‘Celebrity True or False’ with Danny DeVito | The Rich Eisen Show | 12/10/19

[@DaftJok3r]

Its genuinely heartwarming to see Danny Devito remember his early days of acting and getting misty eyed reminiscing about growing up in an Italian home.

[@jechama8416]

A😊

[@BAKER22-l4u]

Why wouldn't he

[@joeldavis1040]

Danny DeVito is an everyman. He would be so much fun to hang out with, playing Nightcrawlers and planning the takeover of Gotham.

[@gilbert8162]

Needless to say he doesn't eat dragon.

[@rangerthederpgoat2326]

Whenever I get miserable about the state of my life and the world at large it is therapeutic to know that Danny DeVito is also a part of this world.

[@michaellarnach4161]

HIs work as the penguin was decades ahead of its time, and his stories about growing up were hilarious, hes such an amazing entertainer.

[@bigmikeystyle]

him as Penguin is maybe my favorite performance ever. "You're just jealous because I'm a genuine freak and you have to wear a mask!"

[@heatherperryman3493]

Danny is a national treasure.

[@jerryjanik480]

You're so goddamn true about this one

[@sexy_gragas_nft7664]

@@jerryjanik480 BED BUGS BED BUGS BED BUGS!!!

[@MrShanester117]

No. He’s an actor. You’re just obsequious

[@chriskiefer7493]

You're thinking of N. Cage.

[@user-dc1dr9kr8x]

I was about to write the very same....cheers

[@rhmayer1]

For all his humor, the man is a GIANT (obviously figuratively), just a brilliant actor. I'll never forget the first time I saw him in a serious role, in Hoffa. You'll never think of him the same after that. Just an astonishing actor.

[@Kanjo_Bazooie]

He’s great. He directed that movie too.

[@rhmayer1]

@@Kanjo_Bazooie Yes, and although that may not have been his directorial debut, I think it was Hoffa that established him as a really great director in addition to being a really great actor. That was really a marvelous film, with Jack Nicholson also giving one of his best performances. I recall just the opening scene - left a lasting impression. Now I want to go and watch it again. The guy is so much more than a great comedic actor. I guess he'd fall into that "national treasure" category. Oh - I see the next commenter below said exactly that. I'll have to go and give that comment a thumbs up.

[@brianrobinson116]

Don't forget "L.A. Confidential."

[@afusmackdown]

My mom would get tired of us dipping and would ladle out some in a bowl and give us a piece of bread and sit us at the table. Thanks for bringing back that memory!

[@NeilRamsay-q4z]

The best Devito role was Owen from Throw momma from the train. The coin scene with Larry was awesome.

[@WillyTheComposerOfficial]

Short balding Italian guys are always good cooks. I think it’s a universal rule.

[@mspionage1743]

Always liked DeVito. Miss the 80s and 90s.

[@SuperSnakePlissken]

Batman Returns 32 years later still holds up really well. I just bought it and watched it for the first time in 30 years on 4K disc and was blown away how great it was. The Bat...the Cat...and the Penguin.

[@kyrogero615]

OMG it's Dr. Mantis Toboggan!

[@mattcarberry368]

YOU GOT THE AIDS BIG TIME!

[@ghanasoul]

Hearing him shout “Reiger” again made me smile. Its been a LONG time since he was “Louie” from “Taxi”.

[@darinsingleton3553]

A cinematic opera which pits a bird that cannot fly against a mammal which can. Interesting framework for the movie.

[@azach5288]

I always wondered how Danny Devito stayed in such great shape! LOL

[@gheller2261]

Vincent Schiavelli, or as those of us who grew up in the 80s know him, science teacher Mr. Vargas.

[@wallypalmer4704]

He seems so warm and friendly. Doesn't seem to be even a hint of pretension in him. And I'd love to try his cooking!

[@myopicautisticmetal9035]

That voice... It's just like an Uncle I haven't seen in 20 years.

[@Comictalent]

Danny DeVito is so underrated. From Cuckoo's Nest to Taxi to Wiseguys to Twins to War of the Roses to Get Shorty to LA Confidential to even a brief cameo in Goldmember or Friends, he's always a welcome presence. I don't even like Batman Returns honestly but he's by far the best thing in it. He just elevates material.

[@jkorshak]

Was hoping between mentions of Jack Nicholson and Michael Douglas they'd get to One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.

[@dexter2345]

"Hit me. Hit me." Love that scene from One Flew

[@sparky1642]

Oh my god!!! Danny Devito I love your work!!!

[@armancz]

That man right there is an international treasure.

[@savage_skirt5386]

aw, love the nod to Schiavelli

[@LVDynaRyder]

LOVE hearing about how a trampoline is good for you from the dude! That’s priceless!

[@erimfoster]

Proudly sporting his Democracy Now cap for the interview. How can you not love this guy?

[@DJMarcO138]

Italian guy 101 - absolutely includes dunking the bread in the sauce/gravy. And no matter where mom is in the house, she can hear the lid come off of the sauce pot, and you'll hear "get out of the sauce!" get screamed to you from nowhere.

[@bobbymariani2839]

💯

[@CoolHandLukeDuke]

He's a good guy...

[@ralph0901]

look at the joy in his face as he is remembering being in the kitchen with his mother

[@Mozart1220]

I'm Irish from the midwest so instead of tomato sauce it was fried chicken (or any kind) gravy and the biscquits. My Mom sees you sticking a finger in the gravy she could bounce a biscquit off your skull like Nolan Ryan beaning a batter. "Get your fingers out of that gravy!"

[@shanes8132]

His voice and attitude when talking about taking the bread ends to the sauce lol

[@justinhicks306]

So I started blastin.

[@carrite]

Not having DeVito as Boss Hogg in an R-rated Dukes of Hazzard movie is one of the great misses in comedy movie history.

[@TipOfAfrica0010]

Danny has to be the most down to earth likeable actor around...

[@maturin1919]

Is that a short joke?

[@vinceniederman]

I Love Danny’s Penguin Voice in The First True or False!

[@williammoseley17]

Remember seeing Danny DeVito and Brook Adam's I Car Wash. IDMB says their scenes were deleted but I clearly remember them running the food stand in the movie when I saw it in 76.

[@k.chriscaldwell4141]

Possible. Sometimes deleted scenes are added back to pad runtime or replace something removed for TV or other.

[@kawasakiwhiptwo5821]

I love how Danny (a real Italian) calls it sauce and not gravy.

[@Mr.56Goldtop]

Sauce is mariners (tomato sauce), gravy is marinara cooked with meat. That's the distinction.

[@kawasakiwhiptwo5821]

@@Mr.56Goldtop I thought sauce cooked with meat was call bolagnase. (not sure if I spelled that right) just sayin'.

[@Mr.56Goldtop]

@@kawasakiwhiptwo5821 A Bolognese is a different dish. Look up Sunday gravy, that will explain it. Every Italian will know this.

[@mindriot91_96]

@@Mr.56Goldtop Full blooded Italian-American here. My family never made the distinction between marinara and gravy simply because of the added meat. It was always sauce, though admittedly it was sometimes (VERY rarely) referred to as gravy. As mia famiglia likes to say "Gravy is the brown liquid that goes on your Thanksgiving meal"

[@nickschauer4258]

I met Danny once and he was the best ever

[@VelhaGuardaTricolor]

His DEMOCRACY NOW cap says it all about the man. What a legend.

[@adamsadventures9919]

I really like DD. Seems like a really cool and funny guy.

[@jeremyphillips3087]

Hes a really good lawyer.

[@crashburn3292]

Danny always seems drunk. But no, he's just happy as hell living his best life.

[@boxofmoles4057]

In 1966, Danny graduated from New York's American Academy of Dramatic Arts. His graduating class included Jaclyn Smith ("Charlie's Angels") and Kathryn Leigh Scott ("Dark Shadows").

[@Frank_E_Scialdone]

I can identify with the whole making the sauce thing. My mother and father would always make sauce every Sunday. Huge pot. Italian sausages. Meatballs. Big hunk of pork. After church, my father and I would go to the Italian bakery and get three loaves of bread. Inevitably, one loaf would be eaten before we got home. But when we are home, one of the loaves would be torn apart, and he would go to the sauce and sneak. Mom would always yell you're going to lose your appetite to get away from the sauce.

[@chrisadams8182]

Sat in the same row as him for game one of the 02 World Series in Anaheim. He signed my hat. Cool dude.

[@andrewjarvis7777]

having seen Taxi should be a prerequisite for anyone to be able to post anything on the internet anywhere

[@yourbigheadcousin5434]

It's funny how similar Italian and Spanish are. In Spanish it'd be something like "coolo de pan". Danny DeVito was such a big part of my childhood. Idk if I discovered him first in Twins or Romancing the Stone but I could watch him do his taxes and be entertained.

[@Dagnabit888]

So I started blasting

[@69soulseeker]

I thought he was old in Taxi; I was like 9 years old when I watched it every night. I think he looks younger now.

[@InspectorCallahan.44]

Oh man Danny is fun as hell.

[@mrmaxcarter2306]

That penguin voice made my day. I loved batman returns

[@Otis151]

He reminds me of my uncle. Same age/era. Love to tell stories. So funny.

[@WalkerOne]

Wow, this guy is a one man show. He kept it coming.

[@jonsprong1842]

This was tremendous! Thank you!

[@KomradeKrusher]

Love that he mentioned Vincent Schiavelli, one of the great, mostly unsung "oh, it's THAT guy" actors. They had to have gone back to at least the shooting of "Cuckoo's Nest". Danny DeVito just seems like such a great guy, and the fact that he fully embraces his "weird" fame these days only makes him more likeable. But he''s wrong about the George Costanza character. Jason Alexander is a fantastic actor, and he looks like he looks. The character however was a complete Larry David self-insert.

[@jmodified]

DeVito is such an easy interview. Ask him any question, whether meaningful or inane, and he gives you gold.

[@atomicagegamer3693]

I've never been to a celebrity's funeral but I would honestly like to pay my respects, whenever Mr. DeVito leaves our mortal plane. I took French, and not Italian, but I was delighted that "Cul de Pain" made sense. Hooray for cognates!

[@epicgenealogy8853]

Absolutely loved the story at the end with the bread and sauce, I did the same thing when my mother cooked

[@ohcojo6603]

Larry David just recently said that Constanza was based on a friend of Jerry’s with the last name of costanza..the real life costanza sued Larry David for that

[@randomswedishdude]

Love his short stories

[@scotthall7585]

Who doesn't love this guy

[@brianrushford4057]

He’s is Martin Weir in real life🤣🤣🤣

[@anadraham2995]

He's really just the BEST🎯

[@TheTonesurge]

Hell yeah, loving the Democracy Now hat as well

[@davemakarchuk5127]

I gotta get me a trampoline so I can be in great shape like DeVito

[@bigmikeystyle]

never ask the italian guy "who cooked?"

[@giovannicoding]

De Vito is world class, awesome guy.

[@danspawn85]

Danny did films with two actors named Michael Douglas. One is Batman.

[@MrZombiejoe]

It's SO WEIRD to Think He's telling a Mother Story that Happen in Asbury Park... My Home Town as Well!!!

[@Riff5150]

I don’t mind signing autographs and taking selfies…but 3,000 of them I mind lol

[@miklovelka6526]

What a legend... a giant in the business...

[@jpalexander292]

Yes a bird that cannot fly against a non bird that flys.

[@stevej.7926]

That’s really interesting to think about.

[@40ozmangi]

yep, hide them wooden spoons ....... PTSD

[@deanfranz]

Now that I hear him compare SEINFELD to TAXI, I can't see it any other way...wow!

[@WhiskerWhippers]

Gotta pay the troll toll if you want to get into that boy’s soul

[@jan-olofharnvall8760]

It is hard, really hard, to imagine anyone actor, now or in the future, do the Penguin as well as Danny 🥰🇸🇪

[@DonaldRickert]

Is he rocking a Democracy Now hat?

[@Ready2FreakingPlow]

Hell yeah.

[@tylerlyons4943]

Everybody and the camera people having a great time at work today

[@sagardia8891]

I love Danny. I absolutley love him!

[@jasonjackson5696]

Love Danny DeVito but hate Rich Eisen.

[@Subangelis]

Danny has worked with two different Michael Douglas's. Michael Keaton's legal name is Michael Douglas.

[@jimmy-breeze]

i want to give him a hug

[@jimangler984]

I love him and ria omg there my fav couple next to kurt and goldie

[@pmocte0154]

Dany is a treasure

[@wtfrocks8663]

Sorry. I'm late to this, but DeVito is the fucking man.

[@j.w.matney8390]

When he starts using actor jargon I get flashbacks of Get Shorty.

[@davenova850]

JC, does Eisen have it for Nicholson or what?

[@mikeoley13]

So so good.

[@djtforever1414]

I've been saying for a long time that Kramer was inspired by reverend Jim.

[@sallygomez8799]

Who doesn't love Devito?

[@coltonmckenzie4880]

Better guest than most

[@tvviewer4500]

Just ordered a trampoline because of him

[@fredradon2484]

Reminded me of the movie "Fatso" with Dom Deloise. Great movie about the sauce. LOL

[@JoeCnNd]

If they made a golden girls in men. Say golden guys. Danny needs to be in it.

[@zacharybell9782]

A true icon.

[@wyskass861]

I'm pretty sure DeVito doesn't do any acting as Frank Reynolds.

[@markwood5486]

I'd love to hear his stories from COOKOO'S NEST.

[@joedivald1051]

I think he would've been a better boss Hogg in Dukes movie.😊

[@dapperdonmilli]

Lol DD is great!! 🙌🏾 living legend

[@bsmith8943]

Frank's fluids!

[@blindeyecandy]

I’m siciliano and we call the end of the bread “the puza”.

[@jtorola]

Finnish American and we call it the gundaba

[@anoobiscooking1193]

Pls get him to do another penguin in batman for one last time!!!!!

[@TheGoonson]

Does Danny still eat his lasagna like that? Boy, I sure do.

[@ashtonturner2862]

What a legend!

[@lantanog1750]

taxi lol