What in there l r you were jotting im feeling good my friend this is the original Johnny Carson made for slogans in way in a park this was my dads jacket and when my dad passed he lived in bell for her through his closet and gave us the stuff to goodwill were the same size were both 6 foot 5 to 20 and i kept a couple of these Johnny Carson jackets and neckties. You know its funny john is youre such a handsome guy you can actually wear that look good evil with the Lou Wasserman arc welder glasses and a pink pocket prove you somehow managed to pull this off they will what is it over your shoulder by the way is that you fighting or are you a key grip on jobs i think i see you fighting bruce the shark back or something thats me fighting a shark. The great Billy Ray Cyrus had a t. V. Show called still the king a couple years ago and i guess that on about 5 times and i was this really wacky Kenny Chesney type country entertainer big star whose house was filled with pictures of himself doing things like that and when they got it delivery from u. B. S. Billy said beauty of the oil painting of the fighting sharks there it is. Certainly of all my friends one of my dearest but also one of the corky asst senses of humor ive ever encountered in my 66 years is the dear john corbett john do you remember there was like it was there 2 to 3 year period or all you put up on the internet was drawings of john cougar mellencamp or a who was who you were putting up all the time. Those are fantastic drawings of the one really jon bon jovi. Heres i did for 2 years. Or that if for the last year i am into on twitter i dont reply i dont look at the replies i found out that was my downfall reading the who like my bon jovis and who didnt so for the last year roughly once a week ill put up now im jim morrison now i mean does your morrison put up a jim morrison tattoo on someones back or arm or leg or chest put up a great drawing of jim morrison or once a while but are actually cool live are a black and white photo real photo but its mostly tattoos and drawings for the last year of j. M. Its probably a 100 on there now and ill do that now for the rest of eternity i know just the other night i was listening out and i got this great speaker little speaker but it must have a subatomic woofer in it because it really plays and ive been hooking it up and just going through and that its almost like eating dim sum you know a little bit of this i picked up Jimmy Morrison and absolutely live from philadelphia the other night and it is such a groove have you heard that live album lately no not jim morrison fan. What do you know. What. I. I dont know if you can hear more since. Going to the roadhouse given the whiskey i know a few doors jim worse than songs i like the idea that its like led zeppelin i like the photos that the poses of jimi hendrix and robert plant and called you morrison but im not a huge fan of the sound they make but i love the imagery im more of a kiss guy kiss 6 kansas that cheesy kind of stuff journey yeah. All right its been when you were a roadie ferrario speedwagon a mistake and my legs are played. I do if i was i wasnt ready but i worked in the county for the capital music hall in wheeling West Virginia when i was 16 in kansas came through and they did tonight spreadin sarat a 7 oclock and 10 oclock show both nights and i was 16 i was just supposed to watch a door so the people didnt come in from the outside of fire escape but i had up having to be there go there you know there go over for 2 days i hung out with these jews now little did i know they seem so much older but little that i know they were 2223 years old when i was 16 now looking back and i got to hang with these days now this is right in the heat of carry on a wayward son dust in the wind those songs were they were still probably number one on any top 40 radio so it was so cool to hang out hang out with those guys and as a matter of fact. I guess about 5 or 6 years ago they were having like a 40 if anniversary of them being a band no probably a 50th and they had heard me tell the story one time somebody from their camp and i got to make a video that they played in our hometown in pittsburgh of a big concert that they did where i got to tell this story briefly 30 seconds long many other people. You know john i can imagine a 15 or 16 year old kid in West Virginia that must d have been at that point probably the most exciting 48 hours of your life up to that moment i must a wet your whistle a little to give it a try yourself right at least singing acting something what sent you from the beautiful hills of West Virginia to hollywood way. I graduated high school 79 and my mom and dads we lived in oxnard california until i was 2 and they split up so we took the train back to West Virginia to live with my grandma and when i graduated from high school my dad i was going to go to college my dads was a well there he said come on out and ill put you to work in the Boilermakers Union and i did it i drove out here with somebody else i didnt know this guy very well i only met him a handful of times since i was 2 for a week and each time about every 6 years and his name was john also your ears close and he put me to work in the steel factory man and i was 30 miles south of hollywood. And i got hurt quickly i got hurt in 84 i guess i hurt my back and i went to Junior College sorry those Junior College and i. Met some young actors there who are 18 years old read our High School Name by me to a class i fell in love with it i never even seen a play at that point my life id never been to play like watching movies like most of us but that was it never in fact in those 6 years i had gone hollywood 2 times once with my girlfriend to go to shakey speak further and walk around look at the stars in front of graumans in the other time somebody gave us some free tickets to go see family pew with Richard Dawson the only 2 trips 30 miles out in 6 years. Johnny was the 1st arms you get when you go in a so youre 30 miles south you never even go up except twice and i had meant if youre going to have shaky speech and go see dick dawson those are 2 reasons ride into town well how do you know the 1st the 1st break quits the extra parts or what happened. I got how did you know that i signed up for this central casting extra work and i started getting invited to be on sets like ships i was on ships im on now cagney and lacey and you know what it was like being on television i would call my mom and say mom tonight im cagney and lacey a guy gets hit by cam and theres 3 people looking out in the street and im one of them. It would be as if i had a guest starring role on cagney and lacey the family would come over a very is very is hes looking down on my. Head and i did after about a year i did silly i did extra work i did it silly movie con hamburger the movie that im in a lot i mean i mean it is more than some of the at some of the real paid actors as i was it was a cheapie we did it out at some college and not in hidden hills and what else that i do i did a movie with called tough love with bruce bird and Jason Patricks 1st t. V. Movie and one with Lindsay Wagner and peter coyote i mean it was just crazy. Im gone from a from a steel factory out in San Bernadino to im on a set with the 6000000 dollar lady the bike woman it was and it was intense man and i watched and learned and i thought i want to i want to have one of those parts where i get to talk to them by on it woman and i so i start taking acting classes and one little littlest things you get your you get your 1st thing where youre not just an extra youre featured extras that you and 2 guys and see helping somebody with clothes and you know these little it is you know these little steps everybody says when you get to 1st break there are little brakes. Even after even after 30 some years that was in 86 im going to distil i just got a new t. V. Series that were searching where this whole crowd of things over code rebel with the cigar man thats another break thats another little break this could be a whole it could go away quickly or could be a whole new chapter the rubens up there youre right right johnny it is it it is all about incrementalism them except in very few cases and you happen to be in love now for many years is one of the people who went from off the pad to. Outer space it around the space of a weekend so yeah for most people it is the incrementalism i want to talk about the 1st big toehold i will do it after the break with my friend john corbett obviously might have started out in some cheese that he gets into one of the hippest t. V. Shows of its era the vibe de mille you the writing northern exposure steeple still have such a flaw in place for today and we will talk about northern exposure and the fact that my friend as humble as he is and as goofy as he can be about his achievements ive gone to see him saying and rock in my man as an actor well talk about music well talk about northern exposure all that right after this with my friend john corbett on Dennis Miller plus one. Lead. Every single culture on earth has prohibitions against kill. At the same time virtually every culture on the earth whom rewards you enormously if he was killed the right person one setting it is the most horrendous down watching singing match in the world and in another setting is a little wondrous thing that they will give you a medal for the people who vote through you because of that the people will meet with you because youre good into going thats what im saying. Hey folks welcome back to Dennis Miller plus one we are joined by one of my dear dear friends and i love with all my heart in both truly. I would well like us my some of my favorite people in the world and by the way john i was talking about when ive been following you a little this quarantine although heavy on the heart for our fellow citizen ray i know youre up there playing like Lorne Greene Dan blocker Michael Leonard personnel roberts and laurel hops a throne and just taking care of the ponderosa on a day to day basis are if. Im doing it all i mean i know theyre. Fixing split rail fence. Im out there doing the. Weeding of the i do this this beautiful ive spent about a week building this beautiful white oak desk to get the very desk and move up and down ok im going to order one of those maybe i can make it if i get some stuff around here in the barn. By the way john you can but also with the vera does get a bear a chair the moves in 10 with a desk so youre always seated no matter what happens now what your day to day like you get up at 6 in the morning youre out in the fields youre. Stuck. Gosh your ocular or. Wow dogs get out there about 7 oclock who makes us some coffee i get out there we have 3 horses feed the horses i get in there muck the stuff she goes and makes a little breakfast i am out about 11 oclock and. Weve got a garden going we have about 16 tomato plants going how i get out there i water spray on it i have some seedlings growing too that im going to plants. And then im going to out all through them fall for a little bit give those a little exercise then ill start Walking Around seeing what ive got to do and since we had so much rain here its a ton of weeding i get out we have about 10 acres i guess Something Like that. I get on net that lot im over about 2 times a week 2 hours im on that thing doing all the yard in there in the fields i mean its you know theres no we really dont have any help we have a pool weve got a great who you know fiftys on the poor guy i say on top of that we dont have really one person that comes in and helps us do the thing i do do it all. You know all the women on the grapevine who said aidens and then in smaller class on the damp turn again they tune in and youve got that c. P. A. Suit coat on from the sixtys and youre talking about weeding and driving your mower and all day its quite a. Quick to do for them what way they were proceeding you before they. Would start your than exposure johnnie because when i look back on that show very infrequently to somebody change the meter and the mill you werent so corky remember 30 something had some 5 like that you know show the number around periodically they just sort of break le template what are your memories of getting the northern exposure when it becomes mega hot tell me about the run my friend. Life changing i was the one in the audition susie had 0 on there i did one up so the wonder years in 1988 little guest star nothing else on the resume and this is 2 years later i was really close to giving up acting because nothing was happening and you know you have to make a living and i was about 27 years old i guess and i and i did a jack in the box commercial and somebody from universal saw me on it called me in and for callbacks later i was on a plane i was living in interleukin lake a little cartman i was on a plane to seattle to live for the next 14 years i mean it really that one audition changed my life we we got up there they put us in these little boat. You know houses with you know dishes and forks and knives for the 1st season so we all lived together through a fish in the apartment and we really got to bond and know each other robin morrow jean turner ameri corps Bennett John Cullen well i mean were literally next door to each other and. And were all you know none of us knew seattles who were all of any outskirts of seattle about 45 minutes outside of the city and it was just great where are our studios in an old shoe warehouse that they converted and nobody knew what this thing was you know we were trying to figure out i think the 3rd episode and we kind of realized it was a it was a dark comedy you know he cuz. It was just so weird and quirky but raw market was playing this doctor so straight and nobody was really going for laps it was just it was. When people responded the way they did it sort of blue is the whole way you know it people liked it as much as we certainly do because i happens in this business now i know it happens that you do things you do pilots that you love and just think everyones going to love and its just thumbs down so you know its very cool for it to go like yeah headquarters the rhythms and i always thought of us when i see the office and i watched the great comedy actor and seems like a cool guy john is his name presence here because in ski that cat you were sort of the that guy. Time because you always came off with such a a cool manner when i used to watch the show heres the thing i want to read this cats like you seem so cool and it was a huge hit but i think it burned pretty brightly but not for it wasnt a it was a gunsmoke run was it johnny how long. We had 5 i think we have 5 seasons but 2 the seasons were only episodes each and the other 2 were probably 20 episodes so. You know a product you know maybe under 100 shows but heres the reason why youll never see it again because of the music the music there is so much music in the shows they can afford to play it now because they have to pay so much you know in those royalties even the videos they put the videos out and they just put our stock music on was turned ruined the show because part of it another character like the 5th beatle was the music that they that they picked for this show is fantastic and thats why you know people has no time how come we dont see in reruns thats the main reason thats why underwear Hollywood Ascap all those things they keep tabs that if you wrote it youre getting paid somewhere along the way even if it was 20 years ago lets take it over to the you must think i dont know what happens after that solver but maybe or think i dont know do i get a big Plate Appearance again and then an even bigger thing comes along section the city absolutely huge yeah so the exposure ends in 95 then about 5 years pass and nothing really happens i do want to do pretty bad t. V. Movies and im still living in seattle some way from the business and you know get a little older i guess maybe 36. 00 or so now and. I get an offer to come to new york and be on the show with Sarah Jessica parker who i liked. From watching as an actress but i dont like the show they sent me a couple this video cassettes and you know its all the jokes and this is not something that i was into i know its on the air and people are liking it but i didnt like it so i said no. I wasnt interested in being part of because my mom at that time was everything i do it was slightly embarrassing and i had to be naked in the 1st episode and i just passed and they said fine but then week later they said look sarah just you want to come to. See her just going to come to new york just she just wants you to meet or take a trip to new york its a free trip 1st class so thats what i did i have some friends in new york i said ok ill go do that and i showed up at her house and she was with Michael Patrick king and i believe darren star was there down in the village and they talked me into it because she was so charming and it was it would have been one of my biggest regrets if i said no to that thing so its just it was a pleasure man it was so much fun to be in new york and now im on this show that is not about the you know the outback i couldnt be here you know i went from a to z. I now im just you know in the greatest city of all and im on the greatest show at that time thats 2000 that you could you know talk about saturday nights must watch it was crazy. You know when from aiden and i tell you what it was a good move for your brand johnny because i remember one time we were up in twin falls member were escaping that forest fire and we get to 20 falls and we stopped at a sonic i remember we went into the counter and theres like 5 young ladies workaday you know just gals bit gals of all of a sudden all you hear from the back is. I just remember thinking boy that is a role thats going to stick with him for a long time and yet was providence attended ive taken it thank god sarah was so charming. So charming i got a free milk shake out at sonic 2 i remember jokily. I love her pastor. That that girl is what he if you want to talk about. Entertainment tonight and behind the scenes in whos got egos and who doesnt whos a diva she is a working hero mind that chick on