Mark Hamill's Colbert Questionert

Thanks everybody, welcome back. Of course, this is this is one of the stars of the the the life of Chuck Mark. Campbell. And Corvette Summer. And Corvette Summer. Mark Hamill. Mark.

Mark, uh uh thanks so much for being here. You know I I have always enjoyed talking to you every every time we've had a chance to be together. And I love hearing your stories and knowing more about you. But even even the best interview with a guest can't always get to who the essence of that person is. So

We hear at the Leitch of coming up with something that that f future historians will call the Colbert questionnaire. Uh-huh. And in the And the Cobra questionnaire is uh buh buh buh buh is like uh thirteen-fourteen questions here that penetrate straight to the soul of someone, reveal them fully. Holy. To the world and to the audience, are you prepared? Have you the courage to be known, Mark Campbell? Am I allowed to lie? Yes. Well then I have complete confidence. Okay, great.

I'll try and tell the truth. Mark Hamill, what is the best sandwich? Uh albacore white tuna on toasted rye. Oh, nice. Anything else on there? Little lemon juice and sweet relish, yeah. Okay, there you go. All right. Very important. What was your first concert that you attended? My first concert I ever attended was The Rolling Stones. What? I was Uh seventeen? What is the scariest animal? Oh scariest animal. Uh uh hungry dog? Uh no. I think a shark. Sure. Uh uh Shark's fine. Apples or oranges?

I love them both, but I'm gonna go with oranges because you get the fruit and you get a drink. It's it's juicy and delicious.

There you go, sure, it's it's efficient. Have you ever asked someone for their autograph? Oh, my when I was about nine or ten, my father ran the PX and he met with Boris Selwyn, who was a jewelry dealer at the Bistro in Los Angeles, and he said to So he said to me, you know who's sitting right over there? And I said, who? He goes, that's Groucho Marks. And I looked around and I said, that's not Groucho Marks. I was a huge Groucho fan, but obviously he wasn't wearing this mustache and all that.

He said, no, that is. Bora said, believe me, that is him. Go ask for his autograph. So I I it wasn't my idea, but I went over there and I had a bistro matchbook cover and I said, I I almost couldn't talk. Can I can I have your autograph? Oh. You don't have my autograph? Well, that's one strike against you. What's your name? Oh, no name and no autograph. That's two strikes against you. One more strike and you're out of the ballgame.

And I managed to get out, Mark Camel. Camel, eh? I don't see a hump. Well don't worry, you'll have one by the time you're my age. That's true. That's the greatest grouchow story I've ever heard. And and it's uh every bit true. And my dad said later when I was walking over his table, Boris lived like down the street from him in Beverly Hills and he did this.

towards me, you know, like give'em the business. But again it w it wasn't my idea. I mean uh I love people but that wouldn't be something that would occur to me. Still have it. Somewhere. I haven't seen it in years, but I of course I have it somewhere. And then you played the Groucho part in Room Service. I saw that. Directed by Alan Arkin. ushered to be able to see that because I was a college student I couldn't afford to. You know, I think I've heard that before.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I talk about it to everyone.

What do you think happens when we die? Gee, I'd like to think that we're all floating up in the clouds playing harps, but I'm worried that we're just worm food. I'm trying to I don't know. I mean that's uh No I understand you gotta believe. Uh but either way I think uh we'll will uh will work out all alright. It's gonna be fine. Yes, yes. It'll be fine for us or it'll be fine for the worms. Exactly. Exactly. Why shouldn't they have a treat? I'm sure we're delicious. Yeah, we must be. To worms.

Favorite action movie? Oh gosh. I loved the dirty dozen. I'm showing my age now, but um Stalag 17, that wasn't really action. Um more recently um Whatever you want. Just I don't know. Aliens? The second one, well, when I got over the disappointment, because the first one, they were just, you could not stop them. They bled acid. And here, in the second one, you just shoot them.

And there were, you know, 50,000 of them. So once I got over to the disappointment they didn't maintain the premise, it's a pretty darn good action movie. Yeah. I hear good things. You haven't seen it yet? I have never seen it. Spoil. Oh god. You can say the F word? Oh Yeah. We can't actually say it. We can't actually say it. Okay, window or aisle. Window.

Okay. I said window because I like to look outside the window and um I like to get on the plane at the end because if you get on first, everybody walks by you and you spend the rest of the afternoon writing, May the Voice Be With You on menus. Favorite smell. Oh, coffee. Popcorn. Ooh. Least favourite. My wife's neck. Hey, rub a little popcorn on there. Exactly. A little butter. All right, least favorite smell. Oh gosh. Uh the subway? I don't know. Yeah. Yes, exactly. Earliest memory.

Oh gosh, earliest memory. I remember Seeing a man on the Walt Disney show with white hair and a Suit, I must say it was before kindergarten. I was maybe three or four. And he got up to the microphone, Clarence Nash. And he did the voice of Donald Duck. And it just blew my mind. I mean, I was so young, I thought, I guess, oh yeah, there must be people who do daffy and bugs and all that. But it It was an epiphany. And I thought, I want that job. You got that.

I'd do a terrible Donald Duck, but what I'm saying is uh clickety click, I thought, gee, people go to work and they're the voices of cartoons. Yeah. Yeah, it didn't make me a very good studier in high school. I mean I was I was working on my yogi bear. Well we I I kinda know this one. Cats or dogs? I love all animals, but I love dogs the most. I'm listening I'm fascinated by cats, but they just tolerate us. Yes. They don't really need us. They live with us. Yeah. For us.

Yes, and they allow us to serve them. But again, I love all animals. I love elephants. I love I mean, I follow this account on on Blue Sky that's nothing but in it's called in otter news. It's just our It's just otters swimming, eating, basking in the sun. I need cute animal clips in my life to distract myself from uh reality.

You only get one song to listen to for the rest of your life. What is it? Now this is you know it's not constant, but when you go to listen to music, this is the music that you get. Well, I'm a huge Ray Davies fan. Oh wow. Uh he wrote a song called Waterloo Sunset. Sure. Yeah. And let me tell you something. I eventually met uh Ray and his brother Dave, and Ray told me the biggest compliment he ever had was seeing a quote in the newspaper when Paul McCartney said, Paul McCartney said,

I should have written that song. I said no higher praise than that. But I have to say, my second favorite or uh equal favorite that of Ray's is uh Celluloid Heroes. Sure. And it's about you know, stars on Hollywood Boulevard and he Singles out all these different ac He's so witty. He's so right. There are stars in every city on every uh in every house and on every street. And if you walk down Hollywood Boulevard, they're written in concrete.

It's a lovely melody and uh Village Marine Preservation System. Yeah, exactly. And then Dave uh Dave, I think, wrote uh Strangers. He he's underrated. He must it must be hard having an overachieving brother. He wrote Death of a Clown as well. What number am I thinking of? Nine. Okay. Mark Hamill, describe the rest of your life in five words. Um staying in pajamas all day. Congratulations, Mark. Just one more thing. Come to the late.

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