Intoxicated Orson Welles Tries to Sell Wine

1. Corinne
   January 14th, 2009 at 5:09 pm

   Reminds me slightly of I Love Lucy Vitameatavegamin.

   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2m1Nubw8XJw

2. CheeseDuck
   January 14th, 2009 at 5:18 pm

   Champagne cannot come from California. >:C lol

3. Edward
   January 14th, 2009 at 5:20 pm

   Poor old Welles. A theatrical genius reduced to hawking horrid grape products in his twilight years. Or perhaps he is lucky, having a name that was still recognized decades after his best work.

   No matter, if I were him, I would have gotten drunk during the taping. There is no shame in that game.

4. Skull Thuggery
   January 14th, 2009 at 6:26 pm

   Some roles are practically invitations to method acting.

5. KIT CLOUD
   January 14th, 2009 at 6:31 pm

   my favorite is the one where hes shilling for peas.

   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V14PfDDwxlE

6. The El Bee En
   January 14th, 2009 at 6:32 pm

   Fame is a fickle mistress: from "Citizen Kane" to Paul Masson...didn't he also do "Hollywood Squares" towards the end?

7. tanya
   January 14th, 2009 at 8:17 pm

   thats hilarious ! i dont feel sorry for him...he was quite accomplished in many things.

8. Johnny Cat
   January 14th, 2009 at 8:50 pm

   Man, that never gets old.

9. issacsullivan
   January 14th, 2009 at 10:46 pm

   Wells once said that you make your name on the way up and your fortune on the way down. This has inspired me a lot to keep taking advantage of anything even if it pays nothing. I'm hoping to make a fortune off of my spiral from greatness.

10. AndyIII
    January 14th, 2009 at 11:17 pm

    Now THAT is funny...wow.

    The cuts are what make it. When the director finally gets enough of his drunken rambling.

    Makes me want to find a 'Pinky and The Brain' compilation.

11. just a guy
    January 15th, 2009 at 1:08 am

    Reminds me of the scene in the animated show of The Critic, when a (impersonated) Orsen Wells was doing a commercial for... Frozen Peas. He said something like "Full of country goodness, and green pea-ness."

    Lol.

    Wait, found a link!

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_dDpQzD8Wk

12. zav
    January 15th, 2009 at 3:52 am

    The 70's now suck just a little bit less. "Dad, I thought they didn't let drunk people make commercials?"

13. atomicsecrets
    January 15th, 2009 at 7:05 am

    I'd love to know what those actors at the table with him thought. I figured they would have been thrilled, at first, about getting to work with Welles. Then after 49 takes of trying to look interested at a wine bottle, that dude probably wanted to smack him with it.

14. Rocky Rook
    January 15th, 2009 at 10:06 am

    How did those other actors not crack up listening to him ramble on?

15. just a guy
    January 15th, 2009 at 4:08 pm

    Professionalism. Actors (usually non-stars) generally have it. Perhaps it was more pervasive back then?

    I can't tell you how annoying it was every time Heratio Sans and Jimmy Fallon were in an SNL skit together, because it was all stone-faced teleprompter reading and giggling throughout the scene.

    Similar scenarios are bothersome.

    Even in the blooper real, it sucks. The bloopers where people break character and say something funny, or run into something, or practically anything else, can be entertaining. But them taking 10 shots because someone can't stop giggling is just boring.

16. Evilbeagle
    January 16th, 2009 at 5:41 am

    After that many takes, who wouldn't be happy to sloshed?

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