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This is an ST Special Program.
“The Marlon Brando Show” Pilot episode.
Here is Leonard Peltier.
LP: Hello, I’m Leonard Peltier, I was the announcer for Marlon Brando, here on ST.
I was, like so many of you, shocked when I heard the news of Marlon’s death a few weeks ago and I just want to take a moment to thank all of you who have been so kind to send the cards and letters
that have come in.
We were not prepared for this turn of events here at what was “The Marlon Brando Show”. Of course production was shut down, we did, however, start working on a special program that will be shown here on ST looking at some of Marlon’s best moments culled from the thirty episodes we completed.
I will be hosting that program, and myself, and Mike Domino, the director, and others have been looking over all the show’s to find the right material. One day I uncovered a sealed cardboard box marked “cardboard box”, it was written in Marlon’s own hand, I opened it and found a video tape marked “tape”, again written by Marlon personally.
We put it on and found a show Marlon had done for Silly Thinking in August of 2003. A pilot episode, I guess you’d say, for his talk show. A show that has never aired until now.
It’s not a totally completed program. There are a few stops and starts, and outtakes, and it is somewhat different from the show that became “Marlon Brando”, but here is a rare opportunity to see what the birth of this show was like. By the way I’m not on the program, it wasn’t until November of 2003 that I was asked to join Marlon’s team, and I’ll always be grateful.
Enjoy this never before seen pilot episode for “Marlon Brando”.
…5…. 4…. 3…. 2 …. 1….GO…
“Silly Thinking Late Tonight Live… Take one. Mark.”
MARK.
GE: From Soundstage 3 at Silly Thinking’s Media Center in Hollywood California, it’s..
“Silly Thinking Late Tonight…LIVE” starring MARLON BRANDO.
Marlon’s guests tonight:
Oscar winner Kevin Costner!
Former Secretary of State Janet Reno!
and musical guest: Art Garfunkel!
with Bill Mangiola and The Silly Thinking Late Tonight LIVE Band!
I’m Geoff Edwards!
And now the man of the hour: MISTER MARLON BRANDO!!!
MB: Thank you, thank you everybody, thanks. Alright enough.
MB: Thank you ladies and gentlemen and welcome to Late Tonight Live, I am your host, Marlon Brando. For you kids out there who don’t know who I am, ask your parents about me, they probably know me from two or three comebacks over the years. Hello Geoff. Geoff Edwards everyone…
GE:: Hello Marlon. It’s great to be here.
MB: Yeah, well we’ll see about that Wink. You did game shows or something didn’t you?
GE: Geoff… Edwards. Well, I hosted the California state lottery game show.
MB: Oh yes. I remember you now, I buy a lottery ticket every week.
GE: Really?
MB: Of course. You were there in a tux. A tuxedo. You had a big wheel. You looked like a pimp in a crack house.
GE:…
MB: Anyway the producers asked me to tell you a little bit about myself, the kids probably don’t know who the hell I am. I’m an actor which means nothing. Acting is nothing, I mean when the planet is being destroyed who cares if you can act?
You kids probably seen me in “Supergirl”. I played Captain Krypton in that thing, “The Godfather”, some others.
MB: Don’t applaud that. I mean it was less than nothing. We are melting the planet but you hear some movie title and you go nuts. The director of that thing was Coppola. Francis Coppola. Good director. But he would come to me and say ‘Marlon, look what I did for you.’ And I’d say: you are the madam and I am a whore and you pimp me.
But I know you don’t want hear heavy messages. You don’t want to know that you can save the planet by growing oranges with hydroponics in your sock drawer or green beans in you arm pits, you want to be entertained and hear big well paid mutts going on about their films.
Here he is: Kevin Costner.
KC: Hi. What an honor. Hello Mister Brando. Just to meet you. But to be on your show. Wow.
MB: Get over it kid. Build it and they will watch, you know what I mean?
KC: Boy do I.
MB: Now Costner, you did that Indian movie, “Dance With The Wolf”. That was some movie. My native American friends and I thought that was a masterpiece.
KC: I’m honored.
MB: You know they murdered them all, the Americans murdered them all, hunted them like dogs you know.
KC: Yes, I’m ashamed to say I do know that.
MB: Like dogs. But you got something else now. What, some kind of something?
KC: It’s a western with Robert Duvall….
MB: That whore, pimp.
KC: Yes. Your old friend. He told me some stories about you.
MB: I’m sure he did. He thought preparing was funny. He’s a nut. Did you think he was a nut?
KC He had nut tendencies.
MB: Come on he was a nut and you know it.
KC: Yeah he was a little nutty.
MB: Now you go to far. He was a nut. Now a beautiful former Secretary of State. Here’s Jane Reno.
JR: Thank you.
MB: Jane?
JR: Janet.
MB: Marlon.
JR: No my name is Janet.
MB: Mines Marlon, what’s your point darling?
BEEEEEP!
MB: What? Did I do…?
JR: …
MB: Oh, I’m sorry darling. I messed up your introduction. Were going to do it again. Would you mind going back and coming out again.
JR: Fine.
MB: Thank you sweet heart.
Kenny, so was Duvall as big a pain in the ass as he used to be?
KC: Well, he’s a good actor…
MB: He’s a fucking whore…. oh…
MB: “Here she is, beautiful Janet Reno.”
JR: Thank you.
MB: Janet Reno, I was out of the country. You worked for Clinton?
JR: Why yes. I was the Secretary of State.
MB: Really now. Did he ever try to, you know, did he try to… get you under the desk?
JR: I beg your pardon.
MB: Are you a man?
JR: How dare you.
MB: I don’t mean a man like Kenny or me. I mean are you a man in drag?
JR: I never.
MB: Not if your in drag all the time you didn’t.
JR Well.. I am not going to sit here and take this.
MB: What? What? What the hell did I say?
MB:Is he really gone? What the hell?
Kenny did I say something wrong?
KC: Just a question.
MB: See the kid didn’t think it was wrong. What?
“The Marlon Brando Show” Pilot episode.
Here is Leonard Peltier.
LP: Hello, I’m Leonard Peltier, I was the announcer for Marlon Brando, here on ST.
I was, like so many of you, shocked when I heard the news of Marlon’s death a few weeks ago and I just want to take a moment to thank all of you who have been so kind to send the cards and letters
that have come in.
We were not prepared for this turn of events here at what was “The Marlon Brando Show”. Of course production was shut down, we did, however, start working on a special program that will be shown here on ST looking at some of Marlon’s best moments culled from the thirty episodes we completed.
I will be hosting that program, and myself, and Mike Domino, the director, and others have been looking over all the show’s to find the right material. One day I uncovered a sealed cardboard box marked “cardboard box”, it was written in Marlon’s own hand, I opened it and found a video tape marked “tape”, again written by Marlon personally.
We put it on and found a show Marlon had done for Silly Thinking in August of 2003. A pilot episode, I guess you’d say, for his talk show. A show that has never aired until now.
It’s not a totally completed program. There are a few stops and starts, and outtakes, and it is somewhat different from the show that became “Marlon Brando”, but here is a rare opportunity to see what the birth of this show was like. By the way I’m not on the program, it wasn’t until November of 2003 that I was asked to join Marlon’s team, and I’ll always be grateful.
Enjoy this never before seen pilot episode for “Marlon Brando”.
…5…. 4…. 3…. 2 …. 1….GO…
“Silly Thinking Late Tonight Live… Take one. Mark.”
MARK.
GE: From Soundstage 3 at Silly Thinking’s Media Center in Hollywood California, it’s..
“Silly Thinking Late Tonight…LIVE” starring MARLON BRANDO.
Marlon’s guests tonight:
Oscar winner Kevin Costner!
Former Secretary of State Janet Reno!
and musical guest: Art Garfunkel!
with Bill Mangiola and The Silly Thinking Late Tonight LIVE Band!
I’m Geoff Edwards!
And now the man of the hour: MISTER MARLON BRANDO!!!
MB: Thank you, thank you everybody, thanks. Alright enough.
MB: Thank you ladies and gentlemen and welcome to Late Tonight Live, I am your host, Marlon Brando. For you kids out there who don’t know who I am, ask your parents about me, they probably know me from two or three comebacks over the years. Hello Geoff. Geoff Edwards everyone…
GE:: Hello Marlon. It’s great to be here.
MB: Yeah, well we’ll see about that Wink. You did game shows or something didn’t you?
GE: Geoff… Edwards. Well, I hosted the California state lottery game show.
MB: Oh yes. I remember you now, I buy a lottery ticket every week.
GE: Really?
MB: Of course. You were there in a tux. A tuxedo. You had a big wheel. You looked like a pimp in a crack house.
GE:…
MB: Anyway the producers asked me to tell you a little bit about myself, the kids probably don’t know who the hell I am. I’m an actor which means nothing. Acting is nothing, I mean when the planet is being destroyed who cares if you can act?
You kids probably seen me in “Supergirl”. I played Captain Krypton in that thing, “The Godfather”, some others.
MB: Don’t applaud that. I mean it was less than nothing. We are melting the planet but you hear some movie title and you go nuts. The director of that thing was Coppola. Francis Coppola. Good director. But he would come to me and say ‘Marlon, look what I did for you.’ And I’d say: you are the madam and I am a whore and you pimp me.
But I know you don’t want hear heavy messages. You don’t want to know that you can save the planet by growing oranges with hydroponics in your sock drawer or green beans in you arm pits, you want to be entertained and hear big well paid mutts going on about their films.
Here he is: Kevin Costner.
KC: Hi. What an honor. Hello Mister Brando. Just to meet you. But to be on your show. Wow.
MB: Get over it kid. Build it and they will watch, you know what I mean?
KC: Boy do I.
MB: Now Costner, you did that Indian movie, “Dance With The Wolf”. That was some movie. My native American friends and I thought that was a masterpiece.
KC: I’m honored.
MB: You know they murdered them all, the Americans murdered them all, hunted them like dogs you know.
KC: Yes, I’m ashamed to say I do know that.
MB: Like dogs. But you got something else now. What, some kind of something?
KC: It’s a western with Robert Duvall….
MB: That whore, pimp.
KC: Yes. Your old friend. He told me some stories about you.
MB: I’m sure he did. He thought preparing was funny. He’s a nut. Did you think he was a nut?
KC He had nut tendencies.
MB: Come on he was a nut and you know it.
KC: Yeah he was a little nutty.
MB: Now you go to far. He was a nut. Now a beautiful former Secretary of State. Here’s Jane Reno.
JR: Thank you.
MB: Jane?
JR: Janet.
MB: Marlon.
JR: No my name is Janet.
MB: Mines Marlon, what’s your point darling?
BEEEEEP!
MB: What? Did I do…?
JR: …
MB: Oh, I’m sorry darling. I messed up your introduction. Were going to do it again. Would you mind going back and coming out again.
JR: Fine.
MB: Thank you sweet heart.
Kenny, so was Duvall as big a pain in the ass as he used to be?
KC: Well, he’s a good actor…
MB: He’s a fucking whore…. oh…
MB: “Here she is, beautiful Janet Reno.”
JR: Thank you.
MB: Janet Reno, I was out of the country. You worked for Clinton?
JR: Why yes. I was the Secretary of State.
MB: Really now. Did he ever try to, you know, did he try to… get you under the desk?
JR: I beg your pardon.
MB: Are you a man?
JR: How dare you.
MB: I don’t mean a man like Kenny or me. I mean are you a man in drag?
JR: I never.
MB: Not if your in drag all the time you didn’t.
JR Well.. I am not going to sit here and take this.
MB: What? What? What the hell did I say?
MB:Is he really gone? What the hell?
Kenny did I say something wrong?
KC: Just a question.
MB: See the kid didn’t think it was wrong. What?
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