Christopher guest movies waiting for guffman and best in show and fred was in anchorman. He was on modern family. He played basically the same character in everything. He was the same guy. Because it always worked. So why would you change it . It didnt matter if the movie or show was good, bad, terrible or great. Fred was always funny. And he was more than just funny. He had a light inside him. You could see a glint of it in his eyes and it made everyone around him happy. I was lucky enough that he agreed to be my guest cohost early on the show. Years ago we were shooting something at his house and when our crew showed up he was very upset. Because his wife, mary, had the gardener throw away their Christmas Tree. And fred was uncharacteristically down about it. Now, this was june. This was a full six months after christmas. And he was upset that mary threw out the tree. He told my brother john he was upset because he liked to exercise by sawing pieces off the tree. So he was depressed,
Probably 80 of the people watching it didnt get. Maybe 90 . It was definitely my kind of show. And fred was so great on it. He was the oblivious second banana. He would chime in and say dumb things in a very earnest and genial way. He and martin mull were great together. They went on to make a fake documentary called the history of white people in america that i enjoyed. They were a married couple on roseanne. And then of course fred was discovered by a new generation of fans thanks to the great Christopher Guest movies waiting for guffman and best in show and fred was in anchorman. He was on modern family. He played basically the same character in everything. He was the same guy. Because it always worked. So why would you change it . It didnt matter if the movie or show was good, bad, terrible or great. Fred was always funny. And he was more than just funny. He had a light inside him. You could see a glint of it in his eyes that made everyone around him happy. I was lucky enough that
Probably 80 of the people watching it didnt get. Maybe 90 . It was definitely my kind of show. And fred was so great on it. He was the oblivious second banana. He would chime in and say dumb things in a very earnest and genial way. He and martin mull were great together. They went on to make a fake documentary called the history of white people in america that i enjoyed. They were a married couple on roseanne. And then of course fred was discovered by a new generation of fans thanks to the great Christopher Guest movies waiting for guffman and best in show and fred was in anchorman. He was on modern family. He played basically the same character in everything. He was the same guy. Because it always worked. So why would you change it . It didnt matter if the movie or show was good, bad, terrible or great. Fred was always funny. And he was more than just funny. He had a light inside him. You could see a glint of it in his eyes that made everyone around him happy. I was lucky enough that
Thank you doc. We are talking to george burns. Rodney dangerfield, michael constantine, and Shana Alexander will be with us. The special is tomorrow. Its on cbs. It follows bing, doesnt it . Yes, bing crosby. We made a deal between us. Hes not going to fool around with red rose rag and im not going to touch white christmas. [ laughter ] you mentioned the show. You talk about acting a little bit as you do in your book. You said you didnt find it too difficulty. You just listen and react to what people say. I think so. I think its much tougher to do what we are doing right now, or standing up and doing a monologue. Youve got nobody to help you. Youre on your own, you know . And you cant do it over. Thats it. But when you are doing a movie, you get up and do a scene, if its no good they do it over, you do it again. And then youve got Walter Matthau on one side, Dick Benjamin on the other. Were there any scenes you had to do, say, more than two or three times . Not me. [ applause ] i lie a
Michael McKean says the late Fred Willard used to travel with 'a little toolkit' so he could disable elevator bells if they were keeping him up at night: 'He was really f -ing awesome.'