WEBVTT 00:00:00.108 --> 00:00:07.158 ♪ (intro music) ♪ 00:00:07.215 --> 00:00:10.163 What prompted you to come see me? 00:00:10.163 --> 00:00:13.523 (Interviewer 1) Great question. We would ask you that! 00:00:13.523 --> 00:00:14.178 (Interviewer 2) Yeah. 00:00:14.178 --> 00:00:18.002 How so? What do you mean? I didn't invite you. 00:00:18.002 --> 00:00:19.682 (laughter) 00:00:19.682 --> 00:00:21.586 What would I want you in my house for? 00:00:21.586 --> 00:00:23.826 (No.1) We were going to ask you, "Why are we here?" 00:00:23.826 --> 00:00:26.082 I have no idea. Get out! 00:00:26.082 --> 00:00:27.683 (No.2 laughs) 00:00:27.683 --> 00:00:30.899 I came to Hollywood in '61. 00:00:30.899 --> 00:00:41.027 We found an apartment on an estate in the Hollywood Hills and rented it. 00:00:41.027 --> 00:00:46.963 The second night we're there, we hear a rustling outside. 00:00:46.963 --> 00:00:52.451 So she went, peeped through the blinds of the window 00:00:52.451 --> 00:00:58.066 and there was a large avocado tree growing right up next to the apartment, 00:00:58.066 --> 00:01:01.299 and she beckoned me over. 00:01:01.299 --> 00:01:05.203 I looked down, and there were two raccoons, 00:01:05.203 --> 00:01:09.476 sitting on their back, chewing on avocados. 00:01:09.476 --> 00:01:14.099 And I said, "This is for me." 00:01:14.099 --> 00:01:19.556 I've been chewing on avocados ever since I got here. 00:01:19.556 --> 00:01:20.675 (laughter) 00:01:20.675 --> 00:01:22.722 (No 2) Are you still involved with showbiz now? 00:01:22.722 --> 00:01:27.299 Are you doing anything behind the scenes, or-? 00:01:27.299 --> 00:01:29.891 Would you like a kiss? 00:01:29.891 --> 00:01:30.932 (laughter) 00:01:30.932 --> 00:01:40.964 Yeah, I'm still involved in show business. I tour with a one-man show. 00:01:40.964 --> 00:01:52.035 I do movies if you're making them, and I'm quite viable... 00:01:52.035 --> 00:01:55.890 in every sense of the word. 00:01:55.890 --> 00:01:56.965 (laughter) 00:01:56.965 --> 00:02:07.220 I have four children, and the youngest, who's now 27, was deemed autistic 00:02:07.220 --> 00:02:15.268 at 7 or 8, which is late. He's a high-functioning autistic. 00:02:15.268 --> 00:02:24.546 My lady at the time often said that she doesn't think he's got autism, 00:02:24.546 --> 00:02:27.044 she thinks he has Asner-ism. 00:02:27.044 --> 00:02:30.550 (laughter) 00:02:30.550 --> 00:02:35.829 There was a time when he was riding with me as a kid, 00:02:35.829 --> 00:02:42.788 and I already had some fame, and a cop pulled me over. 00:02:42.788 --> 00:02:46.242 I did a wrong turn or something, and a cop pulled me over. 00:02:46.242 --> 00:02:55.636 And as the cop came up to the window to write the ticket, Charlie leaned over towards 00:02:55.636 --> 00:02:59.155 the window and he said, 'Do you know who you're talking to?' 00:02:59.155 --> 00:03:01.588 I went Shhhh! 00:03:01.588 --> 00:03:09.028 And that's one of the main efforts we have, to get law enforcement to 00:03:09.028 --> 00:03:17.396 understand there are these types of people, that they cannot exercise ordinary 00:03:17.396 --> 00:03:28.435 tough cop bullshit. They've got to assess the situation and respond accordingly. 00:03:28.435 --> 00:03:35.203 I've often said that the world would be a happier place if it was run by autistics. 00:03:35.203 --> 00:03:39.541 And it may well be. 00:03:39.541 --> 00:03:44.517 (No 1) So you've had an incredible career, anything that you've done in- 00:03:44.517 --> 00:03:50.915 Only the beginning of it. I'm not heralded in every hallway in the world. 00:03:50.915 --> 00:03:55.253 I still have to be discovered by a lot of people. 00:03:55.253 --> 00:03:57.460 INTERVIEWERS: Have you ever done stand up? 00:03:57.460 --> 00:04:01.764 No. I can't even do good sit down. 00:04:01.764 --> 00:04:03.240 (laughter) 00:04:03.240 --> 00:04:11.508 I'm with ABILITY Magazine (burps), Lots of sexy picture of 00:04:11.508 --> 00:04:14.853 Mary without anything like me around her. 00:04:14.853 --> 00:04:16.596 (laughter) 00:04:16.596 --> 00:04:17.861 Okay, enogh? 00:04:17.861 --> 00:04:19.046 Interviewer: That's it. 00:04:19.046 --> 00:04:20.499 How long are you going to fuss around?