larry king w.a.'s superstar musician and actor chris jericho devotee fans are very loyal and i think if they had their way we would be resting in two we are eighty years old and just exploded in a puff of dust in the center of the ring just because i was chris jericho you know internationally famous wrestler in this genre coming to hollywood a lot of people really didn't care when your heroes become your friends that's a pretty cool i'm sure it's happened many times it's a pretty cool kind of a bonus of sure of what we do plus i'm never for his brother i'm the one who's up for the best actor oscar and you just acted me because you got me all next on larry king now.

welcome to larry king our special guest chris jericho the acclaim wrestler musician actor author host and television personality also delivers newspapers is the first ever w w e undisputed champion as well as the lead singer of an engine actually famous rock band fozzy with a new web series but i'm chris jericho airing tuesdays on but i'm chris jericho dot com and actions you tube channel you're everywhere what is what is your purpose in life or not about everything you said delivering newspapers of a bake sale down the street a lot of things else stems from from when i was a kid i wanted to be in a rock band and i wanted to be a wrestler those were my two dreams that i never saw the difference on why i couldn't do one or both of those things or both and has both create creative forms of expressing myself all the things that i do still fall into the bell of being creative and they all kind of expanded i mean wrestling is pretty much. acting you

know singing it was a commit you know anything to do radio you have to commit and make a connection with the audience and if you can do that you'll have a fan base your natural what you are ok how did the idea for but i'm chris jericho come about in two thousand and five i left the deputy to come tell a to study acting and start breaking into this world and i realized pretty quickly that just because i was chris jericho you know internationally famous wrestler in this genre coming to hollywood a lot of people really didn't care so i'd be in a casting room with ten other people that looked just like me to read one line for c.s.i. sheboygan you know this waters is cold thank you next it's like but i'm chris jericho that's all i get don't get another chance so i thought it would be interesting if you know if jericho got blackballed from wrestling and had nothing else but to get into acting but had to start at the bottom of the of those images of that and that's the premise that i wanted to make it almost like a christopher guest mockumentary almost

a curb your enthusiasm type of thing so we started to rule with a friend of mine in toronto we wrote the pilot wrote bunch of scripts then what did the pitching thing and no one ever really bought it which was fine and so i kind of forgot about it and about a year and a half ago the guy called me and said i sold the show and he said bumpers jackers if you're still working on that where is there. it's in canada we made it in canada it's a production company up there it's what i'm chris jericho dot com or on you tube and as we were just discussing that's the way of the future is to do things in these web series or you know your show even podcasts so this is a sitcom or a sitcom yeah it's exactly david weekley but we did ten episodes and we filmed them in january did ten episodes in five days as a guerrilla film making and now this is the first season so it's ten ten shows what we're going to do an hour show you a clip from but a good concept but i'm chris jericho watch some of you might notice that we have a new one here. what's your name your student hi my name's chris

chris jericho chris jericho from musical new. one historical new. jericho the walls of jericho tell me something chris jericho if i blow your hardware your walls come tumbling down i don't think so give it time. you are comfortable with comedy absolutely absolutely and the thing that was so cool about it where he's great and he's got thompson kids in the hall and one of the most famous comedians in canada so because we had tapped into the try to market we had all these great comedians that came to work with us but i mean comedy has always been a part of the white c.j. character in the devil to be something i've always been been into and i think growing up in canada we always have a different sense of humor there because canadian humor is a little bit bizarre and will set a really big english influence with the b.b.c. shows that played on the c.b.c. in canada with monty python and fawlty towers and blackadder so i've always been

into kind of the other side of comedy not like the slapstick how are you a bit more of the subtle type stuff you study with the ground when i did say with the ground exam was that a big help it was a huge help and it's funny i was there in two thousand and six and two thousand and seven i was and they said like have you ever taken improv classes before because you're doing a great job but what i had done i never had but what i had done is you know we used to i used to work with the rock or steve austin and at the end of our matches we would do ten or fifteen minutes of improv just for the fans in the arena just to give them something fun before they went home so we were doing improv every night and it was you know austin is a funny iraq is a funny guy and i was kind of the perfect straight man like the bad guy kind of the frumpy guy that was always kind of been the butt of their jokes but it was fun improv this is team sport you work together like tennis you bat back and forth and once you can figure that out improv is actually a lot of fun to do so when i hit the groundings it was kind of a natural progression for i was already doing the devotee we have a funny. while wrestling yeah to do antics was always fighting always i mean having

that while fighting but you know the promos leading up to the matches i was always doing you know gags and showing like sight gags on the screen putting people's heads on top of you know whatever it was i see if you're a jackass a take a donkey and put your head on it wrestling fans always love that side of like t.j. like the babyface good guy why t.j. always had a real comedic element to me. which is just i think the best characters in wrestling or the natural extensions of your real personality so if you take that natural personality and turn it up to eleven you'll have a very successful carol you obviously were in a villain was a villain really in two thousand and five for a lot of my career i was but two thousand and eight two thousand and nine as one of most hated villains in the company i would do you risk i would be a villain we just turn it you know what i mean it's like it's like you know the time comes when you become stale in a certain role that you want to change and grab fans attention you know by by switching sides so to speak and it all boils down to basics of acting what i

learned when i was studying is committing if you commit to something people will believe it and that works for acting works for us and works for comedy works for music so by committing to being the bad guy people attacking me on the streets all the time lizard kind of a genius the w w e is and i mean as it is the name and form the way they come up with all these characters sorceress beating up on each of their friends well but it's still i mean if you're playing a part you know it's show business i mean those the crowd know what they have claimed they do but they don't explain that ok. when anthony hopkins walks down the street he doesn't wear a straight jacket any people's livers of the fine county i played hannibal lector in a movie and that is anthony hopkins on the street because i'm chris jericho on the street and chris jericho on the show and wrestling sometimes people don't understand the difference and sometimes people really think that i'm the biggest asset in the block so you suspension of disbelief especially and. understanding

that this is a show ok you admit you are both appeared on my old show larry king live that was in two thousand and nine he was promoting the wrestler what led to the few. what happened was we were vince said work to deal with mickey to do something at wrestle mania possibly a match against me the ins would man visit man and mickey kind of jumped the gun and announced it on the red carpet of maybe the sag awards or something like that where there's a big brouhaha with his agents and they wanted it was right before the oscar race and i think they wanted him to wait until the oscars were over before announcing he was going to be in the wrestle mania so as a result because he jumped the gun had to pull out of wrestle mania to kind of not hurt his oscar chances or whatever so i was given the mission from vincent mad to to do your show and to try and goad mickey into doing the match like see if you can still convince him to do it because mickey wanted to do it but his people didn't so

when he was on your show talking about the wrestler amazing performance he did a great job and then i came on the show with the specific intention once again of committing to playing this bad guy and to see if i could push him far enough to let it be like screw this guy i'm going to do the match anyway order what happened was . i was really like you know making you know i appreciate what you did in the wrestler better respect you if you came into my world you know kick your ass and that sort of thing and he's like you understand brother like you made a mistake by challenging me you don't challenge me you're a coward you're coward i don't respect you i think i think you're a piece of crap and you could see him slowly steaming like out of his ears. and he was getting really mad and he said you know i rest is not my thing but it was a bare knuckle fighter a boxing match and as a whole boxing match bare knuckle fight the ok let's do a bare knuckle fighter wrestle mania jericho versus the coward mickey rourke but i never told him i don't even you're like chris to audit like larry and all not like this and i was. i was like not letting him off the hook and i got

a really angry so fast forward about a month and he ended up being able to do something a resume just a little bit of a thing at the end who's going to come in the ring after the match was over with other people than in the face to knock me out so i go down to the ring for rehearsal the night before us a mania and make it in the ring and someone else had told me nick is really mad at you as a why because he thinks he did a larry king was real so i i go into the ring and it was really awkward you could tell that he was a gay would so like whatever you know go screw yourself and he had these three like really mean look at big guy standing with him in the ring so i said mickey you know i was just what i was doing the thing on larry king i was just playing a part you know i wasn't really serious i was just just getting people interested in what we were doing and he's like i don't believe you he said where i come from when you talk like that it's a fight in the boxing world it's a fight i'm like well this this is this is this is wrestling so after about ten minutes i i convinced him that i was only acting i've never figures brother i'm the

one who's up for the best actor oscar and you just acted me because you got me and he had brought these three guys in he flew them in three big bodyguard you have to see guys to kick my ass if i tried to do something to make it is like i've always goes with me to take care of is a good you don't need three guys one of them would have been enough to write a great story and that was that we were best friends he gave me all these acting books and he's like it was even really it was really cool guy tell me about ozzy other that once again i was a kid i wanted to be in a rock band and i started playing in bands and i was twelve and i always played in bands it's just me singing i play bass to bass guitar. huge beatles fanatic that was kind of the first band that ever ever kind of interested me as so i conceded to play music even when wrestling took off first when i was nineteen and then when boat thirteen years ago i met a bunch of guys and we put together this band and was cool at first kind of a part time thing while i was wrestling but over the last four years. if we made it

a full time gig and it's just shot through the roof we've done this last through it in seventeen countries we've done over one hundred fifty shows a record debuted at number one in the billboard charts and. the biggest problem was there a lot of people had a problem with me being in a band because i was the wrestler guy you know if you're a wrestler that you can't possibly sing and there's two separate things it's not like we ever sang about body slams and jumping off the top rope you know it's a real how did you name it was that we started off as a cover band doing like kind of eighty's we call itself ozzy osborne and that was just kind of a fun thing that we did and then we got a record deal right off the bat because of who was in the band so we just dropped the oswald you know what's your priority for the last three years for us is in the priority i've been wrestling less and less because you know i kept myself open to all these opportunities that came through my door if i thought i could do them like but i'm chris jericho like writing books like fozzie. and wrestling it working in the derby is almost like show business bootcamp you learn a little bit of everything you learn how to be in front of the camera behind

a camera drama comedy action adventure improv so i wanted to kind of take advantage of the skills that i had honed over the years and kind of branch out and expand the christian brand came a good money and russell yeah yeah if you're on top of course you can assegais you know the lead of the quarterback in a football team or something like that you know you can make it so very huge oh absolutely absolutely me obeys not in the old days no but i mean that's one thing that matters done over the last twenty years has kind of really made this a worldwide phenomenon it's part of a part of the pop culture fabric at this point in time you know so you can make really good money and yet it's worldwide. prominence worldwide you know fame when he was always acting get hurt absolutely i mean it's a live stunt show you know you really can get hurt you do quite a bit but still it's show business more with chris jericho quite a guy right after this i don't like the way.

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the interests of ukrainians are not what the european union is interested in this and that is why of course the ukrainian government hasn't signed because they quite simply they've seen the writing on the wall they know that they're running out of money they know that this president and the coach said all they get from europe is nice words and they realize that if they had signed the agreement it would have been to paraphrase a british politician the sort of the longest suicide note in history the party of regions that at the end of the summer all the way to the present was pushing for this to happen this is unicode which is party and almost no one wants to say well the party of regions is run by a group of oligarchy they don't want to reform the the economy and they just want to get in bed with the e.u. so they can clean their money and clean up their refutations the principal interests of these all of guards is integration with the european union on conditions of that will allow them to legitimize and probably it's gone with

a great deal of what wealth they have acquired through london or one of the other european financial centers. we're back with chris jericho he stars in his own sitcom but i'm chris jericho is bandis fozzy he's the rest of musician actor off the host and television personality i want to give you a quote you said you said i can post a picture of me in the pope on instagram or twitter and the first three thousand comments will be when are you coming back to w w e explain that. devotee fans are very loyal and i think if they had their way we would be resting in two we are eighty years old and just exploded in

a puff of dust. the center of the ring sometimes they get mad when i leave for periods of time to work on these other projects or are still constantly always wanting me to come back and that's what i'm saying it doesn't matter what i do i'd like welp old take a picture with you and i after no post it and we can sit there and watch in the first ten fifteen they'll be when you come back when you come back new scary things happen with fans well yeah i mean when we were talking about how it was i was the big bad guy in two thousand and i got attacked in a parking lot in victoria b.c. by a group of fans it was like the walking dead except for they were wrestling fans who believe that i was the biggest son of a bitch on the planet because i have been doing all these dastardly things and what he has saved them are we were talking there was nothing i could say i had to start going in to start throwing hands and push them to the ground the security was kind of standing around you like rent a cops just dummies so i'm literally fighting girls guys everything in between are easy it's very crazy very crazy and then there was actually a video posted of me was pushing one of the girls out of the way after she was like

trying to punch me in the jenna tail you and i shoved there and of course that was the video that made it i was public enemy number one miss grace was all over me for that's your also too johnny york times best selling author you wrote in two thousand and seven zero ions tale around the world in spend and two thousand and eleven undisputed how to become the world champion in one thousand three hundred seventy two easy steps now you're writing a third book yeah what's a title about what that one i'm not sure exactly what it's going to be a little definitely as you can see in my titles never take myself too seriously i think i'm pretty fortunate a lot of people probably think if you really need a third chris jericho book about your life like you you pompous egotistical guy what are you doing but i've had a lot of cool stuff happen and this book is just as jam packed full of cool stories as already says yeah yeah i just bought a biography i'm forty two now so i have three other biographies but each one of them is like a set of full of all these cool stories that happened like i'm a fan i always was a fan i still am a fan so you know this past february when i. we're on tour with metallica in

australia you know there's stories you can write about that it's just i mean just the fact that you're on tour with the guys that you grew up listening to like yours when your heroes become your friends that's a pretty cool i'm sure it's happened many times it's a pretty cool kind of a bonus of of what we do you know how do you play metallica their very appeal pioneers and what they did which was very aggressive form of heavy metal and a lot of kids i was one of them really related to that it was heavier than what anything else was going on no one else was doing it and gave you a place as a kid to take your aggressions out without having to do anything really evil or that kind of band as far as we are we play a very heavy wrist a very melodic choruses a lot of harmonies that vitaly journey had a bastard child it. being a drama do you want to play drama by the way i want to do so i like doing stuff

that's outside the box you know i mean like if you think of jericho as the wrestler he's going to be doing drawing action stuff i like the comedy side of things i like but i'm chris jericho on the butt of the jokes and i would love to do some dramatic stuff as well that's kind of the next step of what i want there were some recent comments made by the chief operating officer w w e triple h. in regards to triple h. cut a promo of w w e superstar daniel bryan and group him with a few wrestlers including jericho and said they were talented stars who made it but were never the guy for the w w e what is the guy what there's not so many guys that ever were the guy you look at hulk hogan the rock steve austin john seen at those ted the guys the face of the company that. are kind of the that the company you kind of is on to present at the super super top top stars like i'm a top star i'm a big name but i'm not at that level there's only been a few you know how do you get how is that just a combination i think of doing something different of connecting with with the fan

base. i mean debbie to be is gone p.g. thirteen kind of. scaled back and some of the risque things and john c. it was very clean cut type of a guy is a lot of kids were getting involved and so he was the perfect role model for them so it depends you know side of the time steve austin came around in the attitude error early two thousand and one was all about drinking beer and flicking your boss often who doesn't want to do that you know so you do the top stars get jealous of the superstars no because we all work together like i was never the guy but i was the guy that worked with the gaza so you know i mean so you would the second guy yeah exactly i'm the one who helped those guys get to that level which is a great job only randall in the rock. right here is actually that's right it was us so whole cole going to drill i did russell hall kogan in about two thousand and two he came back to the w.b. and once again when your heroes become your friends i was hawking was my hero when i was a teenager and to get to the point where i'm calling all the mass calling all the shots telling him what to do and he's trusting me because he knows i'm going to

make him look at it that was a pretty cool trick to do you ever in this show of shows ever really at times get mad at an opponent once in a while you'll get mad week we call them stiff shots you know we're working together but if you get hit in the face once or twice what really gets you sometimes it'll little i got a bad temper when that happens you might throw a stiff shot back even though you know it's just an accident but one or two in a row sometimes you're like f. this guy you know going to give a one shot but we're all working together i've got a it's a performance absolutely it's a show and we have some social media questions for you why to jay jessica wants to know who's the funniest person you work with on but i am chris jericho it was a great cast but probably scott thompson who we saw in that clip he's funny he's very funny because in all the legendary comedian comedian troupe and to be in there with him and to have to stand toe to toe and keep my head above water with him was a challenge it was really funny slow oh on one eight wants me to ask you about the

drive through and soon. and kentucky with jim cornette. back in the old days the early ninety's the old days. people used to tape trade a lot there was a really internet videos and there was this famous video i was in the back of a van and went through a dairy queen and we had ordered a bunch of food and they didn't make the food they thought we were joking because we were wrestlers and wanted like eighteen burgers and then the guy jim cornette who's a famous person wrestling was so angry that he tried to crawl through the driver's side window in through the drive the drive through window and attack this poor girl in like beckley west virginia or somewhere else. like that but it became like that version of a online sensation was a big tape trading sensation met mc lockin lynn on facebook as how much of chris irvine is in the wide to jade character on w w e well i mean name was i really was preserving yes so i mean like i said earlier the best character is your own personality turned up to twelve so there's a quite a lot of me inside

a christian but chris jericho is i mean chris urban is dad is husband stays at home with the kids yet three kids chris jericho is anything else while i'm on your show i'm christian right now you could share a gun yes and perform different versions exactly alan's the ricky on facebook post you have plans to do more feature films i would love to i mean it's kind of the one thing that i would like to do more of i'm playing a character my whole life you know the why t.j. character christian like we just discussed so i would love to kind of do more acting for sure and but i'm christian because a perfect example to show like hey guys this is kind of a example of what i can do just berkowitz tweets what was your favorite moment of the attitude era on in the w e b attitude era. probably for me wrestle mania nineteen versus shawn michaels it's probably the best match that i had and probably the really great angle that we did in the attitude era and that mad luck jab tweets were one of the but i'm chris jericho episode. reference the strange kentucky

people video you cryptically reference occasionally a lot of kentucky questions and we used to go to these small towns in kentucky and people would give you presents of one time someone gave me a tape of my matches but it wasn't my matches it was this weird family that they lived up in the mountains of kentucky strange kentucky people kind of dogs living in cars and kids crab walking around and on the wall there is a picture of jesus on the rock n roll express there's a famous wrestling tag team suck at it some kind of a family they were i get it all right if you only knew we play a quick game first girl i ever kissed tammy do in baghdad grade eight thousand nine hundred eighty five one of the have an exam me i never saw again i was just it was a go to summer camp romance an arrow youth thirteen fourteen the first time you wrestled professionally october second one nine hundred ninety in the hall in. alberta did you win it was a draw ten minute draw first time you sang in front of

a new orleans. high school the first gig i ever had was that ought to remember the stuff was the called flip side a teenage nightclub and one a peg manitoba canada nine hundred seven favorite wrestler work with shawn michaels have an embarrassing in the ring story three books worth go buy the books you cheap bastards. the prone to deface in the ring. toughest as far as strong style us and the guys in japan would really try and beat you up and take advantage of us that was more of a real actual fist fight when you're some of those guys back in the early days when you're on tour with fozzy what's your favorite city to go to. london sydney l.a. and new york where you live i live in tampa florida and so my son lives three things you'd want on a deserted island. food. boat and my ipod is an instrument you wish you could play. i was always obsessed with guys

like paul mccartney and sting that could play any instrument those type of first shows as like a little guitar everything you know lute mandolin lute hardest hit are in the w w e . seamus like i would kick the crap out of you but in a good way person you've been mostly excited to meet in your career. james hetfield ozzy osborne and wayne gretzky they are just so when was weak favorite band the. beatles or metallica wrestling mentor patterson the behind the scenes guy in the dead of the best fan gift given to you. a car. a car a day when you know i own today would dealership gave or chant when performing if i'm a good guy why t.j. if i'm a bad guy jericho sucks if you are in a wrestler a singer actor what would you be a full time dreamer. drama or action. comedy.

hockey football basketball hockey figures yeah canadian e a favorite feud in wrestling. shawn michaels two thousand and eight for the rock in two thousand and one thank you man you to banks larry was a blast jericho i want to thank my guests the multi-talented jane and chris sharon go and make sure you watch his new web series but i'm chris jericho on but i'm chris jericho dot com or on actions you tube channel and look for his third autobiography this winter and remember you can find me on twitter at kings things i'm going to knock his pocket. they just that and show you next time. i know c.n.n. the m.s.m. b c news have taken some not slightly but the fact is i admire their commitment to

cover all sides of the story just in case one of them happens to be accurate. that was funny but it's closer to the truth and might think. it's because when full attention and the mainstream media works side by side the joke is actually on we're. going to get. at our team we have a different brain. because the news of the world just is not this funny i'm not laughing dammit i'm not how. you guys talk to the jokes well handled that. well.