Name: Pauly Shore Says He's Moving Forward With His Richard Simmons Biopic
Uploaded: 2024-07-25T18:33:07.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Pauly Shore Says He's Moving Forward With His Richard Simmons Biopic' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2024-07-25. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Pauly Shore Says He's Moving Forward With His Richard Simmons Biopic' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2024-07-25. Transcript available.

you had so recently richard simmons passed away yes was there were you guys
ever ever because i
know you were trying to do you did a great video kind of auditioning to play
him yes
and did you guys ever come to a like real conclusion did you ever get to
actually talk
with him about it um i never i reached out to him i've known him since i was
little
i sent him flowers on valentine's day um this is a short film um oh this short
film is called a court
just court just gesture gesture and um i um i love him and i love his story and
i and and i want to do
his his his his um you know biopic so we did this um yeah this short film and
it did it did really well
from me you know we were at park city with it and you know and people just
loved it play some right
there oh by the by halfway into this i believe that it's him yeah
it really seems like him pauline
that's great yeah so um and he was from louisiana actually yes he was him and
his brother lenny yeah
and so now since he's passed is there a would you still try to do it like i don't
know if that's
against the grain or whatever or is that just can his estate hire you to do it
well here's here's the
deal in in reality first of all i'm just an actor okay i'm not a lawyer you
know but from what i what
from what i've learned from being in this process that if you're a public
figure it's called an
instance they happen every day so i mean the pam and tommy hulu special or hulu
dot or hulu series
was unauthorized oh wow you know they didn't have to make it that's they do
stuff all the time that
way so as long as you don't don't do something mean you know as long as i do it
nice like this piece
is defaming him yeah you're not defaming him then i'll be fine so i'm in bed
with a um a producer
named mark walper w-o-l-p-e-r not walberg and he's been in the game for about
um 50 years him and
his family they have a deal at warner brothers and i have a great writer named
jordan allen dutton
who's writing the script so i'm moving forward with it and then but my instinct
is like your instinct
is get his estate to kind of be involved you know give them some money but we'll
see you know i'm kind
of at at the place where i just want to make the movie and i just want to um
kind of do good by him
and not defame him yeah and that's kind of my come from from the beginning and
and it was never about
making fun of anything else you know his richard saved lives like his his he
saved lives and he helped
people and that's kind of where my come from is and at the end of the day i'm a
comic but i'm a
fucking actor yeah you know what i mean oh yeah in a lot of movies and that's
my main thing and that's
why i still sell tickets yeah i don't sell tickets because of my netflix
special or you know i'm sell
tickets because of this because i've touched people with my films and so this
is is lines up it's kind
of like god gave me a softball i mean this is like a really great opportunity
for me and i'm gonna do it
and it's gonna happen and we're getting the financing together right now that's
kind of where we are in
the process wow but i got a great producer that i've been in bed with on this
for about
six months and we've got a great writer we've got a great story we've got a
great pitch and he's
writing the script right now wow so yeah so it's happening yeah and i think you
know you say if you
had passed away and you knew before you passed away you were like i don't know
if i want this guy to
make this thing about me or to be in it and who knows if maybe also richard simmons
was feeling
embarrassed about himself he you know sometimes it's like i just want to go
away if he knew he was sick
there's just so many little but then if you did pass away and then somebody
made something it was
really honoring you and you got to see it i wonder how you would feel i feel
like i would probably
feel like man that's pretty cool yeah well that's how i feel yeah you know i
feel that he would see
it just like he probably saw this and he liked it he touched people's lives
like yeah absolutely and
at the end of the day you know publicly he came out and he says i'm i i don't
yeah what did he say
bring it up he said he says i don't approve of paulie shore playing me in a biopic
and then he says
he says i want tom cruise to play me so obviously so i mean you know that's a
funny joke by the way
you know what i mean that's actually you know what i mean but but here's
another thing theo like
how do we know this was even him writing this shit oh how do we even know he
was writing this
twink that he met at the airport or or one of his handlers you don't know it
was probably a twink that
he met at the airport let's be realistic it's l.a what does it say i just read
that a man that i don't
know it's writing a script about bible i do not approve this movie i'm in talks
with the majors duty to
create my own biopic meanwhile you know he passes right so obviously he did you
got to read there
you got to read your own room of your life like if you're passing away you're
not you're not writing
that type of stuff no you're worried about trying to live yeah dude you're
counting t-cells homie
you're not over here milling around your typewriter that's another thing i want
to get to the bottom i
want to get to the bottom line because you know i love richard and i know richard
loves me and i know
richard loves my mom and i know that i don't have a bad bone in my body yeah
and my come from is all
about love and and and you know and uh putting it out in a positive positive
way and i don't know and
i don't believe that he's the one that that wrote all this stuff that that you
know and if anything i
got him out meaning like i got him to to see to just speak yeah because he'd
been so recluse for so
long yeah people hadn't heard from him in a long time bring up some of the
videos where he helped women
um lose some weight i mean he was the first kind of uh influencer he was like a
professional
wrestler that never wrestled but danced the fat off of the midwest and other
parts of america
and he made it fun yes the ellen stuff is great yeah yeah there he is look at
the party off the pounds
right there i remember my grandmother had party off the pounds dude and i would
sit and watch her move to
this hilarious before she hated me but still look at him
hey come dance with me come dance with me come on can you come dance too exhale
that's it and again five oh it's like teletubbies kind of because he was he was
chubby too yeah and
you know what would happen is he would he would get involved with the
relationship with like a an
oversized woman and then after the woman lost all the weight then richard would
just like give them
the irish goodbye and just like spatch and just like peace out because he only
wanted them for
their weight yeah just kind of wanted wanted them wanted them while they were
chubby and you're not
talking about a sexual relationship no no no not at all just like you know
helping someone and now you
know it's kind of like if you were chubby and i helped you and polish or helped
you and then all of a
sudden i got you skinny and like calling and you're calling me and i'm like you
know i'm done with you
like on to the next like superman onto the next yeah needed somewhere else yeah
exactly and he did
do he did do an irish goodbye now he loved man though i don't know if he did
that's a good point
did he but was he ever married let's look that up no he never he never really
you know he never really
was either or question yeah and maybe he was just like a piece of moon rock or
something
where he uh he born milton teagle simmons down there in new orleans louisiana
on july the 12th
and he died july the 13th did you ever see him when you're in louisiana i never
did no i met i think
one of his uh great granddaughters one time somewhere and she was trying to
come to one of
your shows trying to give me a bj but this was and that's who knows what was
going on but he went to
ull down there and then he went to florida state university but no children
says i don't think huh
no he had a whole bunch of dogs that was like his big thing but i remember as a
kid growing up like
when richard simmons was coming on letterman or howard stern or ellen like you
would you would wait
you know like when letterman was like yo i'm next is richard simmons you're
like oh and he
would come out and he would just kill he would kill harder than a comedian like
on the sofa he brought
an energy with him he was a real piece of energy that man yeah um now if it's
homosexuality and
would you ever would you you might if you would you be willing to do those type
of scenes in it if
you had to to honor him if you were the other guy oh sorry oh you're talking to
me all right dude
looks like i just got a part huh the weasel and the rat bro this is good
Thank you.