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Brother Theodore LPs: $25 to $50 on ebay! IMHO

stravinsky and picasso hated "art"

WHY IS NO ONE TALKING ABOUT HIS SHIRT

I just don't get it. How can intelligent people like Woody Allen and Dick Cavett have such a neutral, at times even laudatory response to this maniac? Perhaps in the legitimate theater, he has a unique effect on the people watching him, but on television he was so ludicrous he was mocked by Merv Griffin, David Letterman, or whoever the host happened to be and by members of the audience. What am I missing?

But what about the Buffalo🫡

He was in the film the Burbs with Tom Hanks and totally worth watching.

Saw BT on Tom Snyder's Tomorrow show in the 70s. I had never seen his act before, and would go decades without seeing him again, but I never forgot what I saw that night. He was acting like he was completely distraught. Not angry exactly, but crushed in fatalism. He said he was completely insane, a madman, and that the world stood on a foundation rooted in Hell. He seemed to be for real, like he really believed it. And Snyder was either playing along or else he was not familiar with the act. He seemed appalled. It was a realistic horror show that I still remember after all these years.

And then Harlan and Brother Theodore got in a fight and Theodore wanted to kill Harlan. (I don’t know that this specifically happened with Theodore, but it was pretty much fill-in-the-blank with Harlan.)

Jeff...are you still alive?

Hearing Ellison of all people complain about someone’s rudeness is incredible.

When I lived on Varela Street in Key West, next door in a little house lived two men small grey aging men who called themselves Brother some name. One could have been Theodore. Maybe they just moved in together and found peace and contentment during this time, about 1994.. Or maybe not. Thanks for the story.

He played Gollum before Andy Serkis

jfc, record with the sound LOWER

I saw him on late night tv. I believe the first time I saw him was on Merv Griffin, but I could be wrong, also Letterman. He fascinated me. Nothing like him on late night tv now, it’s all kiss ups, plugs and games. So boring. Those shows had erudite, intelligent people on, they would have actual conversations, not just joke, laugh and clap, joke, laugh and clap. Authors, Broadway performers, classical musicians. We are getting dumber and dumber.

Check out Bogosian narrating an excellent doc on Aram Khachaturian

I'm 59 years old and have just now discovered Brother Theodore. I feel deeply cheated. He astonishes me. Is it comedy? Is it dramatic monologue? What the actual fuck is this? It's amazing is what it is. His delivery and depth is remarkable. His bit about Liselotl Bindl's teeth absolutely kills me. It's like Werner Hertzog with the brakes entirely gone directing a 1920's Expressionist film. There's horror and angst and in the middle of it all there's comedy, somehow. The world is richer for having had him in it.

I've known a number of concentration camp survivors over the years. They have all shared the same trait with Brother Theodore, of suddenly exploding from apparent calm to angry outrage, in a heartbeat. One is always surprised by it. It's like a pent-up hungry tiger suddenly being unleashed, without warning. Gottlieb transformed his own explosive anger into a theatrical product. It gave him a life, of sorts, but to hear him describe it, barely so.

I've always viewed Brother Theodore's act as a living Picasso Painting.

Henry Gibson was awesome! I wonder when this interview was filmed. He sadly died in 2009 which I did not know until today. He looks and sounds good for his age; he looks and sounds like he's 63 but this had to have been filmed in 2008-ish or earlier. He was born in 1935 and was almost 74 years old at the time of his death.

MIssed opportunity....Henry Gibson would have played a great Calvin Coolidge.

My Mom would go to his shows in the 50’s.

Did you make the brother Theodore documentary?

Jesus, Woody would actually take a date to one of these shows 😂

I have this sinking feeling Jeff is no longer with us. His remarkable documentary on Brother Theodore is a vital important film. For a while his web site included all his unusual short films, including a doc on hoarders. For a skinny minute Jeff and I communicated about me doing the opening titles for a little series on his local public tv station, but he wanted a level as good as it gets, and didn't seem to have any funds.

he was an awesome actor i loved his face on movies

I wonder how the script originally ended? I love that movie.

Love him or not; Harlan was his own man and an honest voice in this deceptive world.

About a 9 on the tension scale there Reub

Would love to see more of this interview. Growing up, I absolutely loved Henry Gibson in all of those character roles in films.

Dr. Applecheek "God's little Creatures"

Please remove the pedo content, this will not be missed. Thx.

RIP

Where do you Simmer?

Today Woody Allen takes his dates to Chuck E. Cheese's for pizza and a show.

"my brother, the Doctor"

I was a friend of Andy Kaufman the last few years of his life. I was surprised that he didn't know who Theodore was. I told him about Theodore and he was intrigued. Theodore was kind of a proto-Andy. Here's a video of the live TV show I did with Andy 45 minutes after meeting him for the first time by accident: th-cam.com/video/trJSf4vVSgE/w-d-xo.html

He gets Theodore's character performance, but not Letterman's. The interactions on Late Night were performances, by two entertainers playing their perspective characters, characters which may have negative traits. It was not the genuine interaction between the actual people.

Hello. I have been telling people about the amazing Kudzula! show at Indie Memphis in 2001. Is there a video of any performances of the show? I would love to show people. Thanks!

Is this the same Schiller that was obsessed with the snl intern?

Tom I could have been a contender I could have had class r I could have been somebody .....

Pervert

Oh boy. Praise from a perverted pedophile

I always found Henry Gibson very likeable and funny. I remember him from his Laugh In days and enjoyed his performance as the American Nazi leader in The Blues Brothers.

Dick Cavett is so thoughtful and ponderous and intelligent-TV/podcasts would never accept someone like this is 2022 - too ponderous and musical in his speech.

He was playing his one-person show on the day I was born in 1947. The show, BTW, was called Blossoms of Evil and I must say the reviews were very strong.

He was on my favorite Martian and a leprechaun on bewitched.

Brother Theodore. The one and only

I’m a brit and only just stumbled across brother Theodore when seen ranting at Jerry Lewis and I’m confused…he’s obviously very intelligent and talented and certainly has something…..a intensity and desire definitely but he also destroys that half witted moron Jerry Lewis too which l love ….

When I was a teenager in the 80s I didn’t really know who he was. To me he was just a bombastic nut case that would go on Letterman and make a fool out of himself and we would all laugh. Now I get it. The guy was making thoughtful avant-garde criticism about our world. He was doing art. In my 17 year old head it went completely over me. Didn’t get it.