At the time.

This is 1994.

I mean, maybe Gabriel Byrne from Miller's Crossing, but that wasn't a huge hit.

It was just if you were a cinephile, you th- saw every Coen Brothers movie.

Um, you know, and it was two years after A Few Good Men, so you could kind of argue that I was in the biggest hit from anybody in the cast up until that point.

Um, but it was lightning in a bottle, for sure.

It's still the best script I've ever read, and that 25-year-old did win an Academy Award for screenplay.

What was he like when he was at his peak?

Right now.

I couldn't be happier.

And, you know, I'm trying to freeze this moment in time, the 5-0 moment.

Yes, of course.

Because it's a long season.

But, yeah, lifelong fan, by the way.

Yeah.

I got to get

Right now.

Couldn't be happier.

And, you know, I'm trying to freeze this moment in time, the 5-0 moment.

Yes, of course.

Because it's a long season.

But, yeah, lifelong fan, by the way.

Yeah.

I got to get

Right now.

I couldn't be happier.

And, you know, I'm trying to freeze this moment in time, the 5-0 moment.

Yes, of course.

Because it's a long season.

But, yeah, lifelong fan, by the way.

Yeah.

I got to get

Right now.

Couldn't be happier.

And, you know, I'm trying to freeze this moment in time, the 5-0 moment.

Yes, of course.

Because it's a long season.

But, yeah, lifelong fan, by the way.

Yeah.

I got to get

So, you

know.

Yeah.

If a day also went by without Rip Torn saying, I was on Nixon's list.

All right, we got it.

You were on Nixon's list.

He was on his enemy's list? Yeah, yeah.

What do you got over there?

But does the star ever do that? Again, I'll

get to your question in just a moment.

If we could backtrack to the illustrious superstars I've worked with, Tom Cruise, of course.

But I died in Denzel Washington's arms in Ricochet.

Died in Denzel's arms.

That is on the bucket list of every young Jewish boy's dreams.

Thank you.

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Do you have a, um, an impression that's a favorite of yours that is not a favorite of anyone else, like, say, the audience or is it too obscure? Do you have-

Yeah, I did Albert Brooks for a long time, actually.

Um, and, um, it just killed me wh- when I sort of eventually had to stop doing, 'cause the audience just wasn't, uh-

[laughs]

Yeah.

So I just love him to death.

And I used to do this thing where I would bring up someone from the audience and improvise The Albert Brooks Show, which was a talk show.

At that point, they were giving out talk shows every other day, and, and so I thought, "You know, we...

Then the, so if you're, if you're a scientist and you're looking for the gene that they both possess, what could possibly be the same that these two individuals would possess?

possess?Well, the, they definitely possess, i- in Jimmy's found the revelation, Jimmy Fallon's, uh, uh, take on it, the revelation, I think the takeaway is he needs to get laughs much more than, than we might have thought.

He felt it was a drug, uh, for forever, and which a lot of people do.

Uh, an actual endorphin released while you're on stage-

But do you think Larry David would, and I know he's doing a show on Broadway maybe as we speak, but do you think if he just had his choice on a, on any given Wednesday night, he would go in front of a group of people, grab a microphone, and tell some jokes, or stay home?

And therein lies the difference b- between him and Jimmy Fallon, because Jimmy talked about going and playing five clubs in a night 'cause he needed that new drug, that fresh drug at the other place.

You'd done all these drugs in this room with these people, and now you need to get...

And I don't see that desire and desperate need in...

Lucky number six, Kevin Pollak.

My first act was lip-syncing a comedy album.

I did that from age 10 to 16, and then I started doing impersonations.

So it wouldn't have been a joke.

It would've been, you know, Jack Nicholson as a busboy or something like that.

I-

Yeah.

Uh, the performer was hilarious.

Mm-hmm.

And s- in fact, he gets so caught up, he's- he's- he, uh, you know, uh, bigger than life in terms of storytelling but also his physicality, uh, and he ends, he ended up...

We had rehearsals so he ended up, um, giving what actors dread, uh, this term line reading, uh, bec- uh, actors dread it because it sounds like the director is saying, "Well don't do it your way, do it this way." And then they act it out for you.

Well with Rob, it was not like that at all, but as an actor first-...

he a- in articulating what he'd like from you, ends up sort of acting out the scene a little bit.

He can't help it.

(laughs)

Uh, Rob provides, uh, these magical moments for, for all of us.

Is he here?

(cheers)

I have no idea."

(laughs)

Yeah.

And so we're going through all the machinations.

And I realized at the time, I wanted the new 1991, '92 Lexus Coupe, two-door, had just come out, 90-day waiting.

They're selling them over sticker price.

And so I'm, I am realizing, well, I've got this opportunity.

I'm working on this movie, on...

Let me see if I can get, uh, uh, ahead of the 90-day waiting list.

I love it.