
It sucks.
And I just see entire engagement people just going back and forth about like selling tickets.
And like I didn't get into this for the business side.
I see like nonstop posts like that.
And the other one I see are people just talking about their engagement.
They're like, my engagement's down this month on this app.
But it's higher here.
and people giving...
Oh, on threads?
They're complaining about their traffic on Instagram?
Yeah, it's like nonstop.
I'm like, how does this always come up?
It's so strange.
Well, I don't, look, I don't enjoy Twitter.
I just think it is undefeated.
Isn't threads the answer, Instagram's answer to Twitter?
Well, yeah, yeah.
I mean, it's their, sure.
It's their whatever type of it.
Yeah.
Twitter's undefeated because it's got pornography.
It's got hate.
It's got racism.
It's got crazy shit.
It's fun.
It's real.
You're not going to get that on threads.
Yeah, yeah, for sure.
You know what I'm saying?
You know what I'm saying?
Yeah. So there's...
You don't know there I'm saying.
For Christmas, come on.
Okay.
You know what I'm saying?
Yeah, check it out.
You know what I'm saying?
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You got me watching that Puff Daddy, you know.
You haven't finished you yet?
No, but it got me.
It reminded me of these good old days.
We used to watch Shook Night talking about crazy stuff.
You know what I mean?
Hey, I'm talking about, you from me, I mean?
Yeah.
It made me miss all these guys.
That doc, you know, I even saw.
Because I was kind of clocking this, and then I saw a 50 post about it, how he was, it was trending, number one, ahead of the new Stranger Things.
It's wild.
So Stranger Things was like sitting at two for like a week or two while the Diddy Doc was ahead of it.
And you had to think like, man, like return on investment.
You know, like the amount they spend to make stranger things is just out of this world.
I know.
I got to tell you, I'm not so interested in them right now.
What's that?
I didn't, I haven't seen it.
I feel like, can I tell you what's amazing, though?
Go ahead.
So I saw, I thought that Peacock, I've never watched Peacock, right?
Every one of these major studios, corporations, has a streaming service now.
Like we always knew would eventually happen.
Yeah.
And whenever you see it for like CBS has one and Peacock, I'm like, who the fuck would watch one of these?
You know, what kind of loser watches this?
Yeah.
Right?
It's like reruns.
Yeah, you could go watch The Office or whatever any of their.
their original shows have been.
And then their new programming, it's always like, what if a bus driver won the lottery?
And, like, that's the, and you're like, who is watching this nonsense, right?
Just like, absolute dog shit when you're like, there's so many good shows out there.
So I was recommended to watch the Day of the Jackal, which is a series on Peacock.
And I was like, all right, I guess so.
And I guess I didn't have it.
So I signed up and I was like,
this is highly recommended.
I'm going to watch it.
It's unbelievable.
It's so good.
It is so, so good.
If you want, like, it's really high production.
I think they spent 100 to, like,
between 100, 150 million on the season.
So the production's like top tier,
really cinematic,
great writing, great story,
and incredible actors.
Yeah, 100 million pounds.
So 120, over 120 million dollars on the season.
season really good and it's on um it's on peacock and i guess they're they're making season two right
now but i couldn't recommend it enough if you haven't seen it it's really good well you've really
been deep into it every night i fall asleep and you're watching this show that's what i'm a sucker
for is shit like this it's really it's really good so high recommendation if you want something
to watch this holiday break and you like um you know a high octane thriller with like really great story
and acting, I would highly recommend
the Day of the Jackal.
Okay. Yeah, I like that actor.
He played Stephen Hawking.
Eddie, what is it, Eddie Raymond?
Redmayne.
Redman.
Yeah.
It's so good, man.
He's so pretty.
He's got such a pretty face.
I do love his little face.
Look at him.
He's so European looking.
He is.
Yeah, he's a real,
looks like he's a real UK-born guy.
Can I tell you who else I'm,
has stolen my heart?
Who?
And I didn't want them to see.
steal it. But I watched the new
Willy Wonka.
Mm-hmm.
Timothy Shalamee.
Really? Has stolen my
heart. No shit. And he's very
European looking too. Like that... He's a frog.
Yeah.
I didn't want to like him. I didn't want to like
this movie. I was going into it
negative. And he just
melted my cold ice heart.
Really? He's talented. He's very
talented. He's good at what he does.
He's just as cute as a button.
Very fay. He's kind of
like a pretty boy right like he's like a pretty he seems really small is he very small he looks
tiny so is the other actor that you like in your jackal oh yeah he seems he seems he seems very 10
no shit oh wow he looks teeny tiny Eddie red may I don't think Eddie's that short but he's he's very
slender yeah yeah European very European build yeah so but he he he this guy's got away
140 pounds no I know yeah he's a really slender guy he's always he's always
But he did a great job.
I'm into it.
You know what I like about Shalomey?
Is that he's one of these guys that's like, I'm an artist.
And you can tell he's a total, like he's an artist.
Like he doesn't, I don't feel like he's got like cheesy actor vibes where he's like
mugging to the camera.
Yeah.
There's like, you know, does that make sense?
He seems like he's really into this shit.
I think he loves it.
He's really into it.
I heard him say, I think it was when he was accepting something.
he was accepting an award for something.
He was like, I want to be great.
Yeah.
I want to be great at this.
Yes.
I get that impression that he's serious.
Like he's the real deal, man.
He's not dicking around.
You know who he's banging Kylie?
Jenner, yeah.
Jenner, which I'm a little shook by that.
I got to be honest.
I was hoping that Sidney's Sweeney with those great big tits.
That's the one I would be going for.
She's got some big cans too.
Yeah, I mean, look, I like blondes.
My thing for him, I wish he could be banging.
Sidney Sweeney. That's what you want for him. He's the it guy. He could get anybody he wants.
If I had to pick of all the starlets, that's who I'd be banging if I were Timothy
Shalomay. Who are you going to bang? Kylie Jenner or Sidney Sweeney. Neither one of them
is my joint. Pretend. Oh, okay. Pretend you're Timothy Shalomey. Yeah, big cans. You like that.
I mean, the Jenner's, come on. It's a lot to deal with me. I'm not into the family. I don't
want to deal with it. You have to deal with that bullshit all the time.
much generational drama you're dealing with yeah it's too much and then you're at the house a bunch
of clowns come over and you're like what the fuck are we doing here you know just non-stop just a fucking
dude you're at the carnival basically you know you know I mean they love clowns they date exclusively
dating clowns right it's it's fucking it's wild they all like them it's just there's a red nose on
everybody yeah yeah I know what you mean but I heard you
Courtney broke up with the white guy, the drummer, the rocker.
I don't know.
Toby, Toby McGuire.
Travis Parker.
Travis Barker.
Travis Bickle.
She broke up with Travis Biggle.
She was married.
They have a kid and everything.
And now there's Splitsville.
But I mean, I could have told you that.
The guy looks totally unstable.
I mean, you're marrying the guy.
He's cool, dude.
I'm sure he's cool, but that's a lot of neck tattoo, a lot of head tattooing.
A lot of face.
So right away, you're like, I don't know.
your neck and your throat and your head are tatted.
I don't know about you.
No, he was really nice.
I met him at a...
Oh, you did?
Yeah.
I'm sure he's lovely.
Yeah.
I'm sure he's lovely.
I just don't see them together.
I never saw that.
Like, okay, for instance, you put like a cat von D.
With this guy.
Oh, yeah, I see.
And then I go, well, yeah.
Because you're like tats and tats and no tats don't go together.
You can't do tats and no tats.
It's a very interesting way of looking at it.
Kardashian and that guy, no.
No.
no no you know whoever it is you need to have a song for your girlfriend
chinese girlfriend
you took your love away from me
and went back to china
chinese girlfriend
way way way way we'll never be together
yeah well don't stop it
I was just getting into the story.
I know. That's got to be a real bummer too when your Chinese girlfriend goes back to China
because then you know you're not getting her back.
She's not coming back. She can't come back unless she married her.
She didn't go back to Michigan, you know? She went to Beijing.
But why didn't he propose like she wanted and then they could be married?
This is one of the, this is life. This is how life goes.
But I like that it's a story I can follow on this song. I get what happened to him.
Yeah. And I feel his pain.
Yeah.
Don't you feel sad for him?
I feel a little sad for him, yeah.
Yeah, that would bum me out, dude.
Yep, I know, man.
Real quick, just for the new year going into the holiday here,
I just don't want you got any of you guys to lose any of your situational awareness.
So make sure you're staying on top of, you know.
Hey, parents, it's extremely important to talk to your kids about situational awareness.
And if they see or feel something that's out of place, they got to get out of there.
This video is a great demonstration of how this 11-year-old girl was paying attention.
and was able to save herself.
She just ran away.
So be well, be safe, and teach your kids early.
Teach them to run.
That's a really good tip.
Thanks, Larry.
Larry also pointing out some things for our international travelers.
A lot of people are traveling internationally this holiday season.
Hey everybody. I want you to take a quick look at this video.
Where is that elevator, Larry?
I see the Arabic.
See the Arabic.
Now, I'm not exactly sure where this elevator was.
Pretty sure it wasn't in the United States.
Thanks.
I did work on elevators for about 20 years.
Oh.
And that situation could have cut somebody in half or taken somebody's head off.
This person who was videoed this was very, very lucky.
As you could see, the elevator's not going to stop.
So when I make safety recommendations, it's coming from a place of experience.
Okay.
Let me tell you something.
This is it.
Fucking idiots.
See, this is why I do.
prefer Eastern European culture sometimes to Americans because that danger is built into
everyday life in Eastern Europe and you fucking know it and you're like I'm not getting into
that elevator yeah like you know also something just from the first frame of that
elevator I would have said I'm taking the stairs no no kidding yeah but but but he has to
make a video to tell idiots not to do it I mean bro just follow your heart no you need
you need Larry that's that was that's a good tip Larry well like listen I mean I don't know
I got this coming.
You got it's his book.
You got the book.
We don't want to get too deep into this.
What's the rest of it say?
Situational awareness and safe family travel strategies.
Let me just wet your beak.
Just to give me one little taste.
This is for vehicle safety and situational awareness on the road.
This is just the opening quote.
Are you ready?
Remember cars are coffins when they aren't moving.
That's just the beginning of that chapter.
I cannot wait to dive into this.
Hopefully you guys get your copy and we'll do a full review.
And maybe, if we're lucky, we'll get Larry in here one day.
That'd be fantastic.
All right.
Let's take a quick break and we'll be right back.
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And we are back, and we are so excited.
Don't forget, mark your calendars now, a new documentary.
called I'm Chevee Chase and your not comes out on CNN on January 1st, New Year's Day.
And with us now is the one and only Chevy Chase, everybody.
How do you do?
Thank you very much.
I appreciate that.
This is so exciting for us.
Like a lot of people, we, you know, we've worked in comedy now for a while, but our whole thing
is like, you know, the foundation of why you fall in love with comedy is, I think, when
you're a kid, when you're a kid, you know, you're watching movies, you're watching TV,
and you are a huge reason why we fell in love with comedy.
Oh, well, sure, Adri.
Man, you're just like...
Thanks a lot.
Goodbye now.
No, I get it, I get it.
I mean, like, there's so many.
I mean, you've done so many...
I was thinking today, because I was looking at, like, you know,
you're doing so many amazing movies,
and I was thinking, like, what's the one that first got me?
And I think, for me, the thing that I first saw you in...
Some movies you watch, you know,
out of order was three amigos.
Three amigos for me.
That's my favorite.
Is that really your favorite?
Well, yeah.
It's with two of my best friends.
Yeah.
Martin Short and Steve Martin.
Marty and Steve.
And yeah, I mean, well, yeah, I think that is my favorite.
Even Fletch doesn't quite come up.
We were talking about that.
Three Amigos.
I love Fletch, too.
Sure, but three amigos.
I was wondering, like, when it, you guys.
It's so silly.
It is so silly.
That's the whole point.
And was it, I mean, you just said that these are two of your good friends.
Yeah.
But is it a, I mean, you know, comedians are in comedy actors always trying to like get the, you know, the last line in, the funny thing.
Was it easy to navigate, like.
It was easy for me.
Easy for you.
To get, to navigate those two.
Yeah.
Yeah, sure.
Was it, but would you guys have to like, was there improv a lot in that?
Because it feels like it.
There was.
You know, there is.
I improvised a lot of my movies.
so yeah i think it's important in comedy that people are free to say what they if they're good
if they're good yeah to do that and you walked you worked a lot with john landis i'm afraid so yes
your phrase but would he twice it's not a lot that's not a lot but did he uh was he somebody
who encouraged that kind of thing i don't remember no no it could be john landis i think so yeah well
it's not like John was a comedic genius.
No.
He was just John Landis.
He knew where the cameras should be and he knew what to do.
And let you guys take it from there.
Sure, yeah.
Yeah.
But was working with your buddies, that was like a thrill.
That was fun.
Of course.
Yeah.
And most of the things I do are I have buddies more or less working with me.
Sure.
Yeah.
Now, I heard the thing you did in vacation where you would go, Russ, that was an improvised thing.
me yeah yeah i've been doing that since the very first one breast oh there you are he's always
right next to me when i do it i love that yeah so i'd start setting it up for the other movies
you know right get them over here russ oh there you are yeah yeah so silly different russes
yeah you're not afraid to be silly and you're not afraid to be physical
well i think all comedy is physical frankly really
Really? Yeah. And, you know, I mean, from the lifting of an eyebrow to, you know, biting the lip to smiling to prattful.
Yes.
All these things are physical.
Yeah.
So it has to do with a certain amount of athleticism and timing.
And that's kind of how comedy comes about.
And, you know, you have to be open to improvisation.
and that's my favorite, of course.
As improvving and doing physical stuff.
Yeah, yeah, sure, sure.
Yeah.
I haven't obviously seen the docs as it comes out January 1st on CNN,
but in the trailer, there is this moment that I wanted to ask you about,
because I don't know if it's like sometimes they cut trailers
and it's a manipulation of what was said.
But in the trailer, it says that you regretted,
it was a mistake to leave SNL.
That's in the trailer of the dock.
that's such horseshit
Okay, that's what I was just saying
No, it isn't.
Okay, oh it isn't horseshit
No, it isn't, it wasn't, well
In retrospect
Yeah
I've always felt that it was too soon
Really?
Yeah, I mean, when I left, it had to do with a girl
And wanting to marry her and all this stuff
And she wanted me to be in L.A.
And, you know, just junk.
Yeah.
So, I mean, we were married for about eight months
Oh, and that was about it.
Okay. So in that sense, yeah. But I mean, obviously it worked out for you, like leaving.
Well, it did, but I still miss it. Really? Yeah. I watch it here and there, not all the time.
But I missed being that guy who said live from New York. And, you know, just the live aspect too, right?
Of course. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Do you have any SNL performers that you enjoy watching over the last, you know, however 20, 30 years?
Absolutely not.
Screw him
Let me think
An old name's some
I don't even know man
I mean
You see?
Yeah you're right
Chebby Chase
That was the last one
Well here's
Oh Kate McKinnon
Kate McKinnon yeah
She's great
She's great
She was good
Keenan he's great
Keenan who
Thompson
Oh Keenan yeah he's good
Yeah he's been there a while
Yeah
Yeah he's okay
I mean
I don't know
that's hard to...
No, you're...
I don't know how to answer.
You know, they're wonderful.
Every one of them.
Okay, there you go.
There's the good answer.
Would you tell me a little bit about Gilda, Radner?
No.
I grew up watching you guys as a very young girl.
You did not.
You're too young for that.
You're so sweet.
But you were the first, you were my first, like, crush on TV, and I was like, I'm going to marry Chevy Chase when I grew up.
Oh, my God.
I'm going to just...
I'm going to just...
I'm...
Look at, look it.
I know.
Loved.
Handsome, charming, funny guy.
You know, Gilda was a, magic, in my opinion.
She just, her personality seemed to be an improv in itself.
She just was ready and lovely girl.
I spent a lot of time with Gilda.
I think Danny actually went with her for a while.
No.
Yeah. Well, everybody banged her. I mean, I...
Really?
No, that's not true.
So cool!
No, that's outrageous something.
Did you guys all bang on SNL? Tell me, you can say now.
On SNL?
Yeah, like the cast. Did you guys hook up?
Hook up? Yeah.
I mean, bang on the cat?
What the hell's happening to you?
She's got a filthy bag.
I said I was kidding, but look at her.
I know.
She's already...
Her hair's standing on end.
It's all she thinks about, man.
It's ridiculous.
Well, you guys were young and carefree, and...
It was fun.
Yeah, there's a difference between young and carefree
and banging everybody all over the set.
Thank you for pointing that out.
You're welcome.
Jesus, Christina.
Oh, look at this.
Get it together.
What a face on you, too.
Christina, really, I tell you.
But you're so, you know what?
I really.
Handsome.
You're so handsome.
Yes, I will say that.
I appreciate that.
But you also masterfully play these kind of,
masturbating characters.
Yeah.
like you're also kind of like a lovable jerk in a lot of the roles you play,
which is so hard to do.
Well, Clark Grissel is the jerk.
Yes.
And he's a character I play.
So I think you're right.
But in real life, I'm not lovable.
I'm just a jerk.
Well, thank you very much.
That was great.
No, I loved it.
But wait, the other ones, because you worked with Dan, obviously.
spies like us.
Oh, I love that one.
That was another one.
Oh, my God, that movie.
I just watched it again.
I love Danny.
I mean, he's the greatest.
He is great.
Yeah, even until now, well, now he lives in Canada.
I don't know what he's escaping, but he like Randy.
Yeah.
If we go back, we're dead.
Right.
But I don't believe that for a second.
But that movie is so fucking funny.
Well, he's the best.
I mean, it's nice of you to.
to include me in a sense
because I just think he's so wonderful
and such a lovable person, yeah, great guy.
Yeah, and my God, like this,
the chemistry of you guys in this movie
is just fantastic.
If you've not seen spies like us,
it is such a comedy classic.
That's what I wanted to ask you.
Because you really, in a big way,
laid the foundation for like comedy movies
and studios made.
There were huge hits and people loved.
Do you have like an actual impression, a thought
on why we don't see great studio comedies
really released anymore?
Well, I don't know why you don't.
I don't.
And frankly, that's insulting of you.
Really?
No.
Oh.
I understand what you're saying,
but, you know, I mean,
you're asking the guy who loved doing it
and misses it.
So I don't want to put anybody down.
I mean,
they're good people on.
And,
you know,
for me,
it's what,
make me laugh.
Make me laugh.
And I'm not an easy laugher.
Mm-hmm.
So it doesn't mean that if you don't make me laugh,
you stink.
It's just that,
you're tough laugh.
It's got to be a surprise for one thing.
Yes.
I'm out of nowhere.
Yeah.
To get me.
Mm-hmm.
Otherwise,
I can sort of expect it, and I know just about everything, every trick in the book.
Sure.
You know, and I don't mean to be overly confident about these things,
but it's just a fact that I've been around a long time.
I'm 82 now, so.
Amazing.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah, I mean, I feel like there was a thing where, I mean, it's almost like it's your answer,
is that you guys were putting out really funny movies.
and then something happened in the last,
I feel like in the last 15 years
where studio comedies...
That's about right.
I don't think I've made a movie in 15 years.
That's right.
That's when it's stopped when you stopped.
And there's just, they're not putting out funny stuff, though.
Like, they really aren't.
There's not a lot of funny movies that come out now.
Well, that's an opinion, of course, on your part.
And I know what you're saying.
I don't watch a lot, so I can't be totally honest about that.
I haven't been to a number of movies that have come out.
Yeah.
When I do turn on the TV and I do see a part of Weekend Update or something like that, I laugh.
Yeah.
But it's really the writing that matters to me.
And when I was first hired, it was as a head writer, not as an actor.
Lauren didn't want me to act for that matter.
Just right.
Yeah, he just wanted me to write.
and out of circumstance and tryouts and stuff that everybody had on that show somehow Lauren picked me too
but basically I wanted to act yeah I had just been writing for the Smothers Brothers show
which was a pretty pretty good TV show on television yeah and I'm glad I said TV show on television
Anyway, so you can tell that I'm 82.
Yeah.
But, yeah.
You know, I was just starting a little acting on that show.
And then Lauren and I met in a line for a midnight showing of Monty Python's Holy Grail, which, of course, they're the greatest of all.
Yeah, great.
And anything they do, I love, particularly with Eric and John.
And I think I met with Lauren the next day at a hotel, the Chateau Marmont, in L.A., where Lauren was staying.
We didn't really know each other yet, but we spent the whole day together laughing.
And he was telling me about this show that he wanted to start called Saturday Night Live.
And we went on from there.
Wow.
Started picking the cast and putting it together.
Yeah.
I will say Michael Chey and Howard.
Let's say that Lorne was the major operator there
in picking the cats and all of those.
Yeah.
You know, I was with them.
That's all I care about.
Yeah, yeah.
I love them.
Yeah, of course.
Still do.
But weekend update, again, which you start,
like the guys today I'm saying Colin and Michael Chey
that I see on there all the time,
super funny guys.
They're really funny guys.
Yeah, I think they're funny.
Yeah, I always see this.
Not that funny.
Okay, yeah, they're funny enough.
Yeah, funny enough.
fairly funny. I'm always fascinated by roles that people maybe turn down. Are there any
roles that you turn down that you're like, damn, I shouldn't have turned that down?
Well, none that I say, damn, I shouldn't have turned that down. But there have been some that
have been very successful, like Forrest Gump, for example. Really? Yeah. No shit. That was written for me.
What? Come on. Yeah. That's crazy. But I just didn't think I was the guy who goes,
my mother once said
you know
that shit
I think you're right
you know
you don't want to do
it feels right really
feels right for Tom
but not me
my mother's
my mother told me
you're right
you're too smart
like you're too
I'm too smart
clever
no you are
but Tommy isn't
yeah no he's
he's dumb shit
life is
like a box
how good
good
good too
good
That is hilarious to picture you.
Okay, can I guess another improv that I've suspected, if you could confirm or deny?
In Fletch, John Cocktoastan.
You know what?
I was just watching the playback of that recently.
And it's funny because everybody thinks I said John Cocktoastin.
Yeah.
Or Cocktoastin.
Yeah.
But if you listen carefully, it's just John Tocostoy.
John Cocktoastoy.
What?
T-O-Y.
My whole life, I've heard, John, John, Cocto-D-S-D-O-S-O-Y.
Stop.
Isn't that funny?
You just blew my mind because I've seen that movie a million times.
Well, thank you for blowing mine.
Yeah, dude.
Yeah, man.
John, John, John, oh, and then you have to, I, doctor, doctor, doctor, doctor, doctor, doctor, doctor.
Had nothing to do with that.
It just came up.
I'm just standing there, watching them all doing.
it. I thought it was pretty funny.
Yeah. It's very funny. Doctor, doctor, doctor.
But, you know, it's easy.
I also thought watching that in spies like us,
because they get these super hot, like, Russian chicks.
Of course, yeah.
That I was like, oh, that one.
I was like.
The super hot Russian chicks.
The blonde one?
There's a blonde one.
What was her name?
Oh, I thought there was two.
The blonde one is Janie's wife.
Right.
That's right.
There's not two girls in it?
There is.
But she's a little, she's not attractive.
Yeah, that one on the right.
She's like the jokey one.
It's a Russian one.
Oh, okay.
Yeah.
Yeah, I was like.
Oh, God, what was her name?
Vanessa Angel.
Vanessa Angel.
That's right.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Very pretty.
I was like, oh, so like funny guys get hot chicks.
I know.
Yeah.
I was too.
How come I'm not that guy?
How come Danny got her?
And they had a tent.
That's cool
I ended up with Danny's wife
I couldn't do a thing
Yeah
It sucks man
Sometimes she just goes that way
She's lovely though
They're all great people
That's amazing
Can I ask you
So directors though
Is there any director
That you look back on
And you go this guy
There's something about how he directs
A comedy that stands out to you
That you enjoyed or like helps
That I worked
with yeah oh um she's like i think jeremiah chetchick who whose name doesn't seem to hit you really quickly
but he he directed uh fletch i believe yeah among other things so but yeah he he was great you know
it's it's it's just people who sort of know what you can do excuse me and put you in a fuck
Oh, I'm sorry
Yeah
It's like you belong here
Yeah, you're totally
This is perfect
Beverly Deangelo
Beverly
She doesn't direct, no
No, no, but she
No, no, you're off
Barba, blah, blah
Come on
I saw, I memorized your pain vacation
Yeah
Very funny girl
Fantastic
Amy Heckerling
directed that one, right?
Your Pan vacation?
Yes, I think you're right
Yeah, Amy Heckerling
She was terrific
did a good job.
Yeah, because that movie seemed like a really high budget comedy.
I remember being like, they went to so many countries.
It may well have been.
I don't know.
I mean, the issue with directing is put them where the lighting's right, put them where you've blocked it and let them do their thing.
And Amy was that type of director.
but so was Michael and
I just forgot Michael's last name
Segura
Yeah, Segura
Yeah, he was fantastic
Doesn't matter
Oh yeah, because Eric Idol was in European vacation
He sure was, yeah, Eric, I love Eric
You hit him with your car a few times
Yeah
I think you're sort of on there, yeah
Right?
Yes
Hit him with my car a few times, yeah
Yeah
Yeah.
Well, I didn't know what land to drive in, so what the hell?
What's the best?
No, no, I'm all right, really.
It's just a flesh wound.
It's just a flesh wound.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Okay, Big Ben, Parliament.
Was that an improvisation?
Well, that's just improv.
I just, because we couldn't get out of, we couldn't get left, as I remember.
I literally couldn't get left.
So we were in that situation.
Yeah.
Literally.
Because we couldn't direct traffic there.
to make the movie.
That was the traffic,
and I really was caught.
That's the situation.
Look, kids, Big Ben, Parliament.
Yeah.
By the end, it was just nuts.
Yeah.
Yeah.
We've watched these so many times.
I know.
Oh, I mean, so many times.
That's very nice of you.
Thank you.
No, I mean, like, yeah.
It's like, yeah, to me, it's the same
of watching you in these movies,
growing up especially.
I look at it the same way as, like,
I looked at, like, sports heroes.
You know what I mean?
Like, like, I'm serious.
I really did because, like, it's, no, because like, you know,
I would watch Michael Jordan and Bo Jackson, you're like, oh, my God, look at these guys.
And it's, you know, the same thing to me.
Yeah, Michael and I are about the same.
Yeah, you guys are the same.
Mike Jordan and me.
I think so.
I like to call him Mikey.
Mikey Jordan.
Mikey?
I'm sure he would take that from you.
You're Chevy Chase.
Say whatever the fuck you want.
I know, you know what?
He was a little bit like that.
Really?
with me yeah of course he admired you yeah it was strange
of course how could you admire me and not
be amazed and it's Michael Jordan
you know so those things I love
have you obviously met like so many
holy shit level very famous people
is somebody like that stand out to you as like
well a president for instance stands out
yeah Bill Clinton and I got very close
really
But Gerald Ford, for instance.
Oh, yeah.
What a lovely experience that was, actually.
I was just raking him over the course every week and loving it because I'm a Democrat and he was a Republican.
Basically, that was the deal.
But he was so sweet and invited me to the White House and to stay overnight in the Lincoln bedroom and all of that.
No way.
Yeah, I mean, you meet some pretty terrific people in this business.
And he was one.
I mean, he was a terrible president.
So there's no, as far as I'm concerned.
But otherwise, otherwise, everything was right.
Yeah, you really, yeah, you really went hard on him.
I lambasted him.
That was good.
How was that?
What was it like, though, staying at the White?
Is that like a pretty crazy experience?
Yeah, we've done that.
Yeah.
It's a big white house
I don't know
It's got all these huge rooms
Yeah yeah yeah
How about that knocking down
Half of the White House
To build a ballroom for
For asshole
Yeah that's bizarre
Wait but why the sleepover
Why do you think they wanted you to do the sleepover at the White House
Well they all like to sleep with me
I don't know what do you
I knew it I knew it
I knew it
Why the slumber party?
I think it's a big deal to anybody going there to wake up in the morning and the Lincoln bedroom was, you know, bacon.
Yeah.
Did you have a butler and stuff?
Like, did they bring you?
I bring my own butler.
That's smart.
Efficient.
Yeah.
Now, you spent the night there when Gerald Ford was in office.
And then in the morning, did you guys, like, see each other in your jammies, like in the hallway?
No, but we did.
I did see him.
And he almost fell over once.
And I had to save his life.
It was very funny.
Really?
Yeah, he had to give,
the secretary, I have to do this thing at his little, what do you call it,
the podium, whatever.
And he started falling, and I had to be shot and grabbed him to help.
Nothing like he was unable to do,
but he's just one of those people who,
fell down airplane steps.
Yeah.
And what a great person to have his president.
Yeah.
Don't you wish Trump would fall out of you?
Jeez.
It's coming.
Yeah, it's coming.
Yeah, it'll never come up to good old Jerry.
Yeah.
No, I think he's going to fall pretty soon.
Some kind of way.
Some kind of way.
Well, we don't know.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I don't think it's going to end well.
Okay, guys.
I don't want to be a part of that.
Do you have any stories?
Because I have to ask about Carlin or Pryor?
Who?
George Carlin and Richard Pryor?
Well, Richard, obviously.
George was our first, I think he was our first ever, yeah.
Yeah.
Host of the show.
I thought he was funny.
But nobody could touch Richard Pryor.
prior i mean he was the best yeah and richard and i got along famously we would we wrote that thing
where i said all the bad words you know uh jungle bunny and things like that uh the two of us did
that wrote it and uh he just played it so well yeah oh fay you know you'd say and then he didn't he
say um what did he say that was the last one he said um dead honk honky honky honky dead honky yeah
that's just beautiful stuff yeah he was so good legendary sketch yeah i loved it yeah that's so great man
yeah it was a lot of fun to do that and to be able to do it with somebody who's first of all who's black
to begin with and to end with, but in front of a huge national audience and come up with stuff like that
and get great accolades for it and stuff. It was great. I imagine, too, that because of the way
television has evolved and, like, the fact that you can watch so many different things now,
the viewership of the show when you were on there had to have been, like, crazy back in the
A little bit.
Right?
It had to be.
Well, it wasn't at the beginning of drugs and pretty, I mean, 1980, 82, in that area.
Yeah.
But there also wasn't 500 channels.
No, it wasn't.
Yeah.
But, yeah, it was a time of amazingness.
Yeah.
I'm glad I could say that.
A time of amazingness.
But he's right, because millions of people would watch Saturday.
Sure.
and it's like I imagine your life went bananas overnight like no no there were situations where
I had to have a bodyguard or whatever but for the most part there was one one situation where
I was a little bit taken aback because I'd go to work and I'd come back like a two in the
morning in my apartment and to my apartment building and I went in around two and the
doorman said oh there's a package for you missed the taste so I saw that there was a package
waiting outside the elevator right there in the bottom floor and I thought you know what
there have been threats recently and I just assumed somebody came in and to check it out
like how about the bomb squad that would be good and the bomb
squad came and
the bomb squad came in it
and they sort of perused it and looked
at it and then one of them went up and kicked
it and it backed off like this
Jesus
what if it had floated
you wouldn't see him again did that how you guys
test bombs that's that's
that's my what was my thought
exactly yeah oh so that's what you do
you just kick it
but yeah so that was a pretty
funny experience
of course it ended up being
I had just had a cold
and it ended up being
a vegetable soup for me
from some fan
but
that's just crazy
thanks for mailing that
yeah thanks a lot
that's really cool
yeah I don't know if it was just dropped off
or what
the door man didn't know
I know and also like
would you eat like soup just left by a stranger
no no
I won't need any of
I don't need anything people give me.
No.
Yes, you do.
Anyway.
You ever get a really good gift from a fan?
You ever gotten anything really cool that you like from a fan?
From a fan?
Yeah.
You know, cold hard cash.
Yeah.
I don't know.
No.
I'm trying to think.
How about when you...
Pajamas, we...
Nice.
No, we sold the pajamas.
That's not true.
Oh, that's okay.
I was like that.
Nice pair of pajamas sounds nice.
That's the one thing that I did take.
They take, you know, they take props, stars.
Yeah.
Every star takes a prop from this film.
You didn't know that.
Yeah.
So I took the dinosaur pajamas from vacation.
Oh, that's awesome.
Yeah.
We still have those.
What is, when you first became successful, oh, that's awesome.
Yeah.
When you first became successful, like, you're like, okay, I've made it.
What is the dumbest shit you've bought?
Have you ever bought something really stupid?
The dumbest shit?
What?
You've bought.
That I bought?
Yeah.
You know, you got money all of a sudden.
Did you buy anything ridiculous?
I can't remember, honestly.
There was that Dodd Charger.
No, I just making, I just made it up.
A wolf coat.
Yeah, they're like, something stupid.
How do you know?
He loves wolf jacket.
Can they even do that?
Do you like wolf trinkets?
I love them.
Do they do that?
I should have gotten a wolf coat.
brought it in
I can't remember
it's been a long time though
yeah
like 50 years
Jesus
that's a long time
so wait
was the Smothers Brothers
your first writing gig
no
what was your first
PBS
I wrote for the
something time machine
on PBS
or
Channel 13 in New York
the great
American dream machine
called that show I wrote for a few smaller issues and it just builds up over you know they get
you get a name for your writing a little bit which is nice yeah that's what I cared about yeah
funny farm I love funny lamb fries lamb fries I didn't write lamb fries but I love it the idea of it
funny farm was yeah that was a great one sheep testicles
Oh, Jesus.
I think that even learning that, I thought, was such a funny.
Like, I've never heard anything like that, you know?
No, neither did I, or that a guy would eat them, not knowing.
I would.
Yeah, she's test.
Well, it's they're cooked.
Yeah.
You know, properly cooked.
They're fine.
They're fine.
Yeah.
Your face, too, when you eat that last one and, like, you're so proud of yourself.
You know, I ended up doing a lot in my.
movies yeah i was just noticing that the when they play now and uh where i'm spinning out the
oh god the dog peed all over the everybody's oh the sandwiches vacation the sandwich yeah
oh my god my favorite one is when you go real tomato ketchup eddie oh yeah yeah real tomato
Catcher up, Eddie?
Nothing but the best, Clark.
You just did that for me.
I love that character.
Yeah, he's the best.
He's the best.
Cousin Eddie?
He's got a lip fungus, hasn't been identified yet.
And when he gives him the shoes?
Better not, Clark.
He's got a lip fungus hasn't been identified.
Well, that just sort of started with the first movie, and then it just went on every time
we've had something, it would be.
Oh, yeah.
And then he gives you those shoes.
I saw the way you were looking at mine.
What was that one?
When he gives you his shitty shoes.
And then you're like, thanks.
He's like, that's all the way you were looking at mine.
Like you were admiring.
The way you were admiring my shoes.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I'm sorry.
I had a little bit of a cold.
Oh, it's all good.
Yeah.
It's such a, thank you.
Fighting years for like three weeks.
I know.
I had the flu.
Oh, you have HIV.
Oh, thanks a lot for talking to me.
You got it.
It's gone.
I had it, too.
You did, yeah.
How did, how did the documentary come about?
Like, when did this, like, start becoming a thing that you were going to do?
The doc that comes out January 1st, I'm sorry, Jason, you're not.
Well, it was CNN that came up with it.
They came up with it.
Yeah, they, yeah.
And it's just like a whole recap of your.
I don't really know.
how to describe it. It does recap a lot of from the beginning of to now of things that I did.
I haven't really looked at it carefully, but it's good. Yeah. One should watch it if one cares.
Yeah, I mean, I'm going to watch it. I'm going to watch it. Of course you care. Yeah, of course I care.
Yes. Can I ask you, so for the, in the, because when you make movies. Where are you looking when you're
talking to me?
I looked at the screen to see something.
I looked at that screen for a second.
I looked at me once.
I have looked at you.
Okay, okay, okay.
I have looked at you.
I just glided over.
He does the same thing to me.
It's very disrespectful.
You have a camera coming from there, don't you?
You're cheating, squirge.
No, it's up there.
I just looked, and then I looked over here.
Okay.
So when you are making these movies, do you ever have the thing?
I imagine that when you're making them, you don't know how this is going to turn out,
How's it going to go?
No.
So was any of the hits ever a huge surprise to you?
Were you ever like, well, we made one, you know, I hope it's good.
Was it ever a surprise?
Well, there haven't been many hits that I've made.
So they're all a surprise.
Any one of them, I'll take it.
Okay.
And that's the real answer.
I mean, of course I'm surprised.
You know, the Christmas Vacation one that we,
go around and show and then I appear and talk um that one just seems to have lasted over
39 years I think it's 40 years it's incredible yeah so people like that and I like it too
yeah it's a good movie Juliette Lewis is in it yeah Julia's the best love she was my favorite
of Audrey yes oh yeah I mean nothing against the other Audrey's what of
Juliet just has that, you know, that look of just sure thing.
The whole way through, it's excellent acting.
Excellent.
And then my favorite, my favorite, Rusty was really Anthony Michael Hall from the first one.
Yeah.
Because he was nine years old and it just all fit good.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Incredible casting.
Yeah.
It's good stuff.
Yeah, really good stuff.
God damn it.
Really good stuff.
Christy Brinkley.
Christy, good, there's good casting.
Yeah.
Bam.
I mean, Chris, she's beautiful.
Good friend of mine and Janie's and a very sweet, normal girl.
There's hardly get a sense that she was one of the supermodels of all time.
But she was.
That scene in the car.
Oh, my God.
It's so great.
It's so great.
I know.
You, like, feeling you?
yourself and then having to like look over it's so well done yeah yeah it's so well done yeah
can i do can i talk one more scene with you from european vacation yeah sure when you take your
wife out for french culture what's that you guys are in the bar and you're like watching the
strippers and you're doing this what am i doing you're dancing you're doing this you're dancing
as you watch them and then rusty is there with a hooker no really rusty's behind you
And he's with a hooker.
Yeah.
Oh, okay.
I think I sort of remember that.
She goes, look over there.
Over there.
And you're like, what?
Just a kid with a hooker.
And then it's Rusty.
It's just a kid with a hooker.
Yeah.
So good.
I don't remember that.
Yeah, you're dancing.
I'll never forget here.
What's my take when I see Rusty?
Well, at first your clue is.
Do I do a big take?
Or no.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Because you're going to go over there and you kill him, you know.
Yeah.
Well, thanks for giving it away.
You got it.
also want to promote that you have one date left
as of the premiere of this episode
an evening with Chevy Chase
the tour that you've been on.
The last date is December 29th
in Richmond, Virginia.
You can buy tickets at official chevychase.com.
I just want to remind people of that.
Thank you.
In the Richmond, Virginia area.
That's true. That's true.
Go to the show.
December 29th.
December 29th, yeah.
Are you going to come to the show?
I would love to come to the show.
Well, you're both invited if you have the time.
Okay.
Oh, yeah, that's a past concert hall.
Of course, you have great seats.
Oh, my God.
That would be awesome.
Thank you for much.
No problem.
Love that way.
And then, of course, a reminder to everybody that on January 1st, you can watch,
I'm Chevy Chase and you're not, the new documentary that is on CNN that tells the,
it recaps the whole story of like, my life.
Yeah, your life.
and incredible the trailer's amazing
I can't wait to see it
it's gonna recap how you
I assume got into show business
and this 50 year career
which is incredible
yeah it's amazing man
yeah thank you
yeah absolutely yeah
thanks for making all those movies
it's great to meet both of you
I'm so nice to meet you too
you've been so flattering
I'm not gonna live it down
no it's I mean you really like
we fell in love with comedy
and you're a big reason why man
for real that's very nice very nice thank you i appreciate thank you for coming in today
we appreciate you very much both very welcome thanks for having me we'll see you guys next
week thank you bye mommy
my mommy just waiting and watching the afternoon tv show i i had a i had a
I had a squirder in bed and got on the bedspread.
I thought I was parked and it kind of came blanching out, so I got it on the bedspread,
and I had to watch the bedspread.
And it was spotty, you know, wasn't tons, but it was spotty.
Now, just a miscalation on my part.
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh.
Hey, buddy.
I don't know.
Like you want to be able to be.
And you're going to be.
You want to be.
You know what I'm going to be.
I'm not going to be I'm going to be.
And so much more than I'm going to be.
I'm going to be.
Mylar and the hope and I'm going to be.
I'm going to be.
And I'm going to go back.
And so many will be a good.
And so bad, I'm going to be.
Thank you.
I'm going to be able to bed.
I'm going to have.
That's not.
I'm going to be.
I'm going to be.
I'm going to be.
I'm going to be.
And I'm going to be.
Oh my God.
I'm going to be able to be.
I'm going to be.
I'm going to be.
I'm going to be.
You don't know what I'm going to be.
