Charles Nelson Reilly

Okay.

So, uh, uh, Kay and I share a birthday with Julia Louis-Dreyfus, uh, Richard Moll from Night Court, um, Charles Nelson Reilly.

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I think I share it with...

We set him up for good.

Carface's assistant named Killer, surprisingly not played by Woody Allen, but rather Charles Nelson Reilly, is shocked their plan to keep Charlie out of their literal business didn't work.

Friends must be handled in a friendly and business-like way.

So Carface isn't the most complex villain, but his diabolically laid-back demeanor, mixed with a constant evil smile that I've literally only seen the Joker and myself use more, makes him enjoyably intimidating.

I sent you, um, uh, I sent you a YouTube clip earlier today, and you heard, uh, y- y- it was, uh, it was just a little section from a documentary about the Golden Age of Broadway.

And, uh, you had people like Jerry Orbach and Charles Nelson Reilly in a more comedic way, though, but talking about just th- there were certain, there were certain plays during that Golden Age of Broadway that if you see them, you just never forgot them, and they stuck into your DNA, and they mention Member of the Wedding as one of those plays.

Mm.

And I can't, I, I can just imagine seeing this performed live in front of you-

That's exactly what it's like.

We need like, uh, Charles Nelson Reilly and, uh-

Right.

Yeah

What was it? Uh, f- Brett Butler or something.

She was Brett Butler.

She was up there next to Charles, Charles Nelson Reilly.

Anyway, so come on over.

Right.

Charles Nelson Reilly and Rip Taylor, you know, those guys, Paul Lind, you know, and you're just like, you know, it's like.

okay who is this guy yeah you know but they were the

pre-kardashians yeah

So what I found was just being in it every day and grinding it out, I was learning and becoming when I didn't even realize I was learning and becoming.

And one day I was, so I don't know if you all, some of you may remember the personality of Charles Nelson Riley.

And Charles was the main teacher that would come down and spend weeks with us and teach.

And he was brilliant.

It was more about his serious acting gaze.

It was similar with Charles Nelson Reilly, right? With his one-man show.

I saw that show.

It was like three and a half

He was there sneaking in as a kid playing hooky from school.

My friend Rick Willett and I went to see that.

He said, let's go see Charles Nelson Reilly's one-man show in the Valley.

And it was like, it was endless.