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What prompted you to come see me?
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(Interviewer 1) Great question.
We would ask you that!
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(Interviewer 2) Yeah.
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How so? What do you mean?
I didn't invite you.
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(laughter)
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What would I want you in my house for?
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(No.1) We were going to ask you,
"Why are we here?"
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I have no idea. Get out!
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(No.2 laughs)
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I came to Hollywood in '61.
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We found an apartment on an estate
in the Hollywood Hills and rented it.
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The second night we're there,
we hear a rustling outside.
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So she went, peeped
through the blinds of the window
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and there was a large avocado tree
growing right up next to the apartment,
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and she beckoned me over.
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I looked down,
and there were two raccoons,
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sitting on their back,
chewing on avocados.
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And I said, "This is for me."
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I've been chewing on avocados
ever since I got here.
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(laughter)
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(No 2) Are you still involved with
showbiz now?
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Are you doing anything behind the scenes, or-?
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Would you like a kiss?
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(laughter)
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Yeah, I'm still involved in show business.
I tour with a one-man show.
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I do movies if you're making them,
and I'm quite viable...
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in every sense of the word.
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(laughter)
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I have four children, and the youngest,
who's now 27, was deemed autistic
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at 7 or 8, which is late. He's a
high-functioning autistic.
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My lady at the time often said that she
doesn't think he's got autism,
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she thinks he has Asner-ism.
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(laughter)
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There was a time when he was riding
with me as a kid,
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and I already had some fame, and a cop
pulled me over.
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I did a wrong turn or something,
and a cop pulled me over.
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And as the cop came up to the window to
write the ticket, Charlie leaned over towards
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the window and he said, 'Do you know who
you're talking to?'
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I went Shhhh!
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And that's one of the main efforts we
have, to get law enforcement to
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understand there are these types of
people, that they cannot exercise ordinary
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tough cop bullshit. They've got to assess
the situation and respond accordingly.
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I've often said that the world would be a
happier place if it was run by autistics.
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And it may well be.
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(No 1) So you've had an incredible
career, anything that you've done in-
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Only the beginning of it. I'm not heralded
in every hallway in the world.
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I still have to be discovered by a lot of
people.
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INTERVIEWERS: Have you ever done stand up?
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No. I can't even do good sit down.
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(laughter)
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I'm with ABILITY Magazine (burps),
Lots of sexy picture of
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Mary without anything like me around her.
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(laughter)
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Okay, enogh?
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Interviewer: That's it.
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How long are you going to fuss around?