WEBVTT 00:00:00.431 --> 00:00:07.807 (music) 00:00:07.807 --> 00:00:11.290 What prompted you to come see me? 00:00:11.290 --> 00:00:13.513 INTERVIEWERS: Great question. We would ask you that! 00:00:13.513 --> 00:00:14.283 INTERVIEWERS: Yeah. 00:00:14.283 --> 00:00:16.231 How so? What do you mean? 00:00:16.231 --> 00:00:17.662 (laughter) 00:00:17.662 --> 00:00:21.298 I didn't invite you. What would I want you in my house for? 00:00:21.298 --> 00:00:24.129 INTERVIEWERS: We were going to ask you, 'Why are we here?' 00:00:24.129 --> 00:00:26.265 I have no idea. Get out! 00:00:28.555 --> 00:00:36.126 I came to Hollywood in '61. We found an apartment on an estate in the 00:00:36.126 --> 00:00:46.502 Hollywood Hills, and rented it. The second night we're there, we hear a rustling outside. 00:00:46.502 --> 00:00:55.458 So she went, peeked through the blinds of the window, and there was a large avocado 00:00:55.458 --> 00:01:00.570 tree growing right up next to the apartment, and she beckoned me over. 00:01:00.570 --> 00:01:09.999 I looked down, and there were two raccoons, sitting on their back, chewing on avocados. 00:01:09.999 --> 00:01:13.688 And I said, 'This is for me.' 00:01:13.688 --> 00:01:15.926 (laughter) 00:01:15.926 --> 00:01:19.118 I've been chewing on avocados ever since I got here. 00:01:19.118 --> 00:01:27.329 INTERVIEWERS: Are you still involved with showbiz now? Are you doing anything behind the scenes, or-? 00:01:27.329 --> 00:01:28.649 Would you like a kiss? 00:01:28.649 --> 00:01:33.401 (laughter) 00:01:33.401 --> 00:01:40.893 Yeah, I'm still involved in showbusiness. I tour with a one-man show. 00:01:43.583 --> 00:01:52.938 I do movies if you're making them, and I'm quite viable... 00:01:52.938 --> 00:01:55.209 in every sense of the word. 00:01:55.209 --> 00:01:56.436 (laughter) 00:01:56.436 --> 00:02:07.167 I have four children, and the youngest, who's now 27, was deemed autistic 00:02:07.167 --> 00:02:15.420 at 7 or 8, which is late. He's a high-functioning autistic. 00:02:15.420 --> 00:02:24.266 My lady at the time often said that she doesn't think he's got autism, 00:02:24.266 --> 00:02:28.094 she thinks he has asthmarism. 00:02:28.094 --> 00:02:30.725 (laughter) 00:02:30.725 --> 00:02:35.004 There was a time when he was riding with me as a kid, 00:02:35.004 --> 00:02:42.033 and I already had some fame, and a cop pulled me over. 00:02:42.033 --> 00:02:45.469 I did a wrong turn or something, and a cop pulled me over. 00:02:45.469 --> 00:02:55.230 And as the cop came up to the window to write the ticket, Charlie leaned over towards 00:02:55.230 --> 00:02:59.504 the window and he said, 'Do you know who you're talking to?' 00:02:59.504 --> 00:03:01.843 I went SHHHHHH 00:03:01.843 --> 00:03:08.934 And that's one of the main efforts we have. To get law enforcement to 00:03:08.934 --> 00:03:17.445 understand there are these types of people, that they cannot exercise ordinary 00:03:17.445 --> 00:03:28.359 tough cop bullshit. They've got to assess the situation and respond accordingly. 00:03:30.039 --> 00:03:34.634 I've often said that the world would be a happier place if it was run by autistics. 00:03:34.634 --> 00:03:39.602 And it may well be. 00:03:39.602 --> 00:03:44.175 INTERVIEWERS: So you've had an incredible career, anything that you've done in- 00:03:44.175 --> 00:03:50.693 Only the beginning of it. I'm not heralded in every hallway in the world. 00:03:50.693 --> 00:03:54.422 I still have to be discovered by a lot of people. 00:03:54.422 --> 00:03:56.863 INTERVIEWERS: Have you ever done standup? 00:03:56.863 --> 00:04:02.146 No. I can't even do good sit down. 00:04:02.146 --> 00:04:03.928 (laughter) 00:04:03.928 --> 00:04:11.038 I'm with ABILITY Magazine (burps), lots of sexy picture of 00:04:11.038 --> 00:04:14.521 Mary without anything like me around her. 00:04:14.521 --> 00:04:16.276 (laughter) 00:04:16.276 --> 00:04:17.269 Okay, enough? 00:04:17.269 --> 00:04:18.303 INTERVIEWERS: That's it. 00:04:18.303 --> 00:04:23.246 How long you gonna fuss around?