How you doing out there? It's me Tigger Duc Wayne Duck. It's me
Bunkers, Steve, Bobcat. All right, y'all, did it great?
Your favorite firefly you desire? Hold the old knock guy. My name is
Jim Cummings and welcome to tuned in. All right, ladies and gentlemen,
we are tuned in with Jim Cummings and Corey Feldman, the man who needs
no introduction. You already know that. Thanks for joining us. Thank you
very much, appreciate it. Good good, Thank you. So you're a
host to host absolutely now we're now, we're locked in. I love it.
We've got you. How are you? Oh man, it's it's it's
great. It's great to be here. I'm sure we have a hurricane in
a minute, so stay tuned for that. That's right. Yeah. Well
it's gonna give great aesthetic to the background. That's right. Yeah, dimensional,
you know value, you'll be able to really transfer to three D to
the tornado going that's lifting up behind us. It'll be great. What was
that sharknado? Yeah? Did you see that? Did you see? No?
Yes, of course I did you did. I was riveted? Oh
wow, yeah, I'm sorry to hear that. Yeah, well that's all
right. Well you you've been busy. You you started offways easy. My
life is busy. Yeah, it's a beautiful thing, it is. Yeah,
and you too, right, So far, so good. Yeah.
How many voices do you do? All of them? How many? Every
last one? No? I don't know. But the internet, do you
have a number? No? I don't mean professional, I mean like,
how many do you have in your you know you mean in here? Yeah,
I don't know. It's crowded a voice, isn't there? Right?
Yeah? Too many? Too many? Man, the council, we call
them the council. Yeah. Yeah, it's crowded in there. Yeah,
don't go there. Well, you know I started doing voices when I was
four, working for Disney. Oh wow, yeah, wow, Yeah you
didn't. I started when I was five, but I was, you did.
I was working on you know, walking. Oh, you know,
it's like working for Disney. I didn't know that. You didn't. How
did that keep going? Please? Well I was. I probably was doing
Disney's stuff before you were. Yeah. Yeah, so back in the seventies.
You win. Okay, not everybody go oh it's crazy, that's wicked.
But yeah, my very first job was Foxing the Hound. Well,
my first feature film was Foxing the House. That's well, that's true.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, so I played the Hound. Wow.
Yeah, that is so freaking cool. How did I not know that?
I don't know. Jeez, that's crazy one of us did. That's
right. Well, you know, at the end of the day, it's
part of the Disney family. But it started with my sister. Oh so
here, here's some more for you, some more trivia. So my sister
started the Disney connection. So when I was three years old, I would
go with her to the set. She was seven. She's three years older
than me, so I was three and a half. She was You weren't
joking, boy? Yeah yeah, but anyway, so yeah, so at
seven years old, she was in Mickey Mouse Club mousekets here. Wow.
Yeah. So I used to go with her to this set every day and
then people would, you know, hear my voice. And that's how I
got my first job. It was a casting lady that was in the Burbank
offices while she was on this set filming. You know, some ladies walking
by and she hears me, And I guess when I was a kid,
you know, I always had this rough voice, a little rasp or whatever.
Yeah, and so I sounded like as a kid. I sounded like
an adult woman. So you still do it? Really, it's awesome.
It's a very kind of you, jim So. Yeah. No. But
anyway, I was, you know, I had this voice that I guess
was like you know, mom da, I'm like, you know, talking
to my mom about something, and the lady said, you know, can
you please ask that lady it'll be quiet. We're trying to shoot in here.
And then you know, and then I say something else, really,
the lady needs to stop talking. And they're coming in. They're like,
where's the lady? Oh, is it you? And she's like, no,
no, no, I'm the mom. That's my son. You're here.
Yeah. You know, he's got a loud voice, and I'll tell
him to shut up and then she's like, no, that's amazing, Like
he's perfect. Like I've got to bring him in for something if you let
me in. And that's kind of how it started. So it started because
of my unique voice. And then my first you know, feature film was
starring in at Disney Animated Classic. Wow, no kidding, that's that's not
a bad first gig. Yeah, madeor motion picture. But it took me
years. Okay, I mean my first first gig was a McDonald's commercial.
Oh so at three and a half, the first thing that I shot was
a McDonald's commercial, and that commercial ran for the next eight years, won
a Klio Award. It's a classic. It was the Christmas Gift Certificate commercial.
If you remember where the little kid was walking down the stairs and then
he sees Santa Claus at the bottom of the stairs with the gift certificate and
yeah, you remember, that's nuts. Yeah, the little boys like that
was me. Oh man, is that crazy? Is he still smoocho?
Yeah? That is wonderful. Yeah, oh man. So we've been in
each other's lives all the time. Yeah man, that's now. Let me
tell the story of how I met you. Oh yes, I kind of
remember that one, I think, so. Yeah, all right, So
I met him at the Playboy Mansion of all places, so not Disney,
of use. Yeah, and you and you were you were up at the
crack of noon, as I recall. No, it was like I think
it was late, wasn't it. That we were trying to get out of
there and yeah, yeah, we're in the game room. The famous Game
Room, and I think I was playing a game of pool, I believe,
and we were all standing around the pool table and somebody said, this
is the guy who does Winny the Pool. He's the voice of winning the
Pool. And I was like, I got to meet him. And he
went I said give me some money. So I was like, oh,
I got to meet him. I got to meet him, and so we
came over, we said hello, and then here's the crazy part. So
my son, his name is Zen and he was a little tiny baby and
he was so cute at that time. Now he's not. He's a man.
He's a man. He's a strong man. Now I'd be very upset
if I called him anything, that's right. But anyways, so he was
a little tiny baby and his favorite thing, his favorite cartoon character, of
course, Winnie the Pooh, And because of it, we used to call
him Zenny the Pooh. That was his nickname, Jenny Pooh. So we'd
be like, oh, Jenny Pooh, come here, you know, and
he loved it, right, So he loved Winnie the Pooh. He read
all the books, we you know, played the little tapes that go along
with the book and all that kind of stuff. So he was used to
hearing the voice, and I said, oh my god, I'd be great
if you could leave him like a voicemail message, you know that I could
play him later. So he was kind enough to take a moment, and
he left the most adorable little message. You should have seen his eye.
Oh wow, when I brought it for him. He's his eyes got this
big. What you met Winnie the Pooh? It was so cute. Oh
yeah, well at that age too, that's that's that's Poohville. He was
like three, Yeah, yeah, perfect, that's perfect. Oh that's good.
Thanks for telling me that. Thank you for doing taking the shie.
Yeah. I've since been a real weasel, so I'm they're never nice to
anybody. That's not I'm all stuck. You did it all good enough?
There you go? Oh man, well that's like the Gooies. Yeah.
Hey, wait a minute, was that a segue this before? Hey?
I might have been on an interview here, Yeah, I wouldn't think so,
yeah you have you know, well, the Goodies. I think it
was one of the cool movies. I mean, everybody in it went from
being child star to movie star. Isn't that crazy? I mean, I
mean, except for Jeff Cohen who but he's like the biggest entertainment wlayer.
Now yeah, you know that works. Yeah, everybody's everybody from that film
ended up successful. Yeah yeah, yeah, Kerry Green became a director,
Artha Plimpton went to Broadway and did many, you know, huge movies and
TV series. After Sean Aston, he sho thriving, still thriving. Yeah,
I don't know what Josh Brolin is doing. Yeah whatever, he just
kind of went right down into the dumpster. Yeah, nothing there, too
bad. I mean, you know, I thought the kid had some so
much you know, potential. Yeah, I thought maybe something. You know,
he's kind of good looking. He's got muscles and stuff, so you
should be like, yeah, you would drinking or something. Yeah, it's
weird. H And then that that Asian kid boy he just disappeared off the
map. Huh. Yeah, you want a Academy award, Isn't he Isn't
he? I was gonna say, talk about the same guy. No,
but he did disappear for like thirty years to everybody. Well, but he's
comeback, Yeah, credible comeback. He got such a great speech. Yeah,
it wasn't it beautiful? I was crying. Yeah, that was so
inspiring, right, But but he he didn't really disappear. For those of
us, you know, who love him and know him, he was working
the whole time, but he was working behind the scenes. So he was
in Hong Kong doing movies with Chat Lee as a fight coordinator. People didn't
know this. Yeah, he was a badass stunt coordinator, fight coordinator.
And he did actually worked on conspiracy theory with Richard Donner or was at least
a weapon for well one of the two, or maybe both. But he
was doing you know a lot of behind the scenes stuff for Dick Donner and
you know from the director from Gooney's. Oh yeah, he continued to do
all kinds of stuff. I mean, he was he was just very busy,
but always behind the scenes and really had given up the idea of acting
altogether, which was crazy. And then all of a sudden he gets this
script, you know, and it was like, oh, I think maybe
I'll you know, consider some jobs or whatever. Got a new agent,
and he was at my house when he goes, yeah, they sent me
this script and you know, this little independent movie. And I thought,
oh man, we don't know if it'll ever be seen. We don't know
what's gonna happen with it, but you know, I'm really hopeful it comes
out. And if it does, you got to come support me. You
got comes upon me. Okay. I was like, okay, yeah,
I loving me so sweet. Oh but anyway, so so the movie came
out and he calls me up. He's like, oh, we're gonna have
a We're gonna have a screening. You gotta come. I was like,
okay. So they did this like Q and ah went down to the screening
and I was just like, my job was on the floor. And when
I saw that the fanny pack sne Have you seen the movie? Everything everywhere
all at once. Oh I don't think I have. Oh you got to
see it? Oh wait, maybe is a great Yeah it's it's yeah.
I think it's on Netflix right now. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, it's
rotating. I mean it won like ten Academy Awards. Yeah, it was
the biggest movie. I don't get out much. I'm sorry to say.
That's all right. Well you can watch it at home now. Yes.
Yeah, it's a new thing. I've heard of that they've got these things
called TVs. Yeah, I've heard put stuff on them and then they send
you a check. That's right, that's not that works for everybody, that
works for you. Well, that's good stuff, man. Yes. Wow.
So do you do a lot of cons nowadays too, because at least
a a lot. I don't do a lot. I don't like to to
wear myself thin, you know, I like. I think it's special.
The reason why I always do so well, I think is because I just
don't go to a lot of them. I do maybe three or four a
year generally. But I do spend a lot of time seeing the fans because
I'm always touring. That's the new thing. I mean. I put out
this giant box set last year, which is a thirtieth anniversary of my first
album. My first album came out in nineteen ninety three. I started recording
stuff for it in nineteen eighty six, oh man. And my first single
ever came out in nineteen eighty nine, which was a soundtrack for a film
called Dream, A Little Dream. So the very first material I put out
to the public was a vinyl single in nineteen eighty nine, and then it
took another four years before we actually got an album together and released it.
And even then it was like independent, you know. It wasn't in record
stores. It was like I was handing it out to people like, hey,
you got to listen to a music and if you don't like it,
you could use it as a frisbee. It's you know, a coaster or
something. Yeah. So yeah, but anyway, so we just put out
this thirtieth anniversary which we took the original two inch tapes, the big thick
tapes. Oh yeah, and we had to bake them. I don't know
if you know about this, but this is this is a thing. It's
a real thing. So you know, for those people who remember the dinosaurs,
and there was back in the dinosaur days, there was Fred Flintstone and
Wilma and they had these big two inch tapes that we would use on these
big giant tape machines and when you recorded, you actually had to cut the
tape together to actually splice stuff. And seen it done many times, try
it, but right. Yeah, So we would record all our stuff.
So we had this stuff in these big Master tapes in my vault, been
sitting there for all these years. And I was talking, do you know
Don Dawkin is Dowcin rocking with Dowkin from the eighties? Oh oh, no,
oh yeah, yeah, yeah. So don Dawcin. I run into
him. He's a really nice guy, super sweetheart, and he says,
oh, you know, I said, well, I got all these tapes.
I don't know what to do because well, you know, we just
did a project, the Lost Tapes, and you know what you do is
you bake them in an oven. I said, I've heard about that,
but is it really true? And he says, yeah, I've got the
oven for it. And I said, okay, well if you could help,
that'd be amazing because I've got all this stuff. And he said yeah.
So we took it. You know, there was like a specialist who
sat there and went through every inch of the tape and they have to clean
off all the mold and they have to do this whole chemical process. Then
they take it, they put it in this oven and what happens is the
magnets fall off over time. So when you're dealing with, you know,
live tape, because you know, tape and film are a live thing.
I mean it's actually people don't know this, but film is a moving being.
It's a living entity, living film. So yeah, so when we're
dealing with tape, you know, the magnets fall off, and it all
kind of falls apart and departiclizes. So what you got to do is you
put in this oven and the magnets magically jump back into their place right where
they're supposed to be. And then you take it and you run it through
the tape machine one time. First of all, you have to have a
tape machine from nineteen twenty five. But you run it through the tape machine
and then as you do it, you get one pass. And if you
capture everything precisely, then you can individually process them digitally and signify them as
individual tracks, and then you can mix them as individual tracks and then into
a compilation of tracks. So it's a digital transfer. It's the highest quality
you can get, and it sounds amazingly beautiful. So wow, yes,
we did it. We got the process done. I had Don Docin helped.
We had all these songs, and then all of a sudden I started
discovering there were these songs that I had forgotten about that we'd never released.
Oh no way. So I was like, well, this is amazing.
That was like a treasure treasure trove, treasure trove for you. Yeah,
it was beautiful. So and then I start going through, oh well,
better start looking through my old videos and all that kind of stuff. And
the next thing, you know, is like, oh yeah, I remember
this one from nineteen eighty six when I was working on Lost Boys and I
made a music video in my dad's apartment. We should probably release that at
some point, right, yeah, time, All this stuff that you know,
I'd kind of forgotten about fallen by the way side, and I finally
put it out for the fans. And so this disc is if the Box
I'm Sorry is a four disc set with CDs, four CDs, two dv
We made a documentary about the process of making the album. The process of
making the collection, we put together a fifty page color magazine that looks like
a teen magazine from the eighties. Oh wow. We got everybody who's been
involved with my music from eighty six to ninety three. Well everybody except lead
a Ford. She was just too busy for us and she couldn't do it.
What are you going to do? We love lead It, I'm just
giving her something anyway, but no. So we had Michael Damien and Mickey
Thomas from Starship. You know, wow, pipes, Oh my god.
So he's came back. He had done Dream a Little Dream, the first
movie that I did music for, and he sang the song dream a Little
Dream, and I had to dance down the bleachers, lip syncing as if
I was singing. But in those days, I wasn't very strong of a
singer, so I was still learning. I was, you know, very
unsure. So I did record a song with Michael Damien, who had the
number one song on the soundtrack, which was called rock on Yeah. And
remember that one, hey kiss rock and bo rock bo exactly you got it,
yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly. Wow. So Michael and I
recorded a song during that time called Something in Your Eyes, which became my
first single, but they didn't put it on the soundtrack album. So it
was like, Okay, I'm getting it now. Now it's all kind of
coming together. This is an opportunity. I did like seven or eight film
soundtracks between eighty six and ninety three, but none of it ever came out
on records, you know, it was just in the movie. So I
was like, here's my chance to give the fans everything they've been screaming for,
which is like all these songs from the old movies and all these pictures
and videos and stuff from the process of the making of it. We got
Mickey to come back and him and I did a thirtieth anniversary song remake of
Dream Little Dream, which is like a killer rockin version, like we did
like a really really like almost a punk version of it. Yeah, and
I got Mickey to perform. I produced it. So I got Mickey to
like, I was like, you might have to grab your you know what.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, get it up there. But but yeah,
sometimes you got to, you know, do what it takes to get
that note. But but I was, you know, he's seventy years old,
he's seven years old, and he sounded like he was twenty. I
mean I was blown away. Sol seventy seven, d oh, thank you.
I feel no no, no seven. I would talk about no no,
no, that's amazing. Yeah yeah, yeah, seventy years old and
he's still and he sounds like he's twenty. Wow. Yeah, it's beautiful.
So we got him to do that. We then did this documentary.
We did interviews with him, with Michael Damien, with all the people who
were part of it, and we put together this film which kind of explains
everything I just told you. Because a lot of people don't realize that I
was actually singing before I was even acting. Wow, yeah, yeah,
that's wow. Where in the womb? Because you've been so what happened was?
It's a good question because a lot of people don't understand that when you're
three years old, you can't really memorize your lines, you can't really read
the script, you can't really know, you can't read the script work it
out with the other actors, right, So how do you how do you
get the part when you're three years old? Well, I think you have
to be pretty cute, right exactly. So my mom figured out, well,
he may not be able to read or write, but we've got to
find a way that they're gonna, you know, notice him, and he's
gonna stand out from the rest. And my dad was a singer and a
musician. My sister was in the Mickey Mouse Club, singing and dancing every
day on stage at disney Land and all that. So then I was like,
well, I like music. So she said, okay, well here's
what we're gonna do. We're gonna stick you in a room with a record
player and you're going to listen to this record over and over and over until
you memorize every word of it. Yeah, and then I want you to
come out and sing it for me. And you know, once I did,
then she would take that. She would put me into the rooms for
the castings, and I would go to and I would sing and they would
say, oh, look, how cuteie is. You know it about the
same way, you know, happy Birthday? You got it? I got
it. And I was doing easy songs like you know, put on a
happy face or or yeah yeah, yeah, you know what was it?
Sunshine? Oh okay? And uh and jung Food Junkie by Jim Grochi,
oh juf Ny. They love when I did that one because I was like
this little kid talking about you know, I got twinkies in my closet and
oh wow that was perfect. Yeah yeah yeah, oh you must have knocked
him out. Yeah. Well, I got like one hundred commercials by the
time I was eight. Yeah. So but that's how I started. And
then and then back to Disney again. My first TV movie of the Week
or TV special, whatever you want to call it, when I was about
five or six, was with Dick Van Dyke and it was a musical and
we did it was called how do you like a child, and there was
lots of musical numbers, so I had to sing and dance with the greatest
of all time, you know, Dick Van Dykes right off the bat.
So yeah, that'll do it. Wow, that is astonishing. He played
my dad because I do the character Pete, you know, that big old
guy that's always messing with Mickey Bows. And we did a special it's got
to be maybe like ten years ago, and he came in and did a
cameo as Pete's dad. Oh cool, And I was thinking, yeah,
so Dick Van Dyke's my dad. Okay, I can die happily. That's
pretty Yeah. And the crazy thing I think he's actually old enough to be
your dad. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, Well he's in his nineties.
Oh yeah, he's like ninety six and he's still going, I know,
God, this lesson you know what. I saw him at one of
these conventions about I'm saying about four years ago, was right before the pandemic,
and we were in the elevator together. It was like, hey,
buddy, he remembered me. First of all, that's crazy, right,
yeah, that's astonishing right there. I mean, come on, he's got
it. Yeah, So hey, Corey, how are you good to see
you, buddy? How's everything? You know that all that energy? Right
as a dick? You got to tell me something. What I said,
he's still dancing and he goes, oh yeah, and he starts a little
soft shoe right there in the elevator, right. He goes, you gotta
keep moving, gotta keep moving, can't let it go. And you know
how it is, Corey, Right, you know you're still dancing, aren't
you. I said, I'll never stop. He goes, exactly, exactly.
How cool is that? God bless him. I love him so much,
No kidding, well, I think everybody does. He's like, yeah,
everybody's at least favorite uncle. Yeah that you're not related to exactly,
you know legend. I mean he's like one of the last greats that we
still Oh yeah, yeah, you're right about that. And the performance he
did in the New Mary Poppins. Did you see it? I haven't seen
that. I didn't see the movie, but I watched that. Just all
you gotta do is YouTube watch his scene, because wow, he's ninety one
or ninety two and he gets up on the table and he's dancing. I
mean, it's crazy. Wow. It said Joliola Day with Mary Yeah,
yeah, yep, Wow, that's nuts. Well you've got a few stories
in you, h just a man, just used a few. I was
raised, you know, in a very terrible environment. But to get away
from that terrible environment, my two escapes were going to Neverland and the Playboy
Man you know, rotating yes too, like who can say that? Wow,
I'm pretty sure you're in a very small club. Yeah, right,
very smart. I mean to go to one of the places, I think
it's pretty rare. But to go to both. Yeah, and it's not
like they're next door to each other physically or mentally or spiritual, right,
exactly, two different realms, two different realms. But I still went to
Yeah, I went to the Playboy Manage in the first time when I was
fifteen years old. Wow. Yeah, and you thought you died and went
to heaven. You know what? I didn't, because I was too young
to even appreciate the fact that there were beautiful women everywhere. I was more
excited about, like Richard Pryor being there and Dudley actually, yeah, especially
Richard Pryor. I got to meet Richard, I got to meet Dudley Moore,
all the great you know, Richard Pryor is the king of the world.
Oh, absolutely brilliant. Nobody there's Richard Pryor, and then everybody else
can fight for second place, right, I mean? And you know,
also I got to work with and meet, speaking of comedy legends, the
great Milton Burle. Yeah, get out. Yeah. What was that We
did a show together. It was in the early nineties. I think it
was called Burke's Law. Oh yeah, yeah, yea Jean Barry yeah yeah,
yeah yeah. And so we did an episode where it was like all
the old time comedians and I just happened to be the nephew of the guy
who hired the one guy and like happened to be connected. But it was
Henny Youngman, it was Milton Burrell, it was Ed McMahon uh man,
don't remember who the other two were, but it was five giant legends.
Yeah, and I just got to be there like cracking jokes with them all
every It was just wow, now there's a memory for you. Yeah.
And then like a year or two years later, I went to the comedy
store where I hung out all the time because I was kind of raised also
at the comedy store that was my club hangout, which you know was because
of Sam Kinnison. I became friends with Sam Kennison. Pauli Shore, who's
here this weekend. Yeah, he was like a brother to me, and
we were both little brothers to Sam. So we were all like a little
family, a little click. And I was there at the Comedy Store almost
every night, and you know, Eddie Murphy would be there, Richard Pryor
and Face Clay, Jim Carrie, like you know, all of them,
they were all there. I mean, it was just the time. I
think he's still on the side of yeah yeah, yeah, well I think
Jay was actually buying the car next door. But yeah, that's true at
that Rolls Royce Steeler exactly putting it on the roof or something like that.
Jay's car is here today, but yeah, I know. So anyway,
it was just, you know what in a magical time. And I walk
in one night and there's Milton Burrel on the stage and I was like,
I got to watch him do an hour of comedy. I mean, who
can even say that, right, Like that's alive right now, but yeah,
yeah, he he And he was in the late nineties, I think,
but it was probably a year or two before he died, and I'll
never forget one of his most genius lines. He said, Yeah, I'm
sorry if I smell, I just, I just I had Taco Bell today.
I gotta be honest. I had Taco Bell and I have so much
gas. Arabs are following me wherever I go. And he was just like
witty on it, like you know, he's like ninety something wherever he was,
and and and people were, you know, rasing him from the audience,
and he's just singing him down, just singing like so quick, so
fast. I was like, wow, Yeah, that's that's a talent right
there. Legend. Man, oh man, that's too bad you don't have
any cool stories. I know, Right's amazing. I've been blessed. I've
gotten to meet every legend I've really ever wanted to meet. There's nobody I
could think of. Well one person. There's one person that I missed that
I'm really sad I missed, which was just what was a Jesus basically the
same thing, John Lennon. That was close. Wow, no kidding.
And I'm sure you met the other Beatles all three look at that. Yeah,
I knew I hated you. Okay, the closest I got. I
used to play rock and roll in New Orleans and when I was a kid.
And and we actually any of the boats. Oh yeah, on the
President and the Admiral. Oh yeah, and thank you for bringing that up.
My band it was called Fusion, and I was a singer, and
we played on the the Admiral and it was the biggest boat on the on
the water. And uh. And we were just a cover band, you
know. We were just doing you know, like you're right stuff like yeah,
oh well no, no, no, it was rock and roll,
but it was you know, so anyway, No, it was a rock
and roll band and uh. And we made it to like opening act.
We opened for Leonard Skinner and then they got famous and then they never hung
around us any anymore. But we're on the President. We're playing on this
boat and we broke the record for we had five thousand and two people on
there. Wow, and and and it was it was awesome. It was
like a three hour tour, but not Gilligan's Island, you know. And
they would go back for yeah, without the stranding. And we went back
and we were so full of ourselves and everything. Then BB King played the
next week they got six thousand, and we went. I really wanted to
hold onto that record more than a week to be beat out by BB King.
I think that. But I'm okay with I'm okay with it. Yeah,
And that exactly the way we looked at So what do you play?
Uh? Sing? Well, I played drums. Oh you do drums too,
I know, yeah, I know. I actually think I lost my
We're looking around it like I just happen to have a drums Yeah I do.
Well, I had sticks. I always walk around with sticks. Yeah,
yeah, just to annoy my fellow. Yeah, just to just to
piss people off. Yeah, me too. Yeah, I can't help it.
It's just always yeah, same here, same here. It's all the
stuff used to get me kicked out of class. I made exactly, making
all that noise. Yeah, the nuns were not that crazy about me then.
But afterwards, when I did a little some of you for the school
and then I was to you, it was okay, yeah, yeah,
it was fine. Well, see I would have been like, give me
that rule, let me show you something else I could do with it.
Yeah. Yeah, you know, yeah, man, that's good stuff.
That's amazing. Well, I had no idea that you had such a musical
background. Yeah, that's so cool. Yeah, well, you know,
I lucked out. I was very fortunate. I'm I'm a fairly good mimic
and I'm a half decent singer sotto voice. Oh yeah yeah. And then
if you do it badly, then they think it's you, so that works
out. But no, I had a I've got like I don't know,
lion King album. I think it was seven times platinum, and I sing
a song called be Prepared. Wow. Yeah, you're supposed to think it's
Jeremy Irons. Oh that was me. Wow, amazing. Yeah, and
you made a great job because I did think it was Jeremy. Well that
was the idea. Yeah yeah, yeah, great imitation. Yeah. But
uh. And I was the lead singer for the California Raisins. I don't
know if you remember them, Yes, of course, who I bet you
want him, you know, and I was I was still white. Hard
to believe, but yeah, how did you pull that off? Yeah?
I don't know. That's something I had to do with my parents, but
uh, but yeah it was. It was a lot of fun. And
what else Pocahontas. I'm trying to picture my wall Hunchback now anyway, Lion
King two and yeah, so it's it's a lot of fun. It's amazing.
Yeah, you know, I would imagine a lot of times. Yeah
yeah, Poo's got a lot of a lot of songs, but they don't
go quite as big as line. I've always wanted to do singing animation.
I would love to do more of that. Actually, yeah, it's fun.
I did one I'll put it a good word for you. Well,
thank you, sir, But no, I did one that was it was
for Warner Brothers animation. It was called The Scarecrow and it was a good
one actually, and I sang I played the mouse. I played a field
mouse that lived in his pocket. Uh. And it was like there was
like three or four songs in that one. So I got to do.
You know, I love singing in character. It's so much fun. Oh
oh my god, I love it. I agree. And if you listen
to my music, like on my albums, no two songs sound the same.
There's always a different character that comes out depending on what we're talking about,
what the theme is or what you know, sure the material, but
the point is that there's always I try to bring like a new voice,
a new character, something new to song, so it doesn't sound like the
same guy over and over and over again. Wow, yeah, that's not
bad. Well, you know, I mean all the greats, right,
the people that I look up to the most vocally, Michael Jackson obviously I
was going to ask you who are your favorites? Both. Yeah, Michael
is come on, because he can get the highest high you can do.
It's got that growl and that you know, yeah some meat to it.
And McCartney, I mean, to me, McCartney has the greatest rock and
roll voice in the history of rock and roll because he gets that growl,
get he can get, he can get pretty right, and he can get
long, pretty, you know, lovely really Oh yeah, snow Bud,
snow Bud. It's so yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Well there's the other
one. Oh, I suppose you could do Joe, you know, Oh,
I think you could. I think we could go old day, we
could have a bit, we could go all day. And one of my
favorite is, that's not your grandfather. I've seen your grandfather. Your grandfather
lives in your house. That was That was George Harrison from Hard Day's Night.
I think right right, Yeah, I remember that that's right, grandfather
that told it was that little old man. Then when then, right,
hello, great, that's so good. I'd sit there and do conversations.
There's all four of them. Oh yeah, yeah, that's good. That's
one of my things. That's why when I was doing stand up for a
while before I got into live meeting. Of course you did, no,
But I started when I was again fourteen fifteen, uh doing you know,
Comedy Store and catch a Rising Star in New York and like that. In
fact, my first mainstream headline show in New York doing comedy. You're gonna
love this one so nice. It was for the Lost Boys premiere and I
was out there doing press and then I'd mentioned that I'd been at the Comedy
Store and doing some stand up and blah blah blah. But it was mostly
just kind of jumping up with Sam or doing bits of improv and you know,
maybe a little thing here and there. But it wasn't like, oh,
here's your spot, you know. So the first time I had a
real spot. And of course, my publicist informs the media that I'm going
to be doing this, so ABC News that comes down to cover it,
and I'm at Catching Rising Star and they put me right between Dennis Miller and
Rodney Dangerfield. Now that's not too much pressure, is it? Perfect?
Right? Exactly like I am the new kid. Yeah yeah, yeah,
right, everybody's looking at their watch. Yeah you got a joke. Yeah.
So that was fun. And I think I had family there too,
because the whole thing was just like way too much pressure. It was way
too much. And Dennis was like, hey, great job, kid,
Yeah, I got some jokes for you if you want them, give me
a car, gave me a cow, babe. Yeah yeah, all right,
buddy. I do love Dnis Miller. I have to say you do.
Yeah, he's pretty sarcastic. I just his comedy. It's comedy,
funny personality. Oh well sorry, buddy, Yeah, what are you gonna
do? Not all charming? Yeah, I believe that said Rodney was was
very funny, very good guy. Yeah. So I was very honored be
both geniuses, right, yeah. I was very honored to be there,
but very nervous, as you can imagine. Oh god, yes, yeah,
that would do it. I remember I met Rodney Dangerfield. He was
at an old place called B and B Sound when he was doing a Rover
Dangerfield. He decided he was gonna do animation, all right, you know,
And I tell you, I you and he went in and he and
and the damnedest thing he they had a riser for the stage to record,
and why I don't know, but he would go in and he would take
off all of his clothes, not all of them. He'd leave his underground
and hang him up on a rack there and then put on you the wife
beater, right yeah, Josh, yeah. And he would he would he
would put on his robe and he goes, okay, let's do this all
right, you know, and then he would sit down and then he then
he could record v oh yeah, because he didn't have his he was in
his robe. I was thinking, sure he was an odd duck. Yeah
yeah, yeah, yeah, wow, you know, and a poor guy.
I took him like forever. I think he was finally got famous when
he's like fifty eight. Yeah, I mean he was a trooper When I
was a little kid, I mean I'm talking six years old, seven years
old. I remember, I was such a big fan of Rodney Dangerfield.
I actually made an animated book because I had this little book of like his
jokes or something. So I made this little animated book where I like would
draw drawings of him making different faces as he's doing different jokes, and then
I would put the joke coming out of his mouth. Yeah. So I
was a pretty huge fan of his comedy very early. Wow, yeah you
were. I loved comedy. So anyways, I guess it was the point
of that story was when I did the performance in those days, what my
my bit was is I didn't have great jokes. I still don't have great
jokes. Thank you, You're welcome. But anyway, there was you know,
I would go back and forth between voices, and so I would do
this bit which kind of became my famous bit. I guess if there was
one was wash me as Walter Cronkite. This this dates it, but it
was me as Walter Cronkite interviewing Ronald Ronald Reagan, Muhammad Ali and Michael J.
Fox. I think, you know, wow, so I would have
these three very different Yeah, I know they're very similar, but no,
but that's the point, right, is you want three different textures, completely
personalities so far apart from each other, and then have like that that balance
of the other right, right. So that was the bit, and and
it was fun and I you know, I've always and maybe it's probably because
I'm a bit crazy, and you know, I, like you said,
I've got all those voices going on in my head all the time. So
it's kind of how I hear it. You know, they're arguing or they're
whatever, you know, So I just do that, you know. Yeah,
wow, that's amazing. Yeah, because I've got those same voices.
I have the same similar problem. Yeah, sometimes you just break into a
voice and you're not trying to You're just walking around, Hey, ma'am,
how you doing? Go to sleep every there? Yeah, you know or
whatever, you know, like, yeah, what's that baby? Yeah,
let's go a little you know what I mean? You can't Oh yeah,
he's there all the time. Like Charles Fleischer, he never stops, right.
I don't know if you know Charles, but like literally yeah, but
he's always like he talks that. He's like, yo, baby, what's
going on? And you think he like actually talks like that. He's like,
no, I don't talk like that. I just do that sometimes.
Yeah. Yeah, okaya, police, yeah, yeah, you and you
do a great Roger right bit. Yeah, but I was in your rabbit,
Oh I was that was the first, that was first movie I was
ever ever. No, I was. I'll tell you what I was.
I was Bullet number two. Oh there was. If you remember, I
was sitting there waiting, look at you, that's me. That's me.
And you know what I liked. I was right before it said bullet number
two Jim Cummings singing blah blah blah Frank Sinatra, and I went, I
I've made it above Frank Sinatra, right, you know. And I went
home and I called my folks. I said, you got to go see
this movie. Uh. He couldn't have cared. I have no idea.
Yeah, hey, listen like that. I got news for you, kid,
Yeah, you're gonna be below me from now on. Yeah, happened.
And again that's that. Who was you know that famous Schecky Green story?
Which one do you know that? Yeah? Which one? Well,
he opened for Frank and uh, you got four minutes, kid, And
so he was out there, Oh you got it, Frank, you got
it, And he went and he was crushing it, and four minutes rolled
around and he and he let it go to like almost five. Oh wow.
Yeah see. And then next night time Jilly Jully was was this guy
ist him. I didn't. I didn't either, but but you know,
he used to tell the story. And the next night he was really killing
it. He went over five minutes, you know, and Frank gave him
four. And so the third night he did it and he went out the
backstage. He was just milking it a little bit longer. Yeah, night,
what can I get away with tonight? Exactly? And and they,
well, he found out what he could get away with. He walked out
of the stage door, getting heading over to his car. A couple of
guys jumping beat the ship out of him, pardon my French. And then
he's laying there the hell's going on? Cart lights comes rolling up, stops
right here, the window rolls down four minutes. Wow, And then that's
the story and they reverse back down. I mean it's like, okay,
I'd be like, I'm good, bro, think I need to do this
gig anymore? You know what I mean? Like, yeah, so that's
it could be apocryphal, as they say, man, Frank, Frank,
it's not the way to treat your homies. Yeah, well I guess he
took the first punch. Yeah, well, there you go four minutes.
Did he really? That's what I heard he jumped out and took the first
one. No he no, he didn't know. I meant by going over
four minutes. Oh right, right, yeah, that's what are you gonna
do? I mean, how dare you? Yeah? Right? Oh,
I know is you can't out if that ever happened to me. You know,
during a live performance, I got off stage and you know, the
guy I was opening for, it was like, how dare you go?
Yeah? Okay, buddy, I think you're taking this a little seriously.
Yeah yeah, but they were warmed up. The audience was anyway, yeah,
I guess so. Well not the fourth night, but that's all right.
The fourth night he was singing like Rocky, Yeah, that's pretty good.
You know. You know, you know all week I'm going anywhere.
Okay. Well, basically that was my character in The Lost Boys. It
was just a rip off of Stalloon, Okay. I mean it wasn't a
director off because I took a little bit of stallone and a little bit of
Chuck Norris and a little bit of Bruce Lee. No, it was kidding,
I mean it was I was literally told by the director, you got
to study these films and create a kind of Uni guy, you know,
take like three of these characters and then mix them all together. Uh what
was the other one, Chuck Norris? Uh not really because squirts nigger.
You know, I bid bo I'll be back. Yeah that didn't really work,
but it was, you know, but the whole idea of the presence,
the you know, tough guy macho. Yeah. Yeah, so you
know, but it was it was mostly still, you know, and it
was like, hey, we've been here all week, you know what I'm
saying, We're gonna do this thing. So I go over to his house.
Uh still yeah wow, And uh, you know, I didn't know
if he knew or if he saw it or anything. But I walk in
and he's got this giant statue of Rocky. Hard to believe, I know,
imagine that because he's such a humble guy. Yeah, I was thinking
he's known for his humility. Yeah, I got a great slow I gotta
tell you this story right now. You got me started on stallone. Oh,
here we go. Okay, it's a funny one. My god,
I've never told this publicly, so this is for you. Here you go.
Uh and stallone will probably laugh actually, but you know, yeah,
otherwise I have a knuckle sandwich but so I go to his house. My
friend Brian James brought me there. He's no longer with us, Rest in
peace. Brian was a great character actor. I don't know if you know
his work, but he was in a Blade Runner and Tango and Cash Oh
yeah, forty eight hours and everything. Yeah, I know you're talking about
so anyway, so he brings me over. Yeah, and you know,
Staaloone's not there at first. We walk in, we see the statue,
We kind of come into the it's in Malibu. We come in, there's
this beautiful kitchen. We're just kind of looking around the house, like really
nice. Where's Sly at? You know, Oh, he'll be down in
a minute. He's with his messouse upstairs. He's coming down. You know,
okay, great, we'll wait here. And a few minutes later,
you know, Sly appears at the top of the stairs. He's got this
white robe on. He's got this little Asian lady and she's in like a
little martial arts type outfit and she's the you know, the Vietnamese messuse or
whatever. And so you know, he's like, oh, hey, hey,
how you doing days for call me? I is getting a little health
going. You know, like, oh, yeah, no problem, thanks
for having us. We appreciate it. You know, I love your statue.
It's really nice. Oh yeah you like that? Yeah? Yeah,
hey, were you You did me right? I was like, I haven't
done you, no, sir, no, no. I mean like,
you know in the movie, you know you did a character right, yes,
yes, yes, yeah that wasn't me, that was Barbie Benn And
I think, yeah yeah, but I was like, oh well yeah,
yeah, well I did. I did. Actually I didn't know if you
were aware of that. He's like, hey, it was pretty good.
It was pretty good. You know. I was like thanks. Uh so.
So he then sits down in this director's chair. This is all true,
sits down in this director's chair, and then the little Asian lady goes
over to his kitchen counter and she takes some lemons and she starts slicing these
lemons, and he's like this. You know, you're not gonna believe this,
but it's great. You love this new Chinese ancient medicine type thing.
But you know, I like it was the new ancient. It's not comfortable.
It's not comfortable. You're gonna have to wait for a minute. I
gotta do this. You know, We're like, okay, whatever, you
know, we'll sit here and wait. So he like leans his head back
in this director's chair, and the woman takes the two slices of the cut
lemon that's split in half, and she starts squeezing them into his eyeballs,
to his eyeballs, eyeballs. Lemons was his nose busy erectly into his eyeballs,
and like, I'm just sitting there in horror. I'm in shock.
I'm like, who the hell does he really is? Rambo? Oh my
god? Yeah, yeah, no, what kind of an iron man comes
downstairs and puts Lemons in his eyeballs? So, you know, he's just
it was like cheers, yeah, God, You're like god, you know,
and I'm like, whoa, you're kidding and so and so he finishes
and then we just you know, have normal rest of the day. And
I said, what was that about. It's a great technique. You know,
I learned about it because you know, ever since I've been you know,
working out and doing these movies. You know, I got a little
tough all the time. You know, the eyes get bloodshy, you know.
So what it does, ironically, is it clears out the eyeballs,
you know, so it takes away that that that yellow mucisi stuff, you
know, it makes it nice and clear. Oh that's good. Yeah.
So I was like, oh, okay, well that's cool. I understand.
I mean, no pain, no gain, you know. So that
was it, and then you know, we had our nice time and we
left. Thirty years later, I'm at your Seppie Franco salon in Beverly Hills
and justet these good friends with him and Schwartz. Yeah, and you know,
everybody goes there and I'm at the counter and I feel a tap on
the back of my joy and here's the voice, Hey, old Corey,
are you doing. I'm like, oh, hey, sly that's going on.
He's like, hey, let me tell you. It's really good to
see you. Man. I'm glad you're doing all right. You look great.
I don't know what you're doing. I don't know what your secret is.
Be look great. I was like, thank you, I appreciate it.
You look great too. Maybe it's from the lemons that you were squeezing
in your eyes the last time I saw you. And he goes, oh,
you know what a funny story about that. I said, really,
Yeah, I said, what is that? He goes you won't believe it,
but uh, it turns out it wasn't true. I'm like, what,
it didn't work at all? Didn't at all? It didn't work at
all. Good way to find that out, Good way to find that out.
Yeah, but at least I don't have glaucoma right up by glackcoma.
It could have been worse. Wow, it didn't work. Still kidding,
real like you were in any danger, Like you've been doing it all along,
right now, you're gonna tell me. Yeah, after all those lemons
put in my eyes, I went, I went through a lemon grove right
exactly. I started growing him in my backyard just so I could be more
like you. Oh my god, how long did that take? You know
what I mean? Yeah? That's knucking fats oh man. So so what's
next for you? Well, we're going on tour again. Yeah, we're
actually heading out in September. We're going to be all over the country and
then on my first US World tour, very exciting, and then I mean,
I'm sorry, first world tour after the US tour, which is very
exciting. I've done like ten twelve tours of the US through my lifetime.
But this will be my first ever international tour. I've never actually done a
full tour outside of the US. Wow. So we're going to hit like
England, We're gonna hit the UK, We're gonna hit Europe, We're gonna
hit Asia, Australia, Canada. So Earth rightly coming to an earth near
you in America. You know that's the idea. He's coming to an earth
near you. That's pretty good. Nice. Finally, oh man, he's
landing running underneath oh man. But anyway, congratulations, exciting. And then
the other really exciting thing is that we just announced the release of my very
own Funko pop. You know, funkos. I'm sure that's probably signed a
billion of them, right, Oh excuse me. Yes, But that's when
you know you made it because I have a bunch of Funko pops. But
it's a Pooh and Tigger and Dark Wing Duck and task as do I.
You have your own fop of you Ger and Mouth and Donna Tello and I'm
sure Fox, Yeah, sure, Yes, it's a big honor. Wow.
Making Corey Fellman exclusive Funko pop is a beautiful so nice. I love
them. First of all, the owners of the company, greatest people in
the world. Oh that's cool. Yeah. Mike, the guy who actually
created it. They call him fun Maker Mike. Amazing guy. He's so
brilliant, so great. He's like Lily Wonka. He's like, oh wow,
that's why he's just he's got this factor song for himself. He probably
and he's a musician. Yeah, well, big surprise, So there you
go. Yeah, that's right. Yeah. So anyway, he started making
these things in his garage. He's good friends with the guy that I'm sure
you know by the name of Bob Gerr. Yes, he was one of
the original imagineers, no kidd that Walt personally hired. And we got to
have dinner with grand old man, right, yes, and he's the only
one left and we got to have dinner with him at the original Bob's Big
Boy and right well yeah, and he was telling us all the stories about
how when they made Bambi, they brought all these animals into the office and
they would sit there and like, study the animals. That's what Walt said,
I want you to study these animals, learn their mannerisms, learn how
they react. Yeah, you know, just watch them all day, every
day and that was their job. They would put a deer in the middle
of the floor and they would just sit there and watch them. That's amazing,
you know they you know I from working on Lion King, I knew
a lot of the illustrators and uh. And they went to Africa. Yeah,
they went to Africa hung around and if you see poomba, Poomba is
the one that cracks you up because as it happened, I went to Africa,
like I don't know, I spent a month in Africa, maybe the
year before we made Lion King. And and they they captured the thing that
they really captured best was the war hog and the macaw, you know who.
The way they flew and the way they ran with their butts up in
the air and their tails open. There I go, oh my god,
oh my god, I saw a lion King and they go, they really
do do that, and they really exactly know And it was the magic of
Disney. And literally is the magic of Disney. Yeah, to pay attention
to those kinds of details. It is so literally is I love it?
Like man, I mean Fox and the Hound. I'm in the movie right,
I've seen it twenty times. I still cry every time. Yeah,
and that's crazy. I don't cry when I watch stand by Me. Yeah,
yeah, you know what I mean. I don't cry when I watch
my other movies. But I watched the watch that Wow, And even though
I know what's gonna happen, I still I get that with Christopher Robin,
yeah you know. And and it's but it's not And it's just because it's
so sweet and so sentimental. Yeah. You know, I don't know anybody
that gets through that movie without a tear in their eye. Right, So
the color purple, right, yeah, yeah, you can't watch that movie
and not cry. Yeah. Oh, just so deep and riveting and like
power great. Yeah, well you know I love Down Yeah, I love
I love I love any movie that gives you that feeling of like, even
if it's a painful feeling, but it's that connection. You know, you
get that inspiration from it. It moves you. I mean, that's that's
the whole secret to art. Right, Yet is getting some kind of reaction.
Yeah, so whether it's positive or negative, you know, people will
say, oh, well, you know, you got too much crap for
this performance, or you got too much of it, and it's like no,
as long as it's about the art. Art is objective, so you
know the way I look at it, Whether you love my art or whether
you hate my art. At least if you hate it, I'm still getting
a reaction, you know, because the worst thing that you could do is
put something out and have people not notice or not care. I'd much rather
that they, you know, are adamantly against it or adamantly for it.
But they're Yeah, so they've listened to it five times to say how much
they hate you. Yes, that's right. Yeah, nothing wrong with that.
Keep buying tickets exactly. That keeps us enough, It keeps us employed
so you don't have to go out and you know, bad groceries or whatever.
Yeah, no kidding. Yeah, that's beautiful man. Well, thank
you, thank you so much. Thank you. I'm glad you're doing this.
I'm glad you're doing this. And uh and congratulations with this of this.
Yeah, so far, so good. To the pod world by Storm.
Yes, I've always wanted to be a pod person. Yeah, what
was that invasion of the Body Snatchers trivia? Yes, there you go.
Well, I've I've always kind of felt you were a bit of a pa
Yes, I have to get back into the closet and come back out as
somebody else right, living the pod life. You live in the pod life,
man. Well, God bless you, Jim, thank you so much,
thank you, thank you, thank you so much, really appreciate it.
And the crowd went wild. God bless your brother thro