Silly Thinking

From Hollywood!



It's The Marlon Brando Show. Starring Marlon Brando.




Marlon's guest's tonight:


Singer TONY BENNETT!


From The Pasadena jet propulsion labratory. NASA Doctor Stephen Franklin to discuss Mars!


With Sy Henderson and The Marlon Brando Orchestra.


I'm Leonard Peltier. And now Jor-El from Krypton himself! MARLON BRANDO!!!!





MB: Good evening! No. You’re too kind. Thank you. Thank you. Please… too kind.
Thank you. Stop. Now.
Hi again. Hello Leonard.


LP: Hello Mister Brando. Sir!



MB: That was cute in the intro. Jor-El.


LP: Yes! You are the father of Superman. Sir! Yes!



MB: Great. Superman broke his back and I host this crummy talk show. What happened to the power of Krypton?
Tony Bennett.


TB: Ohh. Wow. Thank you. Caught me off guard. I didn’t know I was coming out so soon. But great and good evening Mister Brando! It’s an honor to meet you. You're great!




TB: Isn’t he really great?





MB:...


TB: Yeah! Great! You’re the best there is! I’ve been in this business a long time and you’re great!




TB: And I know what I’m talkin’ about!


MB: Are you fucking through or what?


TB: Yeah. I guess so.


MB: Are you familiar with the Napoleonic code?


TB: The what?


MB: The Napoleonic code. You know. The Napoleonic code.


TB: I don’t know what the hell your talking about but you’re great!


MB: Sing.




TB: Wow! You don’t mess around do you?


MB: Sing.


TB: “I left my heart…. in San Francisco…”




MB: Science guy.




DSF: Thank you.


MB: Hey Tony? Ever been to Mars?


TB: No. I never had a gig on Mars but I’ll bet it’s great. You are to much man.


MB: Yeah. You're not bad yourself Bennett.
Hey doc? You know the Napoleonic code?


DSF: Why yes. I believe it’s the ancient French law that the husband owns half of everything the wife brings to a marriage. Money, farm animals, jewelry. It’s all half owned by the man.


MB: Are their little green men on Mars?


DSF: Ha ha. No. But you’d be surprised how many times I get asked that question.


MB: I would?


DSF: Well I…


TB: Too much. You are too much, man.


MB: What about that face on Mars thing? What the hell is that all about?


DSF: Ha ha. No. It’s just erosion on the surface of the planet that has configured itself to look like a face.


MB: Why’d it do that?


DSF: Well it’s soil and rock. I don’t think it thinks. It just happened to look that way to us.


MB: But, you just said it configured itself to do that didn’t you?


DSF: Well yes but…


MB: Did you or not?


DSF Yes I did but I didn’t mean to say that the soil had a thought process.


MB: But, you said it did that.


DSF:…


MB: Hey Tony? Did you hear that or not?


TB: Hey! Keep me out of this. I dunno.


MB: Did you hear it or not?


TB: Hey man, I’m just sitting here.


MB: You lousy bum! Did you hear the man say that. Yes or no?


TB: OK! OK! Yes. He said it. Sorry Doc.


MB: Don’t apologize to him. You don’t have anything to apologize for.


TB: Too much. You’re crazy Marlon. Too much!


MB: Yeah well we’ll see about that. We’ll just see sometime.


TB:…


DSF:…


MB: What the hell are you looking?
Get out of here!


LP: The Marlon Brando Show is a Jim-Far, Mar-Bran, Doug-Wug, Harpo Productions Production.
Marlon Brando’s clothing provided by Men’s Where house.
This blog was recorded.

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