Brother Theodore Goes Off The Rails | Letterman

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Answering the question, "Is that a Ban-Lon shirt?" (Air date: 2/3/1983)
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@user-ll2yj3hy4c 6 месяцев назад

"I'm in the prime of my senility,". What a great line.

@Genesis-xd1id 4 месяца назад

Truly!

@mikeross4937 5 месяцев назад

I instantly recognized him as Rueben Klopek from The 'Burbs

@SchnauzerMom63 2 года назад

Funniest man to ever come out of Dachau.

@TroyDate 2 года назад

It was always a treat when Brother Theodore was on Letterman in the early days of late night.

@Nealiosaurus Месяц назад

I love Brother Theodore's role in The Burbs and never saw anything else he did until seeing this. Now i see just how much of a surrealist genius he is!

@thediminutiveword 2 года назад

Brother Theodore. SUCH an INTENSE inspiration. I would have loved to have seen him perform in person on stage. Thank you for preserving at least SOME of his genius. The last part of his headstone reads: As long as there is death there is hope. Such a unique artist actually makes me glad to be alive...a true original.

@ajn465 9 месяцев назад

Brother Theodore just poured himself into his performances. Singularly unique! Bravo!

@ericfleming7703 5 месяцев назад

I can't believe i just found out about this guy. Wow what a brilliant entertainer. Really funny AND poetic. He had a real gift.

@erickjason9092 2 года назад

This is the fourth Brother Theodore clip I have seen today and I love this guy.

@RobertPeru2749 Месяц назад

I laughed so hard I was crying. Genius.

@CallardAndBowser 6 месяцев назад

I wish I could have seen him live on stage for a performance.

@brettbarton1911 6 месяцев назад

What a character, the world is in sore need of a great soul.

@LordMarlle 2 года назад

RU-vid comments introduced me to the Brother. Now he's my number one

@SniffyPoo 2 года назад

"born 2 years after the discovery of dirt"

@thediminutiveword 2 года назад

I LOVE that line.

@pauldickinson6943 2 года назад

yeah, a classic, brilliant

@pauldickinson6943 2 года назад

itchy chick 😀 what a rant, absolutely brilliant, athletes foot, I want those teeth!!! I can't believe I'd never heard of brother Theodore before, what a mad character.

@pauldickinson6943 2 года назад

her face was sweaty like a lump of rancid pork 😀

@VillemarMxO Год назад

When I was twelve I could wave bye-bye

@muntadhar1030 2 года назад

Brother Theodore was smart and intelligent

@MrMojoman1976 Год назад

His version of Gollum is what I grew up watching as a kid. His voice was great , but didn’t care for the design . However , it was clearly based on Theodore himself .

@thundarrisaboss2725 Год назад

ill never forget his voice, from the rankin-bass hobbit, and last unicorn.

@alandominicfong6907 Год назад

His voice is just so beautifully unique. His passion for his craft is always so mesmerizing. I am glad that we have video recordings of him to see him fully in action. His work in the Rankin-Bass Middle Earth films (The Hobbit and The Return of the King) as Gollum are always what I will think of him first, but he is just so brilliant!

@ylette Год назад

I'm squirming with delight to watch a Brother Theodore clip.

@RaymondCastile 2 года назад

Dave gave him the Johnny Carson wink at the end

@martian-sunset 10 месяцев назад

Teddy opened with the bit he performed in 1955! Dave had the same look of astonishment and puzzlement I had when I first saw his act. They guy was a genius.

@archtopp1 Год назад

The man was brilliant! His use of the English languge amazing!

@kristopherguilbault5428 Год назад

Best Brother Theodore.. "The Burbs" when I was a young young kid in the 1980s and I would see his name in the credits of movies and I literally thought that his name was "Brother The Odor". I was trying to sound it out phonetically lmao 🤣😂😆

@davidgeorge000 9 месяцев назад

Genius and lunatic! One of a kind, hilarious 🤣

@foot2 2 года назад

Always love and respect Brother Theodore!

@mattingly234ever 8 месяцев назад

dude is on some next level, pure comic genius

@hotelesplanade239 2 года назад

Im in the prime of my senility😂

@user-fq4ij8ez7w 4 месяца назад

it's been over 50-55 years since I last saw this man.... Brillant !!! A lot of comics have taken his que, "Bud Melman" is another Brilliant mind !!

@vandamme6379 7 месяцев назад

"How unfortunate for the Knapps!".

@georgehenderson7783 8 дней назад

Rumsfield: It's funny but I don't ever remember seeing a moving van out front... Reub: I don't understand that it was parked outside ALLLL DAAAAY!

@jungastein3952 3 месяца назад

Good Ol' Dave and Theodore, Chuck and Linus

@AllenKnutson Год назад

Incredible. BTW his tombstone says "As Long As There Is Death There Is Hope". I landed here looking up Gollum, whom he played in the 1977 Hobbit movie.

@anton1990 Год назад

He was a fascinating performer. His take on Gollum is my personal favorite.

@fuxbox Год назад

Wow! Gollum that's fascinating I did not know ty

@Joshwolfman Год назад

Same in return of the king in 1979 Rankin bass cartoon

@Despondencymusic Год назад

This thing all things devours; Birds, beasts, trees, flowers; Gnaws iron, bites steel; Grinds hard stones to meal; Slays king, ruins town, And beats mountain DOWN!!!

@tomc8888 2 года назад

The holy trinity of Letterman guests: Tom Hanks, Bill Murray, and Brother Theodore.

@Christie_Love Год назад

Pekar always made for a good oddball interview.

@katonius4542 Год назад

What about norm MacDonald?

@megatherion2695 Год назад

@@katonius4542 You got that right. Replace Bill Murray with Norm

@megatherion2695 Год назад

@@Christie_Love True

@GaryKatch Год назад

Bruce Willis was always game for anything; and Steve Martin always well prepared!

@trencher7 3 месяца назад

When I first saw this guy back in the day I thought he was for real. Hilarious.

@davedee4382 2 года назад

He was unique. He was truly the one and ONLY. He was one of a kind. Etc

@edwardkasimir8016 2 года назад

unlike your comment

@pauldickinson6943 2 года назад

absolutely.

@musicborders Год назад

He could be related to Dr. Ruth!

@chadstephens88 10 месяцев назад

Wasn’t he in The Burbs

@navigatorjack6969 6 месяцев назад

Is that a banlon shirt? Pure Genius.

@Kingofcorrect Год назад

He would have been a smash hit at slam poetry nights, lol.

@sofieweb 9 месяцев назад

Have to admire his complete dedication to his character. Either a great, great actor or a true psycho!!

@heresjohnny999 2 месяца назад

What a legend, loved him in the burbs too.

@matthewhudson5685 7 месяцев назад

I see it now. I see it. What he did there was beyond brilliant.

@CajunCraft24 2 года назад

Still a better guest than Madonna

@shaggynwhitt6672 Год назад

Amen, that's the truth.

@Amber-xe5ti 11 месяцев назад

not as sexy though ..

@opaljk4835 5 месяцев назад

I’ve never seen Madonna on letterman, is she really that bad?

@carsnhats-gp9jk Месяц назад

⁠@@opaljk4835yes

@erik_griswold 2 года назад

The postal service does need to do what is imagined at 2:50

@kcguy8864 9 месяцев назад

"all of a suddenly"

@kcguy8864 4 месяца назад

He’s from upper and lower Bavaria 😆

@theflorgeormix Месяц назад

I'm just plain folks lol thee monolinguist

@markhammer643 5 месяцев назад

Albeit a different kind if stage personna, Brother Theodore and "Professor" Irwin Corey provided the most delightful kinds of non sequitur-based surrealism. Theodore was always in a rage, and Corey was always in a daze. They were "alternative" comedy before there was alternative comedy. Theodore's grandiose monologues also reminded me a little of "Lord" Richard Buckley's orations. I dearly miss them all.

@mitchcornacchia968 2 года назад

GENIUS

@krimpoo 8 месяцев назад

'I am not well my friends' CLASSIC !!

@YnotNomis 2 года назад

Theodore Isidore Gottlieb !

@Bringos76 2 года назад

The 'Burbs

@dimitriosotis8632 15 дней назад

"the teeth..." - he got that from Poe's story "Berenice"

@anton1990 5 месяцев назад

One of the most brilliant performers of his time. The early advertisements for his performances did not exaggerate, he never failed to deliver “A one man show of sinister and diabolical humor.”

@user-oe6yn7vi3k 2 месяца назад

As BT said: "Where there is death, there's hope."

@johnkoch7386 8 месяцев назад

I come from extremely bad stock LOL

@SaintMartins 2 года назад

He might be "Debby Downers" dad.

@thegreatsiberianitch Год назад

Reality is for people who can't handle Brother Theodore

@timmcinnes2594 11 месяцев назад

Genius. A riveting performance. I wonder what he was like off stage?

@pauldickinson6943 2 года назад

absolutely brilliant

@pauldickinson6943 2 года назад

her face was so sweaty it looked like a rancid bit of pork.

@KitCalder 3 месяца назад

That Dr Evil monologue at the group therapy in Austin Powers perhaps influenced by this account of early years?

@JohnFromArlingtron 2 года назад

At 4:40 he almost breaks character.

@Muldoon111 2 года назад

So he does. Then gets his grimace going again. Brilliant!

@captfeeny 5 месяцев назад

This is easily the funniest interview I have ever seen. WTF, who is this guy?? He missed his calling as a bit player in ALWAYS SUNNY as Frank's other brother.

@rickbeam 6 месяцев назад

Ahhhh WOW?

@dilumwimalaratna4149 Год назад

The rare event of one in millions and millions and millions of people who never get born again. He was talking about the enlightened Buddha.

@RegularJohn53 4 месяца назад

Someone should've made a movie where they let Bother Theodore and Fred Willard loose.

@edwardmalinowski5901 5 месяцев назад

About a 9 on the tension scale, Rube

@garycasey3739 3 месяца назад

🤣🤣

@LowellLucasJr. 8 месяцев назад

Brother Theodore : "Perhaps we just sits here...and chats with its....a bitsy...my precious?" Letterman: Theodore your Gollum is showing!

@nickmondo3279 Год назад

Klopek, what is that, Slavic?

@freedomishere868 3 месяца назад

"NO"😠

@davidevans3175 Год назад

You have to be on the rails to go off the rails.

@chrissullivan40 2 года назад

Saw him on the Jerry Lewis talk show years ago.

@robbiedranov5407 2 года назад

So this is where Jason Alexander got his George Costanza from?

@robertstirewalt7789 Год назад

Holocaust Survivor. Brother T. Was in the camps

@kerryrobinson9947 6 месяцев назад

Dream weaver ....

@doctortheopolis3122 5 месяцев назад

Brother Theodore was on the rails?

@grafikdrummer 9 месяцев назад

Who also is here because of the autobiography of Herbert Feuerstein?

@wolfen1101 Месяц назад

Back when they used to have interesting people on t.v.

@juliancage Год назад

Gollum

@chrissullivan40 2 года назад

Peculiar act. Perrmance art?

@johnl5350 2 года назад

Theres a few times here where the look on Dave's face matches how i feel about Brother Theodore.

@camerondean6804 5 месяцев назад

"Is, uh, that a Banlon shirt?" Greatest comeback line in the history of television.

@rodonis88 7 месяцев назад

Dad?

@dustinprewitt 5 месяцев назад

I still can't tell if this is a shoot or a work.....

@Kingofcorrect Год назад

He's Werner Herzog if he was intentionally funny.

@Kingofcorrect Год назад

No, even better: He's a combination of Werner Herzog and Alan Watts.

@OldSkoolUncleChris 9 месяцев назад

with a dash of 1930’s authoritarianism

@theshapeexists 5 месяцев назад

Is that Slavic?

@thomasstillman4805 2 года назад

And Howard Stern, thinks his guests are crazy!

@pauldickinson6943 2 года назад

I will be on every postage stamp in the world!!!!!

@pauldickinson6943 2 года назад

what a complete nutcase, funny though, apparently he was banged up in a conservatory and survived, went to America and annoyed everyone.

@pauldickinson6943 2 года назад

he was absolutely brilliant.

@pauldickinson6943 2 года назад

they would rather shake the devil by the tail than shake my hand 🤣🤣🤣

@pauldickinson6943 2 года назад

her face was sweaty like a chunk of rancid pork.

@pauldickinson6943 2 года назад

what is a metepsyician?

@VillemarMxO Год назад

Metaphysics is the science of things transcending what is physical or natural. In the original Greek it meant basically all the stuff beyond physics or the physical world.