i was going to put you more than we do than you i'm going to choose to do with some of us in the police force is with us all the. hey folks dennis miller welcome to the show we're joined today by renaissance man and a dear old friend of mine louie anderson well he's done it all animated hosting game shows won an emmy in 2016 for his great work on the show baskets he's got a new book at where he talks about the person he patterned his baskets character after his beloved mom will talk to him about it and the something else that he's got coming up on h.b.o. max the great louie anderson right after this on dennis miller plus one. of.

the folks welcome to dennis miller plus one who are joined today by a dear man and such fond memories of being on the road with this guy when we were young ins doing comedy together. and he said so not a great moments since that you know him of course is hosting the family feud i think the restaurant 3 years he had a great animated series life with louie and then in. with basket c. at a run of 3 nominations and he won the emmy in 2016 i was so happy for that night and one of the finest standup stylists i've ever worked with will speak to that as we interview and talk to the great louie anderson lou how are you i'm good dennis that's kind praise i appreciate you've always been so kind to me and i love it we had so much fun we were in the east coast we're doing knows we're doing does a chance i think they called it right. that they call just sheds they were like

shanks or a problems right there where they were skull that was unbelievable and they weren't in the round in my right eye. so we're still out there trying to wade in there law or august it would be a 1000 degrees resonating off a corrugated tin group they are just a rotating stage we might as well been wrote to siri chickens down and we're on his or her costco or i know it's really true i love those chickens i don't know if you should eat them but i do own august they're delicious aren't they yeah we had so much fun to draw it all straight drove everywhere denly we go we trail everywhere are very nice. and i can remember you know i remember being in hyannis port hitting the golf course and was just super fly memories and lou let me sing your praises for a 2nd function of louie from all that he's done since then but as

a stylist there is very few guys listen i love a lot of comedians i'm a pretty easy laugh but style wise i'm pretty tough i think a lot of people are just rata tat tat pro-forma and i am pentameter that i'm pretty used to there are certain guys that have a style about them that is specifically their own and louis was always so deft and military listen his delivery and so not needy it's funny i think he'll probably tell us in some ways it is like his been d.d. but as a stand up it was almost bob lesley bob hope that they he would yell at them come to him i was always fascinated by the way i you know i always told you you're one of the best i've ever seen. thank you dennis and you know bob hope is exactly right i have that bob hope and with a guy you know he was just throw out he would invite you in beautifully hey did you hear about and sat. and and he he had a patter boom 123123123 full or he would really confuse the audience and then i had

a jack benny. when i wasn't when i wanted to hold and wait for the day and then jonathan winners richard pryor. and now. and really jackie vernon which a lot of people don't remember but had a beautiful saying song i'm jackie vernon here i am in the link. you know at lou you always did share that thing with. the insouciance about your payoff for a joke you were very patient it was a combination of ski nose and jack benny the great old jack benny joke about your money or life one flake but yeah you would always or proud at the end of the joke if you knew it was worthwhile and sort of take that policy like well give me give me my due here before i move on it was it was great to watch great stuff we were fairly as i think it was in. had it been the 9th early ninety's or late

eighty's late eighty's early ninety's when i wrote back one of my fondest memories being on the road with the great louie anderson sirius i travel with a lot of guys who we had a nice simpatico thing hello in the interim have done so many things that i remember when i 1st heard about this animated series i thought how so i got to work on the hit it hit a big honkin a home run wife but she settling in you never get that little louis guy would play would play to the people right oh run a tennis. voice i didn't know how i did it in my act you know i did all the voices in my act my mom my dad the little louie and the narrator even during my act but. i didn't know what hit until mad o'callahan the animator took my very 1st special and put the pictures over

the voice as i was doing on the special took the pictures a little louis took the pictures a dad took the pictures a mom put the pictures a little brother and i said ok i can do this guy you know he he was yes. yes he was really skilled at that and has done a lot of things and we're working on bringing life with louis back as louis is grown up and has little louis as or something like that so we're trying to bring a life of louis back because people ask about it honestly it's the most asked question i get is what ever happened to life with louie and i said well you know fox kids and it basically said bon went in and bought the ring and it went to the fan you know how that and you know i regret a sub on came to me hi i'm so beyond i think is worse name as he said i mean really i watch it. yes he said i want you to make the little louie more

i want to make that show more adult like the simpsons and i didn't know how to do it and i wasn't really open to it and fortunately you know i'm a fairly stubborn as a stand up should be. i was always stubborn or at the wrong things unfortunately but you can't go to court and you know they're afraid well you know it was dangerous and rednecks you know what though dennis it's the journey for a says not i mean the payout killer and against the payout so wonderful don't get me wrong but that journey you can. you can't touch that you know those memories those experiences driving to those gates us all having the same amount you and i having the same amount to anxiety before an after and in my doing the right thing it was sad i cherish those days i really do i love dumb i love them well listen though you know in a life where

a lot of people live their lives as the old axiom goes out and quiet desperation i've always felt one of the biggest blessings abana stand up comedian and i don't think you have to plant the flag on everest to have this it was an interesting life i can't say it was easy on. times or alone there are times you have to depend on yourself and your wit your gal but there are other times it was just flat out fun it has been as jerry garcia said a long strange and i'll add wonderful trip it was a it's interesting the life of a stand it was and you can't really share it with anyone who isn't a stand up you can't really tell them that and they don't like they can what do you mean you were it was the best thing you ever did it was that night that joke those staying they were the best they were the past no matter what. we're talking to louie anderson and louise got a book coming out of all the characters he did in a zack the one used absolutely for me and i'm when i say characters it wasn't like

he's up there doing impressions i'm just saying when his dad would find his way into a joke how did he drive it in. and it's the hint that this is why he had ice in alba that the latest book is hey mom stories for my mother but you can read them to tell me about the book. you know i was doing baskets and i was channeling my mom to a great degree. and it was you know i'm an emotional person when i'm in the deep of it and i came home from one day after a very emotional scene. but it was a happiness scene which for comics could be as hard as anything to accept but. i asked myself was my mom ever this happy in her life as this character is and so i said i took out my phone and i wrote a letter you know i m i phone i wrote this long letter to my mom she's long gone

since 1990 telling her i was playing her and had some questions for i hope she get answers why knew that she couldn't answer. you know directly but i needed to get it all out and that's what i did in this book it's a lot of ladder it's a it's a query to our parents you know we want to know stuff tell us the truth we can handle it maybe. and it's a chance for people to reflect on their relationship as i did with christine baskets on how much my mom did for me and i had no idea she was doing it she made it so seamless she made itself so kind and and friendly and she had so much humanity no matter what. no matter what the night before with my dad was and it was rough that next morning my mom was able to endure it and taught me that. i

can't she's ok in one sense you know and good and allowed us she was like a big hand who brought the chicks and close after that and fed them and that was really you know a big thing but this book was a really beautiful thing and i'm really glad i wrote it because i really love my mom she is a wonderful person and i when i won that emmy i thanked her right away i said we did it because i couldn't have done it without her lulu i swear as i was brushing up on this and i'm talking a little bit over your mom over the years in your dad i know a little bit about you but i certainly didn't know what i'm learning from the books your mother gets sick teen children or gave birth to 16 children she had and she had them all but 2 sets of twins died shortly after birth there were still born and

the very 1st baby died so yeah is amazing like i always think my mom was probably pregnant. half of her married life because that's 144 months 6 to if it if there's not a day off in between let's give her a month in between you're up to 160 months talking about 13 to 14 years of her life she is with child so while yet an amazing. i mean something that at the end of that she didn't never once said she regretted having too many children never once. what did she see of your fame lou i'm trying to think of you say you lost your mom and she says it's about what were out so yeah she knew you were a stand up yeah she saw me do the tonight show all the rodney staying when i was on joan rivers hosting once and then she got to see me i get

a night at. the opening of the ford's theater celebration with a bunch of other entertainers for ron and nancy and and tip o'neill and the gang and down we went to the white house after so i got that chance to bring my mom to the white house and that was just such a big thing for a kid from the projects i can tell you that not trying to think before we go to break just an off brand question here when you play the ford theater do they keep that box open or is somebody actually get to sit in the lincoln box i don't think anyone gets to set the lincoln by. not getting the right early if i don't like it or even say it's a yelling her lawyer they seem like good seats and so he takes the mallet the mela and then i'll tell you when we come back you coming back with me. yes sure we'll get right back we'll talk about that what we're all right and we'll go right back

to wrap that part of the story up talk more louise got a stand up special color it came out big underwear i haven't seen this one yet will corum about that the great louie anderson right after this dennis miller plus one.

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break we were talking about your mom getting to see it for theater and go on to the white house i'd asked you at the lincoln box was kept from her dad and you had hour and attempted piece of info we had to cut off for purposes of the route where you know they let me. get this thing and lance burton the magician. so they're checking everybody you know you got through metal detectors everything you know and he's there with a giant sword and they don't say anything about it and i go wait a bit. this they're not thinking here he has that giant and you may think it's a fake so hard it is not a fake cellared. it is a giant so hard and i go. this is and you know for me it was a double edged sword because you know you've heard how the free democrat going into the white house but you know you don't have that chance to take your mom to the

white house hardly ever and so you should always take that opportunity and then when i met reagan and his hand was so being egged and so inviting that i understood immediately why he was president. gave you a sense of calm and safety as the patriarch of the country should at any given moment we're talking to earlier said lou now i don't know how many specials you have done but this is one i that has fallen through the radar for me i don't know i do not know big underwear as it was shot within the last couple years or tell me yes. i was folding my clothing out of the dryer which i do often. because i you know it's one of those things that gives me some sort of comfort and i picked up a pair of my underwear you know in front of me and i go all my who's are these honestly i said oh my god i had never seen my underwear like that and it just.

it made me laugh and i said you know and they said what do you want to call your special nicette big underwear and they said well that seems weird and i go wow i'm going to be competing west deadly deadliest catch shark tank and what do you want to see louie anderson talks butter no matter what it's just an underwear you might be enemy who knows. and you know. if you find folding your underwear to be a calming experience the ultimate for you might have been folding ronald reagan's underwear as you're going to act in this. very fortunate very lucky and very happy that i can still go on make people laugh and not you know i'm really i'm grateful dennis i'm very full of gratitude right now why i know the basket things must have been amazing and you just clocked it were perfect at it heaping

a perfect perfect and i'm wondering at the beginning how tenuous wasn't getting had or was it quite frankly made for you it was made for me i think but. zach galifianakis kept making a sound to louis c.k. and jonathan crisil who's the director and kept going and i my mom's vices now and. then and louie said that's louie anderson we see kay said that's louie anderson and then said should we call him and they called steve levine who you know i see you know and steve called and said louis wants to talk to louis call nicette a louis and he said we're doing this show. we want you to play a character and i go yeah i'm in and you know i'm embracing it i'm not i don't even know anything about. him

well i don't know i began charles or. if. i met and he said you're playing we want you to play as mother and i go yes i've done just like you say yes i raise my voice i honk the horn and. i'm really lucky and i went and i went to play that you know it kept at how shushed they didn't want people to noise playing the mom and i was showed up in sylmar for the pilot and. it was still dark i went and picked out clothes that my mom would wear my sisters would wear put on the weight but it was too small they had to cut it because my head so big i went to the director jonathan right before we shot the 1st scene i go jonathan i don't want to change my voice i don't want a cartoonist i'm not i want to play it as

a real woman as much as i can imagine that and. he said ok and we shot the one scene and here we are 4 years late which we just we met we missed the emmys for this for the last year but we're up for it this year and we're i'm excited you know again as i tell people not to give up you know why because i didn't get my dream part 61 night and you know lou i'm trying to think you that night you are a sensitive salt god i know that you must've been so tremulous and it is almost a surreal twilight zone type occurrence were finally the last name called is yours i'm trying to a thing i know you know i know you're proud of your work but it's also an astounding confluence of things that have to how often to hear you're here finally it was amazing my business manager and my producing partner nad me.

and i go way you wind i go out i get out of this chair now and. i go i might biggest worry was can i get up the stairs without a railing. but i did and i was so excited i was. i i couldn't have been happier dennis to you know because people always sad when i'd read i was terrible at the audition and. it was given to me. and it worked out you know now you know inhabited it i agree that whole audition process is completely different world than getting the part no it's yours and you're allowed to explore it a little completely different it's like you know it's like miniature golf and golfing 2 completely different games we're talking to the great louie anderson actor comedian author television host and he's written 4 books the most recent stories from my mother but you can read them too and i'm not i'm interested in the

h.b.o. max siri search party why don't you tell the people little bit about where they can see season 3 i think yes so i'm doing das kits and you know it's with f.x. and. you know efexor what you do a guest star on something but they wanted me to do. several episodes. this season and search party is a great millennial show where this group of people their best friend is mitt dean and they decide to search for them. and. they i asked as an f.x. i go can i do 5 episodes and they let me do these 5 episodes i play i play a bumbling lawyer. who. my may or may not be dying he's kind of a friend of the family of the guy who is accused of murder and so it's

a great it's such an out of the place thing for me it was all these you know i you know i you know i just can't tell you like this was like out of the blue they came to me at t.b.s. and they put me on this and then and then we shot that and then it's been a couple years because they want to say that for 8 b.-o. max i had so much fun i was so nervous playing that's part because really i said to people i don't think i can play a human again after christine out it will just be out get out gets i'll get so killed in the critics but i get my bet i loved it it was. it was you know it was really great it was a great thing and they all welcomed me with open arms and i i loved it and i had so much fun when i look you know me unfortunately only downside is once your character

could be or could not be dying 4 it hindered you in contract negotiations cause when you had already when you asked for the raise they go home and they did and it cost analysis. and we said we were having you on we got social media questions out there was there was a say you mind if i asked you feelings for yesterday absolutely. daniel stagger goes way back but a fond memory for me too on facebook what was it like working with eddie murphy in coming to america. you know i was that was another thing that came really early in my career it was my 1st real part in any saying and i had to go and meet with john landis in new york i had dinner with a man and that was the time when he was going through the twilight zone thing and so it was just such a weird kind of surreal dinner cuts that was a big part of the thing and then i got on that sat and i found out about fame

because we're on i think queens boulevard in an old wendy's and they had a cyclon fence and front there were 5000 people or more outside waiting to get a glimpse of eddie murphy this is the fame that he had you know at that time and still still i can't imagine he could ever go anywhere without people you know grabbing them on some level and he had a big bus and the door of the bus would open up and the fence would bow in they would push it in like it was going to collapse because they were waiting to see the one and only eddie murphy who couldn't have been kinder arsenio was fun to play you know samuel jackson rob me. i got to work with china amos i got to work with james earl jones i got to work i think i was maybe one of the only white people on the whole show it was

a really good for me i grew up in the projects i am the i'm colorblind with that stuff and so i just was i was like i had a week's work i play this kooky thing and eddie helped walk me through it so i was nervous but he walked me right through it to help me make it as funny as possible as john dead and here i am just last year going to atlanta to film coming to america 2 and. it was eddie was so great to sit and talk with he was talking about coming back doing stand up it's great to see arsenio and john amos and everybody senate i can't say much about it because you know those new things we can. get a circle of who are. so happy that riddance well like you said it's 61 get in the big the big fastball they head out of the park i'm absolutely i was so thrilled

that night to watch you were going to hear the great louie anderson surely one of the sweet man and i like i said i know louie from way back when probably you and he was doing coming to america yeah who looks stories from my mother but you can read them too and also look farm season 3 of the h.b.o. max series search party my friend i am so happy that you're so happy and it's good to see you and i didn't get to talk about you but have me back so we can do not about what you've been doing i know you've been doing a lot and. i'm always here if you ever want to talk and i really appreciate you having me on i love you dennis. i love you louis take care that a smaller plus one that was a reminder said thank you folks. we

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