Chris Guest shmoozes about Fred Willard

[@km_zencat]

RIP Fred Willard. Just one of a kind. 😢

[@kj6446]

amen.

[@anonb4632]

I think I took him for granted when he was alive, to be honest, but I realise how much I enjoyed his performances looking back.

[@deme9873]

Fred Willard was responsible for many uncharacteristic medical emergencies and seizures on my behalf. As evidenced by the many stitches in my guts. He was always the same well-intentioned, unctuous, and borderline delusional oaf in every role. And he was a maestro, thereof. Absolutely devastating.

[@TheKitchenerLeslie]

This is about the worst way to find out someone has passed away!

[@cvbabc]

You really have to have an advanced sense of humor to be genuinely entertained by Fred. His style is like a secret shared with a select portion of the audience. In a way he's lampooning the types who woukdn't get his humor. He knows, that we know, that he knows, his character doesn't know.

[@XxGrizZ]

I'm not exactly sure what they call themselves, but the Chris Guest 'group' makes my favorite comedy movies of all time. Everyone of of them is timeless.

[@anonb4632]

"Ensemble"? "Troupe"?

[@racafritz]

Bench press?

[@anonb4632]

@E.A. de Ruiter Nah gangs make me thing more of knives and guns.

[@TheSaltydog07]

They used to be called "stables." Don't like.

[@dlxmarks]

The title for this video should be "Charlie Rose Auditions for Inane TV Interviewer Role in Next Christopher Guest Project."

[@tejaswoman]

Never really understood the appeal of Charlie Rose interviews, unless maybe he was better at them back in the beginning? Every time I watch them, he'd go on and on and on and on and on and on and on before letting the interviewee get a word in edgewise.

[@mikegooch8525]

@@tejaswoman they've always been conversations, not interviews. it's what Joe Rogan made famous years later for millennial audiences

[@denisesudell2538]

Charlie Rose seems like he’s channeling Fred Willard - he’s that clueless here.

[@ihatespam2]

Oh, sooo true. It’s a bit!

[@ihatespam2]

@@mikegooch8525rose has a conversation with himself! So annoying.

[@bloosart]

I didn't realize how much I love Christopher Guest until I saw this interview. One of the funniest people ever.

[@NxDoyle]

I've not watched a lot of tributes to Fred, so it's nice that the algorithm has picked up on the stuff I _have_ seen and thrown up some great clips and other bits.

[@trexguy]

Christopher Guest is a comic genius! I have been a huge fan of his since Tap and his year on SNL ( a show he seems "ok" doing) btw, that season was the best ever!! he and his wife are wonderful people. I met them on the streets of NYC and she gave permission for my acting company to use selections from her book. Good People!

[@TotalSinging]

My Lord - that last 30 seconds is painful to watch. Even Guest is surprised at how awkward it suddenly got.

[@shivasirons6159]

Fred says even the ladies and whispers into the guys ear, everyone is thinking wet tee shirt contest, brilliant!

[@ericblair8821]

Watching Charlie joke about Jaime Lee Curtis was creeeeepy!

[@tommygleeson5442]

Today we said goodbye to Fred. One of the greats. RIP.

[@mortalclown3812]

❤🙏

[@slaningham]

That last bit was spontaneous Guest style comedy with Charlie Rose laying a huge egg of unawareness. He was doing Fred Willard and he didn't even know it. Hilarious and unsettling.

[@jamesburrows5404]

Fred is and will always remain brilliant.

[@mroconnell]

I love where this cuts off. It's wonderfully awkward.

[@MrGgoodwill1]

Yeesh Cristopher looks like he cannot wait to be done with this interview 😳

[@David-iv6je]

Rose is kind of a pretentious ass though. Can hardly blame Guest.

[@dionflynn]

If you've ever wondered what exactly the phrase "He doesn't suffer fools lightly" means, or looks like in practice: watch Christopher Guest in almost any of his interviews. With the exception of when he's with Ricky Gervais.

[@David-iv6je]

@@dionflynn Excellent observation, Dion. He's not a jerk. It's just he is exasperated by the lazy questions he is asked.

[@julietteyork6293]

Can you blame him? Interviewers like Charlie Rose are insufferable - they actually bring out the worst in the talent. In Rose’s case, it may have been because he was distracted by all the skirts filing sexual harassment suits against him.

[@EuchridEucrow1]

"Can you have an actual three-dimensional...object..that's...that represents the thing that it actually is?"

[@dunskie]

I think Charlie lost him at the end there. He lost me. Guest is wonderfully introverted.

[@pretorious700]

fred Willard is the master of the awkward moment.

[@plev10]

I wish Chris made Charlie do this improv: "You're interviewing an intern at your home and you're in your bathrobe."

[@steamedhamlet]

Guest should smack Charlie Rose on the head like michael hitchcock did to balaban.

[@AngusRockford]

Exactly. Hard to believe Charlie actually watched that clip with Bob Balaban and didn’t realize Balaban was sending up clueless “authority” figures like him. His inane questions sound just like that character, except in “genteel southerner”.

[@trevorcolgan7468]

If you’re ever going through Knoxville, check out a great group... two Jacks and a Jill.... genius!!

[@jshepard152]

You are Spinal Tarp?

[@waynej2608]

I thought it was, 'four Jacks and a Jill'.

[@ThonColinFilms]

@jayjayjigsby2 Yeah, the interviewer seems to think that everything Christopher says ought to be "funny", and therefore just laughs, when all he is doing is answering the question. Christoper Guest is rightly irritated by him.

[@MrStevestain]

Charlie Rose, like most interviewers, looks really dumb when he's trying to prove to his interview subject - "See, I'm on the same wavelength as you are."

[@dlxmarks]

Aside from being a weak interviewer, Rose often tried to compete with his guests to show that he was wittier, better connected, more informed, etc. Dick Cavett had the same bad habit and unfortunately Stephen Colbert has become more like that in the last few years.

[@solarwave]

Chris at the end can't believe what's coming out of Charlie's mouth. And he not afraid to convey his disbelief! Gold!

[@solarwave]

@Elias HeronBons Charlie desperately wanted to be part of the creative fun, and Chris is like "is that what we're doing?"

[@joemarcy]

Guest just quickly workshopping “A Multi-Lateral Feeling” as the title of a follow-up film

[@goodnitesteve]

Guest is very serious throughout the entire interview, he is terrific as an actor because he creates characters that are so free spirited

[@Gatorman-db3ie]

so, so talented..

[@EverGreen1888]

he's completed taking the piss and God bless em

[@EverGreen1888]

he's completed taking the piss and God bless em

[@TheSaltydog07]

I remember "Waiting for Guffman." I fell in love with Christopher Guest films -- and Fred, Catherine, Eugene, Michael, Bob and . . .

[@chuckminzenberger7590]

RIP Fred Willard ... I've been a fan since Fernwood Tonight1

[@erikl1447]

Wonder if Fred Willard's character in Best in Show is based on Charlie Rose?

[@stflaw]

Guest is clearly getting fed up with Rose's blathering at around 8:50. Multilateral feeling? WTF does that mean?

[@paulpitt52]

stflaw spot on observation!

[@calisongbird]

stflaw yep!!!

[@squamish4244]

He's a bastard person.

[@this_Joe_Smith]

@@squamish4244 God Bless Corky StClair 💕

[@squamish4244]

Fresh off a destroyer, with a dance belt and a tube of chapstick.

[@hamupinhere]

Ha so that one line Fred Willard throws out about saying lines from other plays in Waiting For Guffman is based on real life. Interesting.

[@gustavo520]

nice dry humor.....lick my love pump was a great song

[@finaoo1167]

I like how Guest is very frank about the relative celebrity of Billy Crystal and Fred Willard. Rose says Willard is a big star. Guest says, "no". He's correct, and saying so isn't insulting to Willard. It's just a fact, and it's important to the point he was making about why Crystal has the ability to be in one of his movies, but would be completely wrong for the part.

[@GodsFavoriteBassPlyr]

Guest and Willard are both Genius!

[@profile2047]

Jane Lynch in that clip. One of the funniest women in my opinion (from the small roles I’ve seen her in).

[@jshepard152]

Her role in Walk Hard killed me.

[@mortalclown3812]

​@@jshepard152 Yes. Underrated role. She's Divine

[@Vortigern99]

Also my favorite SNL season ever, 1984-85. Very creative and different from the other seasons. Guest, Crystal, Short, Shearer -- terrific writers and performers all!

[@JohnSmith-op1tc]

There was a skit where Short and Shearer were in the Artistic Swimming competition (It wasn't called that then-Synchronized Swimming), which is brilliant. Stepping stone work to "A Mighty Wind" and more.

[@jlfvrs]

Guests films are my favorite comedies..omg.

[@lynnturman8157]

Charlie Rose asks the stupid questions we're all afraid to ask.

[@tommyodonovan3883]

Woooo I say....WOOOO! RIP Fred.

[@Landrew0]

The interview seems to go off the rails at the end. Christopher Guest can be difficult with people claiming to fully understand the space he owns, which is quite unique. I can't think of anyone else who produces films like his.

[@Canyon2023]

LOVE Christ Guest and crew!!!

[@FrankIsAlwaysRight]

Don’t drag Jesus into this.

[@collinw1353]

Pine nut, walnut, hazel nut . . . macadamia nut.

[@jlfvrs]

I love it. Christopher Guest is like “Wow” at the things Rose is saying at the end of this. Hilarious.

[@rmartin7558]

Cuts off before the best part, a scene from Spinal Tap! WTF?!

[@waynej2608]

I know, I was like what tf! No Tap?!

[@SkaterRingo]

Sheesh Charlie Rose always tries his hardest to ruin interviews.

[@TotalSinging]

he won't shut up

[@whatevershebrings]

Charlie Rose is (was?) one of the worst interviewers on TV. Aside from looking (and acting) liike he hasn't slept in three days, he generally is about as glib and appears as uneducated about his own guests as anyone can be. I'm pretty sure he got this gig after paying his dues by doing the CBS overnight news program (that nobody watched) in the late 80's-early 90's. People like Christopher Guest ( who appears bored and baffled by Rose's ineptitude) are way too smart for the guy. I watched an interview Rose did w/ director Francis Ford Coppola where he became irate w/ Rose over his lack of research and glaring factual errors. I think that he tries to compensate for his stupidity with the whole Southern charm thing. ; totally transparent and not effective with any guest worth their salt.

[@anonb4632]

He was trying to get dirt on SNL but never did.

[@dlxmarks]

I'm sad that we'll never see Fred Willard again. I'm overjoyed that we'll (hopefully) never see Charlie Rose again. It's still a mystery to me how he got so many gigs at once but he sucked at all of them especially the PBS show. It was obvious the only research he did was glancing at some intern prepared notes before going on camera. He once asked an author "Where do you get your ideas from?" which is such a huge cliche, it's actually a parody interview question.

[@TerrificLittleSunday]

Yesss - what is his appeal? he’s so uninsightful.

[@amarch8]

Hey Wha' Happened

[@this_Joe_Smith]

Yasss 💕

[@elduderino2404]

I gotta weal wed wagon

[@jbilyard3]

I don't think so

[@Tuschedz]

I actually kinda like Charlie, but this was painful. First, Guest is deliberately trying not to draw attention to his celebrity wife, so Charlie has to mention her name 5 times in the next 5 seconds. Then, at the end, he seems like he's trying hard to relate to Guest on his level and/or miserably failing an audition for his next mockumentary about public television. Though, to be fair, Guest will make no attemp to save someone from drowning.

[@SkippyDipper]

Nor should he.

[@cherbutler85]

Nahhh! That was an incredibly selfish move. Charlie stumbled. Chris kicked him when he was down. He could have easily played along just to get past it quicker. Instead, he went out of his way to remind Charlie that he was superior. Superior prick,…in my opinion.

[@mortalclown3812]

​@@cherbutler85 Glad you said this. The schadenfreude in this comment section is thru the roof, but then I'm one of those folks who doesn't want others to feel uncomfortable. Christopher should be better than this.

[@yommish]

The end of this clip is amazing. Guest has a way of making silly people look silly and there’s no one more suited for that treatment than Charlie Rose.

[@trexguy]

BTW..... Christopher Guest's best film is "The Big Picture" A film that looks at the funny/harsh side of getting a movie made in Hollywood.

[@Helt91]

agreed. his questions seem to stem from being generally interested, rather than appearing very contrived

[@bikefixer]

This interview is almost like a Christopher Guest sketch (which I believe he actually satirizes in A MIGHTY WIND). Obviously, Charlie Rose admires Guest's films, but is bafflingly inarticulate and compounds the problem by babbling on and on.

[@lynnturman8157]

Ha ha! For sure! The look Christopher Guest gives him the last minute or so of this clip: "What the hell are you babbling about, Interupter Boy?" Cracked me up...

[@deme9873]

I guess all that Trump-style genital-grasping makes a bloke talk like a fourth-grader.

[@anonb4632]

@@deme9873 When is your country developing multiparty democracy?

[@deme9873]

@@anonb4632 Whence Hell freezeth over. It would be too easy to get rid of a complete goober like Trump if the USA went the parliamentary way.

[@anonb4632]

@@deme9873 And look who stood against Trump, Hilary Clinton, a godawful candidate herself, who rigged her party election, and is the wife of a former president (nepotism).

[@ScaricoOleoso]

Charlie Rose (shaking head).

[@markg999]

The last 30 seconds of this interview 😂

[@deletebilderberg]

RIP Fred.

[@HusseinDoha]

Wow!! Fred was a genius!!

[@joewright9879]

Charlie is falling down a flight of stairs.

[@SharkMinnow]

Christopher Guest never smiles or laughs.

[@jpsned]

I've noticed that, too. It seems to be his off-air persona.

[@basehead617]

he does a few times in other interviews but it's rare

[@SirHatchporch]

@TheHockeyCentral I agree. Rose seemed to have a hard time with Guest because Guest is notoriously private and shy. He's obviously hard to draw out in an interview and rarely does them. I'd think Guest must have some respect for Rose because he agreed to do this very rare interview. I like "The Charlie Rose Show" because it's one of the only venues left where you can see someone sit down for 30 minutes or more and just talk. Let's be thankful we have this interview with Guest.

[@hungrypromethean]

Thank you!

[@pianodan10]

Sweet jesus, the last 20 seconds or so was so incredibly painful

[@lightofdamon]

I think Christopher Guest is brilliant what may be considered stand offish is him part acting, and part reflecting awkwardness back on the interviewer who said "I knew you were gonna say that" he called him out, he playfully tried to make him improvise, and he couldn't

[@carntspell]

funny man (not Charlie). His chats with Ricky Gervais and Kevin Pollack are highly amusing, he`s very at ease.

[@davequ]

Charlie Rose is unequaled in obnoxious interruptions during his "interviews." Can't stand to watch or listen to the guy without wanting to scream "shut UP!!" when a guest is trying to make an important point and Rose talks over him. Worst interviewer ever.

[@anne-droid7739]

I've always felt that way about Tom Snyder. Thoroughly obnoxious interrupter. Snyder had the added irritants of that braying laugh and those big horsey teeth.

[@SnoreBear44]

Guest is a brilliant talent. I love Spinal Tap, and his first 3 movies with his troupe (FYC not so much), but he seems shy, complex,standoffish, and a borderline jerk. . Not a comfortable interviewee subject but I love the guy anyway for what he's brought to the screen.

[@johndean4727]

no FYC belongs to Catherine and Jane Lynch who shine and Harry S. but Best in Show is the worst one.

[@denisesudell2538]

@@johndean4727 Comedy is subjective. I think Best in Show is hilarious. It treats most of its characters lovingly (except the Parker Posey character).

[@mortalclown3812]

​@@denisesudell2538 I loved BIS except for the part where they yelled around the dog. That bugged me: I'm that sensitive about critters. 😂

[@mortalclown3812]

SnoreBear yes, he crosses well past the border

[@fredapeeples6619]

Charlie Rose administers yet another thorny interview.

[@wakeuptotheonepartyoverlor8797]

Fred is the best.

[@mortalclown3812]

RIP.

[@squamish4244]

Everybody dance!

[@therealfronzilla]

Fred was a genius

[@funeralmarketingservices1112]

gutbusting joy!

[@zachbrysonofficial]

Basketball? did you ask if i like Basketball?

[@justincase4812]

Charlie Rose doing Charlie. What a putz.

[@grabastic]

touchogrey, It starts at 7:40 and goes down from there. Rose poses the questions and then Rose answers his own questions. At 8:50 it absolutely tanks.

[@pointlessaccount789]

I didn't recognize Guest without his English accent. How did he learn to speak Americanese so well? Not one trace of an English accent, as if he was born in the U.S.. He must sing everything in his head before he says it. All brits sound American when singing.

[@JamieRyanAinslie]

Wow...

[@balletcomposer]

@bigfatbugface I have heard that Christopher Guest can be a bit "prickly" but I don't think Rose made it easy on him. I just don't think the two clicked, and Guest got impatient.

[@benediktstehle]

GUEST: BIRILLIANT!!! The interviewer is AAAAAAAAAAAAWFUL!!!SO anoying!!! BUT THANX FOR POSTING!

[@robstimson4234]

lt's all falling into place. Huge plywood banjo. Stonehenge 18" model in Spinal Tap. Hmmm.

[@agalgonzalez]

Everyone who sees him should walk up and slap Balabban on the head and say 'stagecraft 101' and glare at him and then furiously stalk away.😂

[@arniemax1]

Any idea what 'shmoozes' actually means...? Used in several of these videos...Whatever Chris (Christopher) Guest is doing, it ain't Shmoozing ! Nice clips...but, well.

[@majestic_irrelevance]

Cmon...give it a multilateral feeling ...

[@gallery7596]

Disappointing Guest has no fond memories to share about his one year experience as an "SNL" cast member. He did a good job anchoring Weekend Update.

[@denisesudell2538]

I thought it was clear that he didn’t want to talk about SNL. Maybe it was an unpleasant experience and he didn’t want to diss his former employers. Charlie kept pushing him in an awkward way.

[@nicholasbogosian5420]

"Well in that case I'd say yes."

[@krisinsaigon]

Ends a little oddly there

[@mjm5081]

❤

[@philip]

I can't figure out if Rose knows Guest is pulling his leg.

[@mortalclown3812]

I wish Guest was pulling his leg. I think he was just a putz in this.

[@philip]

@@mortalclown3812 Could be. I hadn't thought about that.

[@pretorious700]

@connorcreagan Can't argue that point a bit

[@grassroots8226]

Christopher looked so exasperated. Charlie kept interrupting and wouldn’t let him answer the questions. Geez Charlie! Let him talk!

[@ronswansonsdog2833]

If you’re in the mood to laugh, cringe & cry all at once, find the Synchronized Swimming sketch with Guest & Short on SNL. Mockumentary classic that’s probably not aged well with the PC crowd but still kills me every time.

[@darkwitness2718]

Synchronized Swimming was a great short film directed by Guest. It still holds up well. ☺

[@stevenhunter3345]

I love Guest's absolute frustration with Charlie Rose. Rose is a terrible interviewer generally, but his weaknesses are particularly on display with a guest like Guest, whose introversion and almost dour personality make him a tough interview. I don't know if it's his intention in interviews, but Guest does come across as a bit of a prick. And I don't mean that because he doesn't joke and cut up but because he seems judgmental and pretentious. Lots of people (myself included) are introverts and can be a bit aloof, but not all introverts come across as smug cunts.

[@saltyninja]

Guest clearly doesn't respect Rose's questions or his intelligence and starts to lose patience. He could have been a bit more polite but Rose could have also asked better questions.

[@nauort23]

Charlie Rose almost knocked me down one day at the SE corner of Central Park, stumbling back to work drunk. He sounds half lit here--and in many of his interviews. No wonder Guest comes off as a little "over it" as Rose babbles.

[@zachbrysonofficial]

the ending is so brutally uncomfortable.

[@hamnchee]

awww look at charlie trying to fit in.

[@cvbabc]

I won't lie, I have a million questions for Guest. However, my love of him comes from a place where I know about most of the things Charlie is asking about. It's so cringey to watch. My own personality is such that I don't share much myself idk if Chris is resentful of having to do this, or he's just like me?

[@angussstudio6139]

I've never liked Charlie Rose...always seems so daft. this was hard to watch though. he didn't get any of it.

[@intuneorange]

And where is Charlie now?

[@touchogrey]

My reply was also a question "...'style'"*

[@LearningaboutMovies]

Guest is obviously annoyed by Rose at about 7:30 on.

[@JiveDadson]

He was annoyed from the first. Listen for the sighs.

[@5293278363]

Shame on Kimmel! I was searching all over for RIP tributes to Willard. Genius Improv.

[@basehead617]

5293278363 fred ain't dead

[@storysource889]

I think you need to lookup the meaning of "shmooze"

[@beatlesmack9]

HEY WHAA HAAPEENNED?!?!

[@this_Joe_Smith]

Yasssss 💕

[@anonb4632]

"Jamie Lee had me distracted" 😄