When you first did it in the writers room that night, was the response instant? I got some polite chuckles. I think people wanted me to do well with it, but it made no sense. It was destined for the scrap heap. I was just trying to get through read-through. When I first started doing him, I was trying to duplicate him sound molecule for sound molecule. Silly-smart is always what they used to say we should strive for, because Monty Python perfected it. But, Connery suddenly was silly and smart.
He was an ultrawit. And once again, it made no sense! Why would he be mad at Alex Trebek? That was the intro to that character. Did you ever meet him or hear what he thought of your impression? I heard he was very kind and complimentary to me on The Tonight Show. You had all these marvelous, Emmy Award-winning writers writing these brilliant lines, and I just had to make sure people heard the words clearly.
When you glued on the facial hair, did you feel a little bit like Sean Connery? When they put on the eyebrows and the mustache, all of a sudden it seemed, perhaps I could be Sir Sean. Newswire Powered by.
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I am just a poor beat cop. I want to exaggerate him. I want to blow him up. I want to be a ludicrous premise but carried out in earnest. But the moment I said the words. You can hear [the audience] hesitate and want to dip their toe in the water, and then they did a little bit.
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