A great interviewer. One of the best I have ever seen of an actor truly discussing their craft.
Charles Nelson Reilly on Inside the Actor's Studio
by Anonymous | reply 48 | January 30, 2024 1:30 PM |
He is a genius
by Anonymous | reply 1 | April 18, 2023 2:57 PM |
It’s scrumtrulescent!
by Anonymous | reply 2 | April 18, 2023 3:13 PM |
Holy shit, that was hysterical. This was on SNL?!
by Anonymous | reply 3 | April 18, 2023 3:23 PM |
R3 Yes! Way back when. It was hysterical
by Anonymous | reply 4 | April 18, 2023 3:29 PM |
CHARLES NELSON REILLY!!!!!…….CHARLES NELSON REILLY!!!!!……
by Anonymous | reply 5 | April 18, 2023 3:33 PM |
If you have never seen the video of his one-man show "Life of Reilly", you are missing out on some great theater. He began his one-man show in 2005, and it was filmed in 2006. Reilly was planning on taking it on tour and then hoping it would end up on-Broadway (as Bea Arthur and Elaine Stritch did a few years earlier). However, CNR died before it ever got going.
It should be available on streaming, if not it may be available from your library on DVD - or they can borrow it from another out-of-state library which has it. Sad to say, the DVD is long OOP and they never released it on CD, either.
by Anonymous | reply 6 | April 18, 2023 3:43 PM |
Damn Alec Baldwin is a pretty good actor!
by Anonymous | reply 7 | April 18, 2023 3:45 PM |
All his appearances on the Tonight Show are hysterical. They’re all on YouTube.
by Anonymous | reply 8 | April 18, 2023 3:53 PM |
Here’s a great clip from the ‘74 Tony Awards where the real CNR does a send-up of his Broadway career.
Bonus points because we get to see Robert Preston introduce him.
by Anonymous | reply 10 | April 18, 2023 3:55 PM |
He names drops too much
Nipsey Russell
Brett Sommers
Gene Rayburn
Betty White
by Anonymous | reply 11 | April 18, 2023 9:08 PM |
We love Matt's videos.
by Anonymous | reply 13 | April 18, 2023 9:25 PM |
What quiz show was he on?? He was always a soothing presence.
by Anonymous | reply 14 | April 18, 2023 9:31 PM |
It's funny when he talk to the students in the balcony in the R10 clip. He can't really sing though.
by Anonymous | reply 15 | April 18, 2023 9:42 PM |
OMG, the next bit is incredibly racist!
by Anonymous | reply 17 | April 18, 2023 9:58 PM |
Non-Americans don't know who Charles Nelson Reilly is.
by Anonymous | reply 18 | April 18, 2023 10:35 PM |
r6 I love that DVD. I didn't know anything about him on a personal level until watching that. It's a wonderful show.
by Anonymous | reply 19 | April 18, 2023 11:04 PM |
He is an amazing actor
by Anonymous | reply 20 | April 18, 2023 11:15 PM |
Thank you, R16. Classy gent.
by Anonymous | reply 21 | April 18, 2023 11:16 PM |
Thanks to you OP, I went down a rabbit hole of watching CNR's appearances on The Tonight Show. He was really good, loved the chemistry between him and Johnny.
by Anonymous | reply 22 | April 18, 2023 11:19 PM |
Charles Nelson Reilly was a good friend of Joan Van Ark. She said that Gloria on Young and the Restless was her Blanche Dubois.
by Anonymous | reply 23 | April 18, 2023 11:21 PM |
Doesn't he get really mad about something in that Broadway Legends documentary?
by Anonymous | reply 24 | April 18, 2023 11:28 PM |
He does do a lot of yelling, I know that, r24.
by Anonymous | reply 26 | April 18, 2023 11:36 PM |
He also produced opera
by Anonymous | reply 27 | April 18, 2023 11:53 PM |
I meant to say that Charles said that Joan Van ark's Gloria on The Young and the Restless was HER Blanche Du Bois. How do I know all this obscure trivia? Soap Opera Digest of course!
by Anonymous | reply 28 | April 18, 2023 11:59 PM |
Not funny. James Lipton's questions were extremely well-researched and insightful.
by Anonymous | reply 30 | April 19, 2023 12:19 AM |
Charles Nelson Reilly was a delight. I kept hoping he would appear in OPs link.
by Anonymous | reply 31 | April 19, 2023 12:25 AM |
He was well known as an extremely kind man. A friend of mine met him and said he was indeed.
by Anonymous | reply 32 | April 19, 2023 12:42 AM |
That is Will Farrell not Alec Baldwin
by Anonymous | reply 34 | April 19, 2023 1:19 AM |
R34 It's Will Farrell AND Alec Baldwin.
by Anonymous | reply 35 | April 19, 2023 1:23 AM |
Thanks for this thread.
by Anonymous | reply 36 | April 19, 2023 2:16 AM |
My husband had been seated in the front row for a performance of Life of Reilly. He hung around the stage door afterwards and was lucky enough to be invited backstage to meet CNR. Penny Singleton was also in attendance. It was one of my husbands favorite memories.
by Anonymous | reply 37 | April 19, 2023 2:56 AM |
[quote]Not funny. James Lipton's questions were extremely well-researched and insightful.
And people say lesbians don't have a sense of humor.
by Anonymous | reply 38 | April 19, 2023 3:28 AM |
Hilarious sketch!
by Anonymous | reply 39 | December 1, 2023 10:46 PM |
He survived the big Connecticut circus tent fire and after that had a phobia of being in the audience. So he went on the stage instead. That lull into the false sense of security.
by Anonymous | reply 40 | December 2, 2023 10:40 PM |
I know he's insufferable and more, but man, Alec Baldwin's appearances on SNL were terrific.
He's genuinely funny and seemed to enjoy himself when performing in a wide variety of skits and roles.
by Anonymous | reply 43 | December 2, 2023 11:24 PM |
^ I was thinking the same thing. Alex Baldwin seems simply intolerable as a human being, but he is ALL IN as an actor.
Moreover, his impression of CNR isn’t demeaning or humiliating. In a way, it seems done with love.
by Anonymous | reply 44 | December 3, 2023 12:12 AM |
[quote]R18 Non-Americans don't know who Charles Nelson Reilly is.
Well really, it should be on the U.S. Citizenship Test, for all!
by Anonymous | reply 45 | December 3, 2023 6:05 AM |
Good performances! Baldwin used to turn gay tricks, right?
by Anonymous | reply 46 | December 3, 2023 6:41 AM |
OP you posting this made me remember how good the late 90s, early aughts crew was. On top of being really funny, they were actually good actors. Now the cunts can’t even remain in character for the entire skit. That was the late great cast where everyone was funny and gifted.
by Anonymous | reply 47 | December 3, 2023 7:00 AM |
Bumping this thread. Rewatched to interview again. Phenomenal.
by Anonymous | reply 48 | January 30, 2024 1:30 PM |