Kyle on Regis & Kathie Lee 03/31/1998

Kyle Chandler on... Live! with Regis and Kathie Lee
03/31/1998

Hosts: Kathie Lee Gifford (KLee), Tom Arnold (Tom)
Guest: Kyle Chandler (Kyle)

Notes: Interview takes place the Tuesday before “Early Edition” returns from an eight week hiatus. Tom Arnold is co-hosting today because Regis is on vacation in California. During the opening of the program, Tom and Kathie Lee discuss Tom and his current wife’s efforts to conceive a child. Tom admits that they are having troubles in this department because he has a low sperm count - he has exactly 3 (he jokingly says). Also running throughout the show is Kathie Lee and Tom changing chairs in the middle of an interview to let the menfolk sit together. My local station decided to cram in one last commercial before Kyle’s segment, so I missed part of his introduction - nothing important, I’m sure - just Kathie Lee talking. So without any further ado.....

KLee: .......Kyle Chandler, everybody.

{Enter Kyle wearing a gray-ish/brown suit, with white dress shirt and white T-shirt, brown shoes, and holding what appears to be a folded up piece of paper}

Kyle: Hello, everybody! {to audience}

KLee: Hi, Kyle.

Kyle: Hi.

KLee: Good to see you again. {smooch and handshake}

Kyle: Thanks, good to see *you.*

Tom: How are ya doin’, buddy? {handshake}

Kyle: Pleasure to meet you.

Tom: Good to see you.

Kyle: How are you?

KLee: Oh, you haven’t met before, huh?

Kyle: Huh? {sits in tall chair}

KLee: {not paying attention to the answer} Good, good.

Tom: You get to sit by him.

Kyle: {getting settled in the tall chair with an “old person” noise} Aahhh.

KLee: So -

Kyle: {cutting in} Baseball season started. I’m sorry to jump in.

KLee: No, no, that’s ok.

Kyle: I’m *very* excited about this.

Tom: Now you got tomorrow’s paper - who won?

Kyle: You know what I’m excited about? Well, the Yankees {searches for a pocket to put the folded piece of paper} I, I’m from Atlanta...

Tom: Oh, yeah.

Kyle: ...so, you know, the Braves, obviously, but it’ll be a new, ah...

KLee: Is that who they play today?

Kyle: ...new meaning to ah, the “War of Northern Aggression.”

Tom: Right.

Kyle: So, ah...

Tom: Exactly.

Kyle: {to Kathy, realizing she asked something} I’m sorry?

KLee: Is that what you fought, ah.....

Kyle: fought?

KLee: That’s who they’re playing today?

Kyle: No. No, they’re not. They’re playing Milwaukee.

KLee: Oh, oh.

Kyle: But, ah. But I’m excited about this year.

KLee: Oh, see, I care - I care so much. {Not!}

Tom: Yeah.

KLee: It’s the longest season, though. It starts in April, and it’s not even over ‘till like the World Series in... October?

Tom: Right.

Kyle: That’s a long time.

Tom: But that’s great.

Kyle: That’s good.

Tom: It’s the “America’s game”

KLee: We love it.

Tom: We do love it.

KLee: Ok. Here we go again.

Tom: No, no, no, ah, geez. {Kathie Lee and Tom switch chairs to the guys can sit together and talk “guy stuff”}

Kyle: Now, about this sperm count. Ahh...

KLee: Let them bond. How’s *your* sperm count, Kyle?

Kyle: Ah, it’s good.

Tom: It is?

Kyle: Yeah.

Tom: You can tell us, it’s ok...

Kyle: No, it’s good - I’ve got four, so...

Tom: You’ve got four sperm?

Kyle: Yeah, yeah.

Tom: Oh, great!

Kyle: So, ah...

KLee: And one of them worked, ‘cause you have a beautiful little girl, right?

Kyle: I’ve got a little, little two year old two month girl, who, ah - it’s funny, I was just in the - when I was taking a shower this morning - they’re back in Chicago...

Tom: Please. Family show.

Kyle: But the funniest things that remind you of your family. ‘Cause I looked down {simulating shower scene} and all of a sudden, my toenails on my left foot are orange, and the toenails on my right foot are, are, purple. ‘Cause you know, she painted them all up and everything.

KLee: She painted them for you. {Awwwww}

Tom: You’ve been hangin’ out with Rodman in Chicago, that’s what you’ve been doin’.

KLee: See, and I thought you had one of those weird athlete diseases on your feet.

Kyle: No, no.

Tom: {to Kathie Lee} Only *you* would know that.

Kyle: It’s funny, though.

KLee: But you, you come from a, not a performing kinda family right? If I recall.

Kyle: No, it’s a family of, ah, of a Psychologist, a Chiropractor, and a Corporate Lawyer, so...

KLee: So, it’s about time for an actor.

Kyle: Yeah. Well, my one brother, the lawyer, he’s a little bit of an actor, but, ah...

KLee: That helps in the courtroom.

Kyle: And I’d like to say, ah, Happy Birthday to ah, Karen, who’s my niece, who’s 10 years old, so she’s double digits now.

Tom: Oh, that’s great.

KLee: Which means double the problems.

Kyle: Double, well, not for me, though. That’s *his* problem. I’ve got another few years.

KLee: Yeah, but it’s only a matter of time for you.

Kyle: That’s true.

Tom: {out of the blue} Do you have a Regis story?

Kyle: {surprised!} Oh, how do you know this?

Tom: Oh, I was reading the card over there.

Kyle: Oh, alright. I get tomorrow’s paper, but woah {giving a “that’s really freaky” gesture}

KLee: Once in a while I should look at those.

Kyle: Well, Gar, Gary Nelson, our producer, and, ah, director as well. He, ah, he informed me that he was directing “Get Smart” at one point and Mister, Regis was on the, on the show.

KLee: *Mister* Regis?

Kyle: Mister Regis - Mister Philbin.

Tom: Sounds like a hairdresser.

Kyle: And he wanted to ah, put a tin, ah, tin pie of whipped cream into, ah, Don Adams’ face.

KLee: Right.

Kyle: And it... I guess, they were, “...well, I don’t know...” but he went along and did it, and someone’s nose got broken. *That’s* how I understand the story. Now, I wanted to tell the story when he was here, obviously, but... It’s not...

Tom: Well, you’re working it out now...

Kyle: Yeah, ok.

Tom: ...and by the time *he* gets back here, it’s gonna be *sharp.*

Kyle: I’m gonna walk on the show and “boom” {simulates a pie in his face}

Tom: Yeah, exactly.

KLee: Well, he’s probably watching in California.

Tom: You know he is.

KLee: And he’s gettin’ a huge laugh out of it. He’s remembering.

Tom: You know he is.

KLee: I just heard today that Don Adams is gonna finally get his star on the Walk of Fame.

Kyle: Really?

Tom: Oh, Don Adams is so funny. He’s a great comedian. That show was so funny. He’s a legendary guy.

KLee: Well, that’s good to know you feel that way about him because they’re writing to all of his friends for money for the fund for the Hall of Fame.

Tom: Alright, well. You and I - whatever you do, I’ll do. ‘Course you got 120 million, so...

KLee: That’s right. I can barely spend it fast enough. {Speaks to Kyle again} Now, what are you gonna do at the end of the season?

Kyle: Ahh, end of the season, we are going to, ah... I’m gonna relax. I’m gonna relax.

KLee: Been workin’ rough hours?

Kyle: Yeah, it’s been a, we’re at the end of, you know we’ve got two more shows to go, that’ll be 22 all together for the year, and we get a couple months off...

KLee: And an hour drama is grueling, isn’t it?

Kyle: Hopefully have a, have another honeymoon, and, you know...

Tom: Same wife? Same wife?

Kyle: Same wife, yeah.

KLee: But maybe make another baby.

Kyle: Maybe. Maybe.

KLee: We’ll talk about that when we come back, ok?

Kyle: Makin’ babies.

{Commercials}

KLee: The audience is all excited because “Venice” just did an a cappella version of the “Star Spangled Banner” that was awesome.

Kyle: It was amazing.

KLee: Alrighty. But, Kyle - let’s go to a clip here and talk about your show.

Kyle: Ah, yeah. This is a crossover show that we did with “Chicago Hope” ah, and, ah, it’s a, it’s a “curse of the mummy” ah type of deal. And, ah, it was a fun show to do. We - the strangest thing is that, we went back to Los Angeles, ah, and so we were on the set of “Chicago Hope,” with *their* actors, but it was *our* show. So it was just...

KLee: We do that a lot here.

Kyle: It was very strange.

KLee: Yeah.

Kyle: Yeah, it was awfully, ah... {responding to Kathie Lee’s comment} yeah - I’m on your show....

KLee: But you shoot in Chicago?

Kyle: We shoot our whole show in Chicago.

KLee: But “Chicago Hope” shoots in L.A.

Kyle: In L.A. Of course. That only makes sense. Yeah.

KLee: “Seinfeld” shoots in L.A. and it’s about New York.

Kyle: Yeah.

KLee: So, anyway, it’s a cross story, and you set up the clip for us.

Kyle: Yeah, the cross-, the story is that, ah, my ah, my friend Shanesia ah, who’s blind, she’s sick in the hospital. And it has to do with the, the unearthing of these artifacts. And, ah, we have determined that, ah, there’s a curse or there’s a reason behind it.

KLee: Oooh.

Kyle: Ah, but at this point, we’re, we’re finding out from the doctors *exactly* what it is th-that’s wrong with her.

KLee: Ok.

Tom: Let’s check it out.

KLee: From this weekend’s edition.........of “Early Edition.”

{Kyle smirks at her miss-speak)

{Clip of “Mum’s the Word” episode of “Early Edition” is shown. Scene where Gary tells the doctors about the mummy exhibit possibly being cursed.}

Tom: Oh, yeah. By the way, the, ah...

KLee: Oh, yeah. Explain that one, baby.

Kyle: Don’t ask me how I know, but I do.

KLee: So are you gonna be helping CBS, ah, ah, celebrate 50 years of, ah...

Kyle: Yeah. 50 years, ah...

KLee: ...entertaining folks?

Kyle: ...CBS has got different shows which they’re gonna bring, ah, back characters from past shows...

Tom: I wonder if they’ll bring back characters from *my* show on CBS.

Kyle: Were, yeah. Well, I don’t know.

Tom: Thirteen episodes we did. Anyway...

KLee: Hey, but they were fine.

Tom: They *were* fine, yes.

KLee: “Early Edition” returns this Saturday, CBS at 9 pm.

Kyle: At 9 pm, yeah. Seven new shows, we, they’re really good shows.

Tom: Seven new ones? We’ve yet to see?

Kyle: Yeah, yeah. We’re gonna have some great...

Tom: Oh, that’s great!

Kyle: ...we’re gonna have some great ones...

KLee: Have a great vacation with your family, Kyle.

Kyle: Thank you very much. {to audience} Thank you!

KLee: We’ll be right back.

{The End}

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