Hollywood Has Lost Touch With Their Audience

One Of The High Points In My Career Came From A Time I Had With Tim Conway On A Film When I Had Him Fall Down With Laughter. I Had This Scene With Him Where I Was This Mechanic Down Fixing His Car. I Can't Remember What My Line Was As Written, But They Were Okay With Me Doing A Made-up Line. So Tim Asks Me What's Wrong With His Car, And I Look Up And Say, "well, Looks Like You Got A Squirrel Caught Up In There."

I Was A Carpenter In Northern Vermont And Got This Tax Refund Check That Just About Covered A One-way Airfare To London. So This I Saw As A Sign From God. So I Went Over To See Ray [hussett] For A Couple Of Weeks And Ended Up Staying 10 Years. I Got Work As A Stage Carpenter At The Oval House In Kennington, South London.

[ Oval House] Director, Peter Oliver, Gave You The Right To Fail. He Had A Philosophy That Came From Winston Churchill That You Go From Failure To Failure With Enthusiasm. So Peter Gave Us A Go And That's How Ray [hassett] And I Ended Up Starting Sal's Meat Market At The Oval House.

There Are Times Over Different Projects When I've Asked The Writers Why People Are Swearing For No Good Reason. I Tell Them That It Would Be Funnier If There Weren't These Swear Words.

Hollywood Has Lost Touch With Their Audience A Long Time Ago.