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March 27, 2011 5:06 AM Subscribe
"The Life of Reilly" the film of Charles Nelson Reilly's autobiographical one-man show (no Match Game stories) is on Youtube in its entirety, in 28 bite-sized (approx. 3 min. each) pieces.
Opening, "I Thought You Were Dead", The Bronx, mom and dad, Puppets and Stickball, "Save It For The Stage", "You can't be in the play!", An actor was born, Dad and Disney, The State of Regret, aunt and uncle, an Ingmar Bergman adolescence, What Mrs. Treski told him, "I hope it burns to the ground!", from usher to actor, "Do you remember...", Uta Hagen's Class (and his classmates), the Hal Holbrook story, "they don't let queers on television", Off Broadway, Kate Treski and Molly Picon, a family Christmas tradition, dad and mom and Miss Marion, 56 times on TV this week, Shakespeare with Johnny, Burt Reynolds' father, "thank my mother", on teaching Acting, Epilogue: A Pelican. You will laugh, you will cry, you will [BLANK], you will see he really was as awesome as Weird Al says. (via)
Opening, "I Thought You Were Dead", The Bronx, mom and dad, Puppets and Stickball, "Save It For The Stage", "You can't be in the play!", An actor was born, Dad and Disney, The State of Regret, aunt and uncle, an Ingmar Bergman adolescence, What Mrs. Treski told him, "I hope it burns to the ground!", from usher to actor, "Do you remember...", Uta Hagen's Class (and his classmates), the Hal Holbrook story, "they don't let queers on television", Off Broadway, Kate Treski and Molly Picon, a family Christmas tradition, dad and mom and Miss Marion, 56 times on TV this week, Shakespeare with Johnny, Burt Reynolds' father, "thank my mother", on teaching Acting, Epilogue: A Pelican. You will laugh, you will cry, you will [BLANK], you will see he really was as awesome as Weird Al says. (via)
O crap. Please Delete.
posted by lordrunningclam at 5:47 AM on March 27, 2011
posted by lordrunningclam at 5:47 AM on March 27, 2011
*adjusts glasses*
posted by sswiller at 5:55 AM on March 27, 2011 [2 favorites]
posted by sswiller at 5:55 AM on March 27, 2011 [2 favorites]
Love it. Love him!
posted by Countess Elena at 6:21 AM on March 27, 2011
posted by Countess Elena at 6:21 AM on March 27, 2011
He has this weird manic energy. This is probably going to depress some people, but up until this post I had never heard of this guy.
posted by Fizz at 6:27 AM on March 27, 2011
posted by Fizz at 6:27 AM on March 27, 2011
He made Cannonball Run II. I mean, there were a bunch of stars in the movie, but he made it.
posted by cavalier at 6:51 AM on March 27, 2011
posted by cavalier at 6:51 AM on March 27, 2011
This is a great movie, but having it broken up into so many short segments ruins the presentation. Just as I am getting drawn into the monologue, I'm yanked right back out of it when the short segment stops and I have to click the next video.
I want one of these.
posted by MegoSteve at 6:57 AM on March 27, 2011
I want one of these.
posted by MegoSteve at 6:57 AM on March 27, 2011
This is a great movie, but having it broken up into so many short segments ruins the presentation. Just as I am getting drawn into the monologue, I'm yanked right back out of it when the short segment stops and I have to click the next video.
You do know youtube has an option where you can queue your videos and have them autoplay.
posted by Fizz at 7:10 AM on March 27, 2011
You do know youtube has an option where you can queue your videos and have them autoplay.
posted by Fizz at 7:10 AM on March 27, 2011
I saw this on the stage in San Francisco. It was quite funny and touching. Interesting fact: he will never sit in the audience to watch a play, but always watches from backstage, because he was a survivor of the 1944 Hartford circus fire.
posted by jonp72 at 7:32 AM on March 27, 2011 [1 favorite]
posted by jonp72 at 7:32 AM on March 27, 2011 [1 favorite]
I was first introduced to the great Charles Nelson Reilly in the campy psychodelic Saturday morning Sid and Marty Krofft show Lidsville. Here's the intro song telling the back story of Mark, the star of Lidsville, played by Butch Patrick (best known as Eddie Munster.)
posted by Daddy-O at 8:06 AM on March 27, 2011 [1 favorite]
posted by Daddy-O at 8:06 AM on March 27, 2011 [1 favorite]
I am so totally looking forward to watching this. I had no idea such a thing ever happened or existed. CNR in an autobiographical show? It's all very John Leguizamo.
posted by hippybear at 8:09 AM on March 27, 2011
posted by hippybear at 8:09 AM on March 27, 2011
Charles Nelson Rielly is proof that the best revenge is a life lived well.
posted by PinkMoose at 8:35 AM on March 27, 2011 [1 favorite]
posted by PinkMoose at 8:35 AM on March 27, 2011 [1 favorite]
I would have loved to see this show live. I saw the film in its entirety a few years back and left exhausted from laughter. I'm glad to see it here in this form to remind myself of all the jokes I jotted down while watching it.
posted by MCMikeNamara at 9:12 AM on March 27, 2011
posted by MCMikeNamara at 9:12 AM on March 27, 2011
This was so delightful.... How delightful was it?
Also, I still think of this song every time I see a banana.
posted by Room 641-A at 9:18 AM on March 27, 2011
Also, I still think of this song every time I see a banana.
posted by Room 641-A at 9:18 AM on March 27, 2011
If you dig this -- it's also available on DVD with a bunch of bonus stuff. Y'all should check it out! Outstanding film.
I saw it at the Seattle International Film Festival a few years back.. CNR was actually going to be at the screening, but I was thwarted in my quest of meeting him as he had the audacity to die about 2 weeks before the screening.
posted by Rev. Syung Myung Me at 10:00 AM on March 27, 2011 [2 favorites]
I saw it at the Seattle International Film Festival a few years back.. CNR was actually going to be at the screening, but I was thwarted in my quest of meeting him as he had the audacity to die about 2 weeks before the screening.
posted by Rev. Syung Myung Me at 10:00 AM on March 27, 2011 [2 favorites]
Nyong-Nyong!
posted by cazoo at 10:02 AM on March 27, 2011 [1 favorite]
posted by cazoo at 10:02 AM on March 27, 2011 [1 favorite]
He really made Hollywood Squares fly. Him and Wally Cox.
posted by ovvl at 10:07 AM on March 27, 2011
posted by ovvl at 10:07 AM on March 27, 2011
It's funny to think of him as tall. I was similarly surprised to find out Frank Oz is a tall man.
posted by Trochanter at 10:27 AM on March 27, 2011
posted by Trochanter at 10:27 AM on March 27, 2011
(And that Pacino is short) etc. etc...
posted by Trochanter at 10:28 AM on March 27, 2011
posted by Trochanter at 10:28 AM on March 27, 2011
Charles Nelson Reilly's from outer space.
posted by SPrintF at 11:00 AM on March 27, 2011 [2 favorites]
posted by SPrintF at 11:00 AM on March 27, 2011 [2 favorites]
Nyong-Nyong!
I've been trying to decide how to transcribe that sound for half an hour! Thanks!
posted by briank at 11:39 AM on March 27, 2011
I've been trying to decide how to transcribe that sound for half an hour! Thanks!
posted by briank at 11:39 AM on March 27, 2011
Well, that was every bit as delightful as expected. Thanks so much for posting!
posted by hippybear at 12:48 PM on March 27, 2011
posted by hippybear at 12:48 PM on March 27, 2011
"Up on the hilltop where the vultures perch,
That's where I'm gonna build my church,
Ain't gonna be no priest, ain't gonna be no boss;
Just Charles Nelson Reilly nailed to a cross."
posted by stifford at 1:56 PM on March 27, 2011
That's where I'm gonna build my church,
Ain't gonna be no priest, ain't gonna be no boss;
Just Charles Nelson Reilly nailed to a cross."
posted by stifford at 1:56 PM on March 27, 2011
"HARRY, LOOK WHO IT IS, IN JAMS AND JELLIES! (We thought you were dead!)"
Holy cow, this is fantastic, thank you. I'm only two clips in an feel like I've injured my spleen from laughing. It was so weird being a kid in the '70s, when you could see someone like CNR on a game show in the middle of the week and on crazy Sid and Marty Krofft shows on Saturday morning, without any real understanding or context of who he was besides "that Match Game/Lidsville guy." (I also seem to have some memory of him showing up on the Bay City Rollers/Witchipoo morning show at some point, though this could just be wishful thinking.)
posted by scody at 1:58 PM on March 27, 2011
Holy cow, this is fantastic, thank you. I'm only two clips in an feel like I've injured my spleen from laughing. It was so weird being a kid in the '70s, when you could see someone like CNR on a game show in the middle of the week and on crazy Sid and Marty Krofft shows on Saturday morning, without any real understanding or context of who he was besides "that Match Game/Lidsville guy." (I also seem to have some memory of him showing up on the Bay City Rollers/Witchipoo morning show at some point, though this could just be wishful thinking.)
posted by scody at 1:58 PM on March 27, 2011
I'm not 100% on this but I'm pretty sure it was CNR who lined the entry way to his house with 8x10 glossies of proprietors of Hollywood dry cleaners.
posted by victors at 3:07 PM on March 27, 2011 [1 favorite]
posted by victors at 3:07 PM on March 27, 2011 [1 favorite]
It is a crime – a crime – that none of Charles Nelson Reilly's scenes from the great (some would say the greatest) X-Files episode, "Jose Chung's 'From Outer Space,'" exist on Youtube.
posted by koeselitz at 3:10 PM on March 27, 2011 [3 favorites]
posted by koeselitz at 3:10 PM on March 27, 2011 [3 favorites]
This was really really great. I watched the games shows as a kid in the 80s, and knew he was a persistent presence, but never knew how deep and rich his career was. What a wonderful performance.
posted by crickets at 5:46 PM on March 27, 2011
posted by crickets at 5:46 PM on March 27, 2011
"hunl-hunl-hunl ....PAleeezzZuh"
'Jose Chung' was one of those rare moments were it works so well, it works.
test: think the worst of CNR....flashy clothes?, snarky repartee?...I know it is FREAKY man.
posted by clavdivs at 6:05 PM on March 27, 2011
'Jose Chung' was one of those rare moments were it works so well, it works.
test: think the worst of CNR....flashy clothes?, snarky repartee?...I know it is FREAKY man.
posted by clavdivs at 6:05 PM on March 27, 2011
Dear Ann Landers,
Friends insist that because my crush is gay and dead, I should seek my happiness elsewhere. How do I convince them to stop raining on my lovely parade?
Optimistic in Oregon
PS. I just remembered you're dead too. Although grief is timeless, photographs -- especially moving ones -- are like sharpening stones whose power we've yet to truly absorb. If you can still see the dead, their beautiful faces -- if they can still tell you stories in the dark -- how can you ever fully accept they are gone? Please give my love to Charlie. Please give my love to everyone. Tell them they are truly missed.
posted by melissa may at 8:06 PM on March 27, 2011
Friends insist that because my crush is gay and dead, I should seek my happiness elsewhere. How do I convince them to stop raining on my lovely parade?
Optimistic in Oregon
PS. I just remembered you're dead too. Although grief is timeless, photographs -- especially moving ones -- are like sharpening stones whose power we've yet to truly absorb. If you can still see the dead, their beautiful faces -- if they can still tell you stories in the dark -- how can you ever fully accept they are gone? Please give my love to Charlie. Please give my love to everyone. Tell them they are truly missed.
posted by melissa may at 8:06 PM on March 27, 2011
Coincidentally, today my son and I watched an episode of "Lidsville" featuring C.N.R. It was on the Sid & Marty Krofft's "Saturday Morning Hits" DVD. My son, who usually hates anything that isn't animated, begged for more.
posted by Bushmiller at 8:06 PM on March 27, 2011
posted by Bushmiller at 8:06 PM on March 27, 2011
Man, I love Charles Nelson Reilly. Also great is Alec Baldwin's impression of him.
posted by electroboy at 6:55 AM on March 28, 2011
posted by electroboy at 6:55 AM on March 28, 2011
He made Cannonball Run II. I mean, there were a bunch of stars in the movie, but he made it.
He makes EVERYTHING his presence has ever graced!
posted by Mael Oui at 8:54 PM on March 28, 2011
He makes EVERYTHING his presence has ever graced!
posted by Mael Oui at 8:54 PM on March 28, 2011
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