you're a fan of tim burton. >> yes, a big fan of tim burton growing up. >> seth: "beetlejuice" is a big there? [ light laughter ] >> seth: this is just my taxes. >> okay? [ light laughter ] all right, hold on to that. >> seth: so how old -- >> yeah. >> seth: this is you dressing up as beetlejuice. [ cheers and applause ] pretty great. >> i used the same costume for garth, from "wayne's world" the next year. [ laughter ] >> seth: yeah. >> yeah, so that's -- you just got me un-laid by my own wife. >> seth: oh, wow. >> by showing that. >> seth: this moved you backwards. this is you laid, and then this -- i just did this. >> yeah. >> seth: that's great. and that's young to have seen "beetlejuice," i feel like. >> it was -- yeah, it was -- it scared me. [ laughter ] she takes the face off. no, it was -- no, that's one of the things i loved about tim burton, and it's that he entertained and scared at the same time. he just has this very specific mix. so hats off to you, tim burton. >> seth: and michael keaton. just, literally one of the greatest actors alive. >> yeah. amazing performance. i m

"tim burton is one of the most innovative directors around. so i'm looking at a brand new, fresh view of batman." that move alone was strange at the time but so was putting an oscar-winner in a superhero movie. "jack is dead my friend, you can call me joker!" jack nicholson brought critical acclaim notching a golden globe nomination for his role as "the joker" "you can't underestimate how important that was to the success of batman. if it had been unknowns or teenagers or young kids, adults wouldn't have cared and it wouldn't have made nearly as much money." while it seems normal today to question the casting of a superhero when burton chose beetlejuice partner michael keaton to dawn the cape comic book fans couldn't see it. "the comic book is based, it's one of the few characters that's a human being and i just found it was a much more interesting way to go." "i knew i had tim and by that time jack was in. so i really believed that i could only fall below x if the whole bottom fell out of this movie" "there's a shift at the end of the '80s fr