>> alice cooper. [laughter] sch" and "shep"n are synonymous. >> if someone asked me who invented the celebrity chef? shep gordon. >> i spent my life making people famous. >> he is the quintessential manager. he wrote the book, and everybody else is reading from it. >> the two most important things a manager does, get the money, always member to get the money, never forget to always remember to get the money. >> that is something new and let's stick with it. >> we tried to do as many outrageous things as possible. everybody went wild. no matter what this was, you navigate through this rough passage. >> i was so over my head. there is nothing about fame that sells it. the ones who rose to the top got hurt the worst. i felt the stress of l.a. the culture of what you are, not who you are. i had spent my life living other people's lives and it wanted to see what my life was. i never really developed a family. growing up -- i am making up or it. >> shep gordon is the nicest person i've ever met hands down.

he was so nice and protective and loving of alice cooper and i worshiped alice cooper.e is the link between the hippies and the punks. johnny lydon even said that. he sang "eighteen" on the jukebox. >> that was the toronto festival. it was called the peace festival. this was 1975 -- 1969. i don't member things too well. >> why is that, shep? >> someone slipped something in my drink once in a while. it was the psychedelic era. >> if you remember it, you were not there. >> i was always -- alice and i were always looking to irritate people. that was the core of the career, that if we could irritate people and parents in particular, the kids would love us. and we were on a peace festival and i got alice on before john lennon and there was a chicken backstage and i said if i throw this chicken onstage something will happen that is going to be really horrible. something will happen. he took it and he thought it could fly and he threw it in the audience and the audience rigid -- ripped it apart. they were so angsted up, and it was a peace festival and we ended up getting all t

alice cooper. the word mensch -- >> if somebody asked me who invented the celebrity shep shep gordon. >> shep is the quintessential manager. he wrote the book and everybody else is reading from it. >> the most important thing the manager does. get the money. always remember to get the money. never forget and always remember to get the money. >> something new that nobody's ever seen before and let's stick with it. >> we tried to do as many outrageous things as we could. >> no matter what, you're the navigator through the rough passage. >> there's nothing about fame that i've ever seen that's healthy. the ones who rose to the top got hurt the worst. >> the culture what you are not who you are. >> i had spent my life living other people's lives and i wanted to see what my life was. >> i never really developed a family. growing up i never had a friend over. i'm more than making up for it. >> shep gordon is the nicest person i he ever met hands down. >> what's important for me is to do compassionate bus

>> alice cooper. >> she is a protector. he keeps the wolf from the door. whof someone asked me invented the celebrity chef? shep gordon. >> he wrote the book. money, always rubber to get the money, never forget to always remember to get the money. -- remember to get the money. andhat is something new let's stick with it. >> we tried to do as many outrageous things as possible. everybody went wild. >> he navigated us through this rough passage. >> i was so over my head. fame thatothing about sells it. the ones who rose to the top got hurt the worst. i felt the stress of l.a. i had spent my life living other people's lives and it wanted to see what my life was. never really developed a family. i am making up work. shep gordon is the nicest person i've ever met hands down. >> what is important is doing compassionate business. no winners and losers. there is only winners. shep's all end up in kitchen. >> he tells the best stories. i have [inaudible] not even my wife. [laughter] us is mike myers and shep gordon. how long have you known him? >> 23 years. >> how

the movie. >> alice cooper was in the movie.now, something that needed to be fixed. and i just thought -- i just liked him. i just got such a tremendous vibe, and we kept in touch. and he lives in hawaii. i'd never been to hawaii. i wasn't allowed to go to hawaii, because my dad is from liverpool. and there's a thing called liverpool alzheimer's, where you forget everything except the grudges. >> seth: okay, gotcha. >> and he was upset with hawaii. >> seth: your dad was upset with hawaii? >> yeah, because he would be like, "oh, they bloody murdered captain cook." [ laughter ] in 1780. >> seth: so on old grudge? >> i go, "what?" and then he'd say, "they bloody murdered him in his sleep. get that bloody pineapple out of the house." [ laughter ] i'd be like, "wow, dude, that's a grudge." that's fantastic. 1780. so i'd never been. i went and i was staying in a hotel. and "wayne's world" had come out. this was after "wayne's world." and things kind of exploded. somebody told me to have a fake name. so i had a fake name, which was pie

. >> shep gordon was alice cooper's manager.med "wayne's world," with dana carvey. [ cheers and applause ] trust me, i didn't -- i didn't leave a pause for that, but thank you, it's very lovely. and, i had never been in a a film, let alone written one or, you know, do that you know. so lorne -- lorne michaels said -- cause i wanted the song, he references alice cooper, shep gordon. and i wanted the song "18 and school's out," and he said -- "how about something from the new album?" >> jimmy: this is what shep said? >> yeah, shep gordon said to me, "how about something from the new album?" >> jimmy: and you're like, "no, i want 'school's out'." >> no, no. i didn't want -- and, you know, he's so incredibly lovely about it. he said, you know, "i read the script and alice is only on stage for 8 seconds, we put 'school's out' in the end credits. everyone's going to think that's a song he sang." and i was like, "what -- i thought, yeah, all right, that sounds great. what a lovely man supporting his artists." >> jimmy: and he just tric

the movie based on "saturday night live" sketch was full of rock star cameos including alice cooper. ger, shep gordon approached myers with a problem. >> i'm like, who street this he's smell are you kidding me? who is this dude? why am i talking to this guy? >> it turns out shep gordon was a big time talent manager with clients ranging from teddy bendergrast and wanted to change the song. >> talked like this which i didn't know that people did talk like this. i know it says in the script school's house out how about something from the new album. how about, no. i also happen to know you start shooting in two weeks you don't have a replacement. you don't have a choice. >> this is your first encounter? >> yeah. >> war not worthy! >> myers agreed in time shep gordon would pay him back in a way he never expected. born in toronto, canada, mike myers is the youngest of three boys. his father, eric, a liverpool native, was the comic inspiration for many of myers' best known characters. you've said he was silly. >> yes. if my dad had written a book of philosophy it would be called "in praise o

he said alice cooper. >> that is a scene from the documentary.re from liverpool, england. my dad literally talked like the beatles. people would knock on the door just to hear him talk. and say it "it's been a hard day's night." i've been a life long liverpool fan. >> we had no idea. >> both my parents fought in world war ii. my mom was in the royal air force, my dad was in the royal engineers. when you see those movies with the covered map of england, my mom was one of those ladies. my dad was in the second wave of market garden. >> and they were in -- so they were living in liverpool when the war broke out? >> yes, and they enlisted, both lied about their age and fought for britain against fascism. these were things that we talked about at my dinner table, which was keeping fascism at bay. >> wow. >> john meacham and i were talking about 1940 -- >> world war ii people are the best generation hands down. i give it up. i have the love and respect. >> we were talking about d-day today, talking about how much we owed to the people who stormed the b

for summer ♪ >> little alice cooper for your head this morning. the white house is having another p summit. who else was it? >> well, a bunch of female morning show hosts were invited by the obama administration to stand around the president in support presumably of this propaganda effort aimed at female voters. one host wasn't. can you guess? it might have been the highest rated host. didn't get morning television. morning cable news. our dear friend greta in a tweet. she says president obama snubbed elisabeth hasselbeck of "fox & friends." president afraid to interview with her? the other women of morning shows, oh, well, it's kind of a common sense call problem if they don't want hard questions. >> right, silence the other side, right? well then our elisabeth hasselbeck wrote back she says: perhaps my email invitation was, quote, unquote lost at gretawire in true irs fashion there. >> that is typical elizabeth because it's grace, plumb, a charm, and it doesn't matter. >> it's a badge of honor key demographic. midterm elections. all these other