Brother Theodore Goes Off The Rails | Letterman
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- Опубликовано: 8 сен 2024
- Answering the question, "Is that a Ban-Lon shirt?" (Air date: 2/3/1983)
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"I'm in the prime of my senility,". What a great line.
Truly!
I instantly recognized him as Rueben Klopek from The 'Burbs
What is that ? Slovic 😅
I laughed so hard I was crying. Genius.
It was always a treat when Brother Theodore was on Letterman in the early days of late night.
He was so strange, yet so entertaining.
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.
Funniest man to ever come out of Dachau.
Brother Theodore just poured himself into his performances. Singularly unique! Bravo!
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!
This is the fourth Brother Theodore clip I have seen today and I love this guy.
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.
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 .
RUclips comments introduced me to the Brother. Now he's my number one
Came here from the comment sections of Harvey Pekar videos
I wish I could have seen him live on stage for a performance.
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!
What a character, the world is in sore need of a great soul.
"How unfortunate for the Knapps!".
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!
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 🤣😂😆
"born 2 years after the discovery of dirt"
I LOVE that line.
yeah, a classic, brilliant
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.
her face was sweaty like a lump of rancid pork 😀
When I was twelve I could wave bye-bye
Dave gave him the Johnny Carson wink at the end
I'm squirming with delight to watch a Brother Theodore clip.
He’s from upper and lower Bavaria 😆
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.
He was a fascinating performer.
His take on Gollum is my personal favorite.
Wow! Gollum that's fascinating I did not know ty
Same in return of the king in 1979 Rankin bass cartoon
ill never forget his voice, from the rankin-bass hobbit, and last unicorn.
His voice is so unique. I was terrified of Gollum when I was a young kid and hearing his voice now gives me chills.
The man was brilliant! His use of the English languge amazing!
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.
Genius and lunatic! One of a kind, hilarious 🤣
Always love and respect Brother Theodore!
The holy trinity of Letterman guests: Tom Hanks, Bill Murray, and Brother Theodore.
Pekar always made for a good oddball interview.
What about norm MacDonald?
@@katonius4542 You got that right. Replace Bill Murray with Norm
@@Christie_Love True
Bruce Willis was always game for anything; and Steve Martin always well prepared!
Brother Theodore was smart and intelligent
He was unique. He was truly the one and ONLY. He was one of a kind. Etc
unlike your comment
absolutely.
Im in the prime of my senility😂
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.
'I am not well my friends'
CLASSIC !!
dude is on some next level, pure comic genius
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!!!
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 !!
He would have been a smash hit at slam poetry nights, lol.
When I first saw this guy back in the day I thought he was for real. Hilarious.
"the teeth..." - he got that from Poe's story "Berenice"
Good Ol' Dave and Theodore, Chuck and Linus
Have to admire his complete dedication to his character. Either a great, great actor or a true psycho!!
Still a better guest than Madonna
Amen, that's the truth.
not as sexy though ..
I’ve never seen Madonna on letterman, is she really that bad?
@@opaljk4835yes
Is that a banlon shirt? Pure Genius.
I see it now.
I see it.
What he did there was beyond brilliant.
The postal service does need to do what is imagined at 2:50
Wasn’t he in The Burbs
He could be related to Dr. Ruth!
I'm just plain folks lol thee monolinguist
"all of a suddenly"
The voice of Gollum for the 1977 The Hobbit. Excellent casting.
Theodore Isidore Gottlieb !
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.”
I come from extremely bad stock LOL
GENIUS
At 4:40 he almost breaks character.
So he does. Then gets his grimace going again. Brilliant!
Genius. A riveting performance. I wonder what he was like off stage?
absolutely brilliant
her face was so sweaty it looked like a rancid bit of pork.
It was hard to tell if Brother Theodore was a pure theatrical genius or a madman having a psychotic break.
I think it was both.
The 'Burbs
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.
He might be "Debby Downers" dad.
Reality is for people who can't handle Brother Theodore
As BT said: "Where there is death, there's hope."
What a legend, loved him in the burbs too.
That Dr Evil monologue at the group therapy in Austin Powers perhaps influenced by this account of early years?
Someone should've made a movie where they let Bother Theodore and Fred Willard loose.
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.
About a 9 on the tension scale, Rube
🤣🤣
What's really scary is that today his rantings actually make sense.
Just got back from watching the animated version of “The Hobbit”, Brother Theodore was the original Gollum. After seeing this clip, not only was he the perfect choice for Gollum…I don’t think he was even acting. I don’t even think he was reading a script.
Brother Theodore : "Perhaps we just sits here...and chats with its....a bitsy...my precious?"
Letterman: Theodore your Gollum is showing!
So this is where Jason Alexander got his George Costanza from?
Ahhhh WOW?
ALL DAYYYY!
Klopek, what is that, Slavic?
"NO"😠
Holocaust Survivor. Brother T. Was in the camps
You have to be on the rails to go off the rails.
Brother Theodore was on the rails?
Saw him on the Jerry Lewis talk show years ago.
Dream weaver ....
"Is, uh, that a Banlon shirt?" Greatest comeback line in the history of television.
Theres a few times here where the look on Dave's face matches how i feel about Brother Theodore.
Back when they used to have interesting people on t.v.
Who also is here because of the autobiography of Herbert Feuerstein?
Peculiar act. Perrmance art?
Dad?
Gollum
I still can't tell if this is a shoot or a work.....
so much more reasonable & coherent than the leading republican candidate.
And Howard Stern, thinks his guests are crazy!
I will be on every postage stamp in the world!!!!!
what a complete nutcase, funny though, apparently he was banged up in a conservatory and survived, went to America and annoyed everyone.
he was absolutely brilliant.
they would rather shake the devil by the tail than shake my hand 🤣🤣🤣
her face was sweaty like a chunk of rancid pork.
He's Werner Herzog if he was intentionally funny.
No, even better: He's a combination of Werner Herzog and Alan Watts.
with a dash of 1930’s authoritarianism
Is that Slavic?
what's a pediatriciast?
A podiatrist is a doctor who works on feet.
A pile of mud... with hair...
what is a metepsyician?
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.
The only thing he got right was when he called Letterman a pathological liar.
Omg I couldn't stop f****** laughing watching this. Brother Theodore is out of his f****** mind..🤣
About a 9 on the tension scale, Rube