A small tourist world were joined by certainly one of the most on are certainly one of my favorite t. V. Actors ever ed asner is on the show today its known for his role obviously as mr brand on the Mary Tyler Moore show Spinoff Series lou grant he is literally the most honored male performer i think in the history of the primetime emmy awards 8 for 16 anytime you hit and 500 was 16 nominees youre killin it hes got a new book out son of a junk man and add up from the bottoms in kansas city and well talk to him about his long trek from there through broadway out to l. A. And he still acting currently appears on the usa network show briarpatch opposite Rosario Dawson the estimable ed asner how are you my friend. Im for her good interaction well descended from. I will have to i will have it etched into tablets and presented through europe im a president i would tell everybody that there are their directions suck compared to theirs north. Accurate and flattered by all not all its like a nice day down there where yet i dont even know you an l a person yeah would you give those teeth these moves your teeth those are teeth i stop i yes they are. Nice yeah i kid you guys dont know nice dog does off carly simon it hey i want to talk about you but i saw the paul rudd wrote the intro to this book john mann son of a john man and im wondering what is it about kansas city guys whats in your d. N. A. Im from pittsburgh and i know ill always stay a pittsburgh boy i assume theres somewhat of a similar vibration in a hard working class town like k. C. What would you take away from it the stages through life can city were just a plain city. So its not played as the end of the plays because its a very hilly city that race sits a matty right through his new york i guess its San Francisco its got his hero and i love hero its mountings out of to be at the top of the mountain close to the doubles and down here center. What what about it topographically it sounds appealing but what about the the ethos that what did you take away from it its about hard work its about not being fully whats tell me about kansas city no well no nobody from there and here it is its as we say and yet as. If you always say. Yes. To this of a fish oh yeah on the table does this often teach on the table and thats the way we deal in kansas city if you can put up that show. I see that the title son of a gent bed tell me your remembrances of your father was. No b. S. Guy well we know no he was a very just a jerk its taciturn its he. In a wicked stepmother he was chopping shingles its him. And bill rouche at the age of 12 and he was soon got into the United States you were late teens and he served here cares is that he were he had lunch money lands people and he. Took a few bucks and he got a horse in a wagon and he went around collecting junk. Isnt that funny that kirk douglas his father also to some degree the rag picker son and curt card just left us at one o 3 theres some something about the indefatigability the patriarch in that scenario that i think holds you guys in good stead for long lives here here we we took rags to then the fiftys thing the world to deal with because a so much dust but we could hear we even bought bones you know like coming from such a proletariat background out im trying to think at what point does a young man whos collecting dusty rags and bones with his father in the middle of the country think that he wants to become an actor and a business and go to new york what was the lightbulb moment of the lightbulb was getting on stage having won the v. Lead role in a contradiction and finding out what magic there is. Where theres magic there youll find. I assume everybody when they talk about the stage they talk about finding a place that literally changed their life you can sense that the sense of fellowship the sense of magic as you refer to it the sense of camaraderie whenever i talk to people that no matter how famous they have got when they go back and start referencing their early days on the stage they get a beautiful smile comply on their face i guess it was the same with you or at your yes or you meet girls its there you got thats why he was booked was where Mark Lawrence and he joined the communist party to. Yeah redheads as they say in the communist party as an Old Newspaper man i dont have to tell you that we might have buried the lead there by not saying girls because thats always the be story even with Spencer Tracy that select that the best of our actor has included you always say and i got to meet girls so theres that too you go to new york and im fascinated by this credit face of the hero in 1060 was one of my favorites im wondering what it was like as a lad tell me about jack lemmon and that production at he was a dream road. Jack and i came across he said or 2 or 3 times during the course of our careers i mean charm he was never a disappointment he was a good guy a sweet guy you know whenever i hear whenever a or new york academe stories and variably had the name little hog or sandy miserly strausberg im wondering to jeff a guru back then or were he just learning it as you went to la i wanted to study was my eyes there but they werent taking anybody so. I staggered into still armor and tried out for a couple of months and didnt care for it and then i began studying with mirror stover and she was wonderful she was wonderful while i was studying with her i had applied for lease rosberg. And then nobody came into his regular classes so while i was studying with mira i decided to give vent to leave at the same time he never measured up to mirror mirror was my sin and teacher and the rest of them can go to hell. You know when i whenever i read about stella adler its usually in the guise of being you know obviously brandos teacher and she seemed to stress using all aspects of your imagination the lady who you settled on is your favorite teacher what was her method was she more to hear into a method or what did she preach what was the swing thought that struck with you there do we use what every. Utterance have a special doing how you wish to effect the listeners do. You have the 200 form whether to question whether to find out whether to tell miriam form so it was. I think i immediately did that method and was able to coast in the mirrors method. As mine were talking to ed asner and ed is 90 years old now hes still working as i said hes out there doing a show with Rosario Dawson it appears on the usa network its called briar patch you know im interested as you became known obviously youre in everybody psyche the hard drive take on ed asner is gruff im wondering when you were young were you seeking out or were talent agents deeming you to be gruff in new york or were you playing a myriad of roles that marriage or marriage are never settled. Or. Were never you could use a frat boy to me. Im looking at printers you my friend you werent exactly frank corson but i wouldnt call you fat guy actor you did have you had sort of a boy in bendix early birthday and sort of stuff that about you but i would say that. Now. I work that in of jobs on i learn how to apply the fact. What. Youre in new york youve met mira you obviously have your guru you knock it out of the park i think you get a big score with 3 petty opera at some point a lot of guys are saying im staying in new york i dont want to go out to hollywood its its the devils candy but 7 drew drew yacht there what took out the hollywood at wow i got tired or new york i got tired of the unions not really being good unions i got tired of the stagehands who did not put the play 1st but put their next paycheck for years and i wanted to be in a place where there was good unionism and good support systems all from top to bottom and i vomited california i have to tell you the interesting story real quickly ed i met i meant karl malden one night and you must know karl im sure youre probably our friends over the years but i said to carl i said you know karl i find it amazing that elite has an a but shellbark 2 of the 2 of them leading spokespeople of the proletariat would name names that always blew my mind that they would be the ones you watch not or for anything but what a stranglehold on the human condition they have how could they be the ones its hard and ive ever called while they look to me he said dennis you shouldnt lecture you dont know how brave you are until they chain you to the radiator which was 7 or well ian notion it set still hurt my spine. Thats scary yes there is it was a great image and i look to karl and then later it made sense to me when karl was pushing for the honorary oscar for his ad i think he disagreed with what he did but he obviously understood that not everybody was brave enough to lift up their career and just go over to you know to london like carl foreman some guys some guys did the deed and at least he had an insight into that that i hadnt thought of prior were talking to ed asner he i want to i havent even got to the ed asner is his. Sanctum sanctorum the the greatest sitcom in my mind that ever was and he one of the one of the premier players in the premier cast will talk a little Mary Tyler Moore here and luke graff right after the break with our guest ed asner. You cannot be both with yeah you are. The peoples republic of china isnt a nonconformist utopia horribly clee correct. Nonetheless the experiment being played out in seattle is no laughing matter the ideas of law and order and the legitimate use of force are at stake a piece of advice go visit jobs get what you ask visit you. Welcome back to Dennis Miller plus one where you see you are dig through with. Were just talking about eds nickname in the community being the posthole digger and how he got that he assures me 5 minutes after this interview is over hell be out on his verdant launch sondes robe. Making an impression on the community you know that when you get out to act california i assume you go out with the ultimate you know its great to go what models go on photo shoots with their catalog you go out with a couple naked cities under your belt i watch those old shows in a boggles my mind out great they are when you get to new york how are you received does it matter to them that youve been back in new york and theater and Live Television was your reception when you get up there but i always felt that i couldve. Left chicago its taken a plane in new york change planes to. Air and. Proceeded to owners my career here. They didnt care whether how much time arent spend in new york as long as i was from new york. I must have talent and i could not work well are you spend 6 years in new york or america. Well tell me when you hit the ground before we get to the m. T. M. Show when you hit the ground in l. A. What do you do in procedural surgery would tell me some of the shows and tell me some of the players you worked with to made a dent on you when you 1st get out there. I fortunately hes had spent one of those naked cities show me you know larry and we threw a few people and came up with my agent very good agent named jack fields he. Says specialty was trying to get blacklisted actors jobs in the industry that were still suffering from the blacklist. And he got to work immediately if he got me jobs. Whether they gave me i carry member of the 1st jobs. Mr novak the times of. Yeah the games franciscus yeah i know the route sixtysix here there. There was a Calvin Lockhart he got me. A movie with. Whos like ruutu 22 but he was a spore cover my car was his words so hes never been heard from since. You know what did you get and can i can i take a 2nd and ask you when you talk about route 66 i obviously know maris and milner when you talk about mr novak James Franciscus when you say Calvin Lockhart i have a complete gap there can you explain who is who is Calvin Lockhart and why that i have here anymore he was a like a black jesus he was a good looking black yellow who. Did not have good. Good conduct. Yeah you read it out here whore and he exhibited bad habits when we made this film and. They care and its well you know at some point you can push it way fight down the road in hollywood but when they start say it likes to short your god ive heard out of nowhere people thought they were indispensable you get to that point where they go lifes too short youre out but yeah. So. What tell me about that was it the same agent that you were talking about a sense yacht for but the Mary Tyler Moore think tell me about who was there who to read with tell me about your 1st memories of that great well like i said the greatest sitcom ever i read for ellen burns and jim brooks to create his habits. Rared and after i finished reading jim brooks said i was a very intelligent readings and i muttered yabber wasnt funny. And there we have your back to read with mary read it all we got wigged out wiki out and i dont know what the hell hes talking about so i said i said leave as oh we got we got her angry this isnt funny turn around what did you have me read it that way now and if i dont do it well dont have me back i never took my dance before since but it worked it well we do have another appointment but now i go ahead so i read it i read like im a sure has. Crazy crazy crazy and they laugh their covers a leave just like that when you come back to read with mary well i said what did i do what i do it because comedy is frightening when you dont know how to do it and you only learn lured by practice practice so i began to practice i began and repeat whatever i thought i had done came back in 2 weeks read with mary they laughed again. And said thank you i said early years later i found out that when i was out of the room mary turned to them and said are you sure. Of this and that your little grant. So that started 7 years. Oh bliss sees a slow on chat at look i just called zulu because im trying to think of a guy how i can lets separate his character from obviously ive enjoyed in so many things over the year but boy you talk about somebody hit in the mother lode you were so him and he was so you i i just look back on it like i said and i have i hear that song i get such pleasant memories i know its not going to be a simply show i know its going to be hip i know its going to be witty i know its going to be brusque at some points but at the end of the day its warm it was just perfect for me. Good im good this is nice were telling her to. Send me back you know some shows or some shows get asked to see a pot down there there specialness and i never got that off that show i would always show up but i think at any given moment any one of these 5 to 6 people will be sacrificed to a hip story line and yet the fighter laid back maybe the next week theyre in on the group and somebody else is the out there and obviously 10 obviously ted plays the sort of vapid greek cook but boy a brooks i dont know burns as well but i think about brooks as movies and boy nobody knows nobody knows the whimsy and the the seriousness of being a human being simultaneously like that guy unbelievable there are you know its he catches fire he he worked as a reporter. In the media. Oh i didnt know that at and thats why i started out i did not know that. Its terrorism vicky or think but restore maria its peaks when you guys were hitting the ball at i cant imagine was it a what a schwab to v. V. Musta had to go to work or maybe id like to think that sometimes you peel stories back and people got no i was heavy lifting when i watched you 5 sing together id think boy they get to that that writers table each week they must laughter of id like to hear that was an was at that was actually you know it was 7 years then during those 7 years in the beginning ha i feel jealousy because they were concentrating on the women so march she she had Cloris Leachman and sheer roeder and i thought god did have a god damn it and then firmly each one got a spin off off the show so then left mary with the borys if you use them well. Were talking to ed asner and as i said your lead goes on to do lou grant thats how indelible that character is folks thats how firmly entrenched it is with people that even go from the preeminent sitcom like i said ever certainly of that generation they take it over and they put it in an hour format as essentially i guess the term now is dramedies i just remember it being really well written almost bochco like written what are your memories of the next permutation of look at over on the serious side well that was interesting and. I used to think i based my comedic movie grant on my 2 older brothers. Full of bombast and slippery. And some tea and then when i got into the our show. Which didnt have barfs or supposedly good math labs i said i cant do the same character with this character ive got to find somebody else so i did i dived into myself and came up with the character and you saw as lou grant. And it worked it word. Say but it must been it must been weird to figure out how much of that comedic look at the light fades out and how much of the more potter familias luke phase in very much of a delicate tightrope walk like it was interesting because i was in therapy of the time the show opened. There are night t. V. And i. Went in for my session of therapy and the 40 and said to me i said would you think he said what he grimace so much and i realize. There is its a serious show but there laughs within it so the crew could laugh nobody could laugh but i wanted the audience at home to know they could laugh so i could stumble down the grimace i mean really stop grimacing once he made that 100 range around him. If youre married then i am he wearing yes i always felt. Ive always felt the best shrink safe had in my life have looked across the room and be found the coat that i was hanging whatever my personality was at that given moment found the hook that i was saying it all out told me about it and then immediately. It fell away so i understand that projection and i could parse this and there were times id think my god of course i had to know this but until they pointed out there is that transference i never noticed certain things about myself then they fell away like you said just like that. Gerd going on what was that young actors name on there i was a Robert Walton im trying to remember not that kids name is how he got your neck your i caught that but i thought he was a hell of an actor that kid beards he is and he he. He knows how to get to the heart of a point. Nice and easy as a university its easier the university of texas oh ok thats cool yeah well listen he knows of what he speak because i thought he hit the hell out of that part you know close it out i just want to ask him im always intrigued im 66 now ill play get 90 id be god bless me if i get 90 what if he got to keep your head on the top gave youre like youre going you know one of them has been way. In in your head what age do you feel or do you feel 90 i dont know i dont know why i dont know i had 4 similar years we all were. The youngest darter 94 so i got it here to 94 and hes yeah yeah you got to keep up the family brand ed asner yeah well listen the junk band raise some good boys there and this is so huge on bond. My life in the west bottoms of kansas city is a bright lights of hollywood i assume thats the the man there who was the jumping off point for all these lads and where its been a hell of a life i dont know you that well but i can tell you this from afar ive always admired your intelligence and like i said thats the greatest sitcom ever and you and mary right at the top of it so i thank you for all the laughs and all the insights over my life god who are your dads are pretty sure to take care yourself brother get new norad on that lawn. This is been Dennis Miller on his own or didnt have. Very few. But back. 6 pounds. In seoul you cant get away from advertisement urging you to change your appearance. Many local people see Plastic Surgery as a prerequisite for a successful career employers are often most interested in the job seekers appearance as a graduation present parents often give daughters Plastic Surgery for an extra food in the islands to make their eyes look to go. 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