"I'm in the prime of my senility,". What a great line.

@Genesis-xd1id

4 ай бұрын

Truly!

I instantly recognized him as Rueben Klopek from The 'Burbs

I love Brother Theodore's role in The Burbs and never saw anything else he did until seeing this. Now i see just how much of a surrealist genius he is!

Funniest man to ever come out of Dachau.

It was always a treat when Brother Theodore was on Letterman in the early days of late night.

Brother Theodore. SUCH an INTENSE inspiration. I would have loved to have seen him perform in person on stage. Thank you for preserving at least SOME of his genius. The last part of his headstone reads: As long as there is death there is hope. Such a unique artist actually makes me glad to be alive...a true original.

I can't believe i just found out about this guy. Wow what a brilliant entertainer. Really funny AND poetic. He had a real gift.

Brother Theodore just poured himself into his performances. Singularly unique! Bravo!

I wish I could have seen him live on stage for a performance.

His version of Gollum is what I grew up watching as a kid. His voice was great , but didn’t care for the design . However , it was clearly based on Theodore himself .

What a character, the world is in sore need of a great soul.

I laughed so hard I was crying. Genius.

"born 2 years after the discovery of dirt"

@thediminutiveword

2 жыл бұрын

I LOVE that line.

@pauldickinson6943

2 жыл бұрын

yeah, a classic, brilliant

@pauldickinson6943

Жыл бұрын

itchy chick 😀 what a rant, absolutely brilliant, athletes foot, I want those teeth!!! I can't believe I'd never heard of brother Theodore before, what a mad character.

@pauldickinson6943

Жыл бұрын

her face was sweaty like a lump of rancid pork 😀

@VillemarMxO

Жыл бұрын

When I was twelve I could wave bye-bye

This is the fourth Brother Theodore clip I have seen today and I love this guy.

Brother Theodore was smart and intelligent

KZread comments introduced me to the Brother. Now he's my number one

Best Brother Theodore.. "The Burbs" when I was a young young kid in the 1980s and I would see his name in the credits of movies and I literally thought that his name was "Brother The Odor". I was trying to sound it out phonetically lmao 🤣😂😆

Teddy opened with the bit he performed in 1955! Dave had the same look of astonishment and puzzlement I had when I first saw his act. They guy was a genius.

ill never forget his voice, from the rankin-bass hobbit, and last unicorn.

Incredible. BTW his tombstone says "As Long As There Is Death There Is Hope". I landed here looking up Gollum, whom he played in the 1977 Hobbit movie.

@anton1990

Жыл бұрын

He was a fascinating performer. His take on Gollum is my personal favorite.

@fuxbox

Жыл бұрын

Wow! Gollum that's fascinating I did not know ty

@Joshwolfman

Жыл бұрын

Same in return of the king in 1979 Rankin bass cartoon

Im in the prime of my senility😂

The man was brilliant! His use of the English languge amazing!

This thing all things devours; Birds, beasts, trees, flowers; Gnaws iron, bites steel; Grinds hard stones to meal; Slays king, ruins town, And beats mountain DOWN!!!

"How unfortunate for the Knapps!".

Genius and lunatic! One of a kind, hilarious 🤣

Good Ol' Dave and Theodore, Chuck and Linus

it's been over 50-55 years since I last saw this man.... Brillant !!! A lot of comics have taken his que, "Bud Melman" is another Brilliant mind !!

Dave gave him the Johnny Carson wink at the end

His voice is just so beautifully unique. His passion for his craft is always so mesmerizing. I am glad that we have video recordings of him to see him fully in action. His work in the Rankin-Bass Middle Earth films (The Hobbit and The Return of the King) as Gollum are always what I will think of him first, but he is just so brilliant!

I'm squirming with delight to watch a Brother Theodore clip.

When I first saw this guy back in the day I thought he was for real. Hilarious.

Always love and respect Brother Theodore!

dude is on some next level, pure comic genius

The holy trinity of Letterman guests: Tom Hanks, Bill Murray, and Brother Theodore.

@Christie_Love

Жыл бұрын

Pekar always made for a good oddball interview.

@katonius4542

Жыл бұрын

What about norm MacDonald?

@megatherion2695

Жыл бұрын

@@katonius4542 You got that right. Replace Bill Murray with Norm

@megatherion2695

Жыл бұрын

@@Christie_Love True

@GaryKatch

Жыл бұрын

Bruce Willis was always game for anything; and Steve Martin always well prepared!

He would have been a smash hit at slam poetry nights, lol.

He could be related to Dr. Ruth!

Albeit a different kind if stage personna, Brother Theodore and "Professor" Irwin Corey provided the most delightful kinds of non sequitur-based surrealism. Theodore was always in a rage, and Corey was always in a daze. They were "alternative" comedy before there was alternative comedy. Theodore's grandiose monologues also reminded me a little of "Lord" Richard Buckley's orations. I dearly miss them all.

He was unique. He was truly the one and ONLY. He was one of a kind. Etc

@edwardkasimir8016

2 жыл бұрын

unlike your comment

@pauldickinson6943

2 жыл бұрын

absolutely.

Is that a banlon shirt? Pure Genius.

I'm just plain folks lol thee monolinguist

Wasn’t he in The Burbs

Still a better guest than Madonna

@shaggynwhitt6672

Жыл бұрын

Amen, that's the truth.

@Amber-xe5ti

10 ай бұрын

not as sexy though ..

@opaljk4835

5 ай бұрын

I’ve never seen Madonna on letterman, is she really that bad?

@carsnhats-gp9jk

26 күн бұрын

⁠@@opaljk4835yes

Have to admire his complete dedication to his character. Either a great, great actor or a true psycho!!

The postal service does need to do what is imagined at 2:50

What a legend, loved him in the burbs too.

He’s from upper and lower Bavaria 😆

I see it now. I see it. What he did there was beyond brilliant.

One of the most brilliant performers of his time. The early advertisements for his performances did not exaggerate, he never failed to deliver “A one man show of sinister and diabolical humor.”

"all of a suddenly"

'I am not well my friends' CLASSIC !!

Theodore Isidore Gottlieb !

As BT said: "Where there is death, there's hope."

At 4:40 he almost breaks character.

@Muldoon111

2 жыл бұрын

So he does. Then gets his grimace going again. Brilliant!

I come from extremely bad stock LOL

GENIUS

He might be "Debby Downers" dad.

That Dr Evil monologue at the group therapy in Austin Powers perhaps influenced by this account of early years?

Genius. A riveting performance. I wonder what he was like off stage?

This is easily the funniest interview I have ever seen. WTF, who is this guy?? He missed his calling as a bit player in ALWAYS SUNNY as Frank's other brother.

Reality is for people who can't handle Brother Theodore

absolutely brilliant

@pauldickinson6943

2 жыл бұрын

her face was so sweaty it looked like a rancid bit of pork.

The 'Burbs

Someone should've made a movie where they let Bother Theodore and Fred Willard loose.

The rare event of one in millions and millions and millions of people who never get born again. He was talking about the enlightened Buddha.

About a 9 on the tension scale, Rube

@garycasey3739

2 ай бұрын

🤣🤣

Ahhhh WOW?

Klopek, what is that, Slavic?

@freedomishere868

2 ай бұрын

"NO"😠

So this is where Jason Alexander got his George Costanza from?

Brother Theodore : "Perhaps we just sits here...and chats with its....a bitsy...my precious?" Letterman: Theodore your Gollum is showing!

Saw him on the Jerry Lewis talk show years ago.

You have to be on the rails to go off the rails.

Brother Theodore was on the rails?

Dream weaver ....

Holocaust Survivor. Brother T. Was in the camps

Back when they used to have interesting people on t.v.

I still can't tell if this is a shoot or a work.....

Who also is here because of the autobiography of Herbert Feuerstein?

Theres a few times here where the look on Dave's face matches how i feel about Brother Theodore.

Peculiar act. Perrmance art?

Gollum

Dad?

"Is, uh, that a Banlon shirt?" Greatest comeback line in the history of television.

He's Werner Herzog if he was intentionally funny.

@Kingofcorrect

Жыл бұрын

No, even better: He's a combination of Werner Herzog and Alan Watts.

@OldSkoolUncleChris

9 ай бұрын

with a dash of 1930’s authoritarianism

And Howard Stern, thinks his guests are crazy!

@pauldickinson6943

2 жыл бұрын

I will be on every postage stamp in the world!!!!!

@pauldickinson6943

2 жыл бұрын

what a complete nutcase, funny though, apparently he was banged up in a conservatory and survived, went to America and annoyed everyone.

@pauldickinson6943

2 жыл бұрын

he was absolutely brilliant.

@pauldickinson6943

2 жыл бұрын

they would rather shake the devil by the tail than shake my hand 🤣🤣🤣

@pauldickinson6943

2 жыл бұрын

her face was sweaty like a chunk of rancid pork.

Is that Slavic?

so much more reasonable & coherent than the leading republican candidate.

what's a pediatriciast?

@ryanhayes4148

Жыл бұрын

A podiatrist is a doctor who works on feet.

what is a metepsyician?

@VillemarMxO

Жыл бұрын

Metaphysics is the science of things transcending what is physical or natural. In the original Greek it meant basically all the stuff beyond physics or the physical world.

A pile of mud... with hair...

The only thing he got right was when he called Letterman a pathological liar.

Omg I couldn't stop f****** laughing watching this. Brother Theodore is out of his f****** mind..🤣

About a 9 on the tension scale, Rube