Barry Manilow: "I Suffer From Stage Fright" | TFI Friday (1996)

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[00:00:03]WHERE AM I? OH, BARRY, YOU'RE in your your your most fantastic dream, that's where you are. You must be You must be because next stop is Children in Need.

[00:00:12]So, listen, this is heaven that's where you're about to go.

[00:00:15]I know you're about to go, we'll talk about that later. But first of all, before we go any further, Yes.

[00:00:18]>> it's lovely to have you here.

[00:00:19]You're a great hero of mine, and can I have a joke, please?

[00:00:23]Can you have a joke?

[00:00:24]>> Joke, please.

[00:00:25]>> What is it? I should tell you a joke?

[00:00:26]>> I I understand you have a favorite joke, is that right?

[00:00:29]Uh let me see if I can think of What do you have something that you want to tell me, Chris?

[00:00:33]>> No, no, I thought you had you had your favorite joke You have a favorite I've researched you copiously over the last week, and apparently you've got a favorite joke. I thought it'd be a killer to start the interview with.

[00:00:41]>> you tell me What do you What do you think it is? Oh, it's Is that that one that they Oh, wait a minute, they printed it in Rolling Stone. It's about the uh I'm We're not THAT HUNGRY?

[00:00:49]>> YEAH, OH, YOU'VE JUST TOLD THE PUNCHLINE.

[00:00:55]IT WAS BECAUSE I HATED THAT JOKE, I really did. I I didn't I didn't mind them putting me down, but I hated that joke because it was about starving people. So, don't tell that joke.

[00:01:02]>> Well, I did Well, I Why is it snowing here?

[00:01:04]>> It's snowing. It's snowing because IT IS.

[00:01:09]I HAVE A question for you. Yeah, yeah, okay. What does TFI FRIDAY STAND FOR?

[00:01:14]IN AMERICA, IT'S CGIF. YEAH. SO, it's Thank God it's Friday, right? What does TFI mean? TFI Friday stands for the best damn show you'll EVER BE ON.

[00:01:26]WELL, NO, IT DOESN'T. IT STANDS FOR SOMETHING ELSE, BUT I CAN'T SAY.

[00:01:29]NOW, you you you got to AS WELL OH.

[00:01:31]NO. You knew what it stood for anyway.

[00:01:35]>> Well, I heard a rumor about it. Does it really stand for that? You're all smiling, too. Don't Let's not Let's not take this any further.

[00:01:41]>> All right, I'm already in I've just been out of trouble for a few months, and now I'm straight back in it thanks to you.

[00:01:45]You were the last guest I thought would ever put me in trouble.

[00:01:47]>> No, I mean, I was I was serious. I just wanted to know. And you got a piano here. Am I going to play piano for you?

[00:01:51]>> Well, WE'LL TALK ABOUT I JUST GOT A REQUEST. I JUST GOT A REQUEST OUT THERE. I I stand in there with your wonderful audience. Yeah, sorry.

[00:01:59]>> very happy for you to play the piano.

[00:02:01]See, the thing is, do you think people who work for you are scared of you? No.

[00:02:04]Well, I think they are.

[00:02:07]Cuz we've been talking to them all week.

[00:02:08]And we said, "Will he play the piano?"

[00:02:10]And they said, "No."

[00:02:11]And we said, "Well, we think he will play the piano. We've seen him on the show."

[00:02:14]>> to the wrong people.

[00:02:15]>> And people who No, he won't play the piano. And yesterday a guy was here for an hour making sure that like the it was all right for you to walk on the carpet and everything else like that.

[00:02:22]Honestly, seriously, the guy made the walk and he turned the walk and he said, "No, I think that'll be all right with Mr. Manilow." And I Do you know what I said to him? Do you know what I SAID TO HIM? I SAID, "HIDE THE PIANO. HIDE THE PIANO."

[00:02:32]SO, we'd like you to play the piano in a moment. Just just a little breeze, I think.

[00:02:36]>> yeah, I think I HAVE TO.

[00:02:43]ARE YOU ARE YOU TROUBLED?

[00:02:47]NO, I don't I mean like crazy troubled or Nuts. Nuts? Yeah.

[00:02:53]Well, there I might have a little nuts.

[00:02:55]I have a little nut. But I think I'm pretty well adjusted, yeah. I think you're nuts.

[00:02:59]>> Yeah.

[00:03:00]No, I I am definitely nuts. That's That's unequivocal. But But I think I think I've gotten past my nuts. Because Because you used to you used to You're thin, for a start. You're very thin.

[00:03:10]>> yeah. All right. Have you Is it a diet or are you just I'm worried Seriously, you just worry me.

[00:03:14]>> I know. I've just got I got this metabolism that just like runs on that we'd all die for. That That's what people tell me, yeah. I'm always trying to gain weight. I forget to eat. I have a a fat friend at home who says that she wouldn't forget to eat if she was in a coma. But I I keep forgetting to eat. I'm just lucky. I get You used to throw up all the time when you were a little boy.

[00:03:31]Well, no, I didn't.

[00:03:32]>> Well, before you went on stage, you did.

[00:03:34]You went there. Well, there was There was There was those moments. I mean, the first time I ever appeared on stage in front of a huge audience was when I opened for Bet, my friend Bette Midler.

[00:03:42]I used to be her conductor and her piano player for a while. And then she was She was like generous generous enough to give me a little opening section of her second act. And so, I remember standing in the wings and every guy will tell you this, everybody who has that moment where you see 5,000 people that don't know you and you're going to go out there and When was the last time you threw up? The last time I threw up? What kind of question is this?

[00:04:05]I just want to know. I don't No, I don't I don't No, I don't remember the last time I threw up.

[00:04:10]But, I'll I'll search my Well, wait till you get on Children in Need tonight and see all the Now, I don't mean that. I don't mean that.

[00:04:17]Oh, don't be so jingoistic. It's a joke.

[00:04:19]It's It's a It's a It's a subliminal plug for the program he's on without a gushing >> And I appreciate that.

[00:04:24]>> that's what it is. Thank you.

[00:04:25]>> Right.

[00:04:26]>> So nice of you to appreciate that. Do you know that The Simpsons are on TV tomorrow on BBC 1 for the first time ever on a on a terrestrial network station in Britain? Did you know that?

[00:04:35]Good.

[00:04:37]I know it's pretty vague, but I'm leading to something. I I promise you.

[00:04:41]I promise you. Have you been invited to be on The Simpsons? No. See, now that's You've not made it.

[00:04:46]>> I'm really You should They should get you.

[00:04:48]>> try to be so hip, but >> You'd be perfect. They've got to get you on The Simpsons.

[00:04:52]Do you Do you have a favorite Simpson yourself? Do you Do you enjoy the >> ever seen the show.

[00:04:56]>> Now, you're just being snobby now.

[00:04:57]>> Sorry. No, I'm I'm I'm >> You watch it all the time.

[00:04:59]>> I've never seen the show.

[00:05:00]Actually, I Actually, I've flicked by it and it looked pretty funny. Yeah? Yeah.

[00:05:04]So, you don't do an impression of Homer, then?

[00:05:05]>> no I wouldn't do that.

[00:05:07]Anybody else can do that.

[00:05:08]>> It's very easy. I'll do it for you, all right? Oh, yes, please. No. Oh, yeah, I've I've heard that impression. NO, NO.

[00:05:16]ALL RIGHT. WELL, LOOK, YOU KNOW I HAVE A VERY LONG AS WE could go on all day I guess alike cuz you've got to know about the show. We only invite people on who we really like. So, thanks for coming on the show. Will you give us a minute on THE PIANO?

[00:05:25]>> YEAH.

[00:05:27]BARRY MANILOW, HERE YOU GO, EVERYBODY.

[00:05:29]BARRY MANILOW. NOW, LISTEN, somebody said as I was walking up, somebody said, "Why don't you play See, the reason that the the the way they did it They did it They did a Take That in a a very a very a very up-tempo version of it, right? But, it started off with Come Come Come into my love of all of you.

[00:05:57]And baby, I want you now, now, now and hold on fast.

[00:06:07]Could this be the magic at last?

[00:06:12]ISN'T THAT BEAUTIFUL?

[00:06:16]BARRY, THANK YOU.