Mr. Rogers Talks About Meeting Eddie Murphy | Letterman — Transcript

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1. 0:00[Applause]
2. 0:00nice for you thank you this is for me
3. 0:03yeah it's very nice of you this is mr
4. 0:04roger's t-shirt there's the trolley
5. 0:10[Music]
6. 0:12thank you oh there's a sweater and
7. 0:14here's some shoes
8. 0:17to bring some for everyone yes
9. 0:19uh now that sort of thing i i was
10. 0:20surprised to see that you that ever
11. 0:22happens much of that go on behind the
12. 0:24scenes on your show
13. 0:25goof ups sometimes things don't go right
14. 0:28in the neighborhood
15. 0:38but i did get that thing up uh-huh oh
16. 0:40good good um you can see that someday uh
17. 0:44but often things are not often but
18. 0:46occasionally things get a little goofy
19. 0:48yeah yes in that next program that
20. 0:50they're going to show on that blooper
21. 0:52business
22. 0:53uh there's a chimpanzee that gets out of
23. 0:55hand uh-huh
24. 0:58[Music]
25. 1:02you have provided hours and hours of
26. 1:04entertainment and education for young
27. 1:06people what was your own uh childhood
28. 1:08like your early years like
29. 1:10i was an only child until my sister came
30. 1:13when i was 11 years old
31. 1:16and i had to make up a lot of my own
32. 1:18play my own friends
33. 1:20and so i would dip into my bag of
34. 1:22puppets and make them
35. 1:24talk uh king friday the 13th you know
36. 1:28speaks like this and lady elaine
37. 1:30fairchild would be glad to be here
38. 1:33did uh
39. 1:34did this
40. 1:35bother mom and dad
41. 1:37i mean
42. 1:38i mean you know
43. 1:40that i would speak to myself yeah you
44. 1:42were sitting in the room maybe talking
45. 1:43to yourself
46. 1:45happily it didn't
47. 1:48what is uh uh then you got into
48. 1:51television early didn't you after uh 30
49. 1:54years ago i came right here
50. 1:56to nbc and was a floor manager right in
51. 1:59these studios
52. 2:00i remember the horn and heart art
53. 2:02children's hour
54. 2:04in this studio it was terrible
55. 2:08people would bring their little children
56. 2:10and make them perform
57. 2:11do you remember it no i don't remember
58. 2:13that was it a network show or a local
59. 2:15show or it was local and they would just
60. 2:16bring kids in and let them yeah
61. 2:19any other shows that you worked on that
62. 2:21well the hit parade up in 8h
63. 2:25and the nbc offer theater
64. 2:27my degree was in music you know i write
65. 2:29all the music for the program
66. 2:31incidentally paul we don't have enough
67. 2:32time for that song
68. 2:35that's what they told me told you not
69. 2:37enough time for the song okay well maybe
70. 2:38you can paul and get together after the
71. 2:40show
72. 2:43i mean if you rehearsed it no sense in
73. 2:45wasting the song um now it's interesting
74. 2:48i believe you pointed out the irony of
75. 2:49the fact that in this building now where
76. 2:51you started out your broadcasting career
77. 2:53there is now a show that occasionally
78. 2:54has a performer doing an impression or
79. 2:56an imitation of you
80. 2:58that's right i just met him a little bit
81. 3:01ago do you think we could see that well
82. 3:03certainly
83. 3:04eddie
84. 3:06[Applause]
85. 3:13[Music]
86. 3:16murphy that's uh mr rogers there in the
87. 3:19uh
88. 3:21yeah
89. 3:23on the left on the left too uh now how
90. 3:26do you react to that uh we talked to
91. 3:28andy rooney about someone doing an
92. 3:29impression of him and he didn't seem too
93. 3:31keen on it
94. 3:32well some of them aren't very funny but
95. 3:34i think that uh that a lot of them are
96. 3:37done
97. 3:38with the
98. 3:40with real kindness in their hearts
99. 3:44do you think that do you think that's it
100. 3:49there is one person on radio that really
101. 3:52bothers me though i i've heard it's
102. 3:55somewhere in the in the mid south
103. 3:58and he tells children in my voice
104. 4:02to
105. 4:03do such things as get their mother's
106. 4:05hair spray
107. 4:07and their father's cigarette lighter and
108. 4:09put them together
109. 4:13and
110. 4:14he thinks that he's talking to adults
111. 4:16but he's really talking with children
112. 4:18and i
113. 4:19i think that could cause a lot of fires
114. 4:22yeah that would
115. 4:24well that's right you know
116. 4:26you're exactly right it would blow up
117. 4:28yeah it would burn and be highly
118. 4:30volatile you you have uh um
119. 4:33i'm sorry you're out here so late i
120. 4:34would like to ask you to come back and
121. 4:36you have a show coming up on pbs just
122. 4:38briefly if you want to mention the
123. 4:39nature of the week on discipline
124. 4:42there's a parent special on discipline
125. 4:45and the whole week of children's
126. 4:47programs the first week of march on
127. 4:49discipline you know discipline is caring
128. 4:52just like love is caring
129. 4:54and they're both as important as the
130. 4:57other i want to uh thank you for being
131. 4:58here and i hope you'll come back in the
132. 4:59afternoon
133. 5:01fred rogers mr rogers mr rogers
134. 5:04neighborhood
135. 5:11you