Corey Feldman

How you doing out there? It's me Tigger Duc Wayne Duck. It's me Bunkers, Steve, Bobcat. All right, y'all, did it great? Your favorite firefly you desire? Hold the old knock guy. My name is Jim Cummings and welcome to tuned in. All right, ladies and gentlemen, we are tuned in with Jim Cummings and Corey Feldman, the man who needs no introduction. You already know that. Thanks for joining us. Thank you very much, appreciate it. Good good, Thank you. So you're a

host to host absolutely now we're now, we're locked in. I love it. We've got you. How are you? Oh man, it's it's it's great. It's great to be here. I'm sure we have a hurricane in a minute, so stay tuned for that. That's right. Yeah. Well it's gonna give great aesthetic to the background. That's right. Yeah, dimensional, you know value, you'll be able to really transfer to three D to the tornado going that's lifting up behind us. It'll be great. What was

that sharknado? Yeah? Did you see that? Did you see? No? Yes, of course I did you did. I was riveted? Oh wow, yeah, I'm sorry to hear that. Yeah, well that's all right. Well you you've been busy. You you started offways easy. My life is busy. Yeah, it's a beautiful thing, it is. Yeah, and you too, right, So far, so good. Yeah. How many voices do you do? All of them? How many? Every last one? No? I don't know. But the internet, do you have a number? No? I don't mean professional, I mean like,

how many do you have in your you know you mean in here? Yeah, I don't know. It's crowded a voice, isn't there? Right? Yeah? Too many? Too many? Man, the council, we call them the council. Yeah. Yeah, it's crowded in there. Yeah, don't go there. Well, you know I started doing voices when I was four, working for Disney. Oh wow, yeah, wow, Yeah you didn't. I started when I was five, but I was, you did. I was working on you know, walking. Oh, you know,

it's like working for Disney. I didn't know that. You didn't. How did that keep going? Please? Well I was. I probably was doing Disney's stuff before you were. Yeah. Yeah, so back in the seventies. You win. Okay, not everybody go oh it's crazy, that's wicked. But yeah, my very first job was Foxing the Hound. Well, my first feature film was Foxing the House. That's well, that's true. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, so I played the Hound. Wow. Yeah, that is so freaking cool. How did I not know that?

I don't know. Jeez, that's crazy one of us did. That's right. Well, you know, at the end of the day, it's part of the Disney family. But it started with my sister. Oh so here, here's some more for you, some more trivia. So my sister started the Disney connection. So when I was three years old, I would go with her to the set. She was seven. She's three years older than me, so I was three and a half. She was You weren't joking, boy? Yeah yeah, but anyway, so yeah, so at

seven years old, she was in Mickey Mouse Club mousekets here. Wow. Yeah. So I used to go with her to this set every day and then people would, you know, hear my voice. And that's how I got my first job. It was a casting lady that was in the Burbank offices while she was on this set filming. You know, some ladies walking by and she hears me, And I guess when I was a kid, you know, I always had this rough voice, a little rasp or whatever. Yeah, and so I sounded like as a kid. I sounded like

an adult woman. So you still do it? Really, it's awesome. It's a very kind of you, jim So. Yeah. No. But anyway, I was, you know, I had this voice that I guess was like you know, mom da, I'm like, you know, talking to my mom about something, and the lady said, you know, can you please ask that lady it'll be quiet. We're trying to shoot in here. And then you know, and then I say something else, really, the lady needs to stop talking. And they're coming in. They're like,

where's the lady? Oh, is it you? And she's like, no, no, no, I'm the mom. That's my son. You're here. Yeah. You know, he's got a loud voice, and I'll tell him to shut up and then she's like, no, that's amazing, Like he's perfect. Like I've got to bring him in for something if you let me in. And that's kind of how it started. So it started because of my unique voice. And then my first you know, feature film was starring in at Disney Animated Classic. Wow, no kidding, that's that's not

a bad first gig. Yeah, madeor motion picture. But it took me years. Okay, I mean my first first gig was a McDonald's commercial. Oh so at three and a half, the first thing that I shot was a McDonald's commercial, and that commercial ran for the next eight years, won a Klio Award. It's a classic. It was the Christmas Gift Certificate commercial. If you remember where the little kid was walking down the stairs and then he sees Santa Claus at the bottom of the stairs with the gift certificate and

yeah, you remember, that's nuts. Yeah, the little boys like that was me. Oh man, is that crazy? Is he still smoocho? Yeah? That is wonderful. Yeah, oh man. So we've been in each other's lives all the time. Yeah man, that's now. Let me tell the story of how I met you. Oh yes, I kind of remember that one, I think, so. Yeah, all right, So I met him at the Playboy Mansion of all places, so not Disney, of use. Yeah, and you and you were you were up at the

crack of noon, as I recall. No, it was like I think it was late, wasn't it. That we were trying to get out of there and yeah, yeah, we're in the game room. The famous Game Room, and I think I was playing a game of pool, I believe, and we were all standing around the pool table and somebody said, this is the guy who does Winny the Pool. He's the voice of winning the Pool. And I was like, I got to meet him. And he went I said give me some money. So I was like, oh,

I got to meet him. I got to meet him, and so we came over, we said hello, and then here's the crazy part. So my son, his name is Zen and he was a little tiny baby and he was so cute at that time. Now he's not. He's a man. He's a man. He's a strong man. Now I'd be very upset if I called him anything, that's right. But anyways, so he was a little tiny baby and his favorite thing, his favorite cartoon character, of course, Winnie the Pooh, And because of it, we used to call

him Zenny the Pooh. That was his nickname, Jenny Pooh. So we'd be like, oh, Jenny Pooh, come here, you know, and he loved it, right, So he loved Winnie the Pooh. He read all the books, we you know, played the little tapes that go along with the book and all that kind of stuff. So he was used to hearing the voice, and I said, oh my god, I'd be great if you could leave him like a voicemail message, you know that I could play him later. So he was kind enough to take a moment, and

he left the most adorable little message. You should have seen his eye. Oh wow, when I brought it for him. He's his eyes got this big. What you met Winnie the Pooh? It was so cute. Oh yeah, well at that age too, that's that's that's Poohville. He was like three, Yeah, yeah, perfect, that's perfect. Oh that's good. Thanks for telling me that. Thank you for doing taking the shie. Yeah. I've since been a real weasel, so I'm they're never nice to

anybody. That's not I'm all stuck. You did it all good enough? There you go? Oh man, well that's like the Gooies. Yeah. Hey, wait a minute, was that a segue this before? Hey? I might have been on an interview here, Yeah, I wouldn't think so, yeah you have you know, well, the Goodies. I think it was one of the cool movies. I mean, everybody in it went from being child star to movie star. Isn't that crazy? I mean, I mean, except for Jeff Cohen who but he's like the biggest entertainment wlayer.

Now yeah, you know that works. Yeah, everybody's everybody from that film ended up successful. Yeah yeah, yeah, Kerry Green became a director, Artha Plimpton went to Broadway and did many, you know, huge movies and TV series. After Sean Aston, he sho thriving, still thriving. Yeah, I don't know what Josh Brolin is doing. Yeah whatever, he just kind of went right down into the dumpster. Yeah, nothing there, too bad. I mean, you know, I thought the kid had some so

much you know, potential. Yeah, I thought maybe something. You know, he's kind of good looking. He's got muscles and stuff, so you should be like, yeah, you would drinking or something. Yeah, it's weird. H And then that that Asian kid boy he just disappeared off the map. Huh. Yeah, you want a Academy award, Isn't he Isn't he? I was gonna say, talk about the same guy. No, but he did disappear for like thirty years to everybody. Well, but he's

comeback, Yeah, credible comeback. He got such a great speech. Yeah, it wasn't it beautiful? I was crying. Yeah, that was so inspiring, right, But but he he didn't really disappear. For those of us, you know, who love him and know him, he was working the whole time, but he was working behind the scenes. So he was in Hong Kong doing movies with Chat Lee as a fight coordinator. People didn't know this. Yeah, he was a badass stunt coordinator, fight coordinator.

And he did actually worked on conspiracy theory with Richard Donner or was at least a weapon for well one of the two, or maybe both. But he was doing you know a lot of behind the scenes stuff for Dick Donner and you know from the director from Gooney's. Oh yeah, he continued to do all kinds of stuff. I mean, he was he was just very busy, but always behind the scenes and really had given up the idea of acting

altogether, which was crazy. And then all of a sudden he gets this script, you know, and it was like, oh, I think maybe I'll you know, consider some jobs or whatever. Got a new agent, and he was at my house when he goes, yeah, they sent me this script and you know, this little independent movie. And I thought, oh man, we don't know if it'll ever be seen. We don't know what's gonna happen with it, but you know, I'm really hopeful it comes out. And if it does, you got to come support me. You

got comes upon me. Okay. I was like, okay, yeah, I loving me so sweet. Oh but anyway, so so the movie came out and he calls me up. He's like, oh, we're gonna have a We're gonna have a screening. You gotta come. I was like, okay. So they did this like Q and ah went down to the screening and I was just like, my job was on the floor. And when I saw that the fanny pack sne Have you seen the movie? Everything everywhere all at once. Oh I don't think I have. Oh you got to

see it? Oh wait, maybe is a great Yeah it's it's yeah. I think it's on Netflix right now. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, it's rotating. I mean it won like ten Academy Awards. Yeah, it was the biggest movie. I don't get out much. I'm sorry to say. That's all right. Well you can watch it at home now. Yes. Yeah, it's a new thing. I've heard of that they've got these things called TVs. Yeah, I've heard put stuff on them and then they send you a check. That's right, that's not that works for everybody, that

works for you. Well, that's good stuff, man. Yes. Wow. So do you do a lot of cons nowadays too, because at least a a lot. I don't do a lot. I don't like to to wear myself thin, you know, I like. I think it's special. The reason why I always do so well, I think is because I just don't go to a lot of them. I do maybe three or four a year generally. But I do spend a lot of time seeing the fans because

I'm always touring. That's the new thing. I mean. I put out this giant box set last year, which is a thirtieth anniversary of my first album. My first album came out in nineteen ninety three. I started recording

stuff for it in nineteen eighty six, oh man. And my first single ever came out in nineteen eighty nine, which was a soundtrack for a film called Dream, A Little Dream. So the very first material I put out to the public was a vinyl single in nineteen eighty nine, and then it took another four years before we actually got an album together and released it. And even then it was like independent, you know. It wasn't in record

stores. It was like I was handing it out to people like, hey, you got to listen to a music and if you don't like it, you could use it as a frisbee. It's you know, a coaster or something. Yeah. So yeah, but anyway, so we just put out this thirtieth anniversary which we took the original two inch tapes, the big thick tapes. Oh yeah, and we had to bake them. I don't know if you know about this, but this is this is a thing. It's

a real thing. So you know, for those people who remember the dinosaurs, and there was back in the dinosaur days, there was Fred Flintstone and Wilma and they had these big two inch tapes that we would use on these big giant tape machines and when you recorded, you actually had to cut the tape together to actually splice stuff. And seen it done many times, try it, but right. Yeah, So we would record all our stuff. So we had this stuff in these big Master tapes in my vault, been

sitting there for all these years. And I was talking, do you know Don Dawkin is Dowcin rocking with Dowkin from the eighties? Oh oh, no, oh yeah, yeah, yeah. So don Dawcin. I run into him. He's a really nice guy, super sweetheart, and he says, oh, you know, I said, well, I got all these tapes. I don't know what to do because well, you know, we just did a project, the Lost Tapes, and you know what you do is you bake them in an oven. I said, I've heard about that,

but is it really true? And he says, yeah, I've got the oven for it. And I said, okay, well if you could help, that'd be amazing because I've got all this stuff. And he said yeah. So we took it. You know, there was like a specialist who sat there and went through every inch of the tape and they have to clean off all the mold and they have to do this whole chemical process. Then they take it, they put it in this oven and what happens is the

magnets fall off over time. So when you're dealing with, you know, live tape, because you know, tape and film are a live thing. I mean it's actually people don't know this, but film is a moving being. It's a living entity, living film. So yeah, so when we're dealing with tape, you know, the magnets fall off, and it all kind of falls apart and departiclizes. So what you got to do is you put in this oven and the magnets magically jump back into their place right where

they're supposed to be. And then you take it and you run it through the tape machine one time. First of all, you have to have a tape machine from nineteen twenty five. But you run it through the tape machine and then as you do it, you get one pass. And if you capture everything precisely, then you can individually process them digitally and signify them as individual tracks, and then you can mix them as individual tracks and then into

a compilation of tracks. So it's a digital transfer. It's the highest quality you can get, and it sounds amazingly beautiful. So wow, yes, we did it. We got the process done. I had Don Docin helped. We had all these songs, and then all of a sudden I started discovering there were these songs that I had forgotten about that we'd never released. Oh no way. So I was like, well, this is amazing. That was like a treasure treasure trove, treasure trove for you. Yeah,

it was beautiful. So and then I start going through, oh well, better start looking through my old videos and all that kind of stuff. And the next thing, you know, is like, oh yeah, I remember this one from nineteen eighty six when I was working on Lost Boys and I made a music video in my dad's apartment. We should probably release that at some point, right, yeah, time, All this stuff that you know, I'd kind of forgotten about fallen by the way side, and I finally

put it out for the fans. And so this disc is if the Box I'm Sorry is a four disc set with CDs, four CDs, two dv We made a documentary about the process of making the album. The process of making the collection, we put together a fifty page color magazine that looks like a teen magazine from the eighties. Oh wow. We got everybody who's been involved with my music from eighty six to ninety three. Well everybody except lead a Ford. She was just too busy for us and she couldn't do it.

What are you going to do? We love lead It, I'm just giving her something anyway, but no. So we had Michael Damien and Mickey Thomas from Starship. You know, wow, pipes, Oh my god. So he's came back. He had done Dream a Little Dream, the first movie that I did music for, and he sang the song dream a Little Dream, and I had to dance down the bleachers, lip syncing as if I was singing. But in those days, I wasn't very strong of a singer, so I was still learning. I was, you know, very

unsure. So I did record a song with Michael Damien, who had the number one song on the soundtrack, which was called rock on Yeah. And remember that one, hey kiss rock and bo rock bo exactly you got it, yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly. Wow. So Michael and I recorded a song during that time called Something in Your Eyes, which became my first single, but they didn't put it on the soundtrack album. So it was like, Okay, I'm getting it now. Now it's all kind of

coming together. This is an opportunity. I did like seven or eight film soundtracks between eighty six and ninety three, but none of it ever came out on records, you know, it was just in the movie. So I was like, here's my chance to give the fans everything they've been screaming for, which is like all these songs from the old movies and all these pictures

and videos and stuff from the process of the making of it. We got Mickey to come back and him and I did a thirtieth anniversary song remake of Dream Little Dream, which is like a killer rockin version, like we did like a really really like almost a punk version of it. Yeah, and I got Mickey to perform. I produced it. So I got Mickey to like, I was like, you might have to grab your you know what.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, get it up there. But but yeah, sometimes you got to, you know, do what it takes to get that note. But but I was, you know, he's seventy years old, he's seven years old, and he sounded like he was twenty. I mean I was blown away. Sol seventy seven, d oh, thank you. I feel no no, no seven. I would talk about no no, no, that's amazing. Yeah yeah, yeah, seventy years old and he's still and he sounds like he's twenty. Wow. Yeah, it's beautiful.

So we got him to do that. We then did this documentary. We did interviews with him, with Michael Damien, with all the people who were part of it, and we put together this film which kind of explains everything I just told you. Because a lot of people don't realize that I was actually singing before I was even acting. Wow, yeah, yeah, that's wow. Where in the womb? Because you've been so what happened was?

It's a good question because a lot of people don't understand that when you're three years old, you can't really memorize your lines, you can't really read the script, you can't really know, you can't read the script work it out with the other actors, right, So how do you how do you get the part when you're three years old? Well, I think you have

to be pretty cute, right exactly. So my mom figured out, well, he may not be able to read or write, but we've got to find a way that they're gonna, you know, notice him, and he's gonna stand out from the rest. And my dad was a singer and a musician. My sister was in the Mickey Mouse Club, singing and dancing every day on stage at disney Land and all that. So then I was like, well, I like music. So she said, okay, well here's

what we're gonna do. We're gonna stick you in a room with a record player and you're going to listen to this record over and over and over until you memorize every word of it. Yeah, and then I want you to come out and sing it for me. And you know, once I did, then she would take that. She would put me into the rooms for the castings, and I would go to and I would sing and they would say, oh, look, how cuteie is. You know it about the same way, you know, happy Birthday? You got it? I got

it. And I was doing easy songs like you know, put on a happy face or or yeah yeah, yeah, you know what was it? Sunshine? Oh okay? And uh and jung Food Junkie by Jim Grochi, oh juf Ny. They love when I did that one because I was like this little kid talking about you know, I got twinkies in my closet and oh wow that was perfect. Yeah yeah yeah, oh you must have knocked him out. Yeah. Well, I got like one hundred commercials by the time I was eight. Yeah. So but that's how I started. And

then and then back to Disney again. My first TV movie of the Week or TV special, whatever you want to call it, when I was about five or six, was with Dick Van Dyke and it was a musical and we did it was called how do you like a child, and there was lots of musical numbers, so I had to sing and dance with the greatest of all time, you know, Dick Van Dykes right off the bat. So yeah, that'll do it. Wow, that is astonishing. He played my dad because I do the character Pete, you know, that big old

guy that's always messing with Mickey Bows. And we did a special it's got to be maybe like ten years ago, and he came in and did a cameo as Pete's dad. Oh cool, And I was thinking, yeah, so Dick Van Dyke's my dad. Okay, I can die happily. That's pretty Yeah. And the crazy thing I think he's actually old enough to be your dad. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, Well he's in his nineties. Oh yeah, he's like ninety six and he's still going, I know,

God, this lesson you know what. I saw him at one of these conventions about I'm saying about four years ago, was right before the pandemic, and we were in the elevator together. It was like, hey, buddy, he remembered me. First of all, that's crazy, right, yeah, that's astonishing right there. I mean, come on, he's got it. Yeah, So hey, Corey, how are you good to see you, buddy? How's everything? You know that all that energy? Right

as a dick? You got to tell me something. What I said, he's still dancing and he goes, oh yeah, and he starts a little soft shoe right there in the elevator, right. He goes, you gotta keep moving, gotta keep moving, can't let it go. And you know how it is, Corey, Right, you know you're still dancing, aren't you. I said, I'll never stop. He goes, exactly, exactly. How cool is that? God bless him. I love him so much, No kidding, well, I think everybody does. He's like, yeah,

everybody's at least favorite uncle. Yeah that you're not related to exactly, you know legend. I mean he's like one of the last greats that we still Oh yeah, yeah, you're right about that. And the performance he did in the New Mary Poppins. Did you see it? I haven't seen that. I didn't see the movie, but I watched that. Just all you gotta do is YouTube watch his scene, because wow, he's ninety one or ninety two and he gets up on the table and he's dancing. I

mean, it's crazy. Wow. It said Joliola Day with Mary Yeah, yeah, yep, Wow, that's nuts. Well you've got a few stories in you, h just a man, just used a few. I was raised, you know, in a very terrible environment. But to get away from that terrible environment, my two escapes were going to Neverland and the Playboy Man you know, rotating yes too, like who can say that? Wow, I'm pretty sure you're in a very small club. Yeah, right, very smart. I mean to go to one of the places, I think

it's pretty rare. But to go to both. Yeah, and it's not like they're next door to each other physically or mentally or spiritual, right, exactly, two different realms, two different realms. But I still went to Yeah, I went to the Playboy Manage in the first time when I was fifteen years old. Wow. Yeah, and you thought you died and went to heaven. You know what? I didn't, because I was too young

to even appreciate the fact that there were beautiful women everywhere. I was more excited about, like Richard Pryor being there and Dudley actually, yeah, especially Richard Pryor. I got to meet Richard, I got to meet Dudley Moore, all the great you know, Richard Pryor is the king of the world. Oh, absolutely brilliant. Nobody there's Richard Pryor, and then everybody else can fight for second place, right, I mean? And you know, also I got to work with and meet, speaking of comedy legends, the

great Milton Burle. Yeah, get out. Yeah. What was that We did a show together. It was in the early nineties. I think it was called Burke's Law. Oh yeah, yeah, yea Jean Barry yeah yeah, yeah yeah. And so we did an episode where it was like all the old time comedians and I just happened to be the nephew of the guy

who hired the one guy and like happened to be connected. But it was Henny Youngman, it was Milton Burrell, it was Ed McMahon uh man, don't remember who the other two were, but it was five giant legends. Yeah, and I just got to be there like cracking jokes with them all every It was just wow, now there's a memory for you. Yeah.

And then like a year or two years later, I went to the comedy store where I hung out all the time because I was kind of raised also at the comedy store that was my club hangout, which you know was because of Sam Kinnison. I became friends with Sam Kennison. Pauli Shore, who's here this weekend. Yeah, he was like a brother to me, and we were both little brothers to Sam. So we were all like a little

family, a little click. And I was there at the Comedy Store almost every night, and you know, Eddie Murphy would be there, Richard Pryor and Face Clay, Jim Carrie, like you know, all of them, they were all there. I mean, it was just the time. I think he's still on the side of yeah yeah, yeah, well I think Jay was actually buying the car next door. But yeah, that's true at that Rolls Royce Steeler exactly putting it on the roof or something like that.

Jay's car is here today, but yeah, I know. So anyway, it was just, you know what in a magical time. And I walk in one night and there's Milton Burrel on the stage and I was like, I got to watch him do an hour of comedy. I mean, who can even say that, right, Like that's alive right now, but yeah, yeah, he he And he was in the late nineties, I think, but it was probably a year or two before he died, and I'll

never forget one of his most genius lines. He said, Yeah, I'm sorry if I smell, I just, I just I had Taco Bell today. I gotta be honest. I had Taco Bell and I have so much gas. Arabs are following me wherever I go. And he was just like witty on it, like you know, he's like ninety something wherever he was, and and and people were, you know, rasing him from the audience, and he's just singing him down, just singing like so quick, so fast. I was like, wow, Yeah, that's that's a talent right

there. Legend. Man, oh man, that's too bad you don't have any cool stories. I know, Right's amazing. I've been blessed. I've gotten to meet every legend I've really ever wanted to meet. There's nobody I could think of. Well one person. There's one person that I missed that I'm really sad I missed, which was just what was a Jesus basically the same thing, John Lennon. That was close. Wow, no kidding. And I'm sure you met the other Beatles all three look at that. Yeah,

I knew I hated you. Okay, the closest I got. I used to play rock and roll in New Orleans and when I was a kid. And and we actually any of the boats. Oh yeah, on the President and the Admiral. Oh yeah, and thank you for bringing that up. My band it was called Fusion, and I was a singer, and we played on the the Admiral and it was the biggest boat on the on the water. And uh. And we were just a cover band, you

know. We were just doing you know, like you're right stuff like yeah, oh well no, no, no, it was rock and roll, but it was you know, so anyway, No, it was a rock and roll band and uh. And we made it to like opening act. We opened for Leonard Skinner and then they got famous and then they never hung around us any anymore. But we're on the President. We're playing on this boat and we broke the record for we had five thousand and two people on there. Wow, and and and it was it was awesome. It was

like a three hour tour, but not Gilligan's Island, you know. And they would go back for yeah, without the stranding. And we went back and we were so full of ourselves and everything. Then BB King played the next week they got six thousand, and we went. I really wanted to hold onto that record more than a week to be beat out by BB King. I think that. But I'm okay with I'm okay with it. Yeah, And that exactly the way we looked at So what do you play?

Uh? Sing? Well, I played drums. Oh you do drums too, I know, yeah, I know. I actually think I lost my We're looking around it like I just happen to have a drums Yeah I do. Well, I had sticks. I always walk around with sticks. Yeah, yeah, just to annoy my fellow. Yeah, just to just to piss people off. Yeah, me too. Yeah, I can't help it. It's just always yeah, same here, same here. It's all the stuff used to get me kicked out of class. I made exactly, making

all that noise. Yeah, the nuns were not that crazy about me then. But afterwards, when I did a little some of you for the school and then I was to you, it was okay, yeah, yeah, it was fine. Well, see I would have been like, give me that rule, let me show you something else I could do with it. Yeah. Yeah, you know, yeah, man, that's good stuff. That's amazing. Well, I had no idea that you had such a musical background. Yeah, that's so cool. Yeah, well, you know,

I lucked out. I was very fortunate. I'm I'm a fairly good mimic and I'm a half decent singer sotto voice. Oh yeah yeah. And then if you do it badly, then they think it's you, so that works out. But no, I had a I've got like I don't know, lion King album. I think it was seven times platinum, and I sing a song called be Prepared. Wow. Yeah, you're supposed to think it's Jeremy Irons. Oh that was me. Wow, amazing. Yeah, and you made a great job because I did think it was Jeremy. Well that

was the idea. Yeah yeah, yeah, great imitation. Yeah. But uh. And I was the lead singer for the California Raisins. I don't know if you remember them, Yes, of course, who I bet you want him, you know, and I was I was still white. Hard to believe, but yeah, how did you pull that off? Yeah? I don't know. That's something I had to do with my parents, but uh, but yeah it was. It was a lot of fun. And what else Pocahontas. I'm trying to picture my wall Hunchback now anyway, Lion

King two and yeah, so it's it's a lot of fun. It's amazing. Yeah, you know, I would imagine a lot of times. Yeah yeah, Poo's got a lot of a lot of songs, but they don't go quite as big as line. I've always wanted to do singing animation. I would love to do more of that. Actually, yeah, it's fun. I did one I'll put it a good word for you. Well, thank you, sir, But no, I did one that was it was for Warner Brothers animation. It was called The Scarecrow and it was a good

one actually, and I sang I played the mouse. I played a field mouse that lived in his pocket. Uh. And it was like there was like three or four songs in that one. So I got to do. You know, I love singing in character. It's so much fun. Oh oh my god, I love it. I agree. And if you listen to my music, like on my albums, no two songs sound the same.

There's always a different character that comes out depending on what we're talking about, what the theme is or what you know, sure the material, but the point is that there's always I try to bring like a new voice, a new character, something new to song, so it doesn't sound like the same guy over and over and over again. Wow, yeah, that's not bad. Well, you know, I mean all the greats, right, the people that I look up to the most vocally, Michael Jackson obviously I

was going to ask you who are your favorites? Both. Yeah, Michael is come on, because he can get the highest high you can do. It's got that growl and that you know, yeah some meat to it. And McCartney, I mean, to me, McCartney has the greatest rock and roll voice in the history of rock and roll because he gets that growl, get he can get, he can get pretty right, and he can get long, pretty, you know, lovely really Oh yeah, snow Bud, snow Bud. It's so yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Well there's the other

one. Oh, I suppose you could do Joe, you know, Oh, I think you could. I think we could go old day, we could have a bit, we could go all day. And one of my favorite is, that's not your grandfather. I've seen your grandfather. Your grandfather lives in your house. That was That was George Harrison from Hard Day's Night. I think right right, Yeah, I remember that that's right, grandfather that told it was that little old man. Then when then, right,

hello, great, that's so good. I'd sit there and do conversations. There's all four of them. Oh yeah, yeah, that's good. That's one of my things. That's why when I was doing stand up for a while before I got into live meeting. Of course you did, no, But I started when I was again fourteen fifteen, uh doing you know, Comedy Store and catch a Rising Star in New York and like that. In fact, my first mainstream headline show in New York doing comedy. You're gonna

love this one so nice. It was for the Lost Boys premiere and I was out there doing press and then I'd mentioned that I'd been at the Comedy Store and doing some stand up and blah blah blah. But it was mostly just kind of jumping up with Sam or doing bits of improv and you know, maybe a little thing here and there. But it wasn't like, oh, here's your spot, you know. So the first time I had a

real spot. And of course, my publicist informs the media that I'm going to be doing this, so ABC News that comes down to cover it, and I'm at Catching Rising Star and they put me right between Dennis Miller and Rodney Dangerfield. Now that's not too much pressure, is it? Perfect? Right? Exactly like I am the new kid. Yeah yeah, yeah, right, everybody's looking at their watch. Yeah you got a joke. Yeah. So that was fun. And I think I had family there too,

because the whole thing was just like way too much pressure. It was way too much. And Dennis was like, hey, great job, kid, Yeah, I got some jokes for you if you want them, give me a car, gave me a cow, babe. Yeah yeah, all right, buddy. I do love Dnis Miller. I have to say you do. Yeah, he's pretty sarcastic. I just his comedy. It's comedy, funny personality. Oh well sorry, buddy, Yeah, what are you gonna do? Not all charming? Yeah, I believe that said Rodney was was

very funny, very good guy. Yeah. So I was very honored be both geniuses, right, yeah. I was very honored to be there, but very nervous, as you can imagine. Oh god, yes, yeah, that would do it. I remember I met Rodney Dangerfield. He was at an old place called B and B Sound when he was doing a Rover

Dangerfield. He decided he was gonna do animation, all right, you know, And I tell you, I you and he went in and he and and the damnedest thing he they had a riser for the stage to record, and why I don't know, but he would go in and he would take off all of his clothes, not all of them. He'd leave his underground and hang him up on a rack there and then put on you the wife

beater, right yeah, Josh, yeah. And he would he would he would put on his robe and he goes, okay, let's do this all right, you know, and then he would sit down and then he then he could record v oh yeah, because he didn't have his he was in his robe. I was thinking, sure he was an odd duck. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, wow, you know, and a poor guy. I took him like forever. I think he was finally got famous when

he's like fifty eight. Yeah, I mean he was a trooper When I was a little kid, I mean I'm talking six years old, seven years old. I remember, I was such a big fan of Rodney Dangerfield. I actually made an animated book because I had this little book of like his jokes or something. So I made this little animated book where I like would draw drawings of him making different faces as he's doing different jokes, and then I would put the joke coming out of his mouth. Yeah. So I

was a pretty huge fan of his comedy very early. Wow, yeah you were. I loved comedy. So anyways, I guess it was the point of that story was when I did the performance in those days, what my my bit was is I didn't have great jokes. I still don't have great jokes. Thank you, You're welcome. But anyway, there was you know, I would go back and forth between voices, and so I would do this bit which kind of became my famous bit. I guess if there was

one was wash me as Walter Cronkite. This this dates it, but it was me as Walter Cronkite interviewing Ronald Ronald Reagan, Muhammad Ali and Michael J. Fox. I think, you know, wow, so I would have these three very different Yeah, I know they're very similar, but no, but that's the point, right, is you want three different textures, completely personalities so far apart from each other, and then have like that that balance

of the other right, right. So that was the bit, and and it was fun and I you know, I've always and maybe it's probably because I'm a bit crazy, and you know, I, like you said, I've got all those voices going on in my head all the time. So it's kind of how I hear it. You know, they're arguing or they're whatever, you know, So I just do that, you know. Yeah, wow, that's amazing. Yeah, because I've got those same voices.

I have the same similar problem. Yeah, sometimes you just break into a voice and you're not trying to You're just walking around, Hey, ma'am, how you doing? Go to sleep every there? Yeah, you know or whatever, you know, like, yeah, what's that baby? Yeah, let's go a little you know what I mean? You can't Oh yeah, he's there all the time. Like Charles Fleischer, he never stops, right. I don't know if you know Charles, but like literally yeah, but

he's always like he talks that. He's like, yo, baby, what's going on? And you think he like actually talks like that. He's like, no, I don't talk like that. I just do that sometimes. Yeah. Yeah, okaya, police, yeah, yeah, you and you do a great Roger right bit. Yeah, but I was in your rabbit, Oh I was that was the first, that was first movie I was ever ever. No, I was. I'll tell you what I was. I was Bullet number two. Oh there was. If you remember, I

was sitting there waiting, look at you, that's me. That's me. And you know what I liked. I was right before it said bullet number two Jim Cummings singing blah blah blah Frank Sinatra, and I went, I I've made it above Frank Sinatra, right, you know. And I went home and I called my folks. I said, you got to go see this movie. Uh. He couldn't have cared. I have no idea. Yeah, hey, listen like that. I got news for you, kid, Yeah, you're gonna be below me from now on. Yeah, happened.

And again that's that. Who was you know that famous Schecky Green story? Which one do you know that? Yeah? Which one? Well, he opened for Frank and uh, you got four minutes, kid, And so he was out there, Oh you got it, Frank, you got it, And he went and he was crushing it, and four minutes rolled around and he and he let it go to like almost five. Oh wow. Yeah see. And then next night time Jilly Jully was was this guy ist him. I didn't. I didn't either, but but you know,

he used to tell the story. And the next night he was really killing it. He went over five minutes, you know, and Frank gave him four. And so the third night he did it and he went out the backstage. He was just milking it a little bit longer. Yeah, night, what can I get away with tonight? Exactly? And and they, well, he found out what he could get away with. He walked out of the stage door, getting heading over to his car. A couple of

guys jumping beat the ship out of him, pardon my French. And then he's laying there the hell's going on? Cart lights comes rolling up, stops right here, the window rolls down four minutes. Wow, And then that's the story and they reverse back down. I mean it's like, okay, I'd be like, I'm good, bro, think I need to do this gig anymore? You know what I mean? Like, yeah, so that's it could be apocryphal, as they say, man, Frank, Frank, it's not the way to treat your homies. Yeah, well I guess he

took the first punch. Yeah, well, there you go four minutes. Did he really? That's what I heard he jumped out and took the first one. No he no, he didn't know. I meant by going over four minutes. Oh right, right, yeah, that's what are you gonna do? I mean, how dare you? Yeah? Right? Oh, I know is you can't out if that ever happened to me. You know, during a live performance, I got off stage and you know, the guy I was opening for, it was like, how dare you go?

Yeah? Okay, buddy, I think you're taking this a little seriously. Yeah yeah, but they were warmed up. The audience was anyway, yeah, I guess so. Well not the fourth night, but that's all right. The fourth night he was singing like Rocky, Yeah, that's pretty good. You know. You know, you know all week I'm going anywhere. Okay. Well, basically that was my character in The Lost Boys. It

was just a rip off of Stalloon, Okay. I mean it wasn't a director off because I took a little bit of stallone and a little bit of Chuck Norris and a little bit of Bruce Lee. No, it was kidding, I mean it was I was literally told by the director, you got to study these films and create a kind of Uni guy, you know, take like three of these characters and then mix them all together. Uh what was the other one, Chuck Norris? Uh not really because squirts nigger.

You know, I bid bo I'll be back. Yeah that didn't really work, but it was, you know, but the whole idea of the presence, the you know, tough guy macho. Yeah. Yeah, so you know, but it was it was mostly still, you know, and it was like, hey, we've been here all week, you know what I'm saying, We're gonna do this thing. So I go over to his house. Uh still yeah wow, And uh, you know, I didn't know if he knew or if he saw it or anything. But I walk in

and he's got this giant statue of Rocky. Hard to believe, I know, imagine that because he's such a humble guy. Yeah, I was thinking he's known for his humility. Yeah, I got a great slow I gotta tell you this story right now. You got me started on stallone. Oh, here we go. Okay, it's a funny one. My god, I've never told this publicly, so this is for you. Here you go. Uh and stallone will probably laugh actually, but you know, yeah, otherwise I have a knuckle sandwich but so I go to his house. My

friend Brian James brought me there. He's no longer with us, Rest in peace. Brian was a great character actor. I don't know if you know his work, but he was in a Blade Runner and Tango and Cash Oh yeah, forty eight hours and everything. Yeah, I know you're talking about so anyway, so he brings me over. Yeah, and you know, Staaloone's not there at first. We walk in, we see the statue, We kind of come into the it's in Malibu. We come in, there's

this beautiful kitchen. We're just kind of looking around the house, like really nice. Where's Sly at? You know, Oh, he'll be down in a minute. He's with his messouse upstairs. He's coming down. You know, okay, great, we'll wait here. And a few minutes later, you know, Sly appears at the top of the stairs. He's got this white robe on. He's got this little Asian lady and she's in like a little martial arts type outfit and she's the you know, the Vietnamese messuse or

whatever. And so you know, he's like, oh, hey, hey, how you doing days for call me? I is getting a little health going. You know, like, oh, yeah, no problem, thanks for having us. We appreciate it. You know, I love your statue. It's really nice. Oh yeah you like that? Yeah? Yeah,

hey, were you You did me right? I was like, I haven't done you, no, sir, no, no. I mean like, you know in the movie, you know you did a character right, yes, yes, yes, yeah that wasn't me, that was Barbie Benn And I think, yeah yeah, but I was like, oh well yeah, yeah, well I did. I did. Actually I didn't know if you were aware of that. He's like, hey, it was pretty good. It was pretty good. You know. I was like thanks. Uh so.

So he then sits down in this director's chair. This is all true, sits down in this director's chair, and then the little Asian lady goes over to his kitchen counter and she takes some lemons and she starts slicing these lemons, and he's like this. You know, you're not gonna believe this, but it's great. You love this new Chinese ancient medicine type thing. But you know, I like it was the new ancient. It's not comfortable. It's not comfortable. You're gonna have to wait for a minute. I

gotta do this. You know, We're like, okay, whatever, you know, we'll sit here and wait. So he like leans his head back in this director's chair, and the woman takes the two slices of the cut lemon that's split in half, and she starts squeezing them into his eyeballs, to his eyeballs, eyeballs. Lemons was his nose busy erectly into his eyeballs, and like, I'm just sitting there in horror. I'm in shock. I'm like, who the hell does he really is? Rambo? Oh my

god? Yeah, yeah, no, what kind of an iron man comes downstairs and puts Lemons in his eyeballs? So, you know, he's just it was like cheers, yeah, God, You're like god, you know, and I'm like, whoa, you're kidding and so and so he finishes and then we just you know, have normal rest of the day. And I said, what was that about. It's a great technique. You know, I learned about it because you know, ever since I've been you know, working out and doing these movies. You know, I got a little

tough all the time. You know, the eyes get bloodshy, you know. So what it does, ironically, is it clears out the eyeballs, you know, so it takes away that that that yellow mucisi stuff, you know, it makes it nice and clear. Oh that's good. Yeah. So I was like, oh, okay, well that's cool. I understand. I mean, no pain, no gain, you know. So that was it, and then you know, we had our nice time and we left. Thirty years later, I'm at your Seppie Franco salon in Beverly Hills

and justet these good friends with him and Schwartz. Yeah, and you know, everybody goes there and I'm at the counter and I feel a tap on the back of my joy and here's the voice, Hey, old Corey, are you doing. I'm like, oh, hey, sly that's going on. He's like, hey, let me tell you. It's really good to see you. Man. I'm glad you're doing all right. You look great. I don't know what you're doing. I don't know what your secret is. Be look great. I was like, thank you, I appreciate it.

You look great too. Maybe it's from the lemons that you were squeezing in your eyes the last time I saw you. And he goes, oh, you know what a funny story about that. I said, really, Yeah, I said, what is that? He goes you won't believe it, but uh, it turns out it wasn't true. I'm like, what, it didn't work at all? Didn't at all? It didn't work at all. Good way to find that out, Good way to find that out. Yeah, but at least I don't have glaucoma right up by glackcoma.

It could have been worse. Wow, it didn't work. Still kidding, real like you were in any danger, Like you've been doing it all along, right now, you're gonna tell me. Yeah, after all those lemons put in my eyes, I went, I went through a lemon grove right exactly. I started growing him in my backyard just so I could be more like you. Oh my god, how long did that take? You know what I mean? Yeah? That's knucking fats oh man. So so what's next for you? Well, we're going on tour again. Yeah, we're

actually heading out in September. We're going to be all over the country and then on my first US World tour, very exciting, and then I mean, I'm sorry, first world tour after the US tour, which is very exciting. I've done like ten twelve tours of the US through my lifetime. But this will be my first ever international tour. I've never actually done a

full tour outside of the US. Wow. So we're going to hit like England, We're gonna hit the UK, We're gonna hit Europe, We're gonna hit Asia, Australia, Canada. So Earth rightly coming to an earth near you in America. You know that's the idea. He's coming to an earth near you. That's pretty good. Nice. Finally, oh man, he's landing running underneath oh man. But anyway, congratulations, exciting. And then the other really exciting thing is that we just announced the release of my very

own Funko pop. You know, funkos. I'm sure that's probably signed a billion of them, right, Oh excuse me. Yes, But that's when you know you made it because I have a bunch of Funko pops. But it's a Pooh and Tigger and Dark Wing Duck and task as do I. You have your own fop of you Ger and Mouth and Donna Tello and I'm sure Fox, Yeah, sure, Yes, it's a big honor. Wow. Making Corey Fellman exclusive Funko pop is a beautiful so nice. I love

them. First of all, the owners of the company, greatest people in the world. Oh that's cool. Yeah. Mike, the guy who actually created it. They call him fun Maker Mike. Amazing guy. He's so brilliant, so great. He's like Lily Wonka. He's like, oh wow, that's why he's just he's got this factor song for himself. He probably and he's a musician. Yeah, well, big surprise, So there you go. Yeah, that's right. Yeah. So anyway, he started making

these things in his garage. He's good friends with the guy that I'm sure you know by the name of Bob Gerr. Yes, he was one of the original imagineers, no kidd that Walt personally hired. And we got to have dinner with grand old man, right, yes, and he's the only one left and we got to have dinner with him at the original Bob's Big Boy and right well yeah, and he was telling us all the stories about how when they made Bambi, they brought all these animals into the office and

they would sit there and like, study the animals. That's what Walt said, I want you to study these animals, learn their mannerisms, learn how they react. Yeah, you know, just watch them all day, every day and that was their job. They would put a deer in the middle of the floor and they would just sit there and watch them. That's amazing, you know they you know I from working on Lion King, I knew

a lot of the illustrators and uh. And they went to Africa. Yeah, they went to Africa hung around and if you see poomba, Poomba is the one that cracks you up because as it happened, I went to Africa, like I don't know, I spent a month in Africa, maybe the year before we made Lion King. And and they they captured the thing that they really captured best was the war hog and the macaw, you know who. The way they flew and the way they ran with their butts up in

the air and their tails open. There I go, oh my god, oh my god, I saw a lion King and they go, they really do do that, and they really exactly know And it was the magic of Disney. And literally is the magic of Disney. Yeah, to pay attention to those kinds of details. It is so literally is I love it? Like man, I mean Fox and the Hound. I'm in the movie right, I've seen it twenty times. I still cry every time. Yeah, and that's crazy. I don't cry when I watch stand by Me. Yeah,

yeah, you know what I mean. I don't cry when I watch my other movies. But I watched the watch that Wow, And even though I know what's gonna happen, I still I get that with Christopher Robin, yeah you know. And and it's but it's not And it's just because it's so sweet and so sentimental. Yeah. You know, I don't know anybody that gets through that movie without a tear in their eye. Right, So the color purple, right, yeah, yeah, you can't watch that movie

and not cry. Yeah. Oh, just so deep and riveting and like power great. Yeah, well you know I love Down Yeah, I love I love I love any movie that gives you that feeling of like, even if it's a painful feeling, but it's that connection. You know, you get that inspiration from it. It moves you. I mean, that's that's the whole secret to art. Right, Yet is getting some kind of reaction.

Yeah, so whether it's positive or negative, you know, people will say, oh, well, you know, you got too much crap for this performance, or you got too much of it, and it's like no, as long as it's about the art. Art is objective, so you know the way I look at it, Whether you love my art or whether you hate my art. At least if you hate it, I'm still getting a reaction, you know, because the worst thing that you could do is

put something out and have people not notice or not care. I'd much rather that they, you know, are adamantly against it or adamantly for it. But they're Yeah, so they've listened to it five times to say how much they hate you. Yes, that's right. Yeah, nothing wrong with that. Keep buying tickets exactly. That keeps us enough, It keeps us employed so you don't have to go out and you know, bad groceries or whatever. Yeah, no kidding. Yeah, that's beautiful man. Well, thank

you, thank you so much. Thank you. I'm glad you're doing this. I'm glad you're doing this. And uh and congratulations with this of this. Yeah, so far, so good. To the pod world by Storm. Yes, I've always wanted to be a pod person. Yeah, what was that invasion of the Body Snatchers trivia? Yes, there you go. Well, I've I've always kind of felt you were a bit of a pa Yes, I have to get back into the closet and come back out as somebody else right, living the pod life. You live in the pod life,

man. Well, God bless you, Jim, thank you so much, thank you, thank you, thank you so much, really appreciate it. And the crowd went wild. God bless your brother thro