Name: Robert Downey Jr. Went Nuts Playing Ping Pong With Tom Cruise | Letterman
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Robert Downey Jr. Went Nuts Playing Ping Pong With Tom Cruise | Letterman' from Letterman on Comedy Buff. Published 2023-07-20. Transcript available.

our next guest is an academy award-nominated actor who starred in the film chaplain
and also
recently only you his latest film restoration is getting wonderful reviews
ladies and gentlemen
here he is robert downey jr how you doing good welcome back to the show robert
i don't know that
i ever asked you about your middle name robert downey robert downey jr there
was a morton downey
jr what is it remember morton downey jr i certainly do yes sir is there an
interesting
name is that a family name downey uh yeah yeah obviously it's on the birth
certificate check it
out that's all you need to know yeah i rest my case i won't discuss it any
further uh
yeah thank you for coming in during the uh the grip the cold wave the arctic zephyr
you don't you don't
live here much do you no i'm kind of a west coast weather wimp you know i'm
like god it's 51 degrees
out honey we got the pantry stocked whole different deal here buddy get down in
the basement darling
have you ever met uh joan collins oh my god when i was 18 years old i got
invited to this party
to my manager it was at george hamilton's house right i met his glasses really
i met his tan
i met his bronzer i uh there's this you walk in the door and up to the left
there's this huge portrait
of himself of himself of himself you walk right there's a love yeah it's like
this is jordan in
case you forgot whose house this was and uh looks just like him he was like
well i mean except he was
dressed like he's you know a little riding crop and that the boots and
everything obviously uh uh
uh equestrian theme yeah and uh and then i walked in and then joan collins was
there wow now how old
a kid were you i was 18 18 years old how did you get invited to this party what
the hell were you doing
scamming yeah stealing were you like a deal then did it always be a young
gifted actor robert downey
jr is coming was that what it was no it was kind of like i think he stole my
lighter get him out
of here and i think joan was quoted saying you know please take your hand off
my ass things like
that you know that hurts stop squeezing me you know yeah uh drunk get out of
here were you drunk
at the time quite do you drink now as an adult no no it's been a wild day do
you when you know when
you drank did you ever i mean did you go over the uh limit did you were you
really just goofed up
well dave
there was a problem i remember once one of the first times i met tom cruise or
my friend's house
we were playing uh ping pong right he's like let's do something competitive i
know tom cruise
loves his ping pong you bet and i love
most of your top stars of the day do you bet it's uh it's a prerequisite so
playing ping pong with him
and i'm ecstatic because he's clearly wiped me out 21 to 4. yeah uh but then i
jumped the net
ah i splintered this thing into about 6 000 pieces clearly hammered
and what did tom do i he was just feeling fear and sadness i think
you know
he hasn't called me since tom drop a line you know the key to tom's success i
noticed this i was
watching in the uh the airplane movie was the airplane movie he did uh uh top
gun top gun yes
i noticed it first in that movie and he does it in every movie i've ever seen
him when it's like a nice
tight shot maybe like a three-quarter like a profile something tom at the right
moment flexes his jaw
muscles that's the key to great acting success you got to get a move and you
got to have like stuff
jumping around clearly i don't have the goods here do i work on that
restoration now this is a great one of these costume period pieces takes place
16th century roundabout
in there yeah yeah yeah and uh you who else is in the film yourself uh i got
polly walker hugh
grand what was it like working with you grant we got any other questions
i'm american i speak the mind i speak the mind like you never picked up a hooker
come on uh robert it's great to see you try and stay warm good luck back in california
and the
film restoration restoration open all across the country that's correct
fascinating piece of work
okay we'll be right back with jean louisa kelly
you