00:00I buckled at the fame part of it at first.
00:04I didn't think I deserved it, and it was embarrassing.
00:07But that's part of the deal.
00:09You have to get used to it and be nice about it.
00:12And that's something I didn't understand for a while.
00:15It's a once-in-a-lifetime experience.
00:17Hey, everybody. I'm John Goodman, and this is my life in pictures.
00:22This is me posing with my glasses on for a high school football picture.
00:27Particularly fearsome.
00:29I wasn't a particularly good football player,
00:31but I was large and slow enough that I could block things.
00:35And I did like to hit, and I thought I could walk onto a football team
00:39at the college I attended.
00:40And that didn't work out because I didn't have the grades.
00:43And by the next year, I was in the theater department,
00:46and I found a passion.
00:50And then I started paying attention for the first time in my career.
00:54The first role I really clicked with was I was in college,
00:56and I did a lot of research on it and made it kind of my own.
01:02And it was very successful.
01:04But I didn't think I could make it professionally
01:06until after I graduated, and I had to find out for myself.
01:13I went straight from school to New York City 50 years ago this summer.
01:19I had to go because if I didn't,
01:22I would kick myself in the rear end for the rest of my life.
01:25So it was just a matter of saying that I tried.
01:29And I got hired within a month,
01:31but the next year I'd gotten my union card,
01:34and, you know, still slippery and undecided,
01:37but I kind of knew I could do this.
01:42This is, I believe, the first sketch I did on Saturday Night Live
01:45with Phil Hartman.
01:46I was a Cajun chef,
01:48and it was the highlight of my life up until then.
01:52I was just drawn into this great circle of people,
01:55the great writers, the performers,
01:58and I just felt like I was home.
02:00And they made every effort to make me feel that I was home.
02:03And it used to be the highlight of my year
02:05when I would get to do Saturday Night Live,
02:07and it'll always cherish those memories.
02:10I think I hosted 13 times.
02:12Also, if I happened to be in New York,
02:14they would call me to fill in for a sketch,
02:16which I was more than happy to do.
02:18It was the greatest thing that ever happened to me.
02:20If they ever want me back, I'm there in a heartbeat.
02:22I'd make every effort to do that
02:24because I feel like I owe Lorne
02:27for letting me into that world for just a little bit.
02:31I've always loved it since I came out.
02:33Fifty years ago.
02:35And I feel kinship to it.
02:39This is the Flintstones.
02:41It was my great and good pleasure
02:43to work with Rick Moranis,
02:44who I just thought was brilliant,
02:46and he was a lovely man to work with
02:48and full of ideas.
02:49Yeah, I would follow him anywhere.
02:51Wilma, I'm home!
02:54Elizabeth Taylor was my mother-in-law
02:56in the Flintstones,
02:57and I just got her talking about Burton a little bit.
03:00She was on the floor.
03:01She took a fall in the film,
03:02so we were just squatting around her,
03:04talking to her,
03:05and it was, wow.
03:09This is the episode of Sesame Street
03:12that they let me do.
03:13It was in the early 90s,
03:15and my daughter was a little girl,
03:16and took a picture with Elmo,
03:18and he signed it for Molly.
03:20That was nice.
03:21Yeah, I was in first year of college
03:23when Sesame Street came out, I think.
03:25I still watched it.
03:26This is Jimmy Belushi, Dan Aykroyd, and myself.
03:32This is the Super Bowl in New Orleans,
03:34and I was living in New Orleans at the time,
03:37so everybody came over to the house,
03:38and the band was there,
03:41and we had a lovely time.
03:43I don't know how I got involved
03:45with the Blues Brothers.
03:46I can't remember.
03:46I remember wanting to be in it.
03:49I heard there was going to be a sequel, maybe.
03:51I had to deal with the Universal at the time,
03:53and it probably came out of that.
03:55I just don't think I was a good fit in it,
03:58but I never had more fun in my life.
04:01It's the best band ever.
04:05This is in a bowling alley
04:06on Western Avenue in Santa Monica
04:09that was demolished shortly
04:11after we finished The Big Lebowski.
04:13This is the film that most people identify me with
04:15or, quote, foul lines from to my face
04:19when I'm walking down the street.
04:20Everybody seems to love the film.
04:22It's one of the films I'm proudest of
04:24because any film that I did for Joel and Ethan Coen,
04:28I was very proud to be a part of.
04:30Yeah, it was the most fun I've ever handled my pants on.
04:34You brought a f***ing Pomeranian bowling?
04:36You brought a bowling?
04:37I didn't rent his shoes.
04:39I'm not buying it a f***ing beer.
04:40He's not taking a f***ing turn, dude.
04:42I had no idea that the film would become
04:45what it has become.
04:46I thought it was the funniest thing I had done,
04:49just script-wise.
04:51We were given two weeks to rehearse
04:53before we got into it,
04:55which was enormously beneficial.
04:57Just because of the intricacy of the dialogue,
04:59people still think we were improvising,
05:02which is a compliment because it looks like that.
05:04But the script is so well-written
05:06that you wouldn't even think of changing a thing.
05:09This is Monsters, Inc.
05:13I'm Sully, and Billy Crystal is Mike Wazowski.
05:17Yeah, this was fun, and it really took off.
05:19We'd been recording our lines by ourselves,
05:21and Billy suggested that they put the two of us together,
05:24and the energy just exploded.
05:26It was a great idea on Billy's part.
05:28And it was fun, and that's what kids know me by now.
05:34Oh, this is from a film called Argo,
05:37but it won the Academy Award for Best Picture.
05:39It's with Ben Affleck, myself,
05:41and the incomparable Alan Arkin.
05:44Alan and I had a lot of downtime on Argo,
05:46and we play Scrabble, talk about music, art,
05:49what it was like in the 50s in New York.
05:52Did nobody quite like him?
05:54Crabby as hell, and I just loved him.
05:58This is a movie that George Clooney put together
06:01called Monuments Men,
06:02and it paid tribute to the men and women
06:05who went to Europe after D-Day
06:08to try to rescue the art
06:10that the Nazis pillaged from Jews
06:12and churches and everything else.
06:17They had them in salt mines in Germany
06:20and France.
06:23It's something that I knew nothing about
06:25when I went into it,
06:26and we had a great cast.
06:28I got to work with Bill Murray.
06:30I'd met him before.
06:31I actually auditioned for him in 1983 or something.
06:35Yeah, it's the first time we hung around together.
06:37It was a lot of fun,
06:38and George was always a party.
06:40He was the pilot episode,
06:42George Clooney was, of Roseanne,
06:45and we had a great year,
06:47and he wisely took off afterwards.
06:50That was a smart move,
06:51but he came back in ER.
06:53He's got such a huge heart,
06:55and he's so damn funny,
06:57and it's just always a pleasure
06:59to be around George.
07:01This is my wife and a disgruntled Molly.
07:04She was still Molly Goodman at the time,
07:07and me receiving a star
07:10on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
07:12I think it's outside of a wax museum or something.
07:15I haven't been over there lately,
07:17but that was a thrill and an honor.
07:19It was a treat.
07:20I mean, it's something I never would have dreamed of,
07:22being among all those other stars.
07:25It was thrilling,
07:26and Jeff Bridges came to make a speech that day.
07:2945 minutes late,
07:30he brought his dude sweater
07:32and put it on and did a speech.
07:34It meant the world to me.
07:35It was just so touching and funny
07:37and just indicative of Jeff Bridges.
07:40He's got a heart of gold, man.
07:43This is from the Conners,
07:45some of my favorite people in the world.
07:47My acting hero, Laurie Metcalf,
07:49was worth the price of admission.
07:51It was worth showing up every day for work
07:53just to see what that woman would do.
07:55She's magic.
07:57She's just, she's amazing.
07:59And, gosh, she made me laugh.
08:01You know, my jaw would drop when I'd watch her.
08:02She's so good.
08:03Turn that light on, will you?
08:04Roseanne changed my life because it made me famous.
08:15It was a hit show.
08:17First time I'd ever done anything like that,
08:19a three- or four-camera comedy.
08:21I was cast for it.
08:23I went in to read with Roseanne the first time.
08:26And I'd never do this,
08:27but I walked out of there knowing I had the job.
08:29It was just too good of a fit.
08:31Man, the first couple years, we just had so much fun.
08:34And Roseanne and I have always been able
08:36to make each other laugh.
08:37I would try to get her to pee her pants laughing,
08:40which she'd oblige me with time to time.
08:43The kids were wonderful.
08:45It was a great home for eight or nine seasons for me.
08:49And then there was a chance that we could do a reunion.
08:52A couple of things got bumpy, but we finally did it.
08:55We wrapped it up last year.
08:56And that is one that I will miss.
08:58It makes my heart sad that it's over
09:00because it's leaving family.
09:04This is another show that wrapped last year,
09:07The Righteous Jumpstones.
09:08I think we cranked out four seasons
09:10in the span of maybe seven years.
09:14Yeah, I'm going to miss that.
09:16It's like losing a family again,
09:18especially the crew, the location, and the writers.
09:21Everybody was special, and it was so much fun.
09:24And boy, am I going to miss it.
09:26Let's go get our money.
09:28Oh, God.
09:30What?
09:31That was Jesus, Daddy.
09:32No, that was a karate person.
09:35No, that wasn't a karate person.
09:37That was Jesus.
09:38Oh.
09:39Once we had the basic scene itself,
09:42somebody would go off, Edie or Walton or Danny.
09:47We'd just come up with stuff.
09:49And I just, I can't compete with this man,
09:52but I'm just going to hang on and see what happens.
09:54And mostly, I'd put my head down or turn my head,
09:57bit the inside of my cheek because it was so funny.
10:01And yeah, I'm really going to miss that.
10:04This is Papa Smurf.
10:08This is Smurfette.
10:09And this is no-name Smurf,
10:11who finds his identity sometime during the making of the film.
10:15I was in several different cities.
10:16I think I recorded this in London,
10:18in Santa Monica, Charleston, South Carolina,
10:21and probably New Orleans.
10:23So I was a well-traveled Smurf.
10:25There's a theme of family and community in the Smurfs,
10:28not to get too serious about it,
10:30but it is important because they are part of community.
10:33And things do get rough,
10:35and things are rough right now for a lot of people.
10:37But if we hang in there,
10:39at least we'll write it out together,
10:41if not help to make things better.
10:44And if you're together with loved ones and friends,
10:48it makes everything better.
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