Rich Little Impersonates Ronald Reagan, Jimmy Stewart & Many More! | DIGITAL EXCLUSIVE | Huckabee

My next guest is truly a living comedy legend. It's a perfect example of why you want to come see the show live here in Nashville. If you're a baby boomer, you grew up watching it on every channel and practically lived it. on The Tonight Show couch because I was there so often. I want you to welcome back to our show the undisputed king of celebrity impersonations, the legendary mr. Little

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man, wow, I'm still alive, boy, do I ever have to tell you? The only thing that was

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exciting about having you on the show about a year ago is having you back.

I've never had so much fun in my life. And what a joy it has been to know you. I am delighted to return. I got a lot of feedback, you know, doing your show. I'm doing a show in Las Vegas for prop econo four nights a week and I've been there for three years. and when the show ends I go out and sell a lot of my books and my artwork and a lot of my old TV shows and the money we give to Gary Sinise's ground groups anyway,

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people came up to me and said : we are here. tonight to see you because we showed you on the Huckabee show.

Wow, you know what I thought you'd say? I thought you'd say, you know, I had such a response to being on your show, but I came back anyway and thank you for not doing that, we're so glad to visit you again because I mean, we could go weeks and never run out what career goes on and I'm amazed , but one thing I learned about you is that we are, we are. I'm familiar with a lot of the impersonations you've done of people on stage, but I found out that you were actually hired to do the voices of very famous actors who couldn't deliver their lines in the movies, tell us that, that's right.

Then I did Peter Sellers for a couple of Pink Panther movies when he passed away and David Niven had lost his voice, got Lou Gehrig's disease and could barely speak and I dubbed him for a couple of Pink Panther movies. I did Tony Curtis. for a movie that left and Italy they didn't pay me and I did you good, that's what I know. I came in and dubbed his voice because he just left and I didn't know anything about the background of this movie or anything. It was a terrible movie, they never paid him and after I made it, he called me on the phone and said great, you went and dubbed for me and that photo I told him yes, Tony, they paid you, but I said yes.

Well, now you owe me half. This is amazing because I have never heard this before. Your voice dubbed in movies. Peter Sellers David Niven Tony Curtis. People like that. If we watch that movie, they never told us that we didn't know that you. Had I done that, yes, I probably did. I also did Gene Kelly for a Christmas special and you know, Gene Kelly had a high voice like this, he talked like that and he was completely lost and I went in and dubbed the whole show. and no one ever knew, that's amazing, so here you are doing the job that you do so well that you can make celebrities in the movies and people think that it was actually the celebrity, well yeah, that's what they expected and I think that's good, obviously it worked, yes, it worked.

It worked and I sent David Niven a

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note afterwards because Blake Edwards made the movie and he was living somewhere in Europe and I sent him a note saying, "I love acting with you." David Nevin, of course, spoke like that, very quietly, very British. and I told him that I would be happy to go there and follow you and imitate you wherever you go. Wonderful and I received a nice response from him, which is beautiful, that because it belongs to my career, now

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of us have remembered all of these. Impressions through the years, but you're still doing impressions of people that are in the news every day today, yeah, yeah, my act hasn't completely died, you know, but I do some, I do, dr.

Phil, let's listen to that doctor, I know it, I know it, you know it, I know it and if you knew that, then we both would know if we knew it all when we found out that robert de niro is the one he wanted. I don't make robert de niro ready because he is. a liberal and they have nothing to say, but I do, what is Sebastian Gork's name? Oh yes, we see him making comments. I know Sebastian well, yes, he has an interesting voice and an interest. Where does he go to you? He's Hungarian, he's just hungry, yeah.

Sean, I know these people are so stupid that it takes them two hours to watch 60 Minutes. They are stupid and they are missing bricks. I'll tell you you know he has that type of accountant and then you have Mark Stein, yeah. mark Stein thank you very much, thank you very much oh and then Tucker Carlson yeah Hey, thanks for coming thanks for coming thanks for coming zag so log in talk thanks for coming okay and you know, Tucker Carlson, which is very good, you know, excellent but he, when he talks to a guest who is on the remote and he and he look at the camera, this is this is my impression of Tucker Carlson listening to someone here is my impression of Tucker Carlson laughing and Newt Ging

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, she has a great voice. - you've never changed you know no, I like this I don't know, I understand what's happening, I just don't understand these people, this is ridiculous, I don't know anything, do you have a favorite from every year, I mean you?

I have Ronald Reagan is my all time favorite of all the people I have ever met and he was just an amazing man with a great sense of humor and when you talked to Ronald Reagan he would give you all of his attention and never take you away the eyes. Outside of you, he never looked away, he was just focused on you and I was almost always impressed by that and years later I realized the reason was that he couldn't hear, he was reading your lips, he was reading your lips, he would read your lips. lips because I don't think I had much hearing, but you know, if Ronald Reagan were alive today and he was giving that famous speech in Berlin, he would probably say that Miss Pelosi is building that wall and I remember, I remember one time a journalist told the president Reagan.

Sir. President, when does a fetus become a human being? and Reagan said that when you vote Republican, a whole new definition, not a gray vision. We love that some of the classic actors and some of these are characters that have survived their own lives. I mean Jimmy Cagney John Wayne. Jimmy Stewart, yes you did, Jimmy Stewart. I understand that once they paid so much tribute to him that you dubbed his voice for a city. That happened. Well, let's see Indiana, Pennsylvania is where he's from and I made some recordings that they played. on the street corner telling people when to walk and when the light was going to change and all that and I did it like Jimmy Stewart, so Howard Jimmy Stewart told us when to walk, which I would just say, wait at the light more light. red can cross in a few minutes but Harvey wants to cross but he was a lovely man Jimmy Stewart had a great sense of humor and I used to go visit him at his house on Roxbury Drive in Beverly Hills and he didn't live in a gated community, you know that he didn't have a door around his house or anything, anyone could walk up to his front door and they did, no, boy, oh yeah.

Wow, I remember one time I visited and we had a nice

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afternoon. together and we had tea and we talked and then he walked me to my car and came with me and as we were getting closer to my car, a tour bus stopped around the corner and the bus driver said, "Oh my God, not just the house by Jimmy Stewart. but there's Jimmy Stewart himself walking down the catwalk with the little rich guy he said mine has what the little rich guy does in your house Jimmy and Jimmy said the rich guy comes here once a month to recharge our batteries and then again , again, he told me a funny story about him he said, you know, people did it, they would just walk by and sometimes they would come up and Ronald would hit the doorknob, but they said one day a family drove by in a truck and they They got out of the truck and laid out a blanket and then proceeded to bring chicken, salad and wine, they had a picnic and I said, well, Jim, my God, did you call the police at all the restaurants?

I couldn't do without it. They seemed like a good deal. Well, did you just tell him? They don't, please, could you get off my lawn? No, no, no, I couldn't do that, so you didn't do anything right, not exactly. I went back to the back of the house and turned on the sprinklers where Gloria and I were eating chicken. soggy chicken uh what a great story great story turn on the sprinklers Richard have you ever pissed someone off and done an impression of them and they got offended or didn't like it? It's that time, oh yeah, Paul Lynn, do you remember?

Uh, no, yeah. Yeah, yeah, Paul Lynn really hated my impression. I mean, it wasn't a joke, he really hated her and every time I did it on The Tonight Show or the Dean Martin show about the looks I got from him, you wouldn't believe I was. and he, you know, the camera would go from me to him to see a reaction and he would say, how's it going?, who is this, I'm getting a day job, that's gossip, you know, one of the great thrills of my career is people. I met mmm and worked with, I mean all these people that I grew up idolizing on screen and then working with them and meeting them personally was the biggest thrill for me, you know, it made me so sad to see it. that Carol Channing passed away one of her own now oh, she was wonderful and the Academy Awards, you know, they didn't say anything about her at the Academy, she wasn't mentioned, that's just rude, it's disrespectful, she was an icon here.

Oh Carol Channing, you know, he, she was always a little out of focus, you know she would come up to you and she wouldn't know who you were and then when you got a foot away from you she would say oh do you know if a diamond if a diamond He is a girl's best friend and a dog is a man's best friend. Well, who do you think is smarter? He said, you know what you were talking about, what a joy it is to be surrounded by people that you idolize and I have to tell you something having you on this show, meeting you and being able to all be there, let me tell you something for guys like me, it's one of the great honors of my life, rich little thing, well, you know.

In a way, I'm glad you weren't president because I wouldn't be here tonight. Well, that's true, thanks for reminding me how that turned out if I were president and of course I never will be because I'm Canadian, no. If I were president, you know, the first thing I would do is do something for the poor, the sick, the weak, the weak. I would see to it that the congressman served only one term. Okay, Keith, why don't you tell everyone how they can do it? go to rich little in person if i can catch my breath if you want to experience some amazing nightly entertainment go go go see this man live and in person he's at the Tropicana in Las Vegas and tickets are at trop LV dot -com, that's trop LV dot- com, be sure to grab them before your trip so you don't miss out and visit Rich Little com to enjoy Rich Little's comedic genius online.