Bonus Video! Leslie Jordan vs Crocodile Dundee
Hello there! Welcome to another bonus video. This week I'm responding to feedback about last week's weird Rosalind Russell joke, and also sharing some more fun stories about the great Leslie Jorden -- including the time he got into a bit of a wrestling match with Paul Hogan, aka Crocodile Dundee. Also, the story of what happened when Betty White hit him on the head with a frying pan, and how Carrie Fisher helped him get out of a fight with his mother. And! We're remembering Kevin Conroy, the voice of Batman for the last 30 years in dozens upon dozens of movies and TV shows and games.
Backup link if the video's not working: https://youtu.be/eQpJkXsZFTQ
My Kevin Conroy short on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/8bkJnbzDCM4
Comments (9)
It had to have been an age joke, that she was playing a character that was older than she really was. Saying that she was in a role that an old lady should have been doing, and that was somehow insulting.
Matt, since these are on vimeo and not youtube, I am trying to set it up so I can start the video on my phone, then go to my history or whatever vimeo calls it, on the app on my tv and finish it there, but I can't find your channel. Can you, or anyone here, help me out, please?
That's a good question! I'm surprised that the videos don't show up in your history, but maybe that's because they're unlisted. (That's the only way to have them accessible only to Patrons.) Does it work if you add the videos to your "like" or "watch later" collections?
The earliest reference I can find to Leslie's Bob Mackie/Carrie Fischer story is from 2010, so that shaves a few years off. The stage show he mentioned it in premiered in April of 2008. (https://www.theatermania.com/new-york-city-theater/news/carpet-diem_26879.html).
Rosalind Russell was auntie Mame in the 1958 movie https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auntie_Mame_(film)
She played older than she was maybe that’s what they were referring too
Yes, at 18 you would sign up for "selective service" which would be utilized in a draft if we ever went to war.
Yup. I started college in 1983, and since I was receiving financial aid, in order to receive my Pell Grants, I was obligated to sign up for the selective service.
RIP Kevin. You were my Batman