Name: Fan Request: U2's Bono and Larry Mullen Jr. Hang With Frank Sinatra | Letterman
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Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Fan Request: U2's Bono and Larry Mullen Jr. Hang With Frank Sinatra | Letterman' from Letterman on Comedy Buff. Published 2023-09-29. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Fan Request: U2's Bono and Larry Mullen Jr. Hang With Frank Sinatra | Letterman' from Letterman on Comedy Buff. Published 2023-09-29. Transcript available.

our next guest of course uh one half of u2 this is their uh new cd simply
entitled pop and currently
touring the country we're delighted that they've stopped by for a visit ladies
and gentlemen larry
mullen and bono god bless you well we'll get to that a little bit later thank
you very much fidel
castro gave me that yeah welcome to the show thank you for being here how are
things going all right
they're great yeah couldn't be better actually enjoying touring with the uh the
show yeah it's
it's a great show you know we're out there with a giant 40-foot lemon what's
the deal why is there
a 40-foot lemon here well it could have been an artichoke but uh we were
looking for a practical
fruit well there you have something then don't you yeah no it's a cool thing so
i'm happy with the
lemon there's there is something quite funny about four patties walking out
from a 40-foot lemon whose
idea was the lemon uh i think the lemon was last seen in a vodka tonic i don't
know i mean when
you're in a band you're in a band you get these big ideas and unfortunately
people build them and
is it a little spinal tapian yeah i hope so somebody's got to have the to stare
that down
you know it's like you know uh rock and roll has kind of gotten very miserable
very dull especially like
white rock and stuff and we want to be the brightest sort of boldest baddest
band in the land you know
do yourself a favor next time you're performing next time you're recording add
a couple of these
there was somebody in the crowd doing that earlier yes i know something to do
with the road map
isabella rosalie oh she's lovely isn't she she just told me that she was going
to be my guardian
angel oh that's nice well that's very sweet of her that's the kind of woman she
is she's very nice
yeah but she really likes drummers
so you you actually this was your band you started the band and wanted to fire
bono is that right i did
it was funny because uh you know in dublin 1976 there wasn't a whole lot to do
you know sort of join
a band or play football so we started a band and uh i did try to fire him
because in 1976 he wanted to
take a lemon to america then but as you can see he came back crawling on his
hands and knees and here we
are but i know seriously how early into this did you think that he wasn't going
to be right for the
group i mean was that true is that serious it wasn't that kind of thing i think
there was there was an
incident in uh in america where um we had a little bit of a misunderstanding
and he threw a drum kit
at me and i sort of felt at that stage that it was time for him to leave but uh
as i said he came
crawling back on his hands and knees gave me my first he this man gave me my
first and only job it
turned out pretty well didn't it don't you forget it pal i won't forget it
you guys uh do you have an actual uh friendship do you have an actual
relationship with frank sinatra or
is this just a guy you know that you've met do you spend time with him well we're
fans i mean it's like
we are all just you know orbiting in frank's universe as far as i'm concerned
but we did meet him in in las
vegas we went over a big fight and then we met him saw him play and met him
afterwards and he was very
cool and and then i got to sing with him in fact it's quite funny because uh we
got a fax from japan i
think was from nippon emi about a duet with myself and a mr frank sinalta and
the duet was called i've
got you under my chicken and that's when things started getting very surreal in
this band that was way
before the lemon do you do you socialize with the man have you seen him
recently well i mean i i haven't
seen him recently and uh i wouldn't call myself a mate of the chairman of the
board but i we we
you know i went to his house and you spend time at his house he can drink yeah
can you keep up with frankson i mean he's close to 80 years old isn't he i'll
be honest with you i i
can't keep up and if and i tried and uh in fact he took he showed us a movie in
this beautiful
you know snow white screening room that he has and it was a movie and i'd had a
few of those
stiffies that he puts together and and i'll be honest with you okay during the
movie at frank's place i i
i i i fell asleep and when i woke up okay it was just this horrible horrible
dampness between my legs
and i thought i'm i'm actually serious and i thought this is dreadful this is
serious irish defeat to
italy but but in fact i didn't know what to do what i say well i just wait well
i just what i just close
my eyes pretend i'm still asleep and then skip off but but it was just a jack
daniels and coke
i think it just so you just so the story has a happy ending but he he kind of
responds to you guys
as as musicians and as just performers guys out there doing it doesn't he talk
to larry actually
the thing about i guess people in um his world don't talk a lot about music to
him maybe as much
as you'd think i mean larry he loves drummers too yeah really does no he was he's
i mean i only met him
very briefly in las vegas and uh he um he all he wanted to talk about was um
gene croup and buddy rich
who just died real music fan and that was kind of surprising because there were
a lot of people around
him a lot of stars and he's not known for liking rock and roll so um it was
kind of nice yeah it's like
that at the at the concert when we went to his concert he did this you know he
introduced us from
the stage and apparently he doesn't do a lot this was in las vegas yeah in las
vegas we stand up and
do the wave thing the show business thing and then we all stood up and and i
think it was a while ago
we were dressed in the way we were dressed and he just looked at us and he just
went whoa you may be
number one but you haven't spent a dime on your clothes right that's cool that's
cool where are you
guys off to now where are you working now what's uh what's the summer like
ahead of you what are we
doing well we go to canada wednesday and travel the rest of the u.s go back to
europe and come back
again so got quite a bit we're just kicking this you know there's that sort of
tired old thing rock and
roll it's just gotten too safe it knows what it is a little bit and we're just
trying to kick it up
the arse a bit send it into the next century
that was great thank you all right thank you man nice to meet you we'll be
right back